The large audience that drove "The Perfect Storm" high on national bestseller lists is sure to welcome this superb narrative of the extreme hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas, in 1900, leaving at least 8,000 dead in its wake. An unforgettable story of the conflict between human hubris and the last great uncontrollable force, "Isaac's Storm" ...
Ever since its publication twenty-five years ago, "Myne Owne Ground" has challenged readers to rethink much of what is taken for granted about American race relations. During the earliest decades of Virginia history, some men and women who arrived in the New World as slaves achieved freedom and formed a stable community on the Eastern shore. ...
Tyson sheds a new light on the struggle for racial justice as he weaves together childhood memories with the realities of present-day Oxford, NC--his hometown--where a young black man was killed in the town square by a Klansmen in 1970 and acquitted by an all-white jury.
This collection of stories by "Times-Picayune" columnist Rose recounts the first four harrowing months of life in New Orleans after Katrina. It is a roller coaster ride of observations, commentary, emotions, tragedy, and even humor.
A New Orleans resident and history professor at Tulane University, Brinkley rips the story of Hurricane Katrina apart and exposes the failures, ulterior motives, and inexperience that allowed the Katrina disaster to devastate the Gulf Coast. 16-page color insert.
This book details the events surrounding the murder accusation and lynching of a Jewish factory manager in Atlanta, Georgia, which resulted in one of the most unforgettable incidents of anti-Semitism in the United States.
On Omaha Beach on D-Day--the sixth of June, 1944--a total of 21 men from the small Virginia hamlet of Bedford were mowed down as the battle began--the most grievous loss of any town in America. This book tells the story of the men and their families, and the impact of the deaths on the town.
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 ...
Offering an fascinating look at the well-hidden historical connection between whiskey running and stock-car racing, Thompson reveals the dramatic, untold story of Southern moonshiners, their Ford V-8s, and the creation of NASCAR.
A richly textured history of one of the most fascinating and colorful eras inAmerican history--the Texas Revolution--and its bloody and precarious journeyto statehood, written by bestselling historian Brands.
For more than thirty years, Foxfire books have brought the philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers, teaching creative-self-sufficiency, the art of natural remedies, home crafts, and preserving the stories and customs of Appalachia. Inspiring and practical, this classic series has become an American institution. Foxfire 12" ...
Named one of the Top 10 Books of 2008 by "The Times-Picayune." Winner of the 2009 Humanities Book of the Year award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Awarded the New Orleans Gulf South Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award for 2008. New Orleans is the most elusive of American cities. The product of the centuries-long ...
At a public picnic in the South in the 1890s, a young man paid five cents for his first chance to hear the revolutionary Edison talking machine. He eagerly listened as the soundman placed the needle down, only to find that through the tubes he held to his ears came the chilling sounds of a lynching. In this story, with its blend of new ...
This work brilliantly fuses travel narrative with history and cultural studies - yet reads like a novel. It's also a love story that is in no way fictional. A fan letter to the author from a woman named Kim starts a correspondence which details research she's conducting in one-horse towns throughout Arkansas. In the years of rural decline many of ...
This journal provides a rare and detailed picture of what life was like for a young backwoods woman in early 20th-century rural America. The editor's introduction sets the scene with a brief family history of the Jordans and a description of economic, social and political conditions at the time.
The South's leading city has changed greatly over the past 100 years, and this collection features archival photos and modern-day shots of each location, from Five Points to the State Capitol to Peachtree Street. 140 photos. 70 in color.
"Georgia Odyssey" is a lively survey of the state's history, from its beginnings as a European colony to its current standing as an international business mecca, from the self-imposed isolation of its Jim Crow era to its role as host of the centennial Olympic Games and beyond, from its long reign as the linchpin state of the Democratic Solid South ...
In an account that combines the eccentricity of Midnight in the garden of good and evil with the pure, cross ambition of Philistines at the Hedgerow, Laurence Leamer tells a story of money, murder and mad pretension inside what has long been America's most exclusive--and surreal--super rich enclave: Palm Beach.
This volume recounts the longest recorded history of any of the American states in 28 brisk chapters, all fully illustated. From indigenous tribes who lived along spring-fed streams to environmentalists who labour to "Save our Rivers" from the first conquistadors whose broad black ships astonished the natives to the 123,000 refugees whose ...
Depicts the relatively unrecognized but highly dramatic confrontation culminating at Blair Mountain in West Virginia, between unionized mineworkers, mine owners, and the federal government in the largest armed uprising since the Civil War. } The Battle of Blair Mountain covers a profoundly significant but long-neglected slice of American history ...
During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the city for the suburbs that Atlanta earned a new nickname: "The City Too Busy Moving to Hate." In this reappraisal of ...
Horne, editor of the "New Orleans Times-Picayune," takes readers into the private worlds and inner thoughts of Hurricane Katrina victims from all walks of life to weave a tapestry as intricate and vivid as the city itself.
A deeply researched and deliciously delivered account of the forces that brought Bush to power - and why they're probably here to stay when his term is over No other state has a tighter hold on America's psyche, politics and wallet than Texas. Two of the last three American Presidents - and three of the last eight - have been Texans. Lyndon B ...
Southern slaveholders proudly pronounced themselves orthodox Christians, who accepted responsibility for the welfare of the people who worked for them. They proclaimed that their slaves enjoyed a better and more secure life than any laboring class in the world. Now, did it not follow that the lives of laborers of all races across the world would ...
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