Vanderbilt University Press
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I’ll Take You There: Exploring Nashville’s Social Justice Sites
$24.95 Read moreBefore there were guidebooks, there were just guides–people in the community you could count on to show you around.
I’ll Take You There is written by and with the people who most intimately know Nash- Author: Thurber, Amie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: May 15 2021
- ISBN10: 826501532
- Language: English
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In Pursuit of Peace in Israel and Palestine
$27.95 Add to cartGershon Baskin’s memoir of thirty-eight years of intensive pursuit of peace begins with a childhood on Long Island and a bar mitzvah trip to Israel with his family. Baskin joined Young Judaea back in … [more below]
- Author: Baskin, Gershon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0826521819
- Language: English
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Deep Dish Conversations: Voices of Social Change in Nashville
$24.95 Add to cartWhat does it mean to be a Nashvillian? A black Nashvillian? A white Nashvillian? What does it mean to be an organizer, an ally, an elected official, an agent for change? Deep Dish Conversations is a r… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Jerome
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0826505775
- Language: English
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Greetings from New Nashville: How a Sleepy Southern Town Became It City
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1998, roughly 2 million visitors came to see what there was to see in Nashville. By 2018, that number had ballooned to 15.2 million.
In that span of two decades, the boundaries of Nashville did no- Author: Haruch, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: October 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0826500277
- Language: English
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A Word on Words: The Best of John Seigenthaler’s Interviews
$34.95 Add to cartFor years the legendary John Seigenthaler hosted A Word on Words on Nashville’s public television station, WNPT. During the show’s four-decade run (1972 to 2013), he interviewed some of the most inter… [more below]
- Author: Toomay, Pat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: March 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0826505732
- Language: English
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Becoming a Visible Man: Second Edition
$34.95 Add to cartAt least two generations of transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people have emerged since Becoming a Visible Man was first published in 2004, but the book remains a beloved resource for t… [more below]
- Author: Green, Jamison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0826522874
- Language: English
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Ghosts Over the Boiler: Voices from Alabama’s Death Row
$24.95 Add to cartFrom a donated typewriter that frequently breaks down, people on Alabama’s death row have literally cut and pasted together a newsletter, On Wings of Hope, for the last three decades to educate the pu… [more below]
- Author: Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0826505295
- Language: English
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Americana Portrait Sessions
$58.95 Read moreAmericana Portrait Sessions is the first photography book to take a comprehensive view of contemporary Americana music. The collection features intimate portraits that reveal the strength, heart, and … [more below]
- Author: Fasano, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 826505821
- Language: English
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Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South
$19.95 Add to cartNew York Times Best Seller
Based on more than eighty interviews, this fast-paced,
2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition
2015 Lillian Smith Book Award
2015 AAUP Books Committee “Outstanding” Title- Author: Maraniss, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 1, 2016
- ISBN10: 0826520243
- Language: English
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Hot Spot: A Doctor’s Diary from the Pandemic
$27.95 Add to cartWhen Nashville identified its first case of coronavirus in March 2020, the city was between Public Health Department directors and as unprepared as the rest of the world for what was to come. Dr. Alex… [more below]
- Author: Jahangir, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: September 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 0826505066
- Language: English
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People’s Plaza: Sixty-Two Days of Nonviolent Resistance
$24.95 Add to cartFrom June 12, 2020, until the passage of the state law making the occupation a felony two months later, peaceful protesters set up camp at Nashville’s Legislative Plaza and renamed it for Ida B. Wells
- Author: Jones, Justin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: August 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 0826504973
- Language: English
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Welcome to Capitol Hill: Fifty Years of Scandal in Tennessee Politics
$24.95 Add to cartAlthough Tennessee has a rich history of political scandals dating back to the founding of the state, the last fifty years have been a confusing, confounding, and sometimes ludicrous period of ne’er-d
- Author: Ebert, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: August 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 0826505856
- Language: English
