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A Brief Moment in the Sun: Francis Cardozo and Reconstruction in South Carolina by Neil Kinghan 9780807178997
RRP: $75.95$62.30A Brief Moment in the Sun is the first scholarly biography of Francis Lewis Cardozo, one of the most talented and influential African Americans to hold elected office in the South between Reconstruction and the civil rights era. Born to a formerly... -
Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk About Life in the Segregated South by William H. Chafe
RRP: $29.23$19.27A timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accounts Praised as "viscerally powerful" (Publishers Weekly), this remarkable work of oral history captures the searing experience of... -
Miami by Joan Didion 9781783785247
RRP: $21.43$14.27This is a surprising portrait of the pastel city, a masterly study of Cuban immigration and exile, and a sly account of vile moments in the Cold War. Miami may be the sunniest place in America but this is Didion's darkest book, in which she explores... -
12 Years a Slave: Memoir of a Free Man Kidnapped into Slavery in 1851 by Malcom Washington Jr 9781492933588
RRP: $15.54$14.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492933588Author Malcom Washington JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition] by Eric Foner 9780062370860
RRP: $33.13$19.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062370860Author Eric FonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 265gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells by Sarah Churchwell
RRP: $21.43$13.88The history America never wanted you to read. 'The narrative took my breath away' Philippe Sands 'An extraordinarily and shockingly powerful read' Peter Frankopan 'One of the must-reads of the year' Suzannah Lipscomb 'Brilliant and... -
DK Eyewitness Florida by DK Eyewitness 9780241623183
RRP: $29.23$21.35Whether you want to visit the Mission Control Room at the Kennedy Space Center, take an airboat ride in the Everglades or discover the historic Coral Gables, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you experience all that Florida has to offer. Florida... -
The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America's Forgotten Capital of Vice by Author David Hill 9781250782748
RRP: $37.05$28.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250782748Author Author David HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 135mm *... -
King of the Delta Blues Singers: The Life and Music of Charlie Patton by Edward Komara
RRP: $74.00$46.27Born 130 years ago in the heart of Mississippi, Charlie Patton (c. 1891-1934) is considered by many to be a father of the Delta blues. With his bullish baritone voice and his fluid slide guitar touch, Patton established songs like "Pony Blues," "A... -
Charlottesville Untold: Inside Unite The Right by Anne Wilson Smith 9781947660588
RRP: $58.50$34.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947660588Author Anne Wilson SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Shotwell Publishing LLCPublisher Shotwell Publishing LLCWeight(grams)... -
The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War by Michael Gorra
RRP: $29.23$24.16Michael Gorra asks provocative questions in this historic portrait of William Faulkner and his world. He explores whether William Faulkner should still be read in this new century and asks what his works tell us about the legacy of slavery and the... -
Black Struggle, Red Scare: Segregation and Anti-Communism in the South, 1948-1968 by Jeff Woods 9780807129265
$47.95At the height of the cold war, southern segregationists exploited the reigning mood of anxiety by linking the civil rights movement to an international Communist conspiracy. Jeff Woods tells a gripping story of fervent crusaders for racial equality swept... -
Disney World at 50: The Stories of How Walt's Kingdom Became Magic in Orlando by Orlando Sentinel
RRP: $60.35$45.12Celebrating 50 years of The Most Magical Place on Earth Since its opening in October 1971, Walt Disney World has continued to expand and evolve as the most visited vacation resort in the world. What hasn't changed over five decades is the incomparable... -
Walt Disney World: A Portrait of the First Half Century by Kevin M Kern
RRP: $111.13$72.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781368052849Author Kevin M. KernFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Disney EditionsPublisher Disney Book Publishing Inc. -
Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 by Amy Louise Wood 9780807871973
$75.35This title presents public reinforcement of white supremacy. Lynch mobs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America often exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. In ""Lynching and Spectacle"", Amy Wood explains what... -
The Men Who United the States by Simon Winchester
RRP: $29.23$18.92From bestselling author Simon Winchester, the extraordinary story of how America was united into a single nation. For more than two centuries, E pluribus unum - out of many, one - has been featured on America's official government seals and... -
The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette 9781556529580
RRP: $37.03$26.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556529580Author Ned SubletteFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Lawrence Hill BooksPublisher Lawrence Hill BooksWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 226mm... -
Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power by Jefferson Cowie
RRP: $54.60$41.63American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government intervened on behalf of nonwhite people, many white Americans fought back in the name of freedom-their freedom... -
Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South by Deborah Gray White
RRP: $27.28$23.73Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society. This revised edition of Ar'n't I a... -
Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America by Benjamin Woolley 9780060090579
RRP: $33.13$26.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060090579Author Benjamin WoolleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived: The Surprising Story of Apples in the South by Diane Flynt 9781469676944
