Uncle Abner plate A number of essays focus

A number of essays focus in particular on African American engagements with visual culture

historian Julian Zelizer pinpoints the moment when our country was set on a path toward an era of bitterly partisan and ruthless politics

illustrated introduction to the wonders of astrology

the Spanish-American War (1898)

Uncle Abner plate A number of essays focusFirst published in 1918, this collection of tales of Abner's investigations, told by his nephew and chronicled by the prolific Melville Davisson Post, was hailed as the most important volume of American crime fiction since the work of Edgar Allan Poe. The titular Uncle Abner is a man with extraordinary powers of observation, a close reader of the Bible, and a towering code of morality, and he does not shy from taking matters into his own hands when