Judith Yaross Lee is a professor and director of honors tutorials in the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University. She is author of Twain's Brand: Humor in Contemporary American Culture, Defining ...

Aaron X. Smith is assistant professor at Temple University in the Department of Africology and African American Studies. His work has appeared in such publications as the Journal of Pan African Studies ...

Wayne Dawkins is associate professor at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. A former newspaper reporter and editor, he is author of Rugged Waters: Black Journalists Swim the Mainstream and ...

Following the 1898 Spanish-American War, the United States constructed federal buildings in its newly acquired territories, including Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Over a century later, many ...

Nearly all black female novelists of twentieth-century America have found the essential substance of their art in one source---the history of black women in America.

With great range and in many voices ...

As one of the preeminent scholars of southern literature, Noel Polk has delivered lectures, written journal articles and essays, and discussed the rich legacy of the South's literary heritage around the ...

Exceptionalism, the notion that Americans have a distinct and special destiny different from that of other nations, permeates every period of American history. It is the single most powerful force in ...

It was none other than Langston Hughes who called Oliver Wendell Harrington America's greatest black cartoonist.

Yet largely because he chose to live as an expatriate far from the American mainstream, ...

This full-dress bibliography of the works of one of America’s greatest writers contains essential information for all serious scholars of Eudora Welty and her long and distinguished career.

It is a complete ...