This cultural history of dreams in antiquity draws on both contemporary post-Freudian science and careful critiques of the ancient texts.

Harris explores these and related themes in this highly original work of social and cultural history.

This is an ideal textbook for students learning about the development of the American South, as well as general readers interested in U.S. history.

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in HistoryCo-winner of the James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American HistoriansWinner of the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Prize from the Agricultural History Society Deep Souths tells the ...

"Professor W. A. Harris takes readers on an extraordinary journey to the very edge of creation, from the moment of an egg's fertilization through each step of a human brain's development in the womb" -- Provided by publisher.

The tragic untold story of how a nation struggling for its freedom denied it to one of its own: a free Black man "A searing portrayal of the central paradox of the American Revolution—the centrality of slavery to the struggle for ...