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Remembering the Days of Sorrow: The Wpa and the Texas Slave Narratives
$24.95 Add to cartBuoyed by the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, historians began reevaluating previously held beliefs of American slavery. Under particular scrutiny was the belief in slavery’s paternalist
- Author: Goodwin, Ronald E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 03 2014
- ISBN10: 1933337478
- Language: English
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Waverly Hills Sanatorium: A History
$21.99 Add to cartHigh on a hill on the south side of Louisville, Kentucky, a massive Tudor Gothic Revival building still stands as a testament to past struggles with a deadly disease. The structure was once part of th… [more below]
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Pohl, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1467149993
- Language: English
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Sorting Out the New South City, Second Edition: Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975
$23.95 Add to cartOne of the largest and fastest-growing cities in the South, Charlotte, North Carolina, came of age in the New South decades of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, transforming itself fr… [more below]
- Author: Hanchett, Thomas W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 428
- Publish Date: February 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1469656442
- Language: English
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Hot Springs: From Capone to Costello
$31.99 Add to cartIn the late 1800s, Hot Springs, Arkansas, was a small town with a big attraction: hot thermal water. The federal government took possession of the downtown-area springs, and bathhouse row was born, al… [more below]
- Author: Raines, Robert K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: November 18 2013
- ISBN10: 153166850X
- Language: English
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Hidden History of the Florida Keys
$23.99 Add to cartThe Florida Keys have witnessed all kinds of historical events, from the dramatic and the outrageous to the tragic and the comic.
In the nineteenth century, uncompromising individuals fought duels and
- Series: Hidden History
- Author: Albritton, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1467138916
- Language: English
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Historic Photos of Alexandria
$42.99 Add to cartAlexandria, Virginia, has been witness to events which helped create America. Many of the nation’s founding fathers and well-known historical figures, including George Washington and Robert E. Lee, li… [more below]
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: Patton, Julie Ballin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: January 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1683369920
- Language: English
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Daughter of the White River:: Depression-Era Treachery and Vengeance in the Arkansas Delta
$23.99 Add to cartJoin author Denise Parkinson for an intimate look at a Depression-era tragedy.
The once-thriving houseboat communities along Arkansas’ White River are long gone, and few remember the sensational murder
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Parkinson, Denise White
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 27 2013
- ISBN10: 1609499131
- Language: English
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Ocracoke
$24.99 Read moreOcracoke, a unique part of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore with it’s own dialect, captures a unique charm and spirit of community developed from its beginning in the 1580s as Wokokon Inlet.
Wokokon
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Owens, Jeanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1467128163
- Language: English
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6666: Portrait of a Texas Ranch
$45.00 Read moreThe Four Sixes is not a relic, showpiece, or preserve. It’s a working cattle ranch, some 290,000 acres of West Texas prairie carefully used. Here, men still earn their livelihoods on horseback, not ou… [more below]
- Author: Meinzer, Wyman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 157
- Publish Date: October 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0896725367
- Language: English
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A Short History of Charleston
$22.99 Read moreA lively chronicle of the South’s most renowned city from the founding of colonial Charles Town through the present day
A Short History of Charleston–a lively chronicle of the South’s most renowned an
- Author: Rosen, Robert N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1643361864
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Old Atlanta
$21.99 Read moreOld Atlanta may conjure images of southern belles and Civil War ruination, but the full story stretches back millennia, even before the first known residents arrived five thousand years ago. From cent… [more below]
- Series: Hidden History
- Author: Pifer, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1467146072
- Language: English
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Thomson’s Pulp Mill: Building the Champion Fibre Company at Canton, North Carolina: 1905 to 1908
$29.95 Add to cartThis is a story of Peter Gibson Thomson’s pulp mill. Through extensive research, the author has gathered information from a wide variety of sources, including scattered mill documents, drawings and le
- Author: Jones, Carroll C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1945619678
- Language: English
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We’re Still Here Ya Bastards: How the People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City
$32.00 Add to cartThe aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is one of the darkest chapters in American history. The storm caused unprecedented destruction, and a toxic combination of government neglect and socioeconomic inequ… [more below]
- Author: Gratz, Roberta Brandes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 1568587449
- Language: English
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A History of the Pioneers: The Florida Keys, Volume 1
$14.95 Add to cartToday, on the Keys between Key West and the mainland, some 40,000 residents and thousands of visitors fish, swim, sail, and dive in the crystal clear waters off a tropical reef; relax in the sun and c
- Series: Florida Keys (Paperback) #1
- Author: Viele, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1561644943
- Language: English
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Haunted North Georgia
$31.99 Add to cartNorth Georgia is home to more than its fair share of ghosts, from scenic antebellum mansions to restaurants, mills and even an outhouse. Reverend Robert William Bigham of Coweta County received a supe… [more below]
- Author: Miles, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: October 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1540226557
- Language: English
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Plott Hound Tales: Legendary People & Places Behind the Breed
$31.99 Add to cartThe Plott hound has reached worldwide fame through the contributions of many colorful characters from the Southern Appalachians. Quill Rose–a legendary local outlaw, moonshiner, gunfighter and more–… [more below]
- Author: Plott, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: August 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1540225593
- Language: English
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Sunken Plantations: The Santee Cooper Project
$31.99 Add to cartSouth Carolinians have long desired a route for water navigation from Columbia to Charleston. An early Santee Canal effort ended in failure by 1850, but interest was reignited in the twentieth century… [more below]
- Author: Bostick, Douglas W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1540218740
- Language: English
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The Big Book of the Cape Fear River
$39.95 Add to cartIn 1993 and 1994, the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources’ Underwater Archaeology Unit teamed with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to conduct a comprehensive survey of North Carolina’s Cape Fear Ri… [more below]
- Author: Jackson, Claude V. III
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 444
- Publish Date: April 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0981460313
- Language: English
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Voices from St. Simons: Personal Narratives of an Island’s Past
$22.95 Add to cartExcerpts from interviews with 17 people whose connection to St. Simons Island, GA, tells the story of the island’s heritage.
- Series: Real Voices, Real History
- Author: Doster, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 259
- Publish Date: February 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0895873575
- Language: English
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Cumberland Island: Strong Women, Wild Horses
$22.95 Add to cartAward-winning environmental writer Charles Seabrook describes the island’s natural bounty and tells its long and intriguing history.
In September 1996, Cumberland Island blasted onto the national news
- Author: Seabrook, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: January 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0895873052
- Language: English