RRP: $68.15$41.34For anyone who's ever picked an apple fresh from the tree or enjoyed a glass of cider, writer and orchardist Diane Flynt offers a new history of the apple and how it changed the South and the nation. Showing how southerners cultivated over 2,000 apple... -
The Book of the Dead by Murial Rukeyser
RRP: $35.00$28.96Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American... -
I Feel to Believe: Collected Columns by Jarvis Deberry
RRP: $39.00$26.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608011858Author Jarvis DeberryFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans PressWeight(grams)... -
Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee by Michael Korda 9780062116307
RRP: $23.38$16.11In Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee, Michael Korda, the New York Times bestselling biographer of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ulysses S. Grant, and T. E. Lawrence, has written the first major biography of Lee in nearly twenty years,... -
Unbecoming Modern: Colonialism, Modernity, Colonial Modernities by Saurabh Dube 9781032653709
RRP: $77.98$68.37In this volume well-known scholars from India and Latin America - Enrique Dussel, Madhu Dubey, Walter D. Mignolo, and Sudipta Sen, to name a few - discuss the concepts of modernity and colonialism and describe how the two relate to each other. This... -
The Child in the Electric Chair: The Execution of George Junius Stinney Jr. and the Making of a Tragedy in the American South by Eli Faber
RRP: $42.80$39.39At 7:30 a.m. on June 16, 1944, George Junius Stinney Jr. was escorted by four guards to the death chamber. Wearing socks but no shoes, the 14-year-old Black boy walked with his Bible tucked under his arm. The guards strapped his slight,... -
Shifting Loyalties: The Union Occupation of Eastern North Carolina by Judkin Browning 9781469613703
RRP: $58.40$47.05In the spring of 1862, Union forces marched into neighbouring Carteret and Craven Counties in southeastern North Carolina, marking the beginning of an occupation that would continue for the rest of the war. Focusing on a wartime community with divided... -
Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America by Sylviane A. Diouf
$73.42In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last recorded... -
Before and After by Lisa Wingate
RRP: $19.48$13.26The incredible and heart-breaking true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal - inspired by No.1 bestselling novel Before We Were YoursFrom the 1920s to 1950, Georgia Tann ran a corrupt baby business at the Tennessee Children's Home Society... -
Holding the Line on the River of Death: Union Mounted Forces at Chickamauga, September 18, 1863 by Eric Wittenberg 9781611214307
RRP: $41.93$26.81In 2014, Eric J. Wittenberg published "The Devil's to Pay": John Buford at Gettysburg. A History and Walking Tour, an award-winning study of Union cavalry delaying actions at Gettysburg. Fast-forward four years to 2018 and Wittenberg's latest release, a... -
Every Man A King: The Autobiography Of Huey P. Long by Huey Long 9780306806957
RRP: $42.88$30.44Huey Long (1893-1935) was one of the most extraordinary American politicians, simultaneously cursed as a dictator and applauded as a benefactor of the masses. A product of the poor north Louisiana hills, he was elected governor of Louisiana in 1928, and... -
Georgia Guidestones: America'S Most Mysterious Monument by Raymond Wiley 9781934708682
RRP: $31.18$24.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934708682Author Raymond WileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Disinformation CompanyPublisher Disinformation Company -
Mississippi: A History by Westley F. Busbee 9781118755907
RRP: $54.50$48.07The second edition of Mississippi: A History features a series of revisions and updates to its comprehensive coverage of Mississippi state history from the time of the region's first inhabitants into the 21st century. Represents the only available... -
Life at the Dakota: New York's Most Unusual Address by Stephen Birmingham
RRP: $27.28$20.63Life at the Dakota is a deliciously entertaining social history which describes the lives of the rich and trendy who have lived at the Dakota, a New York apartment house daringly erected in 1884, "too far up" and on the wrong side of town. In Stephen... -
Freedom's Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power by Jefferson Cowie 9781541605121
RRP: $37.03$24.86WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY! An "important, deeply affecting-and regrettably relevant" (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans' freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government... -
Union Command Failure in the Shenandoah: Major General Franz Sigel and the War in the Valley of Virginia, May 1864 by David Powell 9781611214345
RRP: $41.93$26.81The Battle of New Market in the Shenandoah Valley suffers from no lack of drama, interest, or importance. The ramifications of the May 1864 engagement, which involved only 10,000 troops, were substantial. Previous studies, however, focused on the... -
American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund S. Morgan
RRP: $29.23$26.19In the American Revolution, Virginians were the most eloquent spokesmen for freedom and quality. George Washington led the Americans in battle against British oppression. Thomas Jefferson led them in declaring independence. Virginians drafted not only... -
Fat Chance: Diet Mania, Greed, and the Infamous Fen-Phen Swindle by Rick Christman 9781949669305
RRP: $44.85$36.56During the early 1990s, the diet drugs fen-phen and Redux achieved tremendous popularity. The chemical combination was discovered by chance, marketed with hyperbole, and prescribed to millions. But as the drugs' developer, pharmaceutical giant American... -
The Yellow House: WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION by Sarah M. Broom
RRP: $19.48$13.26A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION'A major book that I suspect will come to be considered among the essential memoirs of this vexing decade' New York Times Book ReviewIn 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae... -
The Carnage Was Fearful: The Battle of Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862 by Michael Block
$24.30In early August 1862, Confederate Maj. Gen. Stonewall Jackson took to the field with his Army of the Valley for one last fight-one that would also turn out to be his last independent command.Near the base of Cedar Mountain, in the midst of a blistering...