African Americans of Sanford
by Valada Parker Flewellyn and Sanford Historical Society
Dalton (Images of America)
by Thomas Deaton, Myra Owens, and Brenda Ownbey
The Burden of Southern History
C. Vann Woodward's The Burden of Southern History remains one of the essential history texts of our time. In it Woodward brilliantly addresses the interrelated themes of southern identity, southern distinctiveness, and the strains of irony that characterize much of the South's historical experience. First published in 1960, the book quickly became a touchstone for generations of students. This updated third edition contains a chapter, Look Away, Look Away, in which Woodward finds a plethora of a...
This title includes rare firsthand accounts of slavery from across the Palmetto State collected together for the first time. Out of the hundreds of published slave narratives, only a handful exist specific to South Carolina, and most of these are not readily available to modern readers. Edited by Susanna Ashton, this collection restores to print seven slave narratives documenting the lived realities of slavery as it existed across the Palmetto State's upcountry, midlands, and lowcountry, from pl...
Across the United States, the issue of immigration has generated rancorous debate and divided communities. Many states and municipalities have passed restrictive legislation that erodes any sense of community. Against the Tide tells the story of Jupiter, Florida, a coastal town of approximately 50,000 that has taken a different path. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Jupiter was in the throes of immigration debates. A decade earlier, this small town had experienced an influx of m...
The Achievement of Wendell Berry (Culture of the Land)
by Fritz Oehlschlaeger
The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky is the authoritative reference on the people, places, history, and rich heritage of the Northern Kentucky region. The encyclopedia defines an overlooked region of more than 450,000 residents and celebrates its contributions to agriculture, art, architecture, commerce, education, entertainment, literature, medicine, military, science, and sports. Often referred to as one of the points of the "Golden Triangle" because of its proximity to Lexington and Louisvil...
This issue of Southern Cultures celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the journal's publication with a special issue titled Left/Right. The issue features contributions by Joseph Crespino; Dr. William Barber in conversation with Tim Tyson; Stacey Abrams in conversation with Valerie Boyd; Angela P. Hudson; Alison Collis Greene; Janisse Ray in conversation with Amy Wright; Sonny Kelly; Rosa Ortez Cruz interviewed by Lori Fernald Khamala; Jan Rader in conversation with Elaine McMillion Sheldo...
Concentrating on the lives of blacks who achieved freedom, this book describes how, against formidable odds, they amassed property, established plantations, acquired dependent labourers, and lived for several generations as free and independent members of Virginia society.
From Statehouse to Courthouse (Historic Charleston Foundation Series, Studies in History & Culture)
by Carl R. Lounsbury
This text traces the historical and architectural development of one of the most important but least understood buildings constructed in 18th-century South Carolina.
In the midst of a nineteenth-century boom in spiritual experimentation,the Cercle Harmonique, a remarkable group of African-descended men,practiced Spiritualism in heavily Catholic New Orleans from just before theCivil War to the end of Reconstruction. In this first comprehensive historyof the Cercle, Emily Suzanne Clark illuminates how highly diverse religiouspractices wind in significant ways through American life, culture, and history.Clark shows that the beliefs and practices of Spiritualism...
The Virginia Papers, Volume 3, Volume 3zz of the Draper Manuscript Collection
by Craig L Heath
Analyzes the decisions and misjudgments of Jefferson Davis and other Confederate leaders that led to the Union Navy capture of New Orleans on April 24, 1862.
Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country
by Roy DeBerry, Aviva Futorian, Stephen Klein, and John Lyons
Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country is a collection of interviews with residents of Benton County, Mississippi - an area with a long and fascinating civil rights history. The product of more than twenty-five years of work by the Hill Country Project, this volume examines a revolutionary period in American history through the voices of farmers, teachers, sharecroppers, and students. No other rural farming county in the American South has yet been afforded such a deep dive into its civil righ...