Cultural Region/South
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Georgia: A State History
$26.99 Add to cartGeorgia: A State History, opens a window on our rich and sometimes tragic past and reveals to all of us the fascinating complexity of what it means to be a Georgian.
Georgia’s past has diverged from t
- Series: Making of America (Arcadia)
- Author: Sullivan, Buddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0738585890
- Language: English
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Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America
$18.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Melissa Faye Greene and her award-winning Praying for Sheetrock, extraordinarily talented debut author Laura Wexler tells the story of the Moore’s Ford Lynching in Walton County, G… [more below]
- Author: Wexler, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0684868172
- Language: English
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American Nightmare: The History of Jim Crow
$22.99 Add to cartFor a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with its rigidly enforced canon of racial etiquet
- Author: Packard, Jerrold M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 01 2003
- ISBN10: 031230241X
- Language: English
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Texas and Northeastern Mexico, 1630-1690
$24.95 Add to cartAn English translation of Chapa’s Historia de Nuevo Le, the first history of the region that eventually became Texas and northeastern Mexico.
Winner, Presidio La Bah僘 Award, Sons of the Republic- Author: Chapa, Juan Bautista
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 247
- Publish Date: February 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0292717954
- Language: English
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Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
$23.00 Add to cartVita Sackville-West, novelist, poet, and biographer, is best known as the friend of Virginia Woolf, who transformed her into an androgynous time-traveler in Orlando. The story of Sackville-West’s marr… [more below]
- Author: Nicolson, Nigel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: November 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0226583570
- Language: English
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To a Mountain in Tibet
$17.99 Add to cart“A superb account of a pilgrimage. . . . Characteristically beautiful, though uncharacteristically haunted.” –Pico Iyer, New York Review of Books
“Thubron walks for the dead and writes for the living,
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Thubron, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0061768278
- Language: English
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Crabs and Oysters: a Savor the South cookbook
$16.00 Add to cartCrabs and oysters take center stage as Chef Bill Smith conveys his passion for preparing these sumptuous shellfish long associated with southern coastlines. Smith’s sensibilities as a North Carolinian… [more below]
- Series: Savor the South Cookbooks
- Author: Smith, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1469677598
- Language: English
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The Party Is Over: The New Louisiana Politics
$39.95 Add to cartFor decades, the Louisiana political scene has been a source of interest and intrigue for scholars and casual observers alike. In recent years, the state’s political, economic, and environmental chall
- Author: Maloyed, Christie L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 16, 2022
- ISBN10: 0807176583
- Language: English
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On Dark and Bloody Ground: An Oral History of the West Virginia Mine Wars
$22.99 Add to cartAn oral history of the West Virginia Mine Wars published to coincide with the centennial of the Battle of Blair Mountain.
In 1972 Anne Lawrence came to West Virginia at the invitation of the Miners f- Author: Lawrence, Anne T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1952271096
- Language: English
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Hippie Homesteaders: Arts, Crafts, Music, and Living on the Land in West Virginia
$22.99 Add to cartHippie Homesteaders tells the story of this movement from the viewpoint of forty artisans and musicians who came to the state, lived on the land, and created successful careers with their craft.
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- Author: Seaton, Carter Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1938228901
- Language: English
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Walking Historic Galveston: A Guide to Its Neighborhoods
$19.95 Add to cartWalking Historic Galveston: A Guide to its Neighborhoods is the city’s first practical, comprehensive walking guide of the Islands most concentrated historic areas with interesting anecdotes about the… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: March 25 2009
- ISBN10: 1934645796
- Language: English
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All about the Burger: A History of America’s Favorite Sandwich (Burger America & Burger History, for Fans of the Ultimate Burger and the Gre
$16.99 Add to cartAn unlikely culinary history from the founder of the definitive museum on all things burgers. Learn about the sandwich that shaped the world’s culture, economy and politics.
- Author: Gonzalez, Sef
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: April 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1633539628
- Language: English
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Cherokee Pottery: From the Hands of Our Elders
$12.99 Add to cartThe intricate designs and complex patterns of Cherokee pottery have been developed over centuries. Both timeless and time-honored, these singular works of pottery are still crafted by the proud hands … [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Fariello, M. Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 06 2011
- ISBN10: 1609490576
- Language: English
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Durham Tales: The Morris Street Maple, the Plastic Cow, the Durham Day That Was & More
$21.99 Add to cartRun into the history of the Bull City
There is much history in the Bull City, and some of it can be found within these pages. How Bull Durham smoking tobacco put Durham, North Carolina, on the map. Ho
- Series: American Chronicles
- Author: Wise, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1596295880
- Language: English
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James Edward Oglethorpe: Foreword by Eugenia Price
$15.95 Add to cartJames Edward Oglethorpe turned his back on Oxford University, his family’s Jacobite schemes, and a career as courtier to a prince to settle as an English country squire. But history was not to let him… [more below]
- Author: Blackburn, Joyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1577363329
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Florida
$31.99 Add to cart- Author: Clark, James C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: November 02 2015
- ISBN10: 1540214036
- Language: English
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Reynolda: 1906-1924
$31.99 Add to cartReynolda–with its family home and gardens, experimental farm, village, and woodland–is an excellent example of the Country Place era. This popular destination in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was c… [more below]
- Author: Babcock Millhouse, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: May 16 2011
- ISBN10: 153165861X
- Language: English
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Lost Galveston
$31.99 Add to cartFor nearly 200 years, a permanent settlement at the mouth of Galveston Bay has welcomed pirates, sailors, immigrants, and visitors from around the world. As Galveston grew, its buildings were visible … [more below]
- Author: Davis, Brian M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: July 14 2010
- ISBN10: 1531643868
- Language: English
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Brother to a Dragonfly
$25.00 Add to cartIn Brother to a Dragonfly, Will D. Campbell writes about his life growing up poor in Amite County, Mississippi, during the 1930s alongside his older brother, Joe. Though they grew up in a close-knit
- Series: Banner Books
- Author: Campbell, Will D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1496816307
- Language: English
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Legends & Lore of East Tennessee
$23.99 Add to cartAuthor Shane Simmons explores tales of bravery, lore and bizarre customs within the East Tennessee region.
The mountains of East Tennessee are chock full of unique folklore passed down through generati
- Series: American Legends
- Author: Simmons, Shane S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 08 2016
- ISBN10: 1467136387
- Language: English
