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Draining New Orleans: The 300-Year Quest to Dewater the Crescent City
$39.95 Add to cartIn Draining New Orleans, the first full-length book devoted to “the world’s toughest drainage problem,” renowned geographer Richard Campanella recounts the epic challenges and ingenious efforts to de
- Author: Campanella, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: May 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0807178543
- Language: English
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The South Was Right!: A New Edition for the 21st Century
$45.00 Add to cartThe South Was Right
A New Edition for the 2ast Century
IN 1991, THE KENNEDY BROTHERS first published The South Was Right , launching the modern movement of Southern awareness and activism. To date the
- Author: Kennedy, James Ronald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: December 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1947660454
- Language: English
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Kingfish U: Huey Long and Lsu
$34.95 Add to cartNo political leader is more closely identified with Louisiana State University than the flamboyant governor and U.S. senator Huey P. Long, who devoted his last years to turning a small, undistinguishe
- Author: Mann, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179523
- Language: English
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Most Fortunate Unfortunates: The Jewish Orphans’ Home of New Orleans
$44.95 Add to cartMarlene Trestman’s Most Fortunate Unfortunates is the first comprehensive history of the Jewish Orphans’ Home of New Orleans. Founded in 1855 in the aftermath of a yellow fever epidemic, the Home was
- Author: Trestman, Marlene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807172901
- Language: English
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Secret Memphis: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
$20.95 Add to cartWhat happened in 1954 at the Chisca Hotel in downtown Memphis that sparked a worldwide musical phenomenon? How did an eccentric businessman living in a pink mansion invent the first self-service groce… [more below]
- Series: Secret
- Author: Whitfield, Holly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 31 2020
- ISBN10: 1681062321
- Language: English
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Graveyard of the Atlantic: Shipwrecks of the North Carolina Coast
$25.00 Add to cartThis is a factual account, written in the pace of fiction, of hundreds of dramatic losses, heroic rescues, and violent adventures at the stormy meeting place of northern and southern winds and waters … [more below]
- Author: Stick, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 11 1989
- ISBN10: 0807842613
- Language: English
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Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
$21.00 Add to cartShort-listed for the Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Book Award
In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll offers a fresh, provocative account of Appalachia, and why it matters. He begins with the earliest Europe- Author: Stoll, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0809080192
- Language: English
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The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
$26.00 Add to cartThis is the story of a city that shouldn’t exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America’s most beguiling metropolis was nothing more than a swamp: prone to flooding, infested with snakes, ba
- Author: Powell, Lawrence N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0674725905
- Language: English
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Southern Ghost Stories: Hendersonville, Tennessee
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the banks of Drake’s Creek to bustling shopping centers at Indian Lake, Hendersonville is very haunted. With historic homes that became Civil War hospitals to a once popular country music park th
- Author: Sircy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1088231985
- Language: English
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Country Capitalism: How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and the Planet
$28.00 Add to cartThe rural roads that led to our planet-changing global economy ran through the American South. That region’s impact on the interconnected histories of business and ecological change is narrated here b… [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Elmore, Bart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1469673339
- Language: English
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City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300
$26.00 Add to cartIn 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. Mayor Mitch Landrieu led the ceremony, attended by liv… [more below]
- Author: Berry, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: February 01 2021
- ISBN10: 146966402X
- Language: English
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Methodists & Moonshiners: Another Prohibition Expedition Through the South …with Cocktail Recipes
$24.95 Add to cartDid you know George Washington drank his way through the South in 1791 and ran one of the country’s biggest distilleries after his presidency? Or that Methodists were even keener about drying up Ameri
- Author: Smith, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: October 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 1929647891
- Language: English
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Mile Marker Zero: The Moveable Feast of Key West
$19.95 Add to cartWinner of the Florida Book Award, Gold Medal for Nonfiction “A tall but telescopic-sight-true tale of Hunter Thompson, Jimmy Buffett, Tom McGuane, and a large cavorting cast running around with sand i… [more below]
- Author: McKeen, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 6, 2016
- ISBN10: 0813062314
- Language: English
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America’s Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy
$35.00 Read moreThe remarkable story of how African Americans transformed Atlanta, the former heart of the Confederacy, into today’s Black mecca
Atlanta is home to some of America’s most prominent Black po… [more below]- Author: Ogbar, Jeffrey O. G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1541601998
- Language: English
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Field Trip: My Years on a Johns Island Farm: The story of why one end of Johns Island was so special at one point in time.
$19.95 Add to cartField Trip will enable readers to see crops and fresh food with significantly more appreciation. Author Lee Glover provides his audience with firsthand experiences that span decades, revealing Johns I
- Author: Glover, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: 15-Nov-23
- ISBN10: 9798888516300
- Language: English
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Celebrating Southern Appalachian Food: Recipes & Stories from Mountain Kitchens
$23.99 Add to cartHigh country cooking fit to grace any table. Southern Appalachia has a rich culinary tradition. Generations of passed down recipes offer glimpses into a culture that has long been defined, in consider… [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Casada, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1467152773
- Language: English
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In the Pines: A Lynching, a Lie, a Reckoning
$29.00 Add to cartWinner of the Mississippi Historical Society Book of the Year Award
In this “courageous and compelling … essential and critically important” book (Bryan Stevenson), an award-winning scholar of whit- Author: Hale, Grace Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 0316564745
- Language: English
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Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera: An Insider’s History of the Florida-Alabama Coast
$25.95 Add to cartThe Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera traces the development of the Florida-Alabama coast as a tourist destination from the late 1920s and early 1930s, when it was sparsely populated with “small
- Author: Jackson, Harvey H., III
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0820345318
- Language: English
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The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
$20.00 Add to cartThe “enlightening” (The Guardian) true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors’ founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their desce
- Author: Raines, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982136154
- Language: English
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Charleston: Race, Water, and the Coming Storm
$28.95 Read more“Crawford’s book stands apart from its predecessors because of its sustained focus on one threatened city. Charleston is a fascinating and haunted locale, and Crawford is gifted at sketching its gross… [more below]
- Author: Crawford, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363572
- Language: English
