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The Papers of Andrew Jackson, Volume 7, 1829 Andrew Jackson Edited by Daniel Feller, Harold D. Moser Assistant editors: Laura-Eve Moss and Thomas CoensWith this seventh volume, The Papers of Andrew Jackson enters the heart of Jackson’s career: his tumultuous two terms as president of the United States. |
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A Death in the Family A Restoration of the Author’s Text The Works of James Agee, Vol. 1 Edited by Michael A. Lofaro Associate General Editor: Hugh DavisPublished in 1957 to wide acclaim, James Agee’s A Death in the Family was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for literature. However, the novel had been so heavily edited that it little resembled the original manuscript. The inaugural title of the University of Tennessee Press’s scholarly edition of The Works of James Agee, this restored text of A Death in the Family is, in many ways, a new novel. |
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The Ramseys at Swan Pond The Archaeology and History of an East Tennessee Farm Charles H. Faulkner“The Ramseys at Swan Pond [demonstrates] that history can be thoroughly informed by careful archaeological investigation, and that archaeology can also be informed by detailed and carefully conducted historical research. This is one of the best examples of the blending of both disciplines into a single study that I have read.” —Patrick H. Garrow |
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Professional Pursuits Women and the American Arts and Crafts Movement Catherine W. ZipfThe American Arts and Crafts movement was a major factor in changing the status of women as professional workers. Professional Pursuits examines the participation of women in this significant design movement and the role they played in revolutionizing the position of women in the professional world. |
In sixteen thoroughly engaging essays, naturalist Stephen Lyn Bales ventures far and wide among the richly diverse flora and fauna of his native Tennessee Valley. Whether describing the nocturnal habits of the elusive whip-poor-will, the pivotal role the hedge plant Osage orange played in a key Civil War battle, or the political firestorm that attended the discovery of a tiny fish dubbed the snail darter, Bales illuminates in surprising ways the complicated and often vexed relationships between humans and their neighbors in the natural world.