' The New World -- this empty land dazzlingly rich in forests, soils, rainfall, and mineral wealt...
In 1908 and 1909, noted social reformer and 'songcatcher' Olive Dame Campbell traveled with he...
While scholarship abounds on the diplomatic and security aspects of the Cold War, very little ...
The roots of American globalization can be found in the War of 1898. Then, as today, the Unite...
In the early 1970s, as U.S. combat forces began to withdraw from Southeast Asia, South Vietnamese...
Isaac Burns Murphy (1861--1896) was one of the most dynamic jockeys of his era. Still considered ...
Richard Lukas's book, encompassing the wartime recollections of sixty 'ordinary' Poles under N...
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' Kentucky Home Place tells of eight generations of the fictitious Boyd Family, whose story be...
Winner of the 1997 Appalachian Studies Award Appalachian Writers Association 1999 Book of the ...
'People may choose to ignore their animal heritage by interpreting their behavior as divinely ...
In 1962, Walker Percy (1916--1990) made a dramatic entrance onto the American literary scene w...