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Thomas Jefferson From Boy to Man: Revised Edition

Thomas Jefferson From Boy to Man: Revised Edition

Author: Jayne D'Alessandro-Cox
ISBN: 9798822929432
Format: Paperback
$63.33

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The Old Franciscan Missions of Caifornia

The Old Franciscan Missions of Caifornia

Author: George Wharton James
ISBN: 9798869290465
Format: Paperback
$36.93

Step into the captivating history of California's iconic Franciscan missions with George Wharton James. In this...  Read More >>

The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930

The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration...

Author: John Bardes
ISBN: 9781469678184
Format: Paperback
$59.40

Americans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders inflicted...  Read More >>

Navigating Rocky Terrains: Stories from a Texas Hill Country Landscape

Navigating Rocky Terrains: Stories from a Texas Hill...

Author: Laurie Roath Frazier
ISBN: 9781595342881
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Personal, nature, and travel essays set in the karst ecosystem of the Texas Hill Country  Read More >>

Paris and the River Seine: A History

Paris and the River Seine: A History

Author: Hunt Janin ,  Nicole Sheehan
ISBN: 9781476690377
Format: Paperback
$68.20

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Going North: Memorabilia of Tourism in Alaska, Yukon, and Northern British Columbia

Going North: Memorabilia of Tourism in Alaska, Yukon,...

Author: Stan Cohen
ISBN: 9780878427161
Format: Paperback
$63.36

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Pineys: The People of the New Jersey Pine Barrens

Pineys: The People of the New Jersey Pine Barrens

Author: Yael Aravah
ISBN: 9781947889248
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Yael Aravah's Pineys gives readers a glimpse into the world of the Pine Barrens of New Jersey through her beautiful...  Read More >>

The First Rocky Mountaineers: Coloradans before Colorado

The First Rocky Mountaineers: Coloradans before Colorado...

Author: Marcel Kornfeld
ISBN: 9781647690687
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Based on archaeological research in Colorado’s Middle Park - a high mountain basin initially encountered by Europeans...  Read More >>

A Deeper South: The Beauty, Mystery, and Sorrow of the Southern Road

A Deeper South: The Beauty, Mystery, and Sorrow of the...

Author: Pete Candler ,  Rosanne Cash
ISBN: 9781643364797
Format: Paperback
$73.89

A series of road trips through the American South leads to a personal confrontation with history.  Read More >>

Alabama Railroads

Alabama Railroads

Author: Wayne Cline
ISBN: 9780817361679
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Offers a comprehensive, illustrated history that shows Alabama’s important role in the development of America’s...  Read More >>

Unloose My Heart: A Personal Reckoning with the Twisted Roots of My Southern Family Tree

Unloose My Heart: A Personal Reckoning with the Twisted...

Author: Marcia Edwina Herman-Giddens
ISBN: 9780817361662
Format: Paperback
$65.87

A deeply personal memoir that unearths a family history of racism, slaveholding, and trauma as well as love and...  Read More >>

Southern Cultures: Volume 30, Number 1 - Spring 2024 Issue

Southern Cultures: Volume 30, Number 1 - Spring 2024...

Author: Marcie Cohen Ferris ,  Regina Bradley
ISBN: 9781469683676
Format: Paperback
$26.40

In the spring 2024 issue, we look at the vote–from the groundbreaking Voting Rights Act of 1965 to portraits of...  Read More >>

Oregon Indians

Oregon Indians

Author: Stephen Dow Beckham
ISBN: 9780870712593
Format: Paperback
$118.80

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Primary Importance: Kennedy Versus Humphrey in West Virginia and Wisconsin, 1960

Primary Importance: Kennedy Versus Humphrey in West...

Author: Roger Pickenpaugh
ISBN: 9781476694047
Format: Paperback
$84.70

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A Short History of Greenville

A Short History of Greenville

Author: Judith T. Bainbridge
ISBN: 9781643364674
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Beginning when Greenville was Cherokee hunting grounds, then following its growth from frontier settlement to village...  Read More >>

Forest Under Siege: The Story of Old Growth After Gifford Pinchot

Forest Under Siege: The Story of Old Growth After Gifford...

Author: Rand Schenck
ISBN: 9781638640257
Format: Paperback
$42.90

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Mutiny on the Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling, and Chocolate

Mutiny on the Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Slavery,...

Author: Jared Ross Hardesty
ISBN: 9781479830985
Format: Paperback
$47.99

"""Mutiny on the Rising Sun is a deeply human history of smuggling that demonstrates how interconnected the future...  Read More >>

Before Ishi

Before Ishi

Author: Steve Schoonover
ISBN: 9781935807735
Format: Paperback
$65.87

This book is an attempt to reconstruct the history of the Yahi Indians of Northern California, a history the author...  Read More >>

Yooper Poetry: On Experiencing Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Yooper Poetry: On Experiencing Michigan's Upper Peninsula...

Author: Raymond Luczak
ISBN: 9781615997930
Format: Paperback
$52.67

"Sometimes the best way to learn about a unique region is to listen to the stories told by those who've actually...  Read More >>

Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries

Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s...

Author: Davida Siwisa James
ISBN: 9781531506148
Format: Hardback
$68.99

Explores four centuries of colonization, land divisions, and urban development around this historic landmark neighborhood...  Read More >>

Red Sulphur Springs, West Virginia: A Nineteenth Century Health Spa in the Allegheny Foreland

Red Sulphur Springs, West Virginia: A Nineteenth Century...

Author: Fred Ziegler
ISBN: 9798988902041
Format: Paperback
$52.67

"Red Sulphur Springs was part of a social phenomenon centered in the nineteenth century and shared by over one hundred...  Read More >>

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