WINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTIONINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn elegant meditation on the complexities of the American Southand thus of Americaby an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time.
In The South Strikes Back, Hodding Carter III describes the birth of the white Citizens' Council in the Mississippi Delta and its spread throughout the South.
The Roots of Educational Inequality chronicles the transformation of one American high school over the course of the twentieth century to explore the larger political, economic, and social factors that have contributed to the escalation of educational inequality in modern America.
Journalist Ira Harkey (1918-2006) risked it all when he advocated for James Meredith's admission to the University of Mississippi as the first African American student in 1962.
From 1965 to 2005, the United Teachers of New Orleans (UTNO) defied the Souths conservative anti-union efforts to become the largest local in Louisiana.
Taking his cue from this series' title of 'Through Time', life-long Harrow resident and historian Don Walter here attempts something slightly different from the standard book of quick 'then and now' snapshots of his home-town.
From the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missouri River to the battlefields of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, there are places all over the American West where visitors can relive the great Western migration that helped shape our history and culture.
Taken from the interviews conducted by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Arizona during the Great Depression,this regional history offers more than facts, figures, and stilted portraits of ';important history.
This is the tenth in a series of monographs--Shaping American Lutheran Church Music--published by the Center for Church Music, Concordia University Chicago, River Forest, Illinois.
Dunmore's New World tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Lord Dunmore, the last royal governor of Virginia, whose long-neglected life boasts a measure of scandal and intrigue rare in the annals of the colonial world.
Americans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders only ever inflicted violence directly or through overseers.
Montana Curiosities brings to the reader with humor and affectionand a healthy dose of attitudethe oddest, quirkiest, and most outlandish places, personalities, events, and phenomena found within the state's borders and in the chronicles of its history.
The story of American repertory theatre actress Jolly Della Pringle (1870-1952) is an odyssey of travel, adventure, drama, romance and many changes in fortune.
Secret Llandudno offers a unique insight into the 'Queen of the Welsh Resorts' through a series of little-known and forgotten stories, facts and anecdotes.
This fascinating collection of over 180 images shows, in fine detail, some of the changes that have taken place in Derby over a period of more than 150 years.
A Kansas Notable BookIn 1854, after recently arriving from England, twenty-two-year-old Reuben Smith traveled west, eventually making his way to Kansas Territory.
The London & Birmingham Railway was the major project of its day, designed by Robert Stephenson, one of the great railway pioneers, who also supervised its construction and its opening in 1837.
The Santa Fe Trail's role as the major western trade route in the early to mid-nineteenth century made it a critical part of America's Westward expansion and the stories of its heyday include some of the greatest adventures in the history of the Old West.
A fabulous collection of ghost hauntings in Suffolk, from the infamous Black Dog of Bungay to the headless Anne Boleyn stalking visitors at Blickling Hall.
Secret Chester offers a unique insight into one of England's most visited cities through a series of little-known and forgotten stories, facts and anecdotes.
Black Creek Pioneer Village: Toronto's Living History Village is a recreation of a typical crossroads community found in Southern Ontario during the 1800s.
Yeovil Memories covers a wide range of stories, from a tragic drowning in the River Yeo in 1856, the hardships of the savage winter of 1861 and that of two families who lost their cottages in a fire in February 1906, the lucky escape of a Westland test pilot as his aircraft broke up in mid-air in August 1934, and the top of the music charts of August 1952, to pop concerts in the Liberal Hall in 1965.
This collection of essays profiles a diverse array of North Carolinians, all of whom had a hand in the founding of the state and the United States of America.
