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  • Reading Southern History

    Essays on Interpreters and Interpretations

    by John White, Junius P. Rodriguez, Kari A. Frederickson, Anthony Gene Carey, Joe W. Trotter, John Shelton Reed, Daniel Joseph Singal, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Judith N. McArthur, Jean H. Baker, James Oakes, Anastatia Sims, Ted Ownby, Bruce Clayton, John Herbert Roper, David S. Heidler, Ph.D., Dr. Jeanne T. Heidler, Ph.D. ...
    This collection of essays examines the contributions of some of the most notable interpreters of southern history and culture, furthering our understanding of the best historical work produced on the region.Historian Glenn Feldman gathers together a group of essays that examine the efforts of important scholars to discuss and define the South's distinctiveness. The volume includes 18 chapters on ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • After My Lai: My Year Commanding First Platoon, Charlie Company

    My Year Commanding First Platoon, Charlie Company

    by Gary W Bray ...
    In the fall of 1969, Gary Bray landed in South Vietnam as a recently married, freshly minted second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. His assignment was not enviable: leading the platoon whose former members had committed the My Lai massacre—the murder of hundreds of Vietnamese civilians—eighteen months earlier. In this compelling memoir, he shares his experiences of Vietnam in the direct wake of that ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • 97 Orchard

    An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement

    by Jane Ziegelman ...
    A "highly entertaining" culinary and social history of five immigrant families living in a turn-of-the-twentieth-century New York City tenement house ( New York Times )."A unique and aromatic narrative of New York's immigrant culture: with bread in the oven, steam rising from pots, and the family gathering round." —Russell Shorto, author of The