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Southern News, Southern Politics: How a Newspaper Defined a State for a Century
$35.00 Add to cartNewspapers are a tough business, and no one knows that better than Rob Christensen, who was chief political reporter at North Carolina’s capital newspaper, the News and Observer, for decades. Here he … [more below]
- Author: Christensen, Rob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1469685248
- Language: English
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Featuring Florida: The Sunshine State in Fiction, Film & TV
$24.99 Read moreAuthor Caren Schnur Neile offers a whole new way to explore Florida.
Dexter, Key Largo, The Yearling–all famous works of popular culture created by masters in their fields. What’s more, all three tak
- Author: Neile, Caren Schnur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1467155802
- Language: English
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A Short History of Greenville
$24.99 Add to cartA concise and engaging history that traces Greenville’s development from backcountry settlement to one of America’s best small cities
Today, Greenville, South Carolina, is regularly included on lists o
- Author: Bainbridge, Judith T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1643364677
- Language: English
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Kentucky’s Packhorse Librarians
$24.99 Add to cartMarking the ridgelines and hearts of the Appalachians during the Great Depression, packhorse librarians delivered hope, one book at a time.
When the Great Depression started, folks stumbled on hard tim
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Jacobsmeyer, Nicki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1467162183
- Language: English
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Dark Tales of the Eno River
$24.99 Add to cartMayhem on the Eno River
Visitors to the Eno River don’t expect to encounter haunted houses, train wrecks or fun outings that turn into tragedy, but some of them have experienced just that. In 1771, a
- Series: Murder & Mayhem
- Author: Cook, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158356
- Language: English
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The Super Highway in Upstate South Carolina
$24.99 Read moreA Highway Runs Through It
When U.S. Highway 29 between Greenville and Spartanburg was completed in 1946, it became the first modern super highway in the Upstate region. Known by many as the Super Highw
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Withrow, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158232
- Language: English
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Opryland USA
$32.99 Add to cartBy the late 1960s, the Ryman Auditorium the fifth home of the Grand Ole Opry was a deteriorating firetrap in a seedy part of Nashville, yet it still attracted thousands of people each weekend to the s… [more below]
- Author: Phillips, Stephen W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: August 22 2016
- ISBN10: 1531699782
- Language: English
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Lost Plantations of the South
$40.00 Add to cartThe great majority of the South’s plantation homes have been destroyed over time, and many have long been forgotten. In Lost Plantations of the South, Marc R. Matrana weaves together photographs, diar… [more below]
- Author: Matrana, Marc R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 11 2009
- ISBN10: 1578069424
- Language: English
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True Crime Stories of Eastern North Carolina
$21.99 Add to cartEastern North Carolina is a land of contrasts, and its crime stories bear this out. A lovelorn war hero or a stalker? Conniving wife or consummate homemaker? Murder or suicide? The answers can be as p… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Pickens, Cathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1467145114
- Language: English
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Hot, Hot Chicken: A Nashville Story
$19.95 Add to cartThese days, hot chicken is a “must-try” Southern food. Restaurants in New York, Detroit, Cambridge, and even Australia advertise that they fry their chicken “Nashville-style.” Thousands of people atte… [more below]
- Author: Martin, Rachel Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: March 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0826501761
- Language: English
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The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America’s Forgotten Capital of Vice
$20.00 Add to cartA 2020 New York Times notable book One of the Chicago Tribune‘s best nonfiction books of 2020
Complex, turbulent, as haunting as a pedal steel solo –Jonathan Miles, The New York Times Book Review (Edi- Author: Hill, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1250782740
- Language: English
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Up-The-Road Down-The-Road
$18.99 Add to cartIn Up-The-Road Down-The-Road, noted Outer Banks historian Bill Harris has documented the history of Kitty Hawk Village from its beginnings. He explains how Kitty Hawk got its name and who originally s
- Author: Harris, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 9798988017158
- Language: English
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Tangled Fortunes: The Hidden History of Interracial Marriage in the Segregated South
$32.00 Add to cartA “brilliantly researched and surprising” (Hendrik Hartog, Princeton University) history of Southern segregationists’ long war against interracial relationships, and the century-long fight to restore … [more below]
- Author: Schumaker, Kathryn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1541605314
- Language: English
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Nocturnal New Orleans
$59.95 Add to cartBehold the mystique of the New Orleans night–that tinge of excitement, that veil of mystery, that sense of danger that emerges during “the witching hour.”
Darkness may unleash the Dionysian in the Cr- Author: Rasi, Marco
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0807182613
- Language: English
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Wildsam Field Guides: Memphis
$24.00 Add to cartWildsam Field Guides: Memphis shares the soul and sounds of this Southern city so formational to American culture. With stories and trusted tips from an eclectic team of locals, the guide’s contributo… [more below]
- Series: Wildsam City Guides
- Author: Bruce, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1467199710
- Language: English
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Mississippi Bear Hunter Holt Collier: Guiding Teddy Roosevelt and a Lifetime of Adventure
$24.99 Add to cartAuthor Mark Neaves guides readers on an incredible tale through the life of one of America’s greatest adventurers.
Born into slavery in the Mississippi Delta in 1847, Holt Collier was taught to hunt
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Neaves, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 28 2023
- ISBN10: 146715458X
- Language: English
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Katrina: A History, 1915-2015
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the Bancroft Prize
“The main thrust of Horowitz’s account is to make us understand Katrina–the civ
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year
A Publishers Weekly Book of the Year- Author: Horowitz, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0674271076
- Language: English
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Snake Eyes: Murder in a Southern Town
$25.95 Add to cartBy 1966, Hot Springs, Arkansas wasn’t your typical sleepy little Southern town. Once a favorite destination for mobsters like Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, illegal activities continued to lure out-of-s
- Author: Martin, Bitty
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1633887766
- Language: English
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Atlanta Record Stores: An Oral History
$23.99 Add to cartAtlanta Record Stores is an oral history of the city’s rock music scene, as witnessed through the lens of Criminal Records, Fantasyland, Wax ‘N’ Facts, and many more. This is a rock-centric take on a … [more below]
- Author: Radford, Chad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1467142972
- Language: English
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The Elaine Massacre and Arkansas: A Century of Atrocity and Resistance, 1819-1919
$22.95 Read moreAlthough it occurred nearly a century ago, the Elaine Massacre of 1919 remains the subject of intense inquiry as historians try to answer a multitude of questions, such as why authorities in the Arkan
- Author: Lancaster, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: June 01, 2018
- ISBN10: 1945624078
- Language: English
