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St. Johns River begins in the swamps in southeast Florida, then passes 310 miles through many lakes, communities, forests, and swamps north towards the Atlantic Ocean near Jacksonville. As a resource, it has been enjoyed by millions, but few know its...

From the spires of Churchill Downs and the Cathedral of the Assumption, to the bluegrass farms of its outlying areas and the blueblood roots of its historic districts, Louisville has something to offer every native and visitor. Over 200 vintage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467149433Author Harry MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608010851Author Rachel BreunlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans PressWeight(grams)...

Winner of the Missouri History Book Award, from the State Historical Society of Missouri Winner of the Arkansiana Award, from the Arkansas Library Association Geologic forces raised the Ozarks. Myth enshrouds these hills. Human beings shaped them and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772761719Author Sherman CahalFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.Publisher MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc...

Chinese diplomat V.K. Wellington Koo (1888-1985) was involved in virtually every foreign and domestic crisis in twentieth-century China. After earning a Ph.D. from Columbia University, Koo entered government service in 1912 intent on revising the unequal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780252087028Author Brooks BlevinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467105507Author Carla Cook SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 165g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949199949Author Shaun SliferFormat PaperbackImprint West Virginia University PressPublisher West Virginia University Press

On September 30, 1919, local law enforcement in rural Phillips County, Arkansas, attacked black sharecroppers at a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America. The next day, hundreds of white men from the Delta, along with US Army...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467150880Author Carmen Wimberley CauthenFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 544g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589802681Author Mary Lou WidmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing CoWeight(grams) 476g

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The first major study to consider Black women’s activism in rural Arkansas, Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps foregrounds activists’ quest to improve Black communities through language and foodways as well as politics and community organizing. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467149709Author Charles A. MillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781531658809Author Lindsay MerrittFormat HardbackImprint Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublisher Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsWeight(grams) 413g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467150149Author G Wayne DowdyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467109352Author Bradley SloneFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 313g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683343233Author Doug AldersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 178g

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In his inaugural address, President John F. Kennedy challenged Americans to do something for their country. Thousands of young people answered his call, launching an era of flourishing social activism that eclipsed any in U.S. history. Citizens rallied...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684420995Author Steve RajtarFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint Turner Publishing CompanyPublisher Turner Publishing Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588383600Author Joe CaverFormat HardbackImprint NewSouth BooksPublisher NewSouth Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467145237Author Nelson HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 662Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 152g

Hurricane Katrina inflicted damage on a scale unprecedented in American history, nearly destroying a major city and killing thousands of its citizens. With far too little help from indifferent, incompetent government agencies, the poor bore the brunt of...

Notable events of the 1950s in North Carolina, the second book in this North Carolina history series.This book is the second in a series of small, richly illustrated books about North Carolina history through the decades. Originally published as hugely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467149778Author Ryan StarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 152g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467148672Author Laura A MacalusoFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 152g

The history of New Orleans at the turn of the nineteenth century In 1795, New Orleans was a sleepy outpost at the edge of Spain's American empire. By the 1820s, it was teeming with life, its levees packed with cotton and sugar. New Orleans had become...

By turns entertaining and tragic, this beautifully crafted history reveals the origins of a great university in the dilemmas of Virginia slavery. Thomas Jefferson shares centre stage with his family and fellow planters, all dependent on the labour of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683340300Author Kevin M McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

Coursing with a pumped-up beat, gay Atlanta was the South's mecca-a beacon for gays and lesbians growing up in its homophobic towns and cities. There, the Sweet Gum Head was the club for achieving drag stardom. Martin Padgett evokes the fantabulous disco...

The Hatfield-McCoy feud has long been the most famous vendetta of the southern Appalachians. Over the years it has become encrusted with myth and error. Scores of writers have produced accounts of it, but few have made any real effort to separate fact...

Though the English colony that would be known as Newport News, Virginia was settled in the early 1600s, the modern story began in the 1880s with the arrival of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad and the building of shipyards by the Newport News...

Offers a current and authoritative reference to urbanization in the American South from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, surveying important southern cities individually and examining the various issues that shape patterns of urbanization from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400032617Author Foxfire Fund, Inc.Format PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 697gDimensions(mm) 232mm...

Tour historic Fort Lauderdale, Florida through 276 color postcard images that depict the growth of the "Venice of America" and "Gateway to the Everglades." Be transported to earlier days before urban sprawl and renewal. From the 1900s...