Newsouth Books: 150 books
The New South Creed
A Study in Southern Mythmaking
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
First published in 1970, The New South Creed has lost none of its usefulness to anyone examining the dream of a "New South" -- prosperous, powerful, racially harmonious -- that developed in the three decades after the Civil War, and the transformation of that dream into widely accepted myths,...
by Wade Hall
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
As one of the organic forms of literature, humor has always responded to and reflected the needs of the people at a given time, and the Civil War and its aftermath were days of the South's greatest need. Historians have suggested many reasons for the South's fearless stand against "overwhelming...
The South's New Racial Politics
Inside the Race Game of Southern History
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
The South’s New Racial Politics presents an original thesis about how blacks and whites in today’s South engage in a politics that is qualitatively different from the past. Glen Browder—as practitioner and scholar—argues that politicians of the two races now practice an open, sophisticated,...
by Ilan Stavans
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
The United States of Mestizo is a powerful manifesto attesting to the fundamental changes the nation has undergone in the last half-century. Writer Ilan Stavans meditates on how the cross-fertilizing process that defined the Americas during the colonial period—the racial melding of Europeans and...
Coming of Age in Utopia
The Odyssey of an Idea
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
In this exquisitely wrought memoir of a committed life, historian and civil rights activist Paul Gaston reveals his deep roots in the unique utopian community founded in 1894 by his grandfather on the shores of Mobile Bay, Alabama. Fairhope grew into a unique political, economic, and educational experiment...
by Paul M. Gaston
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1993
During the depression of the 1890s, a young Iowa newspaperman, indignant over the excesses of the Gilded Age, led a group of midwesterners to the eastern shore of Mobile Bay, where they established a model community based on the utopian ideals of Henry George. In Women of Fair Hope, Paul M. Gaston...
An Interview with Abraham Lincoln
April 1, 1865
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Author Wade Hall has taken Abraham Lincoln’s actual words from speeches, articles, and letters and assembled them in the form of answers to questions posed in an imagined interview with a fictional young journalist recently returned from the war front. The result is a fresh look at the mind and...
by Charles Rose
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
This new collection of short stories by Charles Rose, author of In the Midst of Life: A Hospice Volunteer’s Story, features works previously published in The Sewanee Review, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, Southern Humanities Review, Willow Springs, Crazyhorse, The Chattahoochee Review, Alabama Literary Review, Blackbird, and Shenandoah, among others.
Journey to the Wilderness
War, Memory, and a Southern Family's Civil War Letters
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
On the one-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of the Civil War, award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflects on the war—and the way we remember it—through letters written by his family, including his great-great grandfather and his two sons, both of whom were Confederate officers. As Gaillard explains...
The Quilt
And the Poetry of Alabama Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
With a combination of song lyrics and reflective essays, Alabama author Frye Gaillard and recording artist Kathryn Scheldt pay tribute to the literary legacy of Alabama songwriters. Included here are reflections on the works of Hank Williams, Emmylou Harris, and W. C. Handy, among many others. Scheldt...
In the Land of Cotton
How Old Times There Still Shape Alabama's Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
In the beginning there was the land promising prosperity and independence. Enough that the population of what is now Alabama increased 1,000 percent from 1810-20. Descendants of Barbados slave lords in South Carolina heard about the rich, fertile soils in central and west Alabama. Scots-Irish came...
Attacking Myasthenia Gravis
A Key in the Battle Against Autoimmune Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Using his insight as a longtime physician, Dr. Ron Henderson describes the productive life he lives despite having a rare autoimmune disease known as myasthenia gravis (MG). He also provides a forum for three other MG patients to share their inspirational stories. A disease unfamiliar to many, myasthenia...
So Far From Home
Royal Air Force and Free French Air Force Flight Training at Maxwell and Gunter Fields during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
During World War II, the US Army Air Forces (AAF) trained over 21,000 aircrew members from 29 Allied countries. The two largest programs, 79 percent of those trained, were for Britain and France. The Royal Air Force (RAF), fully engaged against the German Air Force by December 1940, was not able to...
Drawing by Stealth
John Trumbull and the Creek Indians
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In this provocative essay, the authors explore how John Trumbull, famed painter of the American Revolutionary War period, came to make sketches of five Creek Indian leaders in New York in 1790. By chance, Trumbull was painting George Washington’s portrait for the City of New York when a delegation...