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Packhorseman

In April 1735, twenty-year-old William MacGregor, possessing little more than a bottle of Scotch ...

Hogg

Explores America's culture of sexual violence and degeneration

W. C. Handy

Originally published: New York: Knopf, 2009.

Pecan

Sixteen and Counting

Dramatic accounts of every University of Alabama National Championship football season recounted ...

Collards

Food is essential to southern culture, and collard greens play a central role in the South s culi...

Florida and the Mariel Boatlift of 1980

Winner of the Florida Historical Society's 2015 Stetson Kennedy AwardThe 1980 Mariel Boatlift was...

Man Food

Late in 1939 Editor Russell Hunt had a good idea. Why not dress up his foundrymen s magazine with...

Earline’s Pink Party

In Earline s Pink Party Elizabeth Findley Shores sifts through her family s scattered artifacts t...

Breach of Trust/Abuso de confianza

The best-known work by acclaimed Cuban poet Angel EscobarAngel Escobar s Breach of Trust Abuso ...

Of Such a Nature/Indole

An English translation from one of Latin America s most distinguished poets. Jose Kozer is one of...

Opening the Doors

Opening the Doors is a wide-ranging account of the University of Alabama s 1956 and 1963 desegreg...