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LEGARE STREET PR The Southern Cypress
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Hub City Press The Green Book of South Carolina: A Travel Guide
Book SynopsisSouth Carolina is a state of incredible African American history: from the lunch counter in Rock Hill where the Friendship Nine began their "Jail, No Bail" protests, to the site where the freedom song "We Shall Overcome" was first sung; our nation’s very first school for the formerly enslaved, to a monument to the Middle Passage championed by Toni Morrison. Visitors and residents alike will find the Palmetto State rich in remarkable places that played a part in some of our nation’s most significant moments. The Green Book of South Carolina, compiled by the WeGOJA Foundation (on behalf of the SC African American Heritage Commission), is a first-of-its-kind travel guide to the most tourist-friendly destinations offering visitors avenues to discover intriguing African American history as they travel the state.Organized by region and illustrated with more than 80 color photographs by Joshua Parks, this guidebook presents a curated selection of over 200 museums, monuments, historic markers, schools, churches, and other public lands. Features a foreword by Dr. Darlene Clark Hine, Distinguished Professor Emerita at Michigan State University where she served as the John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of History. The South Carolina Green Book is a collaborative release by Hub City Press, the WeGOJA Foundation, and the International African American Museum. Sponsored by the City of Spartanburg.FEATURES More than 180 historic markers, structures, and landmarks for a diverse audience Includes popular sites as well as hidden gems Organized by region for easy travel planning and discovery. Includes suggested day trips for each region. Compact accessibly-priced book Beautiful full-color photography Trade Review“We are proud to be a part of this project, and to offer a great resource for people who travel through South Carolina. African American history is exceptional, and its discovery can add depth to a road trip to any place in the state.” Dr. Larry Watson, South Carolina State University “We have been identifying historic sites and structures for more than 28 years and documenting them in the form of markers, listings on the National Register of Historic Places, and other formats. Collectively, these sites add more layers to South Carolina’s history and tell a compelling story.” Dr. Abel Bartley, Clemson UniversityTable of ContentsIncluded sites:1963 USC Desegregation Commemorative GardenAfrican American Monument on The SC Statehouse GroundsAlexander Elementary / Dean Street SchoolAllen University Historic DistrictAmazing Grace Park / Clementa Pickney MemorialAnthony Crawford MarkerAtlantic BeachBack of the College MemorialBaptist ChurchBell Street School / Martha Dendy SchoolBench by the RoadBenjamin E. Mays BirthplaceBertha Lee Strickland Cultural MuseumBethel Ame ChurchBethlehem CenterBettis AcademyBirthplace of Mary McLeod BethuneBonds Conway HouseBoone HallBrainerd InstituteButler SchoolCallaham Funeral HomeCamp WelfareCenter for African American History, Art and CultureCharlie’s PlaceClaflin University Historic DistrictClaussen Bakery MarkerCooper River Historic District Exhibit (Cypress Gardens)Corinth Baptist ChurchCoulter AcademyCumming Street SchoolDaufuskie Island Historic DistrictDenmark Technical CollegeDenmark Vesey HouseDizzy Gillespie Homesite ParkDr. T. K. Gregg HomeDrayton HallDunton ChapelEbenezer Baptist ChurchEliza’s House at Middleton PlaceEmancipation JubileeEmmett Scott SchoolFirst African Baptist ChurchFort Hill Slave Quarters / Clemson College Convict StockadeFreewoods FarmGarvin-Garvey HouseGas BottomGullah MuseumHappy Home Baptist ChurchHarlem HellfightersHarvey Gantt MarkerHistoric BrattonsvilleHistoric Downtown African American Historic DistrictHistoric Duncan ParkHistoric JamestownHistoric Mitchelville Freedom ParkHistoric Myrtle Beach Colored School and Education CenterHobcaw BaronyHope Rosenwald SchoolHopewell