Yiddish in the land of sunshine

How a cohort of young Jewish radicals from the borderlands of Eastern Europe was critical in reshaping multiracial left-wing activism in southern CaliforniaYiddish in the Land of Sunshine offers a novel account of Eastern European Jewish immigration and Yiddish public culture in Southern Californ...

Images of the past, volume ii

Chapters include: Families, Friends, Military, Reunions, Sesquicentennial, Schools, Home, Churches, Agriculture, Transportation, Businesses, Memory Pages.

The enslaved and their enslavers

In The Enslaved and Their Enslavers, Edward Pearson offers a sweeping history of slavery in South Carolina, from British settlement in 1670 to the dawn of the Civil War. For enslaved peoples, the shape of their daily lives depended primarily on the particular environment in which they lived and w...

Riders in the night

It was just before the turn of the century that James B. Duke, after whom Duke University is named, managed to combine nearly all the large foreign and American tobacco interests into a single gigantic trust under the aegis of the American Tobacco Company. His grand enterprise in hand, this son o...

Republic of indians

A sweeping history of the Native Southerners who wrote their principles into Spanish and English lawA sweeping history of the Native Southerners who challenged European empires from the inside, Republic of Indians tells the story of Indigenous leaders who wrote their principles into Spanish and E...

Captive city

Explores the legacies of slavery in Southern cities along the Gulf and Atlantic coastsCities are fraught sites in the national imagination, turned into identity markers when “urban” and “rural” indicate tastes rather than places. Cities bring chaos, draining the lifeblood of the nation like a tic...

Full moon and other plays

The second collection of plays from award-winning novelist Reynolds Price. Delicate examinations of love, faith, family and race, written in the eloquent vernacular of Price's native North Carolina. Includes: Full Moon(1992), Early Dark (1977), and Private Contentment (1982). "A born playwright."...

I wanna do that!

The move from spectator to participant is a quantum leap. Yet each Mardi Gras in New Orleans, thousands of people make that leap, abandoning inhibition and reveling in the ever-growing creative phenomenon of marching krewes.To celebrate this untold story, I Wanna Do That! Celebrating the Magic of...

Lions of the dan

A presentation of never-before-published information and overlooked details of Pickett’s Charge drawn from primary sources.

Guide to the natchez trace parkway

Explore 444 miles of natural beauty and American history in an unforgettable road trip through parts of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee. The Natchez Trace Parkway is more than a scenic byway—it’s a journey through the heart of the South. From the ancient Native American mounds of Mississippi ...

The private gardens of smi landscape architecture

Duncan park

Duncan Park: Stories of a Classic American Ballpark recounts the history of one of our oldest wooden grandstand stadiums. Built in 1926, Duncan Park stadium has been home to a semipro Negro Leagues team that had a star left-handed pitcher known throughout the South; a 1966 Spartanburg Phillies te...

The green book of south carolina

South Carolina is a state of incredible African American history: from the lunch counter in Rock Hill where the Friendship Nine began their "Jail, No Bail" protests, to the site where the freedom song "We Shall Overcome" was first sung; our nation’s very first school for the formerly enslaved, t...

Outside agitator

Cleveland Sellers Jr. was the scapegoat for one of the bloodiest civil rights events of the 1960s. In 1968 state troopers gunned down black students protesting the segregation of a South Carolina bowling alley, killing three and injuring 28. The Orangeburg Massacre was one of the most violent mom...

The ritz of the bayou

In this “unjustly neglected” masterpiece, Nancy Lemann gives an atmospheric account of the New Orleans trial of the Governor of Louisiana for racketeering, fraud, and bribery. This 40th anniversary edition features a new introduction by critic James Wolcott and an afterword by the author. New Orl...

The hub city writers project

This full color book details fifty iconic stories in the twenty-five year history of the Hub City Writers Project, founded in 1995 in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Each includes a double page illustrated spread. The book features short essays by local and regional writers about moments like the La...

Spartanburg revisited

Spartanburg Revisited: A Second Look at the Photographs of Alfred and Bob Willis tells the story of these charismatic photographers and commemorates the Collection they devoted their lives to creating.

