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‘Behind God’s Back’: Gullah Memories: Cainhoy, Wando, Huger, Daniel Island, St. Thomas Island, South Carolina
$19.95 Add to cartWhen freedom came to enslaved Africans who toiled on rice plantations in lower Berkeley County, South Carolina, many remained to farm the land and raise their families in settlements near the plantati
- Author: Frazier, Herb J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 20 2019
- ISBN10: 0982515472
- Language: English
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1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina
$18.99 Add to cartWith a new foreword by the author–Chris Rose’s New York Times bestselling collection: “A gripping book about life’s challenges in post-Katrina New Orleans…packed with heart, honesty, and wit” (New … [more below]
- Author: Rose, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 1501125370
- Language: English
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A Generous Pour: Tall Tales from the Backroom of Jimmy Kelly’s
$27.00 Read moreThe story of Jimmy Kelly’s Steak House, Nashville’s oldest fine restaurant and the family who started it–of stills, saloons, and speakeasies, and of a family who was tough and resourceful, who lost e… [more below]
- Author: Kelly, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1637631138
- Language: English
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Island Passages: An Illustrated History of Jekyll Island, Georgia
$41.95 Add to cartAlthough it is among the smallest of Georgia’s Golden Isles, Jekyll Island boasts a depth of history rivaling that of its larger neighbors. The island embraces two National Historic Landmarks, a listi
- Author: Davis, Jingle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0820348694
- Language: English
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Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
$20.00 Add to cartFrom bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans’ other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of th… [more below]
- Author: Krist, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 16 2015
- ISBN10: 0770437087
- Language: English
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Legends of the Outer Banks and Tar Heel Tidewater
$19.95 Read moreFrom Blackbeard’s den at Ocracoke, to the Hills of the Seven Sisters at Nags Head, to the misty swamps of Shallote, there is hardly an inch of territory along North Carolina’s coast without a legend a
- Author: Whedbee, Charles Harry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 165
- Publish Date: January 01 1966
- ISBN10: 0910244413
- Language: English
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Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
$16.95 Add to cartBuried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. In revelatory detail, Robert W. Fieseler chronicles the tragic event th… [more below]
- Author: Fieseler, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 163149595X
- Language: English
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Georgia
$30.00 Add to cartBased on the most recent research, this second edition surveys the people and events that shaped Georgia’s history. Beginning with the earliest Native American settlements, the story tells of first co… [more below]
- Author: Meyers, Christopher C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0881468924
- Language: English
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Voices from the Outer Banks
$12.95 Add to cartJohn F. Blair, Publisher, continues its Real Voices, Real History(TM) series with Voices from the Outer Banks. This volume presents the actual words of the people who lived the uncommonly rich history
- Series: Real Voices, Real History
- Author: Kirk, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0895876442
- Language: English
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Key West: History of an Island of Dreams
$24.95 Add to cartParrotheads, Hemingway aficionados, and sun worshipers view Key West as a tropical paradise, and scores of writers have set tales of mystery and romance on the island. The city’s real story–told by M… [more below]
- Author: Ogle, Maureen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0813029937
- Language: English
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Picturing Harrisonburg: Visions of a Shenandoah Valley City Since 1828
$39.95 Read morePicturing Harrisonburg provides the most vibrant examination available of the history of the Virginia city, once a frontier town founded in the 1730s but now a burgeoning city centrally located in one
- Author: Ehrenpreis, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: September 27 2017
- ISBN10: 1938086503
- Language: English
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NC 12: Gateway to the Outer Banks
$16.00 Add to cartConnecting communities from Corolla in the north to Ocracoke Island in the south, scenic North Carolina Highway 12 binds together the fragile barrier islands that make up the Outer Banks. Throughout i… [more below]
- Author: Carr, Dawson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1469628147
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Savannah
$21.99 Add to cartJoin authors Brenna and T.C. Michaels as they explore Savannah’s long, wide and very often hidden history.
Savannah has repeatedly stood on the edge of ruin, brought to its knees by bloody battles, mys
- Series: Hidden History
- Author: Michaels, Brenna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1467141127
- Language: English
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The Outer Banks of North Carolina, 1584-1958
$31.00 Add to cartThe Outer Banks have long been of interest to geologists, historians, linguists, sportsmen, and beachcombers. This long series of low, narrow, sandy islands stretches along the North Carolina coast fo… [more below]
- Author: Stick, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 367
- Publish Date: April 30 1990
- ISBN10: 080784277X
- Language: English
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A Secret History of Memphis Hoodoo: Rootworkers, Conjurers & Spirituals
$21.99 Add to cartAuthor Tony Kail traces Memphis’s colorful Hoodoo heritage from the arrival of Africans in Shelby County to the growth of conjure culture in juke joints and Spiritual Churches.
Widely known for its mus
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Kail, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 20 2017
- ISBN10: 1467137391
- Language: English
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Love Letter from Pig: My Brother’s Story of Freedom Summer
$28.00 Add to cartIn the summer of 1964, the FBI found the smoldering remains of the station wagon that James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman had been driving before their disappearance. Shortly after thi… [more below]
- Author: Kabat, Julie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1496847237
- Language: English
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Three Ringling Circus: A History of Sarasota, Florida, and the Famous Ringling Brothers
$24.95 Add to cartSarasota would not be what it is today without the influence of the Ringling family, particularly John and Mable Ringling and John’s brother Charles. Unlike some other entertainers of the era, the Rin
- Author: Gurvis, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1683342984
- Language: English
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Baptists & Bootleggers
$29.95 Add to cartPull up a barstool and get better acquainted with Carry Nation, Al Capone, George Remus, F. Scott Fitzgerald and a host of other historical personalities as you learn of the South’s unique role in the
- Author: Smith, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1929647727
- Language: English
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The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South
$19.99 Add to cartA shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on innocent lives
After tw- Author: Balko, Radley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1541774051
- Language: English
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Black Homesteaders of the South
$23.99 Read moreMeet the black men and women who toiled from sunup to sundown to live the American dream.
- Author: Bennett, Bernice Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1467152307
- Language: English
