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A coming of age story about the son of a cotton plantation owner in ante-bellum Mississippi. As the country hurtles toward civil war, the young man's desire for personal freedom - and for the South to be free from northern tyranny - lies in contrast with his blindness to the injustice of African American slavery. Masterfully brings to life a South in dramatic transition. -- Kirkus Reviews. Interwoven with the early history of the University of Mississippi and with the teachings of southern white churches in support of slavery, the novel explores the meaning of independence, duty, freedom, and obedience; in the end, it is about slavery and independence in all their forms. Woven into the plot are period newspaper articles, actual letters written home during the war, illustrations and maps. Includes a bibliography.

A fun-filled, full color look at the culture and politics of the 20^th century. For nearly fifty years, the celebrated humorist Charles Carvin (1897-1974) drew his own Christmas cards, elaborate cartoon productions that sometimes unfolded to several pages, poking good natured fun at the political and cultural icons of America (and the world) between 1928 and 1971 -- from the Great Depression and World War II to the space race and the civil rights movement. The cast of characters ranges from Calvin Coolidge and FDR to John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, from Adolf Hitler and Franklin Roosevelt to Nikita Krushchev and Fidel Castro, from Mae West and Will Rogers to Bob Hope and Milton Berle, from Segar's Popeye to Schulz's Charlie Brown and Snoopy. This complete collection of the cards and other drawings has 217 illustrations, mostly in full color, with explanatory notes and an introduction by the artist's grandson.

Bothered by the story of life on Earth being told as if it's the story of Humanity? This new big history look at life on Earth, presented in minimalistic blank verse with vivid full-color images, recounts the history of life in consistent million-year increments, each page illustrated with a full-color, full-page image appropriate to the time period. It's a quick read, with no more than a dozen lines per page. The net effect is an hour long trip through four billion years that puts us hominids in perspective with viruses, bacteria, and climate change. 202 pages, 202 full-color, full-page illustrations.

Fifty years of marriage, fifty years of custom-drawn holiday cards, chronicling the growth of the author/illustrator's family as shared with friends. A 1974-2023 sequel, of sorts, to Oh Mother, Than Man's Here Again!!, also a book spanning nearly fifty years (1918-1971) of cards, those drawn by the author's grandfather. Full color, multi-part cards illustrated on every page.

The 2017 historical novel Alemeth won critical praise for its lifelike rendering of the American South in the Civil War, focusing on the life of John Alemeth Byers, son of a wealthy cotton planter, who became a private in the 17th Mississippi Infantry. This work includes the entire novel, then adds nearly a hundred and fifty pages of Historical Notes documenting the facts behind the story, including historical information on the cotton plantation of Amzi Walton Byers, his family and his sixty slaves (including the young Gilbert, who accompanied Byers to the battle lines); on the early history of Ole Miss, its Trustee Colonel James Brown, and its President Frederick Barnard; on Sand Springs Presbyterian Church in Orwood, now on the National Register of Historic Places; and on Howard Falconer and the Oxford Intelligencer. It includes the text of sixteen wartime letters written home by Byers from the front in Virginia. (Byers fought in the Seven Days Campaign, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and Cold Harbor before being killed at the battle of Cedar Creek.) The wide array of historical characters who became a part of the story also include the preacher Lyman Beecher, the Confederate spy Jacob Thompson, the slave Dred Scott, and Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant. 551 pages. Biographical sketches, illustrations, graphics, photographs, source citations.