Newsouth Books: 150 books
The Forest and the Trees
A Memoir of a Man, a Family, and a Company
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Norman Floyd McGowin Jr., author of The Forest and the Trees: A Memoir of a Man, a Family, and a Company, was born into a prosperous family whose W. T. Smith Lumber Company dominated the small town of Chapman in Butler County in south Alabama. Family members achieved distinction in business, politics,...
by Clifton L. Taulbert
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
When international lecturer Clifton Taulbert receives an unexpected invitation to supper in Allendale, South Carolina, he brings with him Little Cliff, the colored boy from the Mississippi Delta who is also Clifton Taulbert, carrying all he was taught as a child about staying "in his place"...
Standards Matter
The Why and What of Common Core State Standards in Reading and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
While critics rail against Common Core State Standards for national school learning guides, few know exactly what these Standards are, and fewer can assess if these Standards are a positive step for education. Standards are simply the high-level literacy skills and understandings that have been traditionally...
Bitter Harvest
Richmond Flowers and the Civil Rights Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Bitter Harvest traces the development of Richmond Flowers, a color politician who began his career as a segregationist but who, as Attorney General of Alabama, fought bitterly against Governor George Wallace in trying to support the Constitution. In the process, he sacrificed his political career....
Emigration to Liberia
From the Chattahoochee Valley of Georgia and Alabama, 1853-1903
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Between 1853 and 1903, some 500 African Americans left the Chattahoochee Valley of Georgia and Alabama to start new lives in the West African Republic of Liberia. Most of the emigrants departed for Liberia during the uncertainty of the post-Civil War years of 1867 and 1868. Most sought safety and...
Here We May Rest
Alabama Immigrants in the Age of HB 56
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Hailed as the most restrictive immigration bill in the nation, the Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer & Citizen Protection Act (known as HB 56) went into effect in September 2011. Its intent was to create jobs for Alabamians by making the lives of undocumented immigrants in the state impossible, so...
A Home for Wayward Boys
The Early History of the Alabama Boys’ Industrial School
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
As Elizabeth Johnston walked among the convicts in an Alabama prison mining camp, she was stunned to see teenage boys working alongside hardened criminals. As a result of that disturbing experience, she vowed to remove youngsters from such wretched conditions by establishing a home for wayward boys....
From Brooklyn to the Olympics
The Hall of Fame Career of Auburn University Track Coach Mel Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
From Brooklyn to the Olympics follows Mel Rosen from the streets of Brooklyn during the 1930s–’40s to his selection as head coach for United States track and field for the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics. The book describes how a Jewish kid from Brighton Beach, New York, followed his dream to become...
The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail
Its History and Economic Impact
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail tells how a bold, imaginative investment by a public employee pension fund turned into a world-class tourist attraction that helped change the image and boost the economy of an entire state. The pension fund was the Retirement Systems of Alabama, and its alternative...
by Thomas Allison
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
For 25 years, Tom Allison was a revenuer, a federal agent charged with enforcement of the nation’s laws on taxation of liquor. His territory was the hills, hollows and deep woods of Alabama, and his quarry was the illegal whiskey makers. Allison remembers the stake-outs in the brush, the undercover...
Canebrake Beach
A Novella and Four Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Four tenant families, some black and some white, lived on the farm owned by author John Keith’s family as a child. Although no one who grew up on the farm except for him was active in the civil rights movement, in Canebrake Beach he imagines what would happened to members of black and white families...
Ten Stars
The African American Journey of Gary Cooper—Marine General, Diplomat, Businessman, and Politician
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Ten Stars is a nonfiction narrative -- part biography, part oral history -- of the life story of Gary Cooper, an African American born in the depths of Jim Crow to an Alabama family that challenged the rule of segregation. The Cooper extended family, described in interludes at points within the book,...
by Howard Frankl
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Howard Frankl's God, Sex, Drugs and Other Things begins with three essays on subjects found in the title: one essay on drugs, one on sex and one on God. The "Other Things" turn out to be Money and Murder, and there is an essay on each of these topics. The book comes to a close with a short...
by Robert Jeff Norrell
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
In Eden Rise Tom McKee, a white college freshman, returns to his home in the Alabama Black Belt in the summer of 1965 and becomes embroiled in a civil-rights conflict that divides his family, his town, and his own identity. His wealthy and powerful family is not prepared for the shocks that have followed...