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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733642064Author Aaron H GoldbergFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint Quaker ScribePublisher Quaker ScribeWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540212832Author Lili DebarbieriFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams)...

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Life at the Dakota is a deliciously entertaining social history which describes the lives of the rich and trendy who have lived at the Dakota, a New York apartment house daringly erected in 1884, "too far up" and on the wrong side of town. In Stephen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626190757Author Charlene R. JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

Drawing on the federal census, wills, mortgage bills of sale, tax returns, and newspaper advertisements, this authoritative study describes the nature of African-American slaveholding, its complexity, and its rationales. It reveals how some...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467147248Author Michael DobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *...

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The southern beauty is alive and well in the twenty-first century American South - and so is a particular silence. All across the region young white women routinely turn-in renditions of femininity more in keeping with nineteenth century gender ideals...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467115070Author Bonner JoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060090579Author Benjamin WoolleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

The true story behind NASCAR's hardscrabble, moonshine-fueled origins, "fascinating and fast-moving . . . even if you don't know a master cylinder from a head gasket" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution). "[Neal] Thompson exhumes the sport's Prohibition-era...

In one of his most important books, the renowned historian Eugene D. Genovese examines slave revolts in the United States, the Caribbean, and Brazil, placing them in the context of modern world history. By studying the conditions that favoured these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101979877Author Doug J. SwansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 209mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561641154Author Gene BurnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802122308Author T D AllmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476794051Author Denise KiernanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 28mm

Huey Long (1893-1935) was one of the most extraordinary American politicians, simultaneously cursed as a dictator and applauded as a benefactor of the masses. A product of the poor north Louisiana hills, he was elected governor of Louisiana in 1928, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316449212Author Emma Copley EisenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...

Near Appomattox, during a cease-fire in the Civil War, Confederate general Martin R. Gary harangued his troops to stand fast and not lay down their arms. This text chronicles the rise of a post-Civil War southern culture of defiance that still remains...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738586007Author Wayne AyersFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 318g

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY! An "important, deeply affecting-and regrettably relevant" (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans' freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government...

Christopher Knowlton, author of Cattle Kingdom and former Fortune writer, takes an in-depth look at the spectacular Florida land boom of the 1920s and shows how it led directly to the Great Depression.The 1920s in Florida was a time of incredible excess,...

Rufus Thomas may not be a household name, but he is widely regarded as the patriarch of Memphis R&B, and his music influenced three generations. His first singles in the early 1950s were recorded as blues transitioned into R&B, and he was arguably one of...

Bestselling travel writer Richard Grant "sensitively probes the complex and troubled history of the oldest city on the Mississippi River through the eyes of a cast of eccentric and unexpected characters" (Newsweek).Natchez, Mississippi, once had more...

C. P. Ellis grew up in the poor white section of Durham, North Carolina, and as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, a single mother from the poor black part of town, quit her job as a household domestic to join the civil rights fight...

In 2014, Eric J. Wittenberg published "The Devil's to Pay": John Buford at Gettysburg. A History and Walking Tour, an award-winning study of Union cavalry delaying actions at Gettysburg. Fast-forward four years to 2018 and Wittenberg's latest release, a...

Between Reconstruction and Prohibition, Beale Street in Memphis thrived as a cauldron of sex and song, greed and race hatred-a street that inspired folk legends and reshaped American politics. Preston Lauterbach tells this story through the life of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738567341Author Paul S. MorandoFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 235mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467145961Author Frank A Ofeldt IIIFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467113731Author John Walker GussFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 318g

A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the ""long Civil Rights movement,"" Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and...

Michael Gorra asks provocative questions in this historic portrait of William Faulkner and his world. He explores whether William Faulkner should still be read in this new century and asks what his works tell us about the legacy of slavery and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540221100Author G Wayne DowdyFormat HardbackPage Count 146Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams)...

Berthed today at NAUTICUS, the National Maritime Center, the USS Wisconsin (BB-64) was the last authorized of the four Iowa-class battleships, the largest American dreadnoughts ever built. Wisconsin saw action in World War II and the Korean Conflict for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540202574Author Gail Wilson-GiarratanoFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library...

"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,...

Born 130 years ago in the heart of Mississippi, Charlie Patton (c. 1891-1934) is considered by many to be a father of the Delta blues. With his bullish baritone voice and his fluid slide guitar touch, Patton established songs like "Pony Blues," "A...

In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last recorded...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679736479Author W. J. CashFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 203mm...