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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467147248Author Michael DobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 152g

The 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, ignited nationwide protests and brought widespread attention police brutality and institutional racism. But Ferguson was no aberration. As Colin Gordon shows in this urgent and timely book, the...

This book is the first in a series of small, richly illustrated books about North Carolina history through the decades. Originally published as hugely popular serialized articles for Our State magazine, this book chronicles events in North Carolina in...

Be transported back to a Golden Era in Miami history. Nearly 250 mid-century postcards portray bikini-clad tourists, tropical cabana nightclubs, and beaches crowded with basking vacationers, along with the private yachts, the fragrant orange groves, and...

The South has long stood as one of the more absorbing areas of the American experience. What sets the South apart, and what has it meant to be a 'southerner'? How have the commonalities of southern life weighed against persisting divisions of gender,...

The craft of making moonshine-an unaged white whiskey, often made and consumed outside legal parameters-nearly went extinct in the late twentieth century as law enforcement cracked down on illicit producers, and cheaper, lawful alcohol became readily...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683340164Author Thomas Philip FarrrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

When the Declaration of Independence was signed by a group of wealthy white men in 1776, poor white men, African Americans, and women quickly discovered that the unalienable rights it promised were not truly for all. The Nineteenth Amendment eventually...

Prohibition, with all its crime, corruption, and cultural upheaval, ran its course after thirteen years in most of the rest of the country-but not in Memphis, where it lasted thirty years. Patrick O'Daniel takes a fresh look at those responsible for the...

The Stonemans is an eye-opening slice of Americana---a trip through nearly twenty years of country music history following a single family from their native Blue Ridge Mountains to the slums of Washington, D.C., and the glitter of Nashville. As early as...

" Among the darkest corners of Kentucky's past are the grisly feuds that tore apart the hills of Eastern Kentucky from the late nineteenth century until well into the twentieth. Now, from the tangled threads of conflicting testimony, John Ed Pearce,...

Myths and Mysteries of Kentucky reveals the dark and ominous cloud of mysteries and myths that hovers over the Bluegrass State. This book offers residents, travelers, history buffs, and ghost hunters a refreshingingly lively collection of stories about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634993449Author Stephen C ComptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint America Through TimePublisher America Through TimeWeight(grams) 18g

Albert James Pickett's History of Alabama, and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the Earliest Period first appeared in Montgomery bookstores in September 1851. The buyers of his two-volume work paid $3 and the demand caused Charleston...

A memorable and fascinating glimpse into the Civil War home front. Parthenia Hague experienced the Civil War while employed as a schoolteacher on a plantation near Eufaula, Alabama. This book recounts how a frightened and war-weary household dealt with...

An innovative global history of the American Civil War, Reckoning with Rebellion compares and contrasts the American experience with other civil and national conflicts that happened at nearly the same time-the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the Polish...

Sexual Reckonings is the fascinating tale of adolescent girls coming of age in the South during the most explosive decades for the region. Focusing on the period from 1920 to 1960, Susan Cahn reveals how both the life of the South and the meaning of...

Combining Atlantic and imperial perspectives, Caribbean New Orleans offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of the French colonists who established racial slavery there as well as the African slaves who were forced to toil for...

One of the most hotly debated issues in the historical study of race relations is the question of how the Civil War and Reconstruction affected social relations in the South. Did the War leave class and race hierarchies intact? Or did it mark the...

In this vital transnational study, Kimberly D. Hill critically analyzes the colonial history of central Africa through the perspective of two African American missionaries: Alonzo Edmiston and Althea Brown Edmiston. The pair met and fell in love while...

Behind the Magic Curtain: Secrets, Spies, and Unsung White Allies of Birmingham's Civil Rights Days is a remarkable look at a historic city enmeshed in racial tensions, revealing untold or forgotten stories of secret deals, law enforcement intrigue, and...

Since the earliest days of colonial America, the relationship between cotton and the African-American experience has been central to the history of the republic. America's most serious social tragedy, slavery and its legacy, spread only where cotton...

"A powerful story, skillfully told." -Booklist A new portrait of Robert Kennedy, a politician who, for all his faults, had the uncommon courage to stand up to a president from his own party and shine a light on America's shortcomings In early 1968,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (Non-Fiction) 1990.Book InformationISBN 9781609809812Author Dale MaharidgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher...

African American freedom is often defined in terms of emancipation and civil rights legislation, but it did not arrive with the stroke of a pen or the rap of a gavel. No single event makes this more plain, Laurie Green argues, than the 1968 Memphis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540234049Author Seth H BramsonFormat HardbackPage Count 98Imprint Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublisher Arcadia Publishing Library...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788419751Author J Houston HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 714Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 812g

Essential reading as America finally comes to terms with its racial past. When first published in 2001, society apparently wasn't ready for such an unstinting narrative. After it was published, The Burning, like its subject matter, remained unknown...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596290440Author George EllisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

The everyday lives of enslaved people were filled with the backbreaking tasks that their enslavers forced them to complete. But in spare moments, they found time in which to earn money and obtain goods for themselves. Enslaved people led vibrant economic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction 2010 and L.A. Times Book Prize (Current Interest) 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780307387943Author Dave EggersFormat...

The Wild East explores the social, political, and environmental changes in the Great Smoky Mountains during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Book InformationISBN 9780813080864Author Margaret Lynn BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 479Imprint...

In 1974, R.B. Fitch of Chapel Hill bought 632 acres in Chatham County, North Carolina, just outside Chapel Hill, with a vision of creating a community, a mix of residential and low-key commercial in the style of the English villages he admired when...

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An overview of the importance of fire to ecosystems in the Southeast, with guidance on how to best conduct controlled burns in the region.A biodiversity hotspot, Florida is home to many ecosystems and species that evolved in the presence of frequent fire...

Choice Outstanding Academic TitleSociety for Historical Archaeology James Deetz Book AwardThe archaeology and history of one of the most storied cities of the American South. Charleston, South Carolina, is one of the most storied cities of the American...

More than 6,000 ships have met their doom in the waters along the North Carolina coast, weaving a rich history of tragedy, drama and heroics along these picturesque beaches. Men have lost their lives and fortunes, and heroes have been made where the...

The story of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Charles Beecher in Reconstruction FloridaModern Florida—a world of tourists, retirees from the North, and novel agricultural crops—began among a group of Yankee reformers at the end of the Civil War, including...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798881801786Author Robert E. MayFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

The evidence is overwhelming that the protection and expansion of slavery was a primary reason for the secession of the Confederate states and the Civil War that followed. While slavery undoubtedly was important, a more fundamental cause was a belief...