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In 1837 Representative Joseph J. Anthony stabs the speaker of the house to death during a debate about wolf pelts. In 1899 Hot Springs police shoot it out with the county sheriffs over control of illegal gambling. In 1974 President Richard Nixon resigns...

Helvetia: A Swiss Village in the Hills of West Virginia explores the unique founding and development of a community nestled within the wilderness of Appalachia. Established in 1869, this tiny Swiss settlement embodies the American immigrant experience,...

The emergence into pop culture of quaint and simple Ozarks Mountaineers-through the writings of Vance Randolph, Wayman Hogue, Charles Morrow Wilson, and others-was a comfort and fascination to many Americans in the early twentieth century. Disillusioned...

On the night of August 5, 1927, someone shot and killed Coleman Osborn, a store owner in Chatsworth, Georgia, in his place of business. Police and neighbors found only circumstantial traces of the murderer: tire tracks, boot prints, shell casings, and...

Kentucky Countryside in Transition charts the rise of the American middle class at the turn of the twentieth century by examining migration from the Kentucky countryside to suburban Louisville. The formation of the suburban middle class in Louisville was...

Soon after winning the presidency in 1845, according to the oft-repeated anecdote, James K. Polk slapped his thigh and predicted what would be the ""four great measures"" of his administration: the acquisition of some or all of the...

The Sunsphere, World's Fair Site, and Neyland Stadium are Knoxville landmarks of pride and passion, history and culture. But anyone who has resided in this mid-sized southern city knows that it derives its unique glow not so much from its locale but from...

A one-of-a-kind reference book, Tennessee Tragedies examines a wide variety of disasters that have occurred in the Volunteer State over the past several centuries. Intended for both general readers and emergency management professionals, it covers...

Thomas Hughes was the author of the immensely popular Victorian novel Tom Brown's Schooldays, which was set in Rugby School, the well-known English ""public school"" that Hughes attended. In it, Hughes portrays the ideals of that...

Originally published in 1988, Middle Tennessee Society Transformed marks a significant advance in the social history of the American Civil War--an approach exemplified and extended in Ash's later work and that of other leading Civil War scholars. Winner...

"This book will make a real contribution to the history of McCarthyism, the history of Tennessee, and the history of TVA." --Russell B. Olwell, At Work in the Atomic City: A Labor and Social History of Oak Ridge, Tennessee They came from all...

In telling the story of five generations of her family and its farm in the Arkansas Delta, Margaret Jones Bolsterli brings together her own research, historical perspective, and family lore as it reaches her from the days of her great-grandfather down to...

The essays in United States District Courts and Judges of Arkansas, 1836- 1960 one each for a judge and his decisions-come together to form a chronological history of the Arkansas judicial system as it grew from its beginnings in a frontier state to a...

This collection of letters bears witness to the Civil War of the common soldiers and junior officers of the Army of Tennessee. Brothers Alex and Tom Spence described to their family in detail not only the many battles in which they served, but the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817315351Author Mary Chapman MathewsFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint The University of Alabama PressPublisher The University of Alabama...

Sawmill is a history of logging in the Arkansas and Oklahoma Ouachita Mountains from 1900 to 1950, a penetrating study of the lumber industry, and a significant view of man’s interaction with a major forest resource. It is also a social history in its...

Between the 1890s and the early 1920s, the boll weevil slowly ate its way across the Cotton South from Texas to the Atlantic Ocean. At the turn of the century, some Texas counties were reporting crop losses of over 70 percent, as were areas of Louisiana,...

From Pity to Pride depicts the history of young, wealthy men in the old South who were barred from high posts because they were deaf, and how they formed their own societies that after the Civil War included deaf northerners.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945624001Author Elizabeth Griffin HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Butler Center for Arkansas StudiesPublisher Butler Center for Arkansas...

Since Arkansas’s creation as an independent territory in 1819, its legislature has officially designated a wide assortment of symbols. Some of these refer to economic mainstays while others attest to the aspirations of those who saw a bright future for...

No political leader is more closely identified with Louisiana State University than the flamboyant governor and U.S. senator Huey P. Long, who devoted his last years to turning a small, undistinguished state school into an academic and football...

An examination of the dual Scottish–Yamasee colonization of Port RoyalThose interested in the early colonial history of South Carolina and the southeastern borderlands will find much to discover in Carolina's Lost Colony in which historian Peter N. Moore...

Examines a small part of slavery's North American domain, the lower Chattahoochee river Valley between Alabama and Georgia In the New World, the buying and selling of slaves and of the commodities that they produced generated immense wealth, which...

This third edition of Knoxville, Tennessee: A Mountain City in the New South includes a new preface and a valuable new chapter covering the period from the death of Cas Walker to the end of the administration of Madeline Rogero, Knoxville's first female...

An illustrated account of the life and work of the pioneering photographer The Photographic Legacy of Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) draws on original papers and photographs from the Library of Congress to document the extraordinary life and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682262061Author Michael PierceFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint University of Arkansas PressPublisher University of Arkansas PressWeight(grams) 152g

Examines the role of press coverage in promoting the mission of the TVA, facilitating family relocation, and formulating the historical legacy of the New Deal. For poverty-stricken families in the Tennessee River Valley during the Great Depression,...

Making the Bible Belt upends notions of a longstanding, stable marriage between political religion and the American South. H.L. Mencken coined the term "the Bible Belt" in the 1920s to capture the peculiar alliance of religion and public life in the...

On the night of February 8, 1968, South Carolina state highway patrolmen fired on civil rights demonstrators in front of South Carolina State College, a historically black institution in the town of Orangeburg. Three young black men--Samuel Hammond,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557286611Author Sam TaggertFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Arkansas Times PressPublisher Arkansas Times PressWeight(grams) 386g

Women were leading actors in twentieth-century developments in Georgia, yet most histories minimise their contributions. The essays in the second volume of Georgia Women, edited by Ann Short Chirhart and Kathleen Clark, vividly portray a wide array of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467149266Author Sherman CarmichaelFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467108720Author Dr MatthewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634992886Author Kyle KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint America Through TimePublisher America Through TimeWeight(grams) 165g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467106429Author Gregory LeonardFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 165g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467106153Author Thad Hillis CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 165g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634993807Author Cindy VaskoFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint America Through TimePublisher America Through TimeWeight(grams) 304g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467144414Author Dr CokerFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467151269Author Christopher P SemtnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 313g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467105668Author Chase Norman BeggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 318g