Slaves without masters

Widely recognized as "one of the nation's foremost scholars on the slave era" (Boston Globe), Bancroft Prize–winning historian Ira Berlin has changed the way we think about African American life in slavery and freedom. These two classic volumes, now available in handsome new editions, are indisp...

Tragedia en collins avenue / tragedy on collins avenue

El 24 de junio de 2021 el ala este de la torre Champlain Sur, un edificio de trece pisos en la avenida Collins de Miami Beach, colapsó en plena noche de luna llena, provocando, en apenas segundos, la destrucción de más de ochenta departamentos. Noventa y ocho personas murieron bajo los escombr...

We the people

We the People tells the compelling stories of immigrants to Virginia since 1776.Over the last two and a half centuries, millions of people have emigrated from other countries and made Virginia their home. Today, more than 1.6 million people living in the Commonwealth of Virginia are foreign born....

Give me liberty

A signature souvenir volume celebrating the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution and exploring its impact and legacy in Virginia.This highly illustrated publication marks the origins of a revolutionary new nation, focusing on the years 1775 and 1776, the events that preceded and followed,...

Determined

A concise overview of 400 years of Black history through the stories of key figures and events in Virginia that shaped the fight for Black equity, from the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Virginia in 1619 through the groundswell of racial justice protests of 2020.These four centuries en...

Our commonwealth: people and places of virginia

A rich cultural overview of Virginia which immerses readers in the landscapes, foodways, industries, and people that make up this diverse state.A sense of place has deeply shaped Virginia’s history and culture. Over time, a wide range of communities have formed that help to define the distinctive...

Unbound

A vital new volume exploring the history of Virginia’s free Black population prior to emancipation.On the eve of the Civil War, around 60,000 Black men, women, and children lived free in the state of Virginia, often alongside enslaved neighbours. This volume is a history documenting the richness ...

Ghost hunting virginia

Explore Virginia like never before—visit the most haunted locations that are open to the public. Whether you love to travel, are fascinated by the paranormal, or both, get ready to tour Virginia in a totally new way! Ghost Hunting Virginia guides you to 25 fascinating and historic places—from tav...

Weren't no good times

First-person narratives of former Alabama slaves edited from WPA slave narratives.

Witness to change

Sybil Morial’s autobiography traces her childhood in New Orleans, activism during the Civil Rights Movement, and continuing life of service.

Jugtown pottery 1917-2017

The story of 100-year-old Jugtown Pottery, which spawned a pottery movement in rural NC that now produces sought-after collector's artware.

Tales of the south carolina low country

South Carolina legends, mysteries, and tales drawn from interviews and folklore.

Orlean puckett

The biography of Orlean Puckett, a midwife who lived from 1844 to 1939 in Carroll County, Virginia

Haunted inns of the southeast

Grouped by state, Turnage tells 5 to 18 stories about haunted inns in each of the Southeastern states .

Time and tide

A longtime coast watcher tells the story of the beautiful and ever-changing coast of North Carolina—rich in culture, history, and landscape—with words and photographs.  This gorgeous, richly illustrated book for visitors and residents alike details the charms and controversies of the “banks” of N...

Gullah days

The inspiring post-Civil War history of the Gullah people on Hilton Head Island, as told by their descendants. 

Ghost riders

Critically acclaimed New York Times-bestselling author Sharyn McCrumb chronicles the Civil War in the Southern mountains.

North carolina in the 1940s

This book is the first in a series of small, richly illustrated books about North Carolina history through the decades. Originally published as hugely popular serialized articles for Our State magazine, this book chronicles events in North Carolina in the 1940s—a decade which began with the state...

North carolina in the 1950s

Notable events of the 1950s in North Carolina, the second book in this North Carolina history series.This book is the second in a series of small, richly illustrated books about North Carolina history through the decades. Originally published as hugely popular serialized articles for Our State ma...

Native plant gardening for birds, bees & butterflies: southeast

This guide introduces more than 100 native plants that readers can utilize to benefit birds, bees, and butterflies in the Southeast.

Wildflowers of the carolinas field guide

This updated field guide, organized by color, helps readers quickly identify the wildflowers they see in North Carolina and South Carolina.