Rosenwald SchoolHoward Junior High SchoolHutchinson HouseInternational African American MuseumIsaac Woodard MarkerJail Raid of 1871 MarkerJames A. Bowley HouseLiberty Hill AmeLiberty Hill Rosenwald SchoolLittle AfricaMagnolia PlantationMann-Simons SiteMansfield Plantation Slave StreetMarch on Ballot BoxesMary H. Wright Elementary SchoolMayo High SchoolMcCrory’s Five and DimeMcLeod PlantationMetropolitan AmeModjeska Simkins HouseMonument to Josh WhiteMorris Brown AmeMother EmmanuelMount Moriah Baptist ChurchMt. Carmel Ame Zion Church and CampgroundMt. Zion AmeNational Cemetery and Grand Army HallOld City CemeteryOrangeburg City CemeteryPearl Fryar’s GardenPenn CenterPeoples HospitalRandolph CemeteryRedcliffe Plantation State Historic SiteRice MuseumRichard T. Greener MemorialRichland CemeteryRidge Hill School and Faith Cabin LibraryRonald E. Mcnair Life History CenterSandy IslandSeashore Farmer’s LodgeSims High School #2Slave Mart MuseumSoapstone Baptist ChurchSouth Carolina State University / Orangeburg Massacre MonumentSouth Liberty StreetSouthern African American Heritage CenterSpringfield Baptist ChurchSt. Mark Ame ChurchSt. Matthew Baptist ChurchSterling High School MarkerSweetgrass PavilionTabernacle Baptist ChurchThe Assassination of Frazier BakerThe Avery Research Center for African American History and CultureThe Birthplace of Jesse JacksonThe Briggs HomeThe Carroll SchoolThe Episcopal Church of the EpiphanyThe Greenville Cultural Exchange CenterThe GulfThe Lowcountry Trail at Brookgreen GardenThe Seizure of the PlanterThe Willie Earle Lynching TrialTrinity AmeTrinity United Methodist ChurchTuskegee Airmen MemorialVoorhees CollegeWestside Community CenterWoodrow Wilson Family HomeWoodward Funeral HomeWoolworth’s and Kress Sit-InsZion Baptist Church
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The University of Alabama Press Southern Heritage on Display
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA collection of articles articulating a stunningly intelligent comprehension of southern culture, this book models what true cultural studies should do: understand a culture according to how its people express it. - Choice. Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title ""From the jazz funeral processions in the streets of New Orleans to the annual Natchez Pilgrimage in Mississippi and the Scottish Highland games atop Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina, the reader is exposed to a diverse southern culture, or heritage, that is often overlooked by many people, both within and outside the South. The reality of a southern culture based in Mexican heritage of a celebration of [a] Southeastern tribe's heritage through the powwow helps deconstruct the myth of a solid southern culture as one that is simply portrayed as black and white."" - Florida Historical Quarterly
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Meteor 17 Books Southern Cocktails: Storied Sips, Snacks, and
Book SynopsisSouthern Cocktails raises a glass to the South page after page in Southern Living’s homage to quenching craft cocktails and quintessential quaffs born of the crusty characters, storied places, and the historic watering holes of the country’s most spirited region. From the Sazerac and Mint Julep to the Bushwacker and Yellowhammer, readers can mix up the best from the South’s taverns, taprooms, cantinas, and cocktail lounges, be they elegant establishments, rowdy dives, eclectic watering holes, or bustling urban drinking destinations. With incredible flip factor, this book features scenic snapshots of regional bars, iconic Southern locales, and thirst-quenching cocktails that beg for five o’clock to come sooner. Learn the origin and key ingredients of a host of famous bar standards like New Orleans’ Ramos Gin Fizz, Vieux Carre, and Brandy Milk Punch, Louisville’s Seelbach, or Savannah’s Chatham Artillery Punch, along with recipes for the many spirited mixes of today’s burgeoning craft cocktail movement.With tips for stocking bar and pantry and making cocktail basics, this gifty book will have you mixing up anything guests request.
