Search Results for 'Barbara A. Purdy'

This book presents a rich and contextualized study of the inextricably entangled lives of the enslaved, free Black people, and white landowners at the historic site of Mount Clare.

How did the political party of Lincoln--of emancipation--become the party of the South and of white resentment? How did Jefferson Davis’s old party become the preferred choice for most southern blacks?

<p><em>Between Washington and Du Bois </em>describes the life and work of James Edward Shepard, the founder and president of the first state-supported black liberal arts college in the South&mdash;what is today known as North Carolina Central University.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

Daniel Sayers exposes and unravels the complex social and economic systems developed by defiant communities that thrived on the periphery.

The definitive guide to more than 4,000 plants found in the Sunshine State

H.D. called <em>By Avon River</em> "the first book that really made me happy." In this annotated edition, Lara Vetter argues that the volume represented a turning point in H.D.&rsquo;s career, a major shift from lyric poetry to the experimental forms of writing that would dominate her later works.

A combustible mix of fury and radicalism, pathos and pain, wit and love--Terrence Tucker calls it "comic rage," and he shows how it has been used by African American artists to aggressively critique America's racial divide.

Focusing on the works of Edith Wharton and her contemporaries, Melanie Dawson discusses representations of modern American identities past early youth in twentieth-century literature. Dawson sets Wharton&rsquo;s work at the center of a vital debate about the contested privileges associated with age in contemporary culture. &nbsp;

Focusing on material culture, the authors in the collection explore the tensions that exist among various groups-elite landowners, the National Park Service, preservationists, minority groups-who compete for control over the interpretation of American pub