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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.

    A Death in the Family
    A Restoration of the Author’s Text
    The Works [...]

    What Was, Is, and Will Be Southern Literature?

    SOUTHERN LITERATURE AS WE KNOW IT TODAY—and who does not know it?—caught the imagination of the nation in the 1920’s with the Southern Renaissance, led by the young gentlemen poets, the Fugitives, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and the young college dropout in a tiny town in Mississippi, William Faulkner, whose novel Sanctuary became notorious.
    By [...]