Cultural Region/South
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Historic Photos of Fort Lauderdale
$42.99 Add to cartIn less than one hundred years, Fort Lauderdale grew from a wilderness stagecoach stop and trading post to become one of America’s favorite tourist destinations and the seat of government for Florida’
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: Gillis, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1683369904
- Language: English
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Remembering University of Michigan Football
$19.99 Add to cartThe first football team at the University of Michigan was established in 1879. From winning the first ever Tournament of Roses game, to back-to-back national championships, Michigan football created a
- Series: Remembering
- Author: O’Brien, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 1683369009
- Language: English
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Lost Miami Beach
$21.99 Add to cartAmerica’s Playground has seen many changes over the years. From architectural to botanical, Lost Miami Beach covers these changes and the development of the current preservation strategy.
Miami Beach
- Series: Lost
- Author: Klepser, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 23 2014
- ISBN10: 1626194289
- Language: English
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A Culinary History of Kentucky: Burgoo, Beer Cheese and Goetta
$23.99 Add to cartPull up a chair to the kitchen table and enjoy a delicious adventure through Bluegrass food history. Kentucky’s cuisine can be traced back to Cherokee, Irish, Scottish, English and German roots, among… [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Young-Brown, Fiona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1626192634
- Language: English
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Muscle Shoals Sound Studio: How the Swampers Changed American Music
$23.99 Add to cartAn estimated four hundred gold records have been recorded in the Muscle Shoals area. Many of those are thanks to Muscle Shoals Sound Studio and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, dubbed “the Swampers.”
- Author: Whitley, Carla Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 22 2014
- ISBN10: 1626192391
- Language: English
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The Chattooga River: A Natural and Cultural History
$21.99 Add to cartThe Chattooga River has run through the American consciousness since the movie Deliverance” thrust it into the national spotlight. But this National Wild and Scenic River is much more than the make-be… [more below]
- Series: Natural History
- Author: Garren, Laura Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1609499859
- Language: English
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Creole Feast: Fifteen Master Chefs of New Orleans Reveal Their Secrets
$18.95 Read moreBefore there were celebrity gourmands, Creole Feast brought together the stories and knowledge of New Orleans top chefs when it was first presented in 1978. These masters of modern Creole cuisine shar
- Author: Burton, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 30 2020
- ISBN10: 160801150X
- Language: English
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South: (And Why It Will Rise Again)
$21.99 Read moreWhat the PC Police don’t want you to know–and what they got plain wrong–about the South
From the Founding Fathers to the frontiersmen who tamed the West to the country music, NASCAR, Biblethumping he… [more below]- Series: Politically Incorrect Guides (Paperback)
- Author: Johnson, Clint
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1596985003
- Language: English
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St. Petersburg’s Historic African American Neighborhoods
$21.99 Add to cartPepper Town, Methodist Town, the Gas Plant district and the 22nd Street South community–these once segregated neighborhoods were built by African Americans in the face of injustice. The resilient peo… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Peck, Rosalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 14 2008
- ISBN10: 1596292792
- Language: English
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Of Goats & Governors: Six Decades of Colorful Alabama Political Stories
$25.95 Add to cartFew states have as colorful a political history as Alabama, especially in the post-World War II era. During the past six decades, the state played a central role in the civil rights movement, largely
- Author: Flowers, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1588383865
- Language: English
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Fear Dat New Orleans: A Guide to the Voodoo, Vampires, Graveyards & Ghosts of the Crescent City
$18.95 Read moreFear Dat New Orleans explores the eccentric and often macabre dark corners of America’s most unique city. In addition to detailed histories of bizarre burials, ghastly murders, and the greatest concen… [more below]
- Author: Murphy, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1581572751
- Language: English
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Discovering the Civil War in Florida: A Reader and Guide, Second Edition
$30.00 Add to cartA chronicle of Civil War activity in Florida, both land and sea maneuvers. For each engagement the author includes excerpts from official government reports by officers on both sides of the battle lin
- Author: Taylor, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 01 2012
- ISBN10: 156164529X
- Language: English
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West Virginia and the Civil War: Mountaineers Are Always Free
$32.99 Add to cartThe only state born as a result of the Civil War, West Virginia was the most divided state in the nation. About forty thousand of its residents served in the combatant forces about twenty thousand on … [more below]
- Author: Snell, Mark A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: August 05 2011
- ISBN10: 1540223957
- Language: English
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The Greatest Railroad Story Ever Told: Henry Flagler & the Florida East Coast Railway’s Key West Extension
$31.99 Add to cartAlthough several people had considered constructing a railroad to Key West beginning in the early 1800s, it took a bold industrialist with unparalleled vision to make it happen. In 1902, Henry Flagler… [more below]
- Author: Bramson, Seth H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: November 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1540206300
- Language: English
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Port Aransas
$31.99 Add to cartPort Aransas, known colloquially as Port A, is on Mustang Island, one of the Texas barrier islands. This community grew from the seed of El Mar Rancho, the homestead an Englishman established for his … [more below]
- Author: Guthrie Ford, J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: February 28 2011
- ISBN10: 1531652530
- Language: English
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Oak Cliff
$31.99 Add to cartAn advertisement heralded, “Oak Cliff gets its name from the massive oaks that crown the soft green cliffs.” Originally called Hord’s Ridge for its founder William Henry Hord, the area was purchased b… [more below]
- Author: Elliott, Alan C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: April 22 2009
- ISBN10: 153164631X
- Language: English
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Cape Coral
$40.99 Add to cartMany are surprised to discover that Cape Coral’s history dates back further than the boom of the 1960s. Indeed, homesteader families were living a rough-and-tumble life in the Cape’s wilderness for mu… [more below]
- Author: Wadsworth, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 153164449X
- Language: English
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Charleston: A Historic Walking Tour
$31.99 Add to cartCharleston: A Historic Walking Tour will help natives and visitors alike appreciate the history and residents of this beautiful city. With its architecture, palm trees, and cobblestone streets, Charle… [more below]
- Author: Preston Foster, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: July 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1531612113
- Language: English
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Savannah College of Art and Design: Restoration of an Architectural Heritage
$31.99 Add to cartIn 1979, a small art college with 71 students opened its doors in a renovated 19th-century building in the urban heart of colonial Savannah, Georgia. One of the most historic cities on the eastern sea… [more below]
- Author: Pinkerton, Connie Capozzola
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: October 27 2004
- ISBN10: 1531611753
- Language: English
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It Happened in Georgia: Stories of Events and People That Shaped Peach State History
$16.95 Add to cartFrom prehistoric harvest rituals celebrated by early Native Americans to the terrible Flood of 1994, It Happened in Georgia looks at intriguing people and episodes from the history of the Peach State…. [more below]
- Series: It Happened in
- Author: Crutchfield, James a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1493039474
- Language: English
