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Perhaps the most prominent historian of his time, C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999) was always at the center of public controversy. In this collection of essays, leading historians examine his writings and reveal his contributions as an activist scholar.

By no means uncritical of Woodward's work, John Herbert Roper shows that books such as Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel, Origins of the New South, and The Strange Career of Jim Crow effectively defined the terms of historical debate, often asking the "impertinent first question" that spurred other historians to seek fuller answers.

This work blends poetry with narrative, ethnography with autobiography, and philosophy with literature. It begins and ends with meditations on place, the first an excavation of the underground depths of New York City and the conclusion a travelogue of Italy.

Born in 1869 into the agrarian society of Georgia's central piedmont, Magnolia Le Guin raised eight children virtually on her own, yet never ventured farther than thirty miles from her birthplace. A Home-Concealed Woman provides a firsthand view of the hardships of subsistence farming and the codes to which Le Guin as a white woman adhered.

Ray Jenkins's research is based on new information from interviews, record searches, and unprecedented access to Moody's psychiatric profile. The result is a chilling exploration of the mind of a killer blinded by a desire for revenge.

Looking for De Soto is the journal Joyce Hudson kept, as she accompanied her husband on a four-thousand-mile trek. It provides a warmly humane account of the people they met and the places they saw as they searched for De Soto's trail beneath railroad tracks and two-lane blacktops, along riverbanks and mountain ridges, from Florida to Texas.

This biography of Joseph Henry Lumpkin (1799-1867) details the life and work of the man whose senior judgeship on Georgia's Supreme Court spanned more than 20 years and included service as its first Chief Justice.

A study of politics in the 19th-century American South. It seeks to illuminate the link between the Jacksonian political culture that dominated antebellum debate and the notorious infighting of the Confederacy. At the heart of the book is a collective biography of five individuals.

The Religious Right's most dogmatic and resolute faction has its roots in three generations of the Bob Jones family of Greenville, South Carolina. An Island in the Lake of Fire is the first in-depth history of this militantly separatist, ultrafundamentalist dynasty to be written by an "outsider" with the Joneses' cooperation.

The first and only treatise published by a southern author on slavery law. Based on extensive scholarship on the Roman law of slavery and racist to the core, the work fully explicates the southern defense of slavery.

These essays focus on paternalism between masters and slaves, husbands and wives, elites and the masses, and industrialists and workers. The varied and creative responses to paternalism discussed here open new ways to view relationships based on power and negotiated between men and women, blacks and whites, and the prosperous and the poor.

By following the career of one influential trader (Lachlan McGillivray) from 1736 to 1776, Cashin presents a historical perspective of the frontier, as a zone of interaction between many cultures. Cashin profiles the figures who catalyzed the power struggles and explains events from the vantage points of traders and Native Americans.

Before the Civil War, two ideological cornerstones were laid that would eventually lead to Georgia's secession: the protection of white men's liberty and the defense of African slavery. Secession, the ultimate expression of white unity, flowed logically from the values, attitudes, and antagonisms developed during these decades of political strife.

This study of the secular and sacred music of colonial Georgia pieces together information drawn from court records, diaries, newspapapers, estate inventories and other documents in order to explore the ""musical landscape"" and identify the musical and cultural roots of some specific examples.

This text recalls a Catholic lay missioner's work alongside the Mon Buddhist monks of Bangkok. It also details her ongoing education: how to weave through an embassy bureaucracy; how to stave off burnout; how to pull money out of thin air; when to be cautious; and when to pray.

The never-before-published account of the complex realities of race relations in the rural South in the 1930s by Horace Bond, author of Forty Acres and a Mule, a history of a black farming family, after Jerome Wilson was lynched in 1935. These important primary documents were rediscovered by civil rights scholar Adam Fairclough.

Spalding traces the development of Georgia's oldest medical school from the initial plans of a small group of physicians to the five-school complex found in Augusta in the late 1980s. Charting a course of achievement, he shows how the college was intimately bound to the local community, state politics, and the national medical establishment.

The eight essays in this volume imaginatively explore the interrelationship between law and society in nineteenth-century America and encompass in their discussion some of the major historical issues of the era.

Seventeen essays, by both established and rising scholars, that showcase new directions in southern legal history across a wide range of topics, time periods, and locales. Taken together, the essays show us that understanding how law changes over time is essential to understanding the history of the South.

Discusses the work of three critics who came to prominence in the 1960s, an era of social, ideological, and aesthetic turmoil. Sharing a disdain for modernism's authoritarianism, elitism, and sterile preoccupation with despair, the three critics called for a postmodern art that would emphasise action, reality, and immanence and offer fresh envisionings of the world.

Based mainly on detailed journals and letters written by the Salzburgers' pastor, Johann Martin Boltzius, this work describes the expulsion of the Salzburger emigrants, their journey to Georgia, the hardships they endured, and their eventual success.

The people in Rawlins's debut collection brave the Big Questions about relationships, love, and death, finding that just getting by is not enough. Asking for truth or understanding, they struggle with feelings often too deep, too new, too disquieting to articulate.

By the winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, these 15 short stories illuminate the vast territory of pleasure and pain created within modern families. In the title story, April is an involuntary witness to the parade of lovers who frequent her mother's bed.

Presents the moving true story of a modern outlaw's struggle with faith, betrayal, and the accidental nature of life. Zack Rosen was a simple man, but one with many contrasts. An urban Jew from New Jersey who moved south and converted to fundamentalist Christianity, he was not a philosopher or theologian but a man's man.

Hailed in her native Campbell County, Tennessee, as ""the Mother Teresa of the coal country"", Tilda Kemplen was a teacher, activist, and founder and executive director of Mountain Communities Child Care and Development Centers (MCCCDC). Kemplen movingly describes her struggles to educate herself, her years as a teacher in rural schools and mining camps, and the establishment of MCCCDC.

To Miriam Levine, "devotion" implies love and self-creation; to her mother's generation, it meant martyrdom and self-denial. The domain of this memoir is the interval between those attitudes. Affirming her deep connection to people, Levine tells of the adventures and dangers of her emergence as a woman writer.