Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry

Oswald Spengler (1880--1936) is best known for The Decline of the West, in which he propounded hi...

The name Daniel Boone conjures up the image of an illiterate, coonskin cap-wearing patriot who se...

In this sensitive intellectual biography David W. Blight undertakes the first systematic analysis...

Scoop, Evelyn Waugh's bestselling comedy of England's newspaper business of the 1930s is the clos...

Born and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, within the shelter of old traditions, aristocratic in...

Originally published forty years ago, Bell Irvin Wiley's The Road to Appomattox marked one of the...

First published in 1865, Belle Boyd's memoir of her experiences as a Confederate spy has stood th...

New People is an insightful historical analysis of the miscegenation of American whites and black...

The word Creole evokes a richness rivaled only by the term's widespread misunderstanding. Now bot...

In Catching Light, Kathryn Stripling Byer searches for the language of aging, for a way of confro...

Though slavery was widespread and antislavery sentiment rare in Alabama, there emerged a small lo...