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Legare Street Press Opportunities in the South Address Delivered Before the Southern Land Congress November 12 1918
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The University of Alabama Press Southern Footprints
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The University of Alabama Press The New South Faces the World Foreign Affairs and the Southern Sense of Self 18771950
Trade ReviewIn his study of the New South and foreign affairs, Tennant McWilliams raises a central question: why have southerners failed to develop a realistic attitude about U.S. relations with the rest of the world? He notes that throughout their history southerners have encountered failure, povetry, guilt, defeat, and ridicule and that their experiences seem at odds with the notions of invincibility that have fueled the flames of American idealism. Yet McWilliams points out that southerners have joined with northerners in accepting the ideas of a mission to extend the American way of life to people around the world. Thus, he asks, what happened between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the cold war that can help explain the failure of realism to dampen the crusading spirit in the South. - American Historical Review ""McWilliams' book is a subtle exploration of the evolution of southern ideas and actions about foreign policy."" - Virginia Quarterly Review
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Southern Chivalry the Adventures of G. Whillikens C. S. A. Knight of the Golden Circle and of Guinea Pete His Negro Squire
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Legare Street Press Southern Planter
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The University of North Carolina Press Southern Lights
Book SynopsisIn the world of literary journals and little magazines, the Carolina Quarterly is one of the oldest and most prestigious in the South. This anthology gathers some of the best work from the last three-quarters of a century, along with an informative essay about the journal's history and impact.
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The University of Alabama Press The Southern States Since the War 187071 Southern Historical Publications
Trade ReviewRobert Somers was a Scottish newspaperman with a strong interest in social and economic matters. When a Glasgow newspaper he edited failed in 1870, Somers set sail for the U.S. in order to investigate firsthand the effect of the Civil War on the South. For five months he toured the South gathering information both from conversation and from newspapers and other printed material.... His book was the work of a perceptive observer.... Somers' visit came at the height of the cotton marketing season, and his chronicle contains much valuable information about changing methods in the trade of the South's chief crop. - Agricultural History; ""Robert Somers was a happy exception to the usual run of reconstruction visitors.... His temperament, education, and journalistic experience caused him to record his Reconstruction observations with remarkable objectivity and restraint. His primary interest was economic, [and] his detailed and perceptive comments on railroads are excellent historical sources.... Professor Malcolm C. McMillans' excellent introduction and index add much to the volume."" - Bell I. Wiley, The Jackson Sun
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Livingston Press at the University of West Al The Best of the Shortest: A Southern Writers Reading Reunion
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The History Press Ltd The Southern Handbook
Book SynopsisThe Southern Railway may not have been the most glamorous of the 'Big Four' companies that emerged from the grouping of 1923, but it was the great innovator.
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The University of Alabama Press Truman Capotes Southern Years
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Legare Street Press Southern Planter
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Action Lab Entertainment, Inc. Southern Dog
Book SynopsisWhen awkward high school teen Jasper Dixon sustains an injury during a hunting excursion with his family, his infected wolf bite combined with the hormonal changes of puberty triggers a disturbing physical transformation.
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The University of Alabama Press Reading Southern History Interpreters and Interpretations Essays on Interpreters and Interpretations
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays examines the contributions of some of the most notable interpreters of American southern history and culture. The volume includes 18 chapters on such notable historians as John Hope Franklin, Anne Firor Scott and W.J. Cash.Trade Review"Feldman has... made an important contribution to all of us who write, read, and teach southern history." - Marjorie Wheeler University of Southern Mississippi"
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LEGARE STREET PR Southern Yellow Pine
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The University of Alabama Press To Foster the Spirit of Professionalism Southern
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA welcome contribution to the history of science in the South during the period since the Civil War.... By considering the academies in the larger context of scientific professionalism, South and North, Midgette has produced a surprisingly wide-ranging and informative study. This is overall a judicious and carefully researched work. The writing is straightforward and admirably clear, while the topic is effectively organized and presented. The book is a commendably original addition to local and regional history as well as history of American Science. - Journal of American History ""Midgette's study is thorough and well organized and should be consulted by anyone interested in American science and American higher education."" - Florida Historical Quarterly ""A very useful survey."" - Choice
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Legare Street Press Southern Planter
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The University of Alabama Press Southern Exposure Making the South Safe for Democracy
Book SynopsisUsing thorough and stark statistics, Kennedy describes a South emerging from World War II, coming to grips with the racism and feudalism that had held it back for generations. He includes an all-out Who's Who, based on his own undercover investigations, of the “hate-mongers, race-racketeers, and terrorists who swore that apartheid must go on forever.”
