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Dynamite Nashville explores a series of unsolved civil rights era bombings in Nashville. Betsy Phillips, who was named Best Nashville Historian by The Nashville Scene, believes she has solved those bombings. She has gained access to FBI files, that the...

The story of one of Savannah's first and most prominent Jewish families, the son who died on the battlefield, and the house that remembers it all.Gratz Cohen's ghost seemed to haunt the apartment as its new owner worked to bring it back to life. As the...

This interdisciplinary investigation argues that since the 1990s, discourses about mixed-race heritage in the United States have taken the shape of a veritable literary genre, here termed “memoir of the search.” The study uses four different texts to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540235602Author Lisa M RussellFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams)...

Although the Creeks constitute a sovereign nation today, the concept of the nation meant little to their ancestors in the Native South. Rather, as Steven Peach contends in Rivers of Power, the Creeks of present-day Georgia and Alabama conceptualized...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467199711Author Taylor BruceFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint WildsamPublisher WildsamWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 152mm * 107mm * 13mm

Librarians around the country are currently on a battleground, defending their right to purchase and circulate books dealing with issues of race and systemic racism. Despite this work, the library community has often overlooked—even ignored—its own...

How Black and white Cubans navigated issues of race, politics, and identity during the post-Civil War and early Jim Crow eras in South Florida. On July 4, 1876, during the centennial celebration of US independence, the city of Key West was different from...

Anyone who has ever traveled to Florida immediately assumes they've got the state figured out. It usually involves the common tropes we see splashed across news and social media: Disney, Miami, alligators, heat, retirees and weird people. As a result,...

Although the Creeks constitute a sovereign nation today, the concept of the nation meant little to their ancestors in the Native South. Rather, as Steven Peach contends in Rivers of Power, the Creeks of present-day Georgia and Alabama conceptualized...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596298927Author Keven McQueenFormat PaperbackPage Count 109Imprint History Press (SC)Publisher History Press (SC)Weight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929647934Author Margaret SeidlerFormat HardbackImprint Evening Post BooksPublisher Evening Post Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467113229Author James a KushlanFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 318g

Catholicism and Native Americans in Early North America interrogates the profound cultural impacts of Catholic policies and practice in La Florida during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Catholicism and Native Americans in Early North America...

Shane K. Bernard's Teche examines this legendary waterway of the American Deep South. Bernard delves into the bayou's geologic formation as a vestige of the Mississippi and Red Rivers, its prehistoric Native American occupation, and its colonial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467139847Author Lisa M. RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455623419Author Joan GarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing Co

During the latter half of the nineteenth century, German and Irish immigrants were as central to the development of the political economy of Charleston, South Carolina, as white southerners and African Americans. As artisans and entrepreneurs, foreigners...

Distilled from Arkansas: A Narrative History, the definitive work on the subject since its original publication in 2002, Arkansas: A Concise History is a succinct one-volume history of the state from the prehistory period to the near-present. Featuring...

A spirited defense of the landmark civil rights case and its place in our history. The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling was a watershed event in the fight against racial segregation in the United States. The recent fiftieth anniversary of Brown...

In the Black Geographies issue, authors roller skate to claim space and joy, examine the role of the King James Version of the Bible in Black placemaking and meaning-making, mine the pages of literary geographer Gloria Naylor, and more. As guest editor...

Mid-twentieth-century Florida was a state in flux. Changes exemplified by rapidly burgeoning cities and suburbs, the growth of the Kennedy Space Center during the space race, and the impending construction of Walt Disney World overwhelmed the outdated...

'If ever there was a coffee-table book that could exemplify the best of the best, this is it. Wyman Meinzer's photos portray the heart and soul of this historic ranch, but even more important, so do Henry Chappell's words...His sentences drip with vivid...

Just off the coast of the Gulf Islands National Seashore lies Cat Island, an isolated, T-shaped sliver of sand with a remarkable past. A coveted hiding place for Jean Lafitte's pirate treasure in the late eighteenth century and illegal booze during...

A 'gifted writer' (Chicago Tribune) uses a long forgotten factory fire in small-town North Carolina to show how cut-rate food and labor have become the new American norm. For decades the small, quiet town of Hamlet, North Carolina thrived thanks to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738542300Author Jim MancusoFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 322g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190905842Author Associate Professor Jason Morgan WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University...

Stories from the Barrio offers a new look at the history of Fort Worth. In his search to discover the roots of the Hispanic community, Carlos E. Cuellar was surprised to discover the lack of historical documentation of the history of the fastest-growing...

Ernest Withers took some of the most legendary images of the 1950s and '60s: Martin Luther King, Jr., riding a newly integrated bus in Montgomery, Alabama; Emmett Till's uncle pointing an accusatory finger across the courtroom at his nephew's killer;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738585796Author Paul JamesFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 318g

New Orleans is a city of many storied streets, but only one conjures up as much unbridled passion as it does fervent hatred, simultaneously polarizing the public while drawing millions of visitors a year. A fascinating investigation into the mile-long...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681064963Author Paige WattsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Reedy PressPublisher Reedy Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467155779Author Jeff SuwakFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 9g

Sapelo, a state-protected barrier island off the Georgia coast, is one of the state's greatest treasures. Presently owned almost exclusively by the state and managed by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Sapelo features unique nature charac...

This biography examines the political journey of James McDowell, a Democratic governor from western Virginia during the Jacksonian Era. The journey was shaped by the crosscurrents of a national debate over slavery, democratic advances, and the Jackson’s...

Antebellum Missouri's location at the intersection of North, South, and West makes it a location that allows one to examine regionalism in the United States in one location since Missouri contained characteristics of each region. Missouri also provides a...

What can a mostly abandoned town offer its curious visitors? A collection of unusual sights and experiences, especially if it's the scenic coal-mining town of Iaeger, West Virginia. Part travelogue, part reflection, this book examines the rise and fall...

Abandoned structures are places that open the imagination and invite interpretation. Distressed wood and weathered remnants of human life are crossed by time and animal tracks, inviting one to picture what once was. Abandoned homes and buildings offer a...

“On the day that Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, was assassinated, Tennesseans worried about the weather,” Carole Bucy writes. Indeed, the war that began in Europe in 1914 was unimaginably remote from Tennessee—until it wasn’t...

The Mobile River presents the first-ever narrative history of this important American watercourse. Inspired by the venerable Rivers of America series, John S. Sledge weaves chronological and thematic elements with personal experiences and more than sixty...