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Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey
Commemorative Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Petrifying the Peach State, hosts of haints have beset the state of Georgia throughout its storied history. In Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey, best-selling folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham, along with her trusty spectral companion Jeffrey, introduce thirteen of Georgia’s most famous ghost...
Wolfhounds and Polar Bears
The American Expeditionary Force in Siberia, 1918–1920
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Details the military aspects of the American Expeditionary Force's (AEF) deployment to Siberia following World War I to protect the Trans-Siberian Railroad
In the final months of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson and many US allies decided to intervene in Siberia in order to protect Allied...
The Will to Win
American Military Advisors in Korea, 1946-1953
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
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The Will to Win focuses on the substantial role of US military advisors to the Republic of Korea Army (ROKA) from 1946 until 1953 in one of America’s early attempts at nation building.
Gibby describes ROKA’s structure, mission,...
The Blues Muse
Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
A critical analysis of the poetic representations and legacies of five landmark blues artists
The Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry focuses on five key blues musicians and singers—Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Robert Johnson, and Lead...
The Great War in the Air
Military Aviation from 1909 to 1921
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
"For the general reader as well as the specialist, Morrow's history of the development and significance of airpower during WWI will be considered definitive. He compares the military, technological, and industrial aspects of the air services of the major powers--France, Germany, England, Italy,...
A Final Reckoning
A Hannover Family's Life and Death in the Shoah
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Ruth Herskovits Gutmann’s powerful memoir recounts her life not only as a concentration camp inmate and survivor, but also as a sister and daughter. Born in 1928, Gutmann and her twin sister, Eva, escaped the growing Nazi threat in Germany on a Kindertransport to Holland in 1939. The false expectation...
by John H. Blitz, Karl G. Lorenz
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
An overview and model of complex society in the prehistoric Southeast.
Along the banks of the lower Chattahoochee River, the remains of ancient settlements are abundant, including archaeological sites produced by Native Americans between 900 and 350 years ago, and marked by the presence...
A New Vision of Southern Jewish History
Studies in Institution Building, Leadership, Interaction, and Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Essays from a prolific career that challenge and overturn traditional narratives of southern Jewish history
Mark K. Bauman, one of the foremost scholars of southern Jewish history working today, has spent much of his career, as he puts it, “rewriting southern Jewish history” in ways that...
Florida and the Mariel Boatlift of 1980
The First Twenty Days
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Winner of the Florida Historical Society's 2015 Stetson Kennedy Award
The 1980 Mariel Boatlift was a profound episode in twentieth-century American history, impacting not just Florida, but the entire country. During the first twenty days of the boatlift, with little support from the federal...
Hope's Promise
Religion and Acculturation in the Southern Backcountry
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
This eloquent study describes the complex process of assimilation that occurred among multi-ethnic groups in Wachovia, the evangelical community that settled a 100,000-acre tract in Piedmont North Carolina from 1750 to 1860. It counters commonplace notions that evangelicalism was a divisive force...
Foraging in the Tennessee River Valley
12,500 to 8,000 Years Ago
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Plants are inarguably a significant component of the diets of foraging peoples in non-arctic environments. As such, the decisions and activities associated with the gathering and exploitation of plants are important to foragers’ subsistence pursuits. Plant remains are particularly important for...
Center Places and Cherokee Towns
Archaeological Perspectives on Native American Architecture and Landscape in the Southern Appalachians
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
In Center Places and Cherokee Towns, Christopher B. Rodning opens a panoramic vista onto protohistoric Cherokee culture. He posits that Cherokee households and towns were anchored within their cultural and natural landscapes by built features that acted as “center places.”
Rodning investigates...
by Bernard K. Means
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2007
Between A.D. 1000 and 1635, the inhabitants of southwestern Pennsylvania and portions of adjacent states—known to archaeologists as the Monongahela Culture or Tradition—began to reside regularly in ring-shaped village settlements. These circular settlements consisted of dwellings around a central...
Ecoviews
Snakes, Snails, and Environmental Tales
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
The authors offer a fun-to-read perspective on natural history, ecology as a field of study, and the current environmental issues that face our communities and the world.
This lively and entertaining book provides a fascinating and thought-provoking look at the ecology of animals, plants, and...