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A century ago Hot Springs, Arkansas, was a world-renown resort city. Today, the town remains the most unique city in Arkansas but with much of its Victorian-to-1950s views nearly unrecognizable. Hot Springs: Past and Present shows vividly the before and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817356668Author Sam HodgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint The University of Alabama PressPublisher The University of Alabama Press

While rich in natural resources, Appalachia remains a nationwide symbol of poverty. Ken Fones-Wolf deftly combines labor and business history to examine how a promising partnership between West Virginia and the glass industry failed to improve the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817305185Author Henry SoutherlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint The University of Alabama PressPublisher The University of Alabama...

Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in America recounts the story of three innocent victims, all of whom suffered violent deaths through no fault of their own: Vaudine Maddox in 1933 in Tuscaloosa, Sergeant Gene Ballard in 1979 in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467148290Author Joe KnetschFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 152g

In the spring and summer of 1927, the Mississippi River and its tributaries flooded from Cairo, Illinois to New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Gulf of Mexico, tearing through seven states, sometimes spreading out to nearly one hundred miles across. Pete...

Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta examines the history of labor relations and racial conflict in the Mississippi Valley from the Civil War into the late twentieth century. This essay collection grew out of a conference marking the hundredth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634993104Author Michael JusticeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint America Through TimePublisher America Through TimeWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589800847Author John ChaseFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing CoWeight(grams) 274g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467107983Author Dr MashFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 165g

Brings together and highlights some of the latest and most engaging work on Williams Bartram and efforts to commemorate his journey through the disparate region that would become the Southeastern USBook InformationISBN 9780817321291Author Kathryn H...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596524125Author James A. HooblerFormat HardbackPage Count 205Imprint TurnerPublisher TurnerWeight(grams) 1216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643361697Author Professor of Law Roger C HartleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint University of South Carolina PressPublisher University of South...

This is the story missing from Little Rock histories, the story of the remarkable collaboration between a white male pastor and a black female journalist, that led to a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement and in education.This book describes the...

Out in the Rural is the unlikely story of the Tufts-Delta Health Center, which in 1966 opened in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, to become the first rural community health center in the United States. Its goal was simple: to provide health care and outreach to...

Alfred L. Brophy's University, Court, and Slave reveals long-forgotten connections between pre-Civil War southern universities and slavery. Universities and their faculty owned people - sometimes dozens of people - and profited from their labor while...

As turbulent social and economic changes swept the South in the first half of the twentieth century, education became the flashpoint. Ann Short Chirhart's study is the first to analyze such modernizing events in Georgia. She shows how these changes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683340270Author Rodney CarlisleFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561647965Author Rodney CarlisleFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & Littlefield

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683340652Author Russell KelleyFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 758g

Although it is among the smallest of Georgia's Golden Isles, Jekyll Island boasts a depth of history rivaling that of its larger neighbours. The island embraces two National Historic Landmarks, a listing reserved for the nation's most significant...

In 1956, a few brash young men created the Mai-Kai Restaurant and bar in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, by poaching key staff from Don the Beachcomber, a Polynesian-themed Chicago restaurant. The Mai-Kai became the playground of celebrities and playboys, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400030705Author H. W. BrandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639363575Author Susan CrawfordFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 160mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467153409Author Michael DeWitt JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm...

In 1912, a young girl's murder rocked the rural community of Forsyth County, Georgia and led a mob of whites to lynch a black man on the town square. Later, bands of night-riders declared Forsyth "whites-only" and sent 1,100 citizens running for their...

This is a tale of two tragedies.At the heart of the first is Dr. Steven Hayne, a doctor the State of Mississippi employed as its de facto medical examiner for two decades. Beginning in the late 1980s, he performed anywhere from 1,200 to 1,800 autopsies...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467152778Author Jim CasadaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 157mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609499136Author Denise White ParkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

In April 1967, a year before his run for president, Senator Robert F. Kennedy knelt in a crumbling shack in Mississippi trying to coax a response from a listless child. The toddler sat picking at dried rice and beans spilled over the dirt floor as...

Winner of the Bancroft PrizeLouisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the YearA Publishers Weekly Book of the Year"The main thrust of Horowitz's account is to make us understand Katrina-the civic calamity, not the storm itself-as a consequence of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467153171Author Paul KreingoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 155mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525559467Author Mitch LandrieuFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467149020Author Erwin R TiongsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm...

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 *...

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...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561644964Author John VieleFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...