University of Georgia Press
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Fishing for Chickens: A Smokies Food Memoir
$30.95 Add to cartFishing for Chickens is a well-seasoned blend of memoir and cookbook. It offers the perspective of a Bryson City, North Carolina, native on a particular portion of southern Appalachia–the Smokies. Ca
- Author: Casada, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0820362123
- Language: English
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Soft Apocalypse
$20.95 Add to cartSoft Apocalypse pirouettes in the “anemic glow” of late capitalism, its prose poems and lyrics performing in the civic pocket, in the offbeat, and by arrhythmias that offer improvisational measures fo
- Series: Georgia Poetry Prize
- Author: Nieboer, Leah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0820363693
- Language: English
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The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience
$26.95 Add to cartIn 2000 the United States began accepting 3,800 refugees from one of Africa’s longest civil wars. They were just some of the thousands of young men, known as “Lost Boys,” who had been orphaned or othe
- Author: Bixler, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0820328839
- Language: English
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The Jekyll Island Cottage Colony
$50.95 Add to cartDuring the Gilded Age, Jekyll Island, Georgia, was one of the most exclusive resort destinations in the United States. Owned by the most elite and inaccessible social club in America, a group whose me
- Author: McCash, June Hall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0820319287
- Language: English
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The Quiet Trailblazer: My Journey as the First Black Graduate of the University of Georgia
$32.95 Add to cartThe Quiet Trailblazer recounts Mary Frances Early’s life from her childhood in Atlanta, her growing interest in music, and her awakening to the injustices of racism in the Jim Crow South. Early carefu
- Author: Early, Mary Frances
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0820360813
- Language: English
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Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation
$26.95 Add to cartWith Stand by Me, Jim Downs rewrites the history of gay life in the 1970s, arguing that the decade was about much more than sex and marching in the streets. Drawing on a vast trove of untapped records… [more below]
- Author: Downs, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: February 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0820356441
- Language: English
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The Lost Southern Chefs: A History of Commercial Dining in the Nineteenth-Century South
$29.95 Add to cartIn recent years, food writers and historians have begun to retell the story of southern food. Heirloom ingredients and traditional recipes have been rediscovered, the foundational role that African Am
- Author: Moss, Robert F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0820360856
- Language: English
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Damn Good Dogs!: The Real Story of Uga, the University of Georgia’s Bulldog Mascots
$36.95 Add to cartThe name Uga is synonymous with the Georgia Bulldogs, a perennial powerhouse among the top college football teams in the country. These English bulldogs are so revered that when they die, they are bur
- Author: Hannon, Kent
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 082034088X
- Language: English
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Cumberland Island: A History
$32.95 Add to cartCumberland Island is a national treasure. The largest of the Sea Islands along the Georgia coast, it is a history-filled place of astounding natural beauty. With a thoroughness unmatched by any previo
- Series: Wormsloe Foundation Publication #22
- Author: Bullard, Mary R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 486
- Publish Date: September 16 2016
- ISBN10: 0820327417
- Language: English
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Gullah Folktales from the Georgia Coast
$26.95 Add to cartIn 1888, Charles Colcock Jones Jr. published the first collection of folk narratives from the Gullah-speaking people of the South Atlantic coast, tales he heard black servants exchange on his family’s
- Author: Jones, Charles Colcock
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 27 2000
- ISBN10: 0820322164
- Language: English
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Tales from the Cloud Walking Country
$25.95 Add to cartAssembled here are seventy-eight stories from six of the “ballad-singingest, tale-tellingest” residents of the eastern Kentucky mountain country. Based on stories rooted in European traditions from Ge… [more below]
- Author: Campbell, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 23 2000
- ISBN10: 0820321869
- Language: English
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Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy
$26.95 Add to cartNew York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945-2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his lit
- Author: Seitz, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0820356859
- Language: English
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Penn Center: A History Preserved
$26.95 Add to cartThe Gullah people of St. Helena Island still relate that their people wanted to “catch the learning” after northern abolitionists founded Penn School in 1862, less than six months after the Union army
- Author: Burton, Orville Vernon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0820351415
- Language: English
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Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change
$26.95 Add to cartA move at age ten from a Detroit suburb to Chattanooga in 1984 thrusts Anjali Enjeti into what feels like a new world replete with Confederate flags, Bible verses, and whiteness. It is here that she l
- Series: Crux: The Georgia Literary Nonfiction
- Author: Enjeti, Anjali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0820360066
- Language: English
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Suburban Wild
$26.95 Add to cartSet in the North Shore suburbs of Chicago, amid traffic, pollution, and ever-increasing neighborhoods of houses and apartments, these meditative personal essays explore the importance of our connectio
- Author: Friederici, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: August 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0820357170
- Language: English
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19 of Greene: Football, Friendship, and Change in the Fall of 1970
$30.95 Add to cartThe 19 of Greene narrates Tony Barnhart’s experience with integration in small-town Georgia as a member of Greene County’s first integrated football team. The longtime sportswriter, also known as Mr.
- Author: Barnhart, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0820365645
- Language: English
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What It Doesn’t Have to Do with: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartLindsay Bernal’s What It Doesn’t Have to Do With explores through sculpture, painting, pornography, and performance art changing views on gender and sexuality. The elegiac meditations throughout this
- Series: National Poetry
- Author: Bernal, Lindsay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0820353949
- Language: English
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An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century
$36.95 Add to cartNo one did more than Marjory Stoneman Douglas to transform the Everglades from the country’s most maligned swamp into its most beloved wetland. By the late twentieth century, her name and her classic
- Series: Environmental History and the American South
- Author: Davis, Jack E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 810
- Publish Date: April 15 2011
- ISBN10: 082033779X
- Language: English
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Phillis Wheatley Peters
$27.95 Add to cartThis new edition of Phillis Wheatley Peters is the first full-length biography of the poet whose remarkable odyssey took her from being a child enslaved in Africa to becoming an international celebrit
- Author: Carretta, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0820363324
- Language: English
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Catfish Dream: Ed Scott’s Fight for His Family Farm and Racial Justice in the Mississippi Delta
$26.95 Add to cartCatfish Dream centers around the experiences, family, and struggles of Ed Scott Jr. (born in 1922), a prolific farmer in the Mississippi Delta and the first ever nonwhite owner and operator of a catfi
- Series: Southern Foodways Alliance Studies in Culture, People, and P #2
- Author: Rankin, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 10 2018
- ISBN10: 0820353590
- Language: English
