Brimming with fresh insights, this definitive biography reveals how a personally modest public servant took his place on the national and world stage and, along the way, helped transform North…

North Carolina 2nd edition is a single volume, fascinating history of the state that covers political, economic, cultural and social dimensions of the Tar Heel state s past. This new…

William Gilmore Simms: The Novelist, The Poet (1896) is a literary biography written by Samuel Albert Link. The book explores the life and works of William Gilmore Simms, a prominent…

The nine essays in this volume unpack the long history and varied meanings of the emancipation of American slaves. Together, the contributions argue that 1863 did not mark an end…

For an understanding of what was happening and what southern progressivism was all about, [Grantham] has produced a monumental history and resources which may be added to and reinterpreted, but…

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Just One More Thing

Lieutenant Columbo – short, unkempt, shapeless raincoat flapping open, unlit cigar in his hand – turns towards the murderer who is certain that this undistinguished plainclothesman…