Critics often trace the prevailing mood of despair and purported nihilism in the works of Cormac ...

From the stately Gothic Revival and Regency-style houses of Savannah to the majestic, multicolumn...

Allen W. Trelease's White Terror, originally published in 1971, was the first scholarly history o...

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In The French 75, John Maxwell Hamilton tracks down the many lives of this protean cocktail. The ...

Alison Hawthorne Deming brings to her first collection of verse the kinds of scrupulous observati...

Richard M. Weaver believed that ''rhetoric at its truest seeks to perfect men by showing them bet...

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Historians have come to think on the late nineteenth century as America's Gilded Age. But in Loui...

In Crucible of Reconstruction, Ted Tunnell unravels the byzantine complexities of Louisiana's res...

Crisscrossing the sprawling landscape of Robert Penn Warren, James H. Justus offers us the first ...

Andrew Jackson Higgins is perhaps the most forgotten hero of the Allied victory. He designed the ...