Cultural Region/South
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Georgia Place Names from Jot-em-Down to Doctortown
$31.99 Add to cartEver wonder how Rough and Ready got its name? Or what Stonesthrow is a stone’s throw from? And surely the story behind Climax can’t be…that thrilling, can it? The curious Georgian can’t help ponderi… [more below]
- Author: Kaemmerlen, Cathy J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: July 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1540239861
- Language: English
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Orlean Puckett: The Life of a Mountain Midwife
$16.95 Add to cartMountain midwife Orlean Puckett endured many trials during her lifetime. A bride at the age of 16, she had given birth to and buried 24 babies by the time she was in her mid-thirties. When John Pucket
- Author: Smith, Karen Cecil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: January 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1887905723
- Language: English
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Historic Photos of West Virginia
$41.99 Add to cartWest Virginia is a state of overwhelming beauty. Shared traditions, shared tragedies, and shared histories bind its people to the land and each other with a strong sense of place, family, and home.
In
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: Swick, Gerald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 168442108X
- Language: English
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Historic Photos of Kansas City
$42.99 Add to cartBy the mid nineteenth century, Kansas City was an important trading center for the westward movement. Through the late 1800s, two World Wars, and into the modern era, Kansas City has continued to grow
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: Copeland, Lara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1683369181
- Language: English
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The Blue Ridge Tunnel: A Remarkable Engineering Feat in Antebellum Virginia
$24.99 Add to cartTold through the eyes of three Irish immigrant families who helped build it, discover the groundbreaking story of the construction of the Blue Ridge Tunnel.
In one of the greatest engineering feats of
- Series: Transportation
- Author: Lyons, Mary E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 25 2014
- ISBN10: 1626194211
- Language: English
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Haunted South Georgia
$21.99 Add to cartEach county in the vast territory of southern Georgia has a haunted history. The old Barber-Tucker Inn in Colquitt County and the renovated former Scottish Inn in Bryan County host ghostly guests. A p… [more below]
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Miles, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1625859465
- Language: English
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Stories from Home
$25.00 Add to cartBrimming with his rich humor, Jerry Clower’s book manifests the unsurpassed southern art of yarn spinning. It also shows the nature of the man for whom good storytelling is more than just show busines… [more below]
- Author: Clower, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: April 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1617030708
- Language: English
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Charlotte, North Carolina: A Brief History
$24.99 Add to cartFounded in 1768 at the crossing of two Indian trails, Charlotte has a rich heritage to match its age. Hear the personal voices of discovery, hardship, wars, privation, segregation and achievement from
- Series: Brief History
- Author: Kratt, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1596296011
- Language: English
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Betting Booze and Brothels: Vice, Corruption, and Justice in Jefferson County, Texas
$24.95 Add to cartBy the turn of the twentieth century, Beaumont, Texas had acquired a reputation as a rough place. Situated in the oil-soaked chaos of Spindletop, Jefferson County was a hotbed of vice. For decades, ga
- Author: Landrey, Wanda a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1571689176
- Language: English
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Savannah Impressions
$12.95 Add to cart- Author: Helfrick, Robb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1560372230
- Language: English
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Georgia Tech
$31.99 Add to cartFrom humble beginnings as a small technological institute that opened in 1888, Georgia Tech has become one of the nation’s top-10-ranked public universities, according to U.S. News & World Report rank… [more below]
- Series: Campus History
- Author: Hild, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: August 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1540235556
- Language: English
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The Battle of Kings Mountain: Eyewitness Accounts
$34.99 Add to cartOn October 7, 1780, American Patriot and Loyalist soldiers battled each other at Kings Mountain, near the border of North and South Carolina. With over one hundred eyewitness accounts, this collection… [more below]
- Author: Dunkerly, Robert M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: March 20 2007
- ISBN10: 1540204553
- Language: English
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Building the Blue Ridge Parkway
$31.99 Add to cartThe Blue Ridge Parkway began as a dream in the late 1800s and became reality in 1983 when the 469-mile scenic highway was completed. Construction of the Blue Ridge Parkway began in September 1935 at C… [more below]
- Author: Hall, Karen J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: August 15 2007
- ISBN10: 153163320X
- Language: English
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Boomtime Boca: Boca Raton in the 1920s
$31.99 Add to cartBoca Raton, Florida, was a tiny farming community on
the southeastern coast of Florida when the state’s 1920s real estate boom grew into a national phenomenon. Investors and new residents were drawn t… [more below]- Author: Gillis, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: July 25 2007
- ISBN10: 1531627188
- Language: English
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Great Smokies Myths and Legends: The True Stories behind History’s Mysteries
$18.95 Add to cartFrom Sam Houston’s childhood among the Cherokee to the mysterious “road to nowhere”, Great SmokiesMyths and Legends makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of this national park’s most fa… [more below]
- Series: Myths and Mysteries
- Author: Bradley, Michael R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 149304026X
- Language: English
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Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women
$26.95 Add to cartE. Patrick Johnson’s Honeypot opens with the fictional trickster character Miss B. barging into the home of Dr. EPJ, informing him that he has been chosen to collect and share the stories of her peopl… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, E. Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1478006536
- Language: English
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Beautiful Crescent: A History of New Orleans
$24.95 Read moreCelebrate 300 years of New Orleans history
Originally written by Joan B. Garvey and Mary Lou Widmer, this book is widely regarded as the definitive text for tourists, locals, teachers, and students.
- Author: Garvey, Joan B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 08 2017
- ISBN10: 1455623415
- Language: English
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History Lover’s Guide to North Carolina
$45.99 Add to cartTour the Old North State’s famous–and not-so-famous–historic sites.
First in Freedom, First in Flight, and First, Farthest and Last are all honorifics that have been used to describe North Carolina’s
- Series: History Lovers Guide
- Author: Hardy, Michael C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: May 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1540252612
- Language: English
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Knights of the Golden Circle: Secret Empire, Southern Secession, Civil War
$39.95 Add to cartBased on years of exhaustive and meticulous research, David C. Keehn’s study provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Knights of the Golden Circle, a secret southern society that initially sou
- Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
- Author: Keehn, David C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179531
- Language: English
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The Classical Origins of Southern Literature, Second Edition
$45.95 Add to cartThis is the second edition of the first book-length treatment of the South’s veneration of the classics and how it has distinguished her literature and culture for four centuries. In this much enlarge
- Author: Kibler, James E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: June 05 2023
- ISBN10: 173340757X
- Language: English
