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Daniel Bigman's research places Ocmulgee's development in the context of other large Early Mississippian mound centers and communities in the geographic region. Bigman argues that Ocmulgee is not a ""mystery""--something odd and...

West Virginia: Its Farms and Forests, Mines and Oil-Wells celebrates the state of West Virginia. Originally published in 1865 as a series of studies on mineral resources, observations on agriculture, and interviews with businessmen, West Virginia details...

Jimmy Hoffa, acquitted in a Nashville court during the Test Fleet case, was under investigation for jury tampering and subsequently tried and convicted in Chattanooga after a judge in Nashville granted a change of venue. Nicely explores Hoffa's time in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572335974Author Kristofer RayFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint University of Tennessee PressPublisher University of Tennessee Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817312138Author Robert WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The University of Alabama PressPublisher The University of Alabama PressWeight(grams)...

Nearly 200 years ago, settlers arrived in Alachua County to grow cotton and other crops. By the middle of the nineteenth century, enough people resided in the area today known as Gainesville that they decided to create a town to be the center of business...

The legendary Davy Crockett arose simultaneously with the emergence of the historical Crockett as a public figure, and once established, the man and the myth were forevermore entangled. The present work, his Life and Adventures (1833), ushered in a...

The visual legacy of Florestine Perrault Collins, who documented African American life in New Orleans Florestine Perrault Collins (1895-1988) lived a fascinating and singular life. She came from a Creole family that had known privileges before the Civil...

A "groundbreaking" and "definitive must-read" on the tragic shootings at the Mother Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina, by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. On June 17, 2015, twelve members of the historically black Emanuel AME Church...

Unnatural Resources explores the intersection of energy production and environmental regulation in Appalachia after the oil embargo of 1973. The years from 1969 to 1973 saw the passage of a number of laws meant to protect the environment from human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813151816Author Angene WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint University Press of KentuckyPublisher University Press of KentuckyWeight(grams) 152g

First published in 1982, West Virginia University: Symbol of Unity in a Sectionalize State details the history of WVU from before its inception as the Agricultural College of West Virginia in 1867 to its expansion and development in the 1980s. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634993050Author James B JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint America Through TimePublisher America Through TimeWeight(grams) 156g

Blocton chronicles the history of a community built on coal. In 1883 two entrepreneurs—Truman Aldrich, a New York engineer, and Cornelius Cadle, a former Union Army officer—created the Cahaba Coal Mining Company and built a railroad eight miles into the...

Nestled amid the western slopes of the Great Smoky Mountains in East Tennessee, bisected by the Little River, and including the community of Townsend, Tuckaleechee Cove is known today as “the peaceful side of the Smokies.” Celebrated for its natural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683340188Author Rodney CarlisleFormat PaperbackPage Count 2Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & Littlefield

From its birth to the present, Charlotte has consistently built and reshaped its appearance, ideals, and industry. Through changing fortunes, Charlotte has continued to grow and prosper by overcoming adversity and maintaining the strong, independent...

Winner of the Anne B. & James B. McMillan Prize in Southern HistoryExamines the legacies of eight momentous US Supreme Court decisions that have their origins in Alabama legal disputesUnknown to many, Alabama has played a remarkable role in a number of...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621906636Author John RossFormat HardbackImprint Univ Tennessee PressPublisher Univ Tennessee Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467148474Author William J ThibodeauxFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 152g

In Remember Little Rock Erin Krutko Devlin explores public memories surrounding the iconic Arkansas school desegregation crisis of 1957 and shows how these memories were vigorously contested and sometimes deployed against the cause. Delving into a wide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561648078Author Francis William ZettlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 2Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & Littlefield

From the late eighteenth century to early 1836, the heart of the Florida sugar industry was concentrated in East Florida, between the St. Johns River and the Atlantic Ocean. Producing the sweetest sugar, molasses, and rum, at least 22 sugar plantations...

Since 1959, when Cuba was overrun by Marxist revolutionary Fidel Castro after a long guerrilla war, Cubans have come to America in waves through the auspices of the United States and its open-door policies on immigration and asylum. Destination of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467107303Author Michael AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 165g

Every year, thousands of visitors climb the tallest of the ancient Ocmulgee Mounds in Macon, Georgia. Gazing fifty-five feet down from the top of this Great Temple Mound gives a sense of the might and mystery of the earliest Southeastern American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467107051Author Hunter C GentryFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 165g

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648-1695) wrote poetry, prose, and plays and is considered the greatest of Mexican women writers. She was an intellectual prodigy, reportedly mastering Latin in twenty lessons, and at sixteen she entered a convent so that she...

This new and improved edition of Letters from Alabama offers a valuable window into pioneer Alabama and the landscape and life-forms encountered by early settlers of the state. Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888), a British naturalist, left home at age...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634992916Author David BulitFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint America Through TimePublisher America Through TimeWeight(grams) 165g

The highland forests of southwestern Virginia were a sacred land to Native Americans and one they relied upon for sustenance. After European contact, this beautiful country drew successive waves of settlers and visitors, and for a brief yet intense...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870498152Author Carlos C. CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint University of Tennessee PressPublisher University of Tennessee PressWeight(grams)...

An illustrated guidebook documenting the history and sites of the state's origins.  Alabama's territorial and early statehood years represent a crucial formative period in its past, a time in which the state both literally and figuratively took shape...

This collection of essays represents a large-scale attempt to characterize the long-neglected Arkansas Delta. The historical, social, economic, geographic, and cultural issues the authors address make it abundantly clear that the Delta—long thought to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621907152Author Paul SalstromFormat PaperbackImprint Univ Tennessee PressPublisher Univ Tennessee Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467150323Author Chris FasolinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 152g

Chris Watson began developing a tool for mapping wildness across the Georgia landscape, but as work progressed, the study's conception of the region's significance expanded beyond ecology: the floodplain's value is immeasurable to the Muscogee Indians...

Founded in eastern Arkansas during the Great Depression, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) has long fascinated historians, who have emphasized its biracial membership and the socialist convictions of its leaders, while attributing its demise to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596527195Author Joseph WoodruffFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint TurnerPublisher TurnerWeight(grams) 522g