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The University of Alabama Press Our Southern Zion
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is obviously a labor of love. Erskine Clarke, who teaches American religious history at Columbia Theological Seminary, has researched extensively, if not exhaustively, the history of the Reformed churches of the South Carolina low country....Clarke’s argument has broad implications for the understanding of southern culture and the role of religion in Southern history....Clarke’s book will take an important place in the literature on Southern religion and culture. In the literature on regional religious history and denominational history, this work will be a landmark and a model for others to follow."" John M. Mulder, Louisville (KY) Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Theology Today
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The University of Alabama Press Clearcutting Eden Ecology and the Pastoral in
Book SynopsisExamines how Southern literary depictions of the natural world were influenced by the historical, social, and ecological changes of the 1930s and 1940s. This title studies the ways that nature is conceived of and portrayed by four Southern writers of the era: Erskine Caldwell, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Zora Neale Hurston, and William Faulkner.
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The University of North Carolina Press Discovering the South
Book SynopsisJennifer Ritterhouse pieces together Jonathan Daniels's unpublished notes from his tour of the American South, along with his published writings and a wealth of archival evidence to put this one man's journey through a South in transition into a larger context.Trade ReviewProvides a good on-the-ground view of how the New Deal affected the South in large and small ways." - Journal of American History"Scholars and a general audience will gain insights from this panorama of the New Deal South, its problems, people, and potential, and the quandary of a white southern liberal on his way to becoming a racial liberal." - The Journal of Southern History"How a Tar Heel Southerner discovered the South." - Wilmington Star-News"An uncommonly well-informed reexamination of the Dixie of the latter Depression." - Ed Yoder, The Weekly Standard"Fascinating and well-researched. . . . Ritterhouse has done an admirable job in transporting us to a time and place and a southern liberal's struggle to describe a region on the cusp of change." - Rob Christensen, News and Observer"Puts Daniels' tour in context of President Roosevelt's New Deal programs and the growing movement for greater civil rights for all." - Durham Herald-Sun
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The University of North Carolina Press Exploring Southern Appalachian Forests An
Book SynopsisThis unique hiking guide to the southern Appalachian mountains leads readers to explore the rich forest ecosystems and other natural communities visitors encounter along the trail. Drawing on years of experience guiding forest walks throughout the region, Steph Jeffries and Tom Wentworth invite hikers and nature lovers to see their surroundings in new ways.
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The University of North Carolina Press The Southern Way of Life Meanings of Culture and
Book SynopsisSince the eighteenth century, a 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 Reagan Wilson reveals that there has never been a singular understanding of this ‘southern way of life’.
