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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738553207Author Chris GilkeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561645114Author Terrance ZepkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 426g

After the Civil War, as Black freedmen prepared to exercise their new voting rights in Georgia, white supremacist groups rose to restrict their ability to participate at the polls. Georgians faced a new prospect for brokering a class-based electoral...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467144964Author Stephen HackerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 376g

Places Greenville's experience during World War I within the context of the progressive era to better understand the rise of this New South cityGreenville, South Carolina has become an attractive destination, frequently included in lists of the "Best...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455619658Author Leonard HuberFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing Co

Mobile is simultaneously a typical and unique city in the postwar United States. It was a quintessential boomtown during World War II. That prosperity was followed by a period of rapid urban decline and subsequent attempts at revitalizing (or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609499051Author Deborah BurstFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 318g

Mobile is simultaneously a typical and unique city in the postwar United States. It was a quintessential boomtown during World War II. That prosperity was followed by a period of rapid urban decline and subsequent attempts at revitalizing (or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467152402Author Gary D JoinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682262320Author Andrew J MilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint University of Arkansas PressPublisher University of Arkansas Press

Located just seconds from the winding Tennessee border, the remote mountain settlement of Lost Cove, North Carolina was once described as where the "moonshiner frolics unmolested." Today, Lost Cove is a ghost town accessible mainly to hikers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467145114Author Cathy PickensFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 18g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738598604Author Richard A MarconiFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941879108Author John MagillFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Pelican Publishing CompanyPublisher Pelican Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 254g

To many antebellum Americans, Appalachia was a frightening wilderness of lawlessness, peril, robbers, and hidden dangers. The extensive media coverage of horse stealing and scalping raids profiled the region's residents as intrinsically violent. After...

A century before Boston became been the birthplace of the American Revolution, Carolina Colony was the birthplace of entertainment and leisure activities in Colonial America. Building a civilized city in the uncultivated New World was hard work, but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879714069Author Jerah JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Pelican Publishing CompanyPublisher Pelican Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 0g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467148207Author Josh ForemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 20g

It's 1895 in Virginia, and a white woman lies in her farmyard, murdered with an ax. Suspicion soon falls on a young black sawmill hand, who tries to flee the county. Captured, he implicates three women, accusing them of plotting the murder and wielding...

On a misty September morning in rural Georgia, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian found himself cast in a role that he had never imagined for himself: an expert witness in the sentencing trial of a convicted kidnapper, rapist, and murderer. His brief...

The Routledge History of the American South looks at the major themes that have developed in the interdisciplinary field of Southern Studies. With fifteen original essays from experts in their respective fields, the handbook addresses such diverse topics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629634456Author Wess HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

An anthology exploring the modernization of the South Carolina upcountry and the region's role in creating the New South. Continuing the theme of unexplored moments introduced in Recovering the Piedmont Past: Unexplored Moments in Nineteenth-Century...

Just in time for the one-hundredth anniversary of Miami Beach, It Happened in Miami, the Magic City: An Oral History features nearly seventy fabulous voices including more than fifteen mini-memorists, telling stories, offering perceptions on subject...

When the popular musical Hamilton showcased the celebrated duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, it reminded twenty-first-century Americans that some prominent, honor-bound citizens once used negotiated, formal fights as a way to settle...

Argues that the Panic of 1819 was America's first experience with a modern boom-bust cycle, and most importantly, much more than a banking panic resulting from the mismanagement of the newly created second Bank of the United States and a number of state...

The Atlanta Woman's Club has steered the development and identity of Atlanta since 1895. Headquartered in the elegant and historic Wimbish House on Peachtree Street, the club symbolises both a vibrant past and continuing hope for this unique Southern...

Established by Martin Eakes and Bonnie Wright in North Carolina in 1980, the nonprofit Center for Community Self-Help has grown from an innovative financial institution dedicated to civil rights into the nation's largest home lender to low- and...

A truly excellent contribution that unearths new and largely unknown evidence about relationships between Puerto Ricans and African-Americans and white Americans in the continental United States and Puerto Rico. Alamo-Pastrana revises how race is to be...

The resort towns of Sarasota and Bradenton, Florida, are traced back to the early twentieth century through 375 postcard images. Revisit the early days of Ringling Bros. Circus, tour Sarasota Jungle Gardens, visit Asolo Theater, and sail the Sarasota Bay...

Tour America's oldest city, St. Augustine, and see how it evolved and changed over the past one hundred years through 334 color images. Neighborhoods, streets, and buildings are featured and compared in vintage postcards and present-day photographs. The...

Alligators have intrigued Florida's explorers, tourists, photographers, and residents for more than 500 years and become symbols, mascots, pets, medicine, handbags, food, luggage, souvenirs, and attractions. The sport of Alligator hunting and wrestling...

Return once more to haunted Richmond, where no building is safe from supernatural happenings. Visit Stories Comics, which holds more than just comics within its walls. Step back in time at Henricus Historical Park where you'll be welcomed by dead...

Forts, military camps, and military battles have been part of Florida's history since the earliest times. Through 256 images, relive the days when the state's waterways challenged the defensive capabilities of nations seeking to colonize it, including...

Miami, one of the most popular cities in Florida, is seen through 338 images, including over 140 pairs of "Past and Present" views featuring vintage postcards and modern-day photographs. Many of Miami's early structures remain, but in...

Step back in time to enjoy nearly 250 color postcard views of Virginia's capital city and its architecture as it looked during the first half of the 20th century. Explore eleven distinct areas of the city including its oldest sections, Shockoe Valley,...

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Even before the end of Reconstruction in Arkansas, the state already possessed a long-standing reputation for violence, including lynchings, duels, and feuds. However, the years following Reconstruction witnessed the creation of new forms of mob violence...

In the 1960s, Mississippi was the heart of white southern resistance to the civil-rights movement. To many, it was a backward-looking society of racist authoritarianism and violence that was sorely out of step with modern liberal America. White...