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… of slavery, for now the years after the Civil War have come under scrutiny. The concern, however, is not with … late as 1880, crop production for the five cotton states studied by Ransom and Sutch reached only 64 percent of the 1860 … been doing recently about the post-Civil War South. 250-267 By Carl N. Degler …

… predictable prose than in its predictable verse. It has become the place for those who’d want to see Jeff Clark (the … of clear rhetoric. That is to say, they resemble Logan. Also, like Logan, with some commendable exceptions, their … keep him from bringing his readers the next John Keats, who died at 25. Orr’s latest outrage will surprise no one and …

… by popular acclaim exclusively to Samuel Pepys. The common reader is somehow enchanted by the spectacle of these … the youthful Popery of Gibbon, Boswell’s bete noire, who also fell away under a little persuasion, and left us that … to have been as follows. After a pretty hard course of studies at Edinburgh under the surveillance of his father, …

… as though stitched together from pelts of smaller animals. Bill had been certain it was menacing them, stalking … building that could have been in Paris except for the soldiers standing guard in ill-fitting green uniforms. Even the … he ordered shrimp cocktail and then refused to eat it. As a compromise, Bill and Lyla spent the first week of their …

… Best 200 Words I Read All Week. From fact to fiction, from comedic to tragic, we hope you find as much to admire in … Kate Snyder Excerpt from “Is it time for small plates to die now?”  The Pool ,  Lauren Bravo, April 6, 2018 2. If … Hughes appeared as the scruffy poet who had fled his studies at Columbia for the pleasures of la vie bohème , while …