Garden bugs & insects of the south & southeast

This tabbed booklet features Southern and Southeastern garden bugs, so you can identify them and learn how to better attract or repel them.

Butterflies of florida field guide

Identify butterflies with this easy-to-use field guide, organized by color and featuring full-color photographs and helpful information! Butterflies are fascinating, beautiful, and a joy to behold. Observing them is even better with the Butterflies of Florida Field Guide. This handy book by accla...

Threatening property

Elizabeth Herbin-Triant investigates early-twentieth-century campaigns for residential segregation laws in North Carolina to show how the version of white supremacy supported by middle-class white people differed from that supported by the elites. Class divides halted Jim Crow from mandating sepa...

Novel sounds

Novel Sounds shows how Southern writers turned to rock music and its technologies—tape, radio, vinyl—to develop the “rock novel.” Florence Dore considers the work of writers like William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, and William Styron alongside Bessie Smith, Lead Belly, and Bob Dylan to uncover d...

Hog and hominy

Frederick Douglass Opie deconstructs and compares the foodways of people of African descent throughout the Americas, interprets the health legacies of black culinary traditions, and explains the concept of soul itself, revealing soul food to be an amalgamation of West and Central African social a...

Unfree markets

Justene Hill Edwards illuminates the inner workings of the slaves’ economy and the strategies that enslaved people used to participate in the market. Focusing on South Carolina from the colonial period to the Civil War, she examines how the capitalist development of slavery influenced the economi...

Brain magnet

Alex Sayf Cummings reveals the significance of North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park to the emergence of the high-tech economy in a postindustrial United States. Brain Magnet pinpoints how it sheds new light on the origins of today’s urban landscape, in which innovation is lauded as the engine ...

A biography of a map in motion

Reveals the little known history of one of history’s most famous maps – and its makerTucked away in a near-forgotten collection, Virginia and Maryland as it is Planted and Inhabited is one of the most extraordinary maps of colonial British America. Created by a colonial merchant, planter, and dip...

From congregation town to industrial city

In 1835, Winston and Salem was a well-ordered, bucolic, and attractive North Carolina town. A visitor could walk up Main Street from the village square and get a sense of the quiet Moravian community that had settled here. Yet, over the next half-century, this idyllic village was to experience ...

Coal, cages, crisis

How prisons became economic development strategies for rural Appalachian communitiesAs the United States began the project of mass incarceration, rural communities turned to building prisons as a strategy for economic development. More than 350 prisons have been built in the U.S. since 1980, with...

Avidly reads passages

"What is the value of Black life in America?"In Avidly Reads Passages, Michelle D. Commander plies four freighted modes of travel—the slave ship, train, automobile, and bus—to map the mobility of her ancestors over the past five centuries. In the process, she refreshes the conventional American ...

Yankee town, southern city

One of the most hotly debated issues in the historical study of race relations is the question of how the Civil War and Reconstruction affected social relations in the South. Did the War leave class and race hierarchies intact? Or did it mark the profound disruption of a long-standing social orde...

Digging our own graves

This fully updated edition of a classic work from one of the leading scholars of Appalachia documents a community’s struggle against the deadly black lung disease.

Haunted by slavery

A stirring memoir by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall: historian of slavery, veteran political activist, and widow of Black Bolshevik author Harry Haywood.

The long deep grudge

A powerful account of the epic clash between corporate greed and militant workers in the American Heartland.

Set the earth on fire

An eye-opening account of the Great Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902, showing how the strike—and the violent backlash that ensued—reveal the genesis of modern policing. In the early years of the twentieth century, in the coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania, nearly 150,000 miners took part in one of ...

The germans of charleston, richmond and new orleans during the civil war period, 1850-1870

This work is the first monograph which closely examines the role of the German minority in the American South during the Civil War. In a comparative analysis of German civic leaders, businessmen, militia officers and blockade runners in Charleston, New Orleans and Richmond, it reveals a Germ...

How america’s political parties change (and how they don’t)

The election of 2016 prompted journalists and political scientists to write obituaries for the Republican Party—or prophecies of a new dominance. But it was all rather familiar. Whenever one of our two great parties has a setback, we’ve heard: “This is the end of the Democratic Party,” or, “The R...