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University Press of Kansas Southern Strategies Why the Confederacy Failed
Book SynopsisOffers an analysis of Confederate defeat using the lenses of classical strategic and leadership theory. Aware that the nature of war is immutable and unchanging, contributors combine their firsthand experience with solid scholarship to offer new theoretical and historical perspectives about why the South failed in its bid for independence.Trade ReviewThe question of why the Confederacy failed has sparked endless discussion. Southern Strategies offers analysis from professional soldiers, whose training and experience set them apart from most earlier historians who addressed the topic. Their essays explore a number of leading commanders and campaigns, as well as economic and diplomatic factors, and bristle with arguments and insights that surely will encourage further debate." - Gary W. Gallagher, John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War Emeritus, University of Virginia, and author of The Enduring Civil War: Reflections on the Great American Crisis"The applied military history dimensions of this volume constitute an extremely useful and helpful perspective that promises to enrich our overall understanding of Confederate strategy. This is a valuable and highly recommended contribution to the field of Civil War military history, particularly for nonmilitary or academic historians less familiar with the important concepts and applications the contributors explore." - Andrew S. Bledsoe, assistant professor of history, Lee University"In Southern Strategies: Why the Confederacy Failed Christian Keller and his contributors offer readers a fresh way of looking at a timeworn question. In doing so they deliver a highly readable book that is timely and intensely relevant to contemporary society. The contributors weave new twists and turns into familiar stories and open up new interpretations on why the South lost its bid for independence." - Peter S. Carmichael, Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies and director of the Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College, and author of The War for the Common Soldier: How Men Thought, Fought, and Survived in Civil War Armies
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Birlinn General Memphis 68: The Tragedy of Southern Soul
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 2018 In the 1950s and 1960s, Memphis, Tennessee, was the launch pad of musical pioneers such as Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Al Green and Isaac Hayes, and by 1968 was a city synonymous with soul music. It was a deeply segregated city, ill at ease with the modern world and yet to adjust to the era of civil rights and racial integration. Stax Records offered an escape from the turmoil of the real world for many soul and blues musicians, with much of the music created there becoming the soundtrack to the civil rights movements. The book opens with the death of the city’s most famous recording artist, Otis Redding, who died in a plane crash in the final days of 1967, and then follows the fortunes of Redding’s label, Stax/Volt Records, as its fortunes fall and rise again. But, as the tense year unfolds, the city dominates world headlines for the worst of reasons: the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King.Trade Review'This book is for anyone who has an interest in music and American history, and as you read about the happenings in 1960s America, it is impossible not to see the parallels with present day USA. This gives added depth and meaning to the story Cosgrove tells, and lifts Memphis 68 far above the plethora of music titles out there on the bookshelves' * Scots Magazine *'There are few writers who so clearly and powerfully evince the relationship between popular culture and politics . . . This is a book that grabs you from the off. Cosgrove writes about the music with a passion and fire which is infectious' * Scots Whay Hae *'As ever, Cosgrove's lucid, entertaining prose is laden with detail, but never at the expense of the wider narrative. Hinging on that Memphis destination, he traces the savage dichotomy at the city’s heart: it was the site of multi-racial soul imprint Stax, but also the places where Martin Luther King was killed. A heartbreaking but essential read, and one that feels remarkably timely' * Clash Magazine *
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The University of Alabama Press Travel on Southern Antebellum Railroads 18281860
Book SynopsisA volume on railroading in the pre-Civil War South. It encompasses a number of social, political, and even ideological subjects.Trade ReviewHere is a carefully researched account of all aspects of railroading - engines, cars, life aboard, perils of the road, stations - with much contemporary flavor [from] this boisterous era. - Anniston Star ""A charming and informative examination of the early years of railroads. It is also history of the kind I like best: a study not of great events or momentous trends, but of how people lived."" - Jonathan Yardley, Miami Herald ""Excellently and extensively illustrated and can be recommended to all interested in trains and southern social history."" - Journal of Southern History
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HardPress Publishing Sporting Scenes and Sundry Sketches Being the Miscellaneous Writings of J. Cypress Jr. Pseud.
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The University of Alabama Press Religion and Race Southern Presbyterians 194683
Book SynopsisThis institutional history of the US Presbyterian church describes how the church shaped and was shaped by its regional culture and explores the denomination's own culture as it struggled to determine what role racial issues and realities would have in the definition of being Presbyterian.
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The University of Chicago Press Dirt and Desire Reconstructing Southern Womens
Book SynopsisThe story of southern writing runs along an iron path; an official narrative of a literature about community, place and past, miscegenation, white patriarchy and the epic of race. This text provides an entirely different set of categories through which to understand southern literature and culture.
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The University of North Carolina Press Southern Cultures The Abolitionist South Volume
Book SynopsisGuest edited by T. Dionne Bailey and Garrett Felber, this issue of Southern Cultures makes visible a radical US South which has long envisioned a world without policing, prisons, or other forms of punishment.
