A Ferris and Ferris Book
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By: Allen, Sylvester
The Legend of Wyatt Outlaw: From Reconstruction Through Black Lives Matter
$30.00HardcoverAdd to cartWyatt Outlaw’s story was one of Black success: He was a Union League leader, business owner, and the first Black town constable and commissioner in Graham, a small town located in North Carolina’s Ala
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Allen, Sylvester
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1469689995
- Language: English
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Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA
$35.00HardcoverAdd to cartWhen eight-year-old Amy Erdman Farrell moved with her family to Akron, Ohio, in 1972, she found herself adrift in a sea of taunting boys and mean girls. Shy by nature, she dreaded her long, unhappy da
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Farrell, Amy Erdman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 146968683X
- Language: English
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The Vice President’s Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
$24.00PaperbackAdd to cartAward-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796-1833), the enslaved mixed-race wife of Richard Mentor Johnson… [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1469692090
- Language: English
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By: Balmer, Randall
Passion Plays: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America
$25.00HardcoverAdd to cartRandall Balmer was a late convert to sports talk radio, but he quickly became addicted, just like millions of other devoted American sports fans. As a historian of religion, the more he listened, Balm… [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Balmer, Randall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1469670062
- Language: English
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By: Butler, Anthea
White Evangelical Racism, Second Edition: The Politics of Morality in America
$16.00PaperbackAdd to cartThe American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals play a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chroni… [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Butler, Anthea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 146968151X
- Language: English
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By: Masur, Kate
Freedom Was in Sight: A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region
$24.00PaperbackAdd to cartThe Reconstruction era was born from the tumult and violence of the Civil War and delivered the most powerful changes the United States had seen since its founding. Black Americans in Washington, D.C…. [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Masur, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1469680181
- Language: English
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By: Stavans, Ilan
Sabor Jud?o: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook
$40.00HardcoverAdd to cartSabor Judio celebrates the delicious fusion of two culinary traditions, Jewish and Mexican. Written with joy and verve, Ilan Stavans and Margaret Boyle’s lavishly illustrated cookbook demonstrates how… [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1469682923
- Language: English
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By: Cox, Karen L.
No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
$24.00HardcoverAdd to cartWhen it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove … [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Cox, Karen L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1469662671
- Language: English
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Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination: An Artist’s Reckoning with the South
$42.00HardcoverAdd to cartRomare Bearden (1911-1988), one of the most prolific, original, and acclaimed American artists of the twentieth century, richly depicted scenes and figures rooted in the American South and the Black e… [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 146966786X
- Language: English
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By: Elmore, Bart
Country Capitalism: How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and the Planet
$28.00HardcoverAdd 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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By: Adrian Miller
Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue
$32.00HardcoverAdd to cartAcross America, the pure love and popularity of barbecue cookery have gone through the roof. Prepared in one regional style or another, in the South and beyond, barbecue is one of the nation’s most di
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Miller, Adrian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 27, 2021
- ISBN10: 1469662809
- Language: English
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The Vice President’s Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
$30.00HardcoverAdd to cartAward-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796-1833), the enslaved wife of Richard Mentor Johnson, owner of … [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: 10-Oct-23
- ISBN10: 1469675234
- Language: English
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Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture
$23.00PaperbackAdd to cartIn the summer of 1978, the B-52’s conquered the New York underground. A year later, the band’s self-titled debut album burst onto the Billboard charts, capturing the imagination of fans and music crit… [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Hale, Grace Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1469664054
- Language: English
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By: Flynt, Diane
Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived: The Surprising Story of Apples in the South
$35.00HardcoverAdd to cartFor anyone who’s ever picked an apple fresh from the tree or enjoyed a glass of cider, writer and orchardist Diane Flynt offers a new history of the apple and how it changed the South and the nation. … [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Flynt, Diane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 19, 2023
- ISBN10: 146967694X
- Language: English
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A New History of the American South
$45.00HardcoverAdd to cartFor at least two centuries, the South’s economy, politics, religion, race relations, fiction, music, foodways and more have figured prominently in nearly all facets of American life. In A New History … [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Brundage, W. Fitzhugh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: May 02, 2023
- ISBN10: 1469626659
- Language: English















