History has not been kind to Livia Drusilla, wife of Caesar Augustus, and author Mary Mudd wants to set the record straight in her well-researched book, I, Livia: The Story of a Much Maligned Woman. “Livia Drusilla has fascinated me... Read More

It is difficult to imagine the activity of reading in the post-industrial age without the presence of the novel. The novel as modern readers know it, despite its many forms and distinctive subgenres, remains a direct descendant of the... Read More

It wasn’t until the year 2000 that Alabama voters repealed, by a narrow margin, the section of their state constitution that banned “any marriage between a white person and a Negro or a descendant of a Negro.” Although Alabama was... Read More