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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...

During the early 1990s, the diet drugs fen-phen and Redux achieved tremendous popularity. The chemical combination was discovered by chance, marketed with hyperbole, and prescribed to millions. But as the drugs' developer, pharmaceutical giant American...

In early August 1862, Confederate Maj. Gen. Stonewall Jackson took to the field with his Army of the Valley for one last fight-one that would also turn out to be his last independent command.Near the base of Cedar Mountain, in the midst of a blistering...

...revisit the people and places and deepen your enjoyment of the sublime BBC tv series "Wayfaring Stranger"...in these pages revisit people and places you loved in the BBC tv series "Wayfaring Stranger"... by the authors as featured in the acclaimed BBC...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767917445Author Michael GrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 505gDimensions(mm) 209mm *...

The November 1864 battle of Franklin left the Army of Tennessee stunned. In only a few hours, the army lost 6,000 men and a score of generals. Rather than pause, John Bell Hood marched his army north to Nashville. He had risked everything on a successful...

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)...

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After midnight on December 10, 1964, in Ferriday, Louisiana, African American Frank Morris awoke to the sound of breaking glass. Outside his home and shoe shop, standing behind the shattered window, Klansmen tossed a lit match inside the store, now...

The second edition of Mississippi: A History features a series of revisions and updates to its comprehensive coverage of Mississippi state history from the time of the region's first inhabitants into the 21st century. Represents the only available...

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...

Exploring the mental worlds of the major groups interacting in a borderland setting, Cynthia Cumfer offers a broad, multiracial intellectual and cultural history of the Tennessee frontier in the Revolutionary and early national periods, leading up to the...

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...

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 9781250086112Author Author David HillFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Offers an illuminating tour of the drug war, revealing the dark, troubling recesses of drug lords, high-level corruption, and ultra-violence that respects no borders.Book InformationISBN 9780743244572Author Charles BowdenFormat PaperbackPage Count...

In this volume well-known scholars from India and Latin America - Enrique Dussel, Madhu Dubey, Walter D. Mignolo, and Sudipta Sen, to name a few - discuss the concepts of modernity and colonialism and describe how the two relate to each other. This...

This title presents public reinforcement of white supremacy. Lynch mobs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America often exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. In ""Lynching and Spectacle"", Amy Wood explains what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375708275Author Erik LarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061131509Author Tom PiazzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 197Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 181g

For at least two centuries, the South's economy, politics, religion, race relations, fiction, music, foodways and more have figured prominently in nearly all facets of American life. In A New History of the American South, W. Fitzhugh Brundage joins a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679723073Author Kenneth M. StamppFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

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)...

A modern epic about the most consequential music culture today, Atlanta rap-a masterful, street-level story of art, money, race, class, and salvation from acclaimed New York Times reporter Joe Coscarelli.From mansions to trap houses, office buildings to...

A timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accounts Praised as "viscerally powerful" (Publishers Weekly), this remarkable work of oral history captures the searing experience of...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625859631Author Cassandra L., Ph.D. Newby-AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 189Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams)...

"Gitlin's comprehensive portrait of mid-America's Francophone merchants demonstrates their importance as fur traders, town builders and advance agents of American empire. It adds a valuable new dimension to the story of national expansion and...

"When Floyd Collins became trapped in a cave in southern Kentucky in early 1925, the sensationalism and hysteria of the rescue attempt generated America's first true media spectacle, making Collins's story one of the seminal events of the century. The...

Our perception of life at Monticello has changed dramatically over the past quarter century. The image of an estate presided over by a benevolent Thomas Jefferson has given way to a more complex view of Monticello as a working plantation, the success of...

By the time of the Civil War, Thomas L. Webber shows, American slaves had created for themselves a new and separate culture, combining elements of their African past and their experiences under slavery in the South. How they were able to educate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738587110Author Lisa Whillock EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318g

"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,...

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An eye-opening account of the Great Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902, showing how the strike—and the violent backlash that ensued—reveal the genesis of modern policing. In the early years of the twentieth century, in the coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania,...

Mobilization for World War II disrupted life in the Deep South of the United States, sparking new-and, in some cases, reigniting old-battles across the home front. Rural migrants flocked to towns and cities, hoping to take advantage of new war-related...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award (Regional Book) 2000. Short-listed for Book Sense Book of the Year Award (Adult) 2000.Book InformationISBN...

Headlines declare after each new hint of evidence that the Lost Colony--the English colonists left on Roanoke Island in 1587, including Virginia Dare--has been found. None of these claims pass muster as the historical, archaeological, and literary...

Savannah in the New South: From the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century, by Walter J. Fraser, Jr., traces the city's evolution from the pivotal period immediately after the Civil War to the present. When the war ended, Savannah was nearly bankrupt;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781887366885Author Bill DixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint University of LouisianaPublisher University of LouisianaWeight(grams) 499g