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Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley by Ephraim G. Squier 9781560988984
$86.62Apologies 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 -
It Happened in the Florida Keys: Stories of Events and People that Shaped History by Victoria Shearer 9781493040247
RRP: $25.33$18.25Salvage 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... -
Skyway: The True Story of Tampa Bay's Signature Bridge and the Man Who Brought it Down by Bill DeYoung 9780813062976
RRP: $38.90$28.86On 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... -
Fourteenth Colony: The Forgotten Story of the Gulf South During America's Revolutionary Era by Mike Bunn 9781588384133
RRP: $48.65$35.43The 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... -
The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning by Ben Raines 9781982136048
RRP: $37.03$34.14The 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... -
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Professor Douglas Brinkley 9780061148491
RRP: $42.88$32.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061148491Author Professor Douglas BrinkleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers... -
The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island by Scott Dawson
RRP: $46.78$27.85Apologies 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 *... -
A New History of the American South by W. Fitzhugh Brundage 9781469626659
RRP: $87.65$58.01For at least two centuries, the South's economy, politics, religion, race relations, fiction, music, foodways and more have figured prominently in nearly all facets of American life. In A New History of the American South, W. Fitzhugh Brundage joins a... -
Devils Walking: Klan Murders along the Mississippi in the 1960s by Stanley Nelson 9780807164075
RRP: $58.40$47.83Devils Walking stands as an important milestone in the ongoing struggle to create justice from truth, and perhaps even reconciliation in a nation that must collectively move in this direction or face an uncertain future.""- David Ridgen, Canadian... -
USS Wisconsin Bb-64: The Last Battleship by Amy Waters Yarsinske
RRP: $35.10$29.23Berthed 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... -
City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300 by Jason Berry 9781469647142
RRP: $68.15$56.90In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. Mayor Mitch Landrieu led the ceremony, attended by living legends of jazz, music aficionados, politicians,... -
Abandoned Deep South: Lower Alabama by Eric Hammon
RRP: $46.78$38.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634993968Author Eric HammonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint America Through TimePublisher America Through Time -
Trapped!: The Story of Floyd Collins by Robert K. Murray 9780813101538
RRP: $44.85$40.60"When Floyd Collins became trapped in a cave in southern Kentucky in early 1925, the sensationalism and hysteria of the rescue attempt generated America's first true media spectacle, making Collins's story one of the seminal events of the century. The... -
Abandoned South Mississippi by Jay Farrell 9781634992657
RRP: $46.78$30.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634992657Author Jay FarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint America Through TimePublisher America Through TimeWeight(grams) 295g -
Abandoned Nashville: Dark Corners of Music City by Jay Farrell 9781634991131
RRP: $46.78$30.58Abandoned 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... -
Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy by Eric Foner 9780807132890
$41.46Nothing 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... -
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia by Steven Stoll
RRP: $40.95$25.47Apologies 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)... -
An Authenticated History of the Famous Bell Witch by M V Ingram 9781482031638
RRP: $25.33$22.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781482031638Author M V IngramFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning by Ben Raines
RRP: $25.33$15.95The "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... -
Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp by J. Brent Morris 9781469668253
RRP: $58.40$47.05The massive and foreboding Great Dismal Swamp sprawls over 2,000 square miles and spills over parts of Virginia and North Carolina. From the early seventeenth century, the nearly impassable Dismal frustrated settlement.However, what may have been an... -
The Southern Way of Life: Meanings of Culture and Civilization in the American South by Charles Reagan Wilson 9781469664989
RRP: $77.90$63.86Since 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... -
Hers, His, and Theirs: Community Property Law in Spain and Early Texas by Jean A. Stuntz 9780896725607
RRP: $74.00$60.76'In the mid-1700s, in the tiny villa of San Fernando de Bxar, on the northern fringes of the Spanish Empire in North America, Hispanic women had legal rights that would have astonished their British counterparts half a continent to the east. Under... -
Those Who Labor for My Happiness: Slavery at Thomas Hefferson's Monticello by Lucia C. Stanton 9780813932231