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The University of North Carolina Press Southscapes
Book SynopsisIn this innovative approach to southern literary cultures, Thadious Davis analyses how black southern writers use their spatial location to articulate the vexed connections between society and environment, particularly under segregation and its legacies. Davis reveals how these writers reconstitute racial exclusion as creative black space, rather than a site of trauma and resistance.
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The University of Alabama Press Jeffrey Introduces Thirteen More Southern Ghosts
Book SynopsisA commemorative facsimile edition of the beloved and best-selling second book in famed national folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham's southern ghosts series. This new edition returns the book to its original format in jacketed cloth full of original, black-and-white illustrations in a handsome keepsake edition.Table of Contents Foreword to the Original 1971 Edition Chapter 1. The Girl Nobody Knew Chapter 2. A Ghost Who Threw Things Chapter 3. The Farmer Who Vanished Chapter 4. Harpist of the Gulf Chapter 5. Ghosts of Annandale Chapter 6. A Glow in the Dungeon Chapter 7. Disappearing Hounds Chapter 8. Our Family Trouble Chapter 9. The Spirit of the Spindles Chapter 10. The Ghost of the Barefoot Slave Chapter 11. A Ghost Who Inspired Poetry Chapter 12. The Defiant Tombstone Chapter 13. An Eternal Embrace A Final Note Afterword to the Commemorative Edition
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Legare Street Press Southern Planter
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The University of Chicago Press Radical Protest and Social Structure The Southern
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The University of Alabama Press The Woodland Southeast
Book SynopsisThe Woodland Period (ca 1200BC to AD1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research since the late 1970s. Researchers learned that the peoples of the Southeast experienced increasing sedentism and population growth. This work covers research themes in this area.Trade Review1000 B.C.-A.D. 1000, the proverbial vacuum that Native and Southeastern archaeologists abhor? Well, no more! This volume provides wide ranging, up-to-date, and authoritative coverage of an important period in southeastern prehistory that, until now, has not received the emphasis it deserves. - James Stoltman University of Wisconsin
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The University of North Carolina Press Tales from the Haunted South
Book SynopsisExplores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of ghost tours, frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the US South. Examining popular sites and stories from these tours, Tiya Miles shows that haunted tales routinely appropriate and skew African American history to produce representations of slavery for commercial gain.Trade ReviewShines a valuable light on how we feel about the Civil War and race, and on how the ghosts of the past are still with us."" - North Carolina Historical Review""Imagery portrayed within each story . . . will keep readers on the edge of their seats in anticipation of the next sentence, waiting to hear how each narrative plays out."" - Choice""A page-turner. . . . Should serve as a call to historic sites to undertake the hard work of telling complex stories about the past that enable visitors to gain a deeper understanding of the complexity of African American lives under slavery. . . . Highly recommend[ed] . . . to public historians, scholars of slavery and its current-day legacies, and anyone interested in the gothic South."" - Journal of Southern History
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The Crowood Press Ltd Modelling the Southern Region: 1948 to the
Book SynopsisComprehensive in its coverage, Modelling the Southern Region - 1948 to the Present presents an historical overview of the post-war Southern Region of British Railways before guiding the reader through a series of detailed modelling projects, illustrating all of the techniques and equipment required, from building freight, locomotives and architecture, to modernization, electrification and the third rail. These projects make use of the best available commercial model-making products and provide an introduction to scratch-building your own lineside items. Each project is supported by a short historical background section and suggestions as to how each project could be further developed. The result will be a set of models that sets the modeller on track for a first-class model of the Southern Region.
