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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 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 9781561644964Author John VieleFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467142991Author Foster Ockerman JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560988984Author Ephraim G. SquierFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1270g

One of Janet Maslin's Favorite Books of 2018, The New York TimesOne of John Warner's Favorite Books of 2018, Chicago TribuneNamed one of the "Best Civil War Books of 2018" by the Civil War Monitor"A fascinating and important new historical study."-Janet...

Salvage of a sunken slave ship, devastating hurricanes and the odd doingsof locals such as Jimmy Buffett and Hemingway's cats.About the AuthorFar from the culture shock she expected upon moving to Duck Key in 1993, Victoria Shearer discovered that island...

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On the morning of May 9, 1980, during sudden violent weather, a 600-foot freighter struck a support pier of the fifteen-mile Sunshine Skyway Bridge. The main span splintered and collapsed 150 feet into Tampa Bay. Seven cars and a Greyhound bus fell over...

The British colony of West Florida—which once stretched from the mighty Mississippi to the shallow bends of the Apalachicola and portions of what are now the states of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana—is the forgotten fourteenth colony of...

In his clear, eminently readable style, Williams organizes the tangled strands of West Virginia's past around a few dramatic events-the battle of Point Pleasant, John Brown's insurrection in Harper's Ferry, the Paint Creek labor movement, the Hawk's Nest...

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The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this day-by the journalist who discovered the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307275509Author Jason SokolFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Read the compelling story behind America's half-century space exploration. Through 318 images, see how the space program transformed Cape Canaveral from a traditional citrus production and tourist area into the world's most influential high-tech space...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467144339Author Scott DawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467138864Author Tom PolandFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Everything you need to know about the bloody history of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama, from its inception in 1866 to its current abominations, is here. During Reconstruction, the KKK "redeemed" the state for white, one-party rule, then disbanded. In 1915,...

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...

Berthed today at NAUTICUS, the National Maritime Center, the USS Wisconsin (BB-64) was the last authorized of the four Iowa-class battleships, the largest American dreadnoughts ever built. Wisconsin saw action in World War II and the Korean Conflict for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467141123Author Brenna MichaelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Nothing But Freedom examines the aftermath of emancipation in the South and the restructuring of society by which the former slaves gained, beyond their freedom, a new relation to the land they worked on, to the men they worked for, and to the government...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540202574Author Gail Wilson-GiarratanoFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library...

Douglas S. Freeman's Pulitzer Prize-winning four-volume study on Robert E. Lee remains the most thorough history of the man. After spending so many years with his subject, Freeman claimed he knew where Lee was every day of his life, from West Point until...

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Contrary to popular belief, the Eastern Theater during the late summer and fall of 1863 was anything but inconsequential. Generals George Meade and Robert E. Lee continued where they had left off, boldly maneuvering the chess pieces of war to gain a...

"What is the value of Black life in America?" In Avidly Reads Passages, Michelle D. Commander plies four freighted modes of travel-the slave ship, train, automobile, and bus-to map the mobility of her ancestors over the past five centuries. In the...

The "enlightening" (The Guardian) true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors' founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this day-by the journalist...

Covering everything from the Old Well to the Speaker Ban and more, UNC A to Z is a concise, easy-to-read introduction to the nation's first public university, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Perfect for new students getting to know the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467128001Author Bryan KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Since the eighteenth century, a vast range of thinkers, artists, writers, and critics have wrestled with the notion that something distinct characterizes life in the American South. But in this sweeping new intellectual and cultural history, Charles...

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From the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate flag, here is a brilliant portrait of southern identity, served in an engaging blend of history, literature, and popular...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809080199Author Steven StollFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802122308Author T D AllmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Marlene Trestman's Most Fortunate Unfortunates is the first comprehensive history of the Jewish Orphans' Home of New Orleans. Founded in 1855 in the aftermath of a yellow fever epidemic, the Home was the first purpose-built Jewish orphanage in the nation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788410048Author Hayes Baker-Crothers Ph DFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

A Short History of Charleston-a lively chronicle of the South's most renowned and charming city-has been hailed by critics, historians, and especially Charlestonians as authoritative, witty, and entertaining. Beginning with the founding of colonial...

African American freedom is often defined in terms of emancipation and civil rights legislation, but it did not arrive with the stroke of a pen or the rap of a gavel. No single event makes this more plain, Laurie Green argues, than the 1968 Memphis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979606601Author Ann Ratliff RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Clemson University PressPublisher Clemson University PressWeight(grams)...