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Old South, New South, or Down South? Florida and the Modern Civil Rights Movement wins the 2010 Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Award.

Former WVU Press director Dr. Patrick Conner has received WVU's 2010 Heebink Award for Distinguished and Extended State Service. Read more about Dr. Conner's dedication to the Press.

WVU Professor John Ernest, editor of Hearts of Gold by J. McHenry Jones, discusses his role as co-editor of this text and series co-editor of Regenerations: African American Literature and Culture.

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Regenerations: African American Literature and Culture is a new series devoted to reprinting editions of important African American texts that either have fallen out of print or have failed to receive the attention they deserve.