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The University of Alabama Press Southern Churches in Crisis Revisited Religion
Book SynopsisIn 1966, Samuel Hill's Southern Churches in Crisis argued that southern Protestantism, a cornerstone of white southern society and culture, was shirking its moral duty by refusing to join in the fight for racial justice. His landmark work now returns to print updated and expanded - and compellingly relevant.Trade ReviewHow welcome it is to see this seminal book available again! And now it is enhanced by an eloquent, part-historiographical / part-autobiographical introduction and an incisive, broad-ranging epilogue that examines another fateful crisis in the southern churches. This book, renewed and reinforced, is as important now as it was thirty years ago." —John Boles, Rice University
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The University of Alabama Press The Stuff of Our Forebears Willa Cathers Southern
Book SynopsisBeginning with an examination of Willa Cather's Virginia childhood and the southern influences that continued to mold her during the Nebraska years, Joyce McDonald traces the effects of those influences in Cather's novels.Trade ReviewIn associating Cather with the past grandeur and defeat of the South and detecting in her fiction an undertone of historical irony, McDonald successfully places Cather in a larger world than the pioneering American one with which she has been identified."" - John J. Murphy, Brigham Young University""McDonald succeeds in establishing both the importance and the relevance of those formative years before the Nebraska experience that scholars have so emphasized for several decades. . . . The Stuff of Our Forebears is a readable, insightful addition to Cather scholarship."" - Bruce P. Baker II, University of NebraskaTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. Cather's Southern Heritage and Pastoral Origins 2. Cather's New World Pastorals 3. The Pangs of Disillusionment: Cather's Antipastoral Subtext 4. For Their Own Good: Cather's Pastoral Histories 5. History and Memory: Cather's Garden of the Chattel Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of North Carolina Press Southern History across the Color Line
Book SynopsisIn this powerful collection of groundbreaking essays, Painter reaches across the colour line to examine how race, gender, class, and individual subjectivity shaped the lives of black and white women and men in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century South.Trade ReviewPainter's thoughtful collection is the result of a career spent in close examination of southern history. She demonstrates how that text can still reveal much, but only if we sharpen and enlarge our intellectual armamentarium." - Florida Historical Quarterly"The theories, ideas, and analysis investigated in this text advance our understanding of nineteenth- and twentieth-century southern culture--both black and white--in unexpected, provocative, and compelling ways. . . . A highly original and radically ambitious book. This immensely important and insightful study underscores the need for new thinking about the scholarship of southern historiography that reaches beyond race. . . . A groundbreaking contribution and a rewarding addition to the field of American history, particularly southern historiography." - North Carolina Historical Review"Demonstrate[s] excellence marked by the transgressive verve of [an] innovative and progressive scholar. . . . An extremely successful attempt to move with intellectual rigor and consistency toward a meaningful interpretation of a world mapped in blood by cruelty and violence." - Southern Literary Journal"Painter wields both a scalpel and an ax as she dissects multiple generations of southern-focused literature. . . . Compelling. . . . [Southern History across the Color Line] provides an insightful exploration into the historical factors that have led to an incomplete literature on the mutual impact of the color line in the American South. It deserves careful study by a wide range of scholars and students of southern history and race relations." - Gulf South Historical Review"Bold and innovative." - Canadian Journal of History"One cannot help but applaud the appearance of this collection, which provides a fine introduction to the ideas of an important scholar." - Journal of Southern History
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The University of Alabama Press Southern Wonder Alabamas Surprising Biodiversity
Book SynopsisExplores Alabama's amazing biological diversity, the reasons for the large number of species in the state, and the importance of their preservation. Even among Alabama's citizens, few outside a small circle of biologists, advocates, and other naturalists understand the special quality of the state's natural heritage. R. Scot Duncan rectifies this situation in Southern Wonder.
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Random House USA Inc How to Speak Southern
Book SynopsisThis tongue-in-cheek dictionary of Southern words and phrases offers a hilarious spoof of the Southern accent. This book is dedicated to all Yankees* in the hope that it will teach them how to talk right. *Yankee: Anyone who is not from Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, and possibly Oklahoma and West-by-God-Virginia. A Yankee may become an honorary Southerner, but a Southerner cannot become a Yankee, assuming any Southerner wanted to.
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The History Press Ltd Cleopatra
Book SynopsisA critically acclaimed life of the infamous Queen of Egypt.
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The History Press Ltd The Southern Railway Story
Book SynopsisAt the forefront of innovation and development in the rail world, the Southern Railway was the only main-line railway to embrace electrification wholeheartedly, creating what was at the time the world’s largest electric suburban network.
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