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Beechers, Stowes, and Yankee Strangers: The Transformation of Florida John T. Foster 9780813080901
RRP: $52.40$37.44The 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... -
As Long as the Yule Log Burned: Lost Cause Mythmakers and the Disturbing History of an American Plantation Legend Robert E. May 9798881801786
RRP: $41.98$35.68Apologies 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 -
Authoritarianism in the American South: Beliefs That Led to Slavery and Civil War, 1606-1861 Robert L. Dipboye 9781476695648
RRP: $75.58$62.16The 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... -
Bayou Dilemma: Louisiana in Crisis and Change Samuel C. Hyde Jr. 9781496853776
RRP: $205.80$179.42Contributions by Janet Allured, Craig E. Colten, Marcus Cox, Pearson Cross, John Bel Edwards, Adam Fairclough, Keith Finley, Samuel C. Hyde Jr., John Lopez, and Robert Mann In the fall of 2022, a diverse group of scholars including scientists,... -
Stalking the Great Killer: Arkansas's Long War on Tuberculosis Larry C. Floyd 9780806194820
$46.98Imagine a time when a killer disease took lives at a rate rivaling Covid-19 in 2020 and 2021, and continued that grim harvest year after year, decade after decade. Such a nightmare scenario played out in the state of Arkansas—and across the United... -
TRiP MAGAZEEN: The Complete Collection 1992-1994 Peter Wohelski 9781963814033
RRP: $52.48$44.60Exported out of cities like Chicago and Detroit in the late 80’s, House and Techno music washed back up on US shores in the early 90’s, repackaged by the English and Germans as ‘Rave’. UK live acts like The Shamen, Altern8, 808 State, Utah Saints, and... -
The Making of Twenty-First-Century Richmond: Politics, Policy, and Governance, 1988-2016 Thad Williamson 9781469681283
RRP: $205.80$174.93Richmond, Virginia, took center stage globally in the summer of 2020 as an epicenter of antiracist protests in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd. In a period of just a few weeks, overwhelming public support grew for removing Richmond's... -
Race, Politics, and Reconstruction: The First Black Cadets at Old West Point Rory McGovern 9780813951911
RRP: $54.50$54.12The first in-depth study of racial integration at West Point after the Civil WarRace, Politics, and Reconstruction tells the story of racial integration at the United States Military Academy after the Civil War and spotlights the social environment and... -
The Making of Twenty-First-Century Richmond: Politics, Policy, and Governance, 1988-2016 Thad Williamson 9781469681290
RRP: $62.90$53.47Richmond, Virginia, took center stage globally in the summer of 2020 as an epicenter of antiracist protests in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd. In a period of just a few weeks, overwhelming public support grew for removing Richmond's... -
Sickly Vapors: Disease and Doctoring in the Old South Thomas Helling 9781496854377
RRP: $58.70$51.47The southern climate, with its heat, oppressive humidity, and stagnant marshland, accentuated disease and suffering for inhabitants of the Old South, from its early settling through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Vicious illnesses—from malaria and... -
Sickly Vapors: Disease and Doctoring in the Old South Thomas Helling 9781496854360
RRP: $228.90$198.03The southern climate, with its heat, oppressive humidity, and stagnant marshland, accentuated disease and suffering for inhabitants of the Old South, from its early settling through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Vicious illnesses—from malaria and... -
Bayou Dilemma: Louisiana in Crisis and Change Samuel C. Hyde Jr. 9781496853783
RRP: $62.90$55.23Contributions by Janet Allured, Craig E. Colten, Marcus Cox, Pearson Cross, John Bel Edwards, Adam Fairclough, Keith Finley, Samuel C. Hyde Jr., John Lopez, and Robert Mann In the fall of 2022, a diverse group of scholars including scientists,... -
Florida Spectacular: Extraordinary Places and Exceptional Lives Cathy Salustri 9780813080697
RRP: $56.60$36.04Discover Florida in a new light through little-known moments from its fascinating history If when you think “Florida” you don’t think “spectacular,” Cathy Salustri is determined to change your mind. Explaining why the state is more than the “Florida Man”... -
Our Commonwealth: People and Places of Virginia Andrew Talkov 9781913875343
RRP: $73.40$55.00Our Commonwealth: People and Places of Virginia provides an in-depth exploration through the five major regions of Virginia, and features stories and artifacts from cultural institutions throughout the state. Each geographical region-Central Virginia,... -
Murder on the Largo Volume 23 Eleanor Williams 9781574419337
RRP: $62.90$53.47In western New Mexico in 1905 there rode a notorious outlaw from the Mexican border named Henry Coleman. With a Colt .45 strapped to his hip, Coleman (alias Street Hudspeth from the well-to-do Texas family) came to be either despised as a deceitful... -
Tangled Fortunes: The Hidden History of Interracial Marriage in the Segregated South Kathryn Schumaker 9781541605312
RRP: $58.80$49.98A history of Southern segregationists' long war against interracial relationships, and the century-long fight to restore the freedom to love, marry, and inheritInterracial marriage was already illegal in some of the American colonies as early as the... -
A Southern Underground Railroad: Black Georgians and the Promise of Spanish Florida and Indian Country Paul M. Pressly 9780820366852
$60.19Despite its apparent isolation as an older region of the country, the Southeast provided a vital connecting link between the Black self-emancipation that occurred during the American Revolution and the growth of the Underground Railroad in the final... -
The Realms of Oblivion: An Excavation of The Davies Manor Historic Site's Omitted Stories Andrew C. Ross 9780826506818
RRP: $50.30$37.17The Realms of Oblivion explores the complexities involved in reconciling competing versions of history, channeled through Davies Manor, a historic site near Memphis that once centered a wealthy slave-owning family’s sprawling cotton plantation...