RRP: $42.80$32.14Our perception of life at Monticello has changed dramatically over the past quarter century. The image of an estate presided over by a benevolent Thomas Jefferson has given way to a more complex view of Monticello as a working plantation, the success of... -
Most Fortunate Unfortunates: The Jewish Orphans' Home of New Orleans by Marlene Trestman 9780807172902
RRP: $66.20$48.63Marlene 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... -
Deep Like the Rivers: Education in the Slave Quarter Community, 1831-1865 by Thomas L. Webber 9780393009989
RRP: $40.95$35.55By the time of the Civil War, Thomas L. Webber shows, American slaves had created for themselves a new and separate culture, combining elements of their African past and their experiences under slavery in the South. How they were able to educate... -
Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era by Paul Harvey 9780807858141
RRP: $74.00$60.76In a sweeping analysis of religion in the post - Civil War and twentieth-century South, ""Freedom's Coming"" puts race and culture at the center, describing southern Protestant cultures as both priestly and prophetic: as southern formal theology... -
Atlanta Underground: History from Below by Jeffrey Morrison
RRP: $37.03$32.33Atlanta Underground presents a city history through the lens of its buried and paved-over urban landscape. Atlanta has been built, rebuilt, destroyed and rebuilt so many times that it has created an artificial surface dozens of feet above the original... -
Captain William Hilton and the Founding of Hilton Head Island by Dwayne W. Pickett 9781467141918
RRP: $42.88$13.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467141918Author Dwayne W. PickettFormat PaperbackPage Count 141Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)... -
Safety Harbor by Laura Kepner
RRP: $46.78$29.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467108522Author Laura KepnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams)... -
Voodoo and Power: The Politics of Religion in New Orleans, 1881-1940 by Kodi A. Roberts 9780807160503
RRP: $68.15$56.12The racialized and exoticized cult of Voodoo occupies a central place in the popular image of the Crescent City. But as Kodi A. Roberts argues in Voodoo and Power, the religion was not a monolithic tradition handed down from African ancestors to their... -
A Very Mutinous People: The Struggle for North Carolina, 1660-1713 by Noeleen McIlvenna 9781469642536
$54.76Historians have often glorified eighteenth-century Virginia planters' philosophical debates about the meaning of American liberty. But according to Noeleen McIlvenna, the true exemplars of egalitarian political values had fled Virginia's plantation... -
Mississippi Juke Joint Confidential: House Parties, Hustlers and the Blues Life by Roger Stolle 9781467141574
RRP: $42.88$29.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467141574Author Roger StolleFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 222mm *... -
Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State by T D Allman
RRP: $29.23$26.64Apologies 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 -
Gumbo Ya-YA by Lyle Saxon
RRP: $46.78$36.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455627271Author Lyle SaxonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Pelican Publishing CompanyPublisher Pelican Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
The Story of French New Orleans: History of a Creole City by Dianne Guenin-Lelle 9781496820303
RRP: $48.65$39.51What is it about the city of New Orleans? History, location, and culture continue to link it to France while distancing it culturally and symbolically from the United States. This book explores the traces of French language, history, and artistic... -
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry 9780063090767
RRP: $60.43$40.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063090767Author Imani PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint HarperLuxePublisher HarperLuxeWeight(grams) 295g -
Monuments To The Lost Cause: Women, Art, And The Landscapes Of Southern Memory by Cynthia Mills 9781621904441
RRP: $75.95$63.08This richly illustrated collection of essays, reissued in paperback with a new foreword by Karen L. Cox, examines Confederate memorials from Monument Avenue to Stone Mountain and explores how each monument, with its associated public rituals, testifies... -
Three Years in Mississippi by James Meredith 9781496821010
RRP: $212.55$173.30On October 1, 1962, James Meredith was the first African American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Preceded by violent rioting resulting in two deaths and a lengthy court battle that made it all the way to the Supreme Court, his... -
After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South by Bruce Baker 9780813060972
RRP: $48.65$39.51In the popular imagination, freedom for African Americans is often assumed to have been granted and fully realized when Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation or, at the very least, at the conclusion of the Civil War. In reality, the... -
City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300 by Jason Berry 9781469664026
RRP: $48.65$31.80In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. Mayor Mitch Landrieu led the ceremony, attended by living legends of jazz, music aficionados, politicians,...