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Enclave

By James T. Currie
Categories: History

James T. Currie relates in this thought-provoking work that between July 4, 1863, and the end of the Civil War in May 1865, Vicksburg and the plantations around it were an enclave of Union territory in ...

Lotus Among the Magnolias

Unlike most Chinese-American studies which focus on large urban concentrations sustained by continuous immigration, this study centers on a small Chinese enclave located in a rural southern biracial society. ...

Rich Harvest

By D. Sven Nordin
Categories: History

Rich Harvest tells of the development and progress of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, beginning with Oliver Hudson Kelley's first activities on behalf of the farmer organization. It represents the first ...

The University of Mississippi School of Law

Since its founding in 1854, the University of Mississippi School of Law has been an institutional bulwark of the state. Generations of Mississippi's prominent lawyers and politicians were graduates of ...

Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

By Sandra Gurvis
Categories: History

What happened to the Vietnam protesters and civil rights activists? Where did their idealism lead them? And what do they feel they have contributed to the nation's political debate? Answers to these and ...

Ghost Hunters of the South

By Alan Brown
Categories: Southern Studies

Southerners are accustomed to hearing stories of a residence, an old hotel, a mansion, or a battlefield being haunted. In Ghost Hunters of the South, Alan Brown shows that ghostlore is no longer enough ...

Coming to Colorado

In his acclaimed memoir German Boy: A Refugee’s Story, Wolfgang W. E. Samuel relates his experiences as a child surviving war and its hellish aftermath in occupied Germany. On January 24, 1951, exactly ...

Tim Hector

By Paul Buhle
Categories: History

Tim Hector (1942–2002) played many roles—political philosopher, educator, literary and music critic, cricket administrator, political leader, and newspaper editor. Best known for his editorship of ...

Leander Perez

By Glen Jeansonne
Categories: Louisiana

Leander Perez 1891-1969) was more than simply another Neanderthal segregationist. He was a political boss who held absolute power in Plaquemines Parish to an extent unsurpassed by any parish leader in ...