Books published by University of Georgia Press

In the first accounting of its kind, Matthew Christopher Hulbert's book analyzes the cultural politics behind how Americans have remembered, misremembered, and re-remembered guerrilla warfare.

This collection bristles and hums with the rugged resilience one encounters in southern and Appalachian fiction where ghosts of loved ones and livestock alike haunt an underworld of lonely trails.

Flannery O'Connor may now be acknowledged as the "Great American Catholic Author", but this was not always the case. With Creating Flannery O'Connor Daniel Moran explains how O'Connor attained that status, and how she felt about it.

In these wondrously strange and revealing stories, Tom Kealey chronicles the struggles and triumphs of the young and marginalized as they discover many ways of growing up. Thieves I've Known is a collection of powerful, moving stories about the lives of a redemptive and peculiar cast of young characters who become easy to know and difficult to forget.

In 1942 Alice Allison Dunnigan, a sharecropper's daughter from Kentucky, made her way to the nation's capital and a career in journalism that eventually led her to the White House. With Alone Atop the Hill, Carol McCabe Booker has condensed Dunnigan's 1974 self-published autobiography to appeal to a general audience and has added scholarly annotations that provide historical context.

Esplin argues that Borges, through a sustained and complex literary relationship with Poe's works, served as the primary catalyst that changed Poe's image throughout Spanish America from a poet-prophet to a timeless fiction writer.

Paying homage to the hardboiled crime-noir writing of Raymond Chandler, Diann Blakely's second collection of poetry plays on the dark desires and lusty appetites that motivate and move us. Originally published in 2000, Farewell, My Lovelies delivers unflinching truths harnessed in musical eloquence.

A bold reconceptualization of black freedom during the Civil War that uncovers the political claims made by African American women. By analysing the actions of women in St. Louis and rural Missouri, Romeo uncovers the confluence of military events, policy changes, and black agency that shaped the gendered paths to freedom and citizenship.

"A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund publication"--Title page verso.

Presents forty-seven early houses of worship from all areas of Georgia. Nearly three hundred stunning colour photographs capture the simple elegance of these sanctuaries and their surrounding grounds and cemeteries.

Moving chronologically from the colonial period to the present, this collection of seventeen biographical essays provides a window into the social, cultural, and geographic milieu of women's lives in the state. The contributors look at ways in which the women they profile either abided by prevailing gender norms or negotiated new models of behaviour for themselves and other women.

Separately they were formidable - together they were unstoppable. Despite their intriguing lives and the impact they had on their community, the story of R.J. Reynolds and Katharine Smith Reynolds has never been fully told. Michele Gillespie provides a sweeping account of how R. J. and Katharine succeeded in realizing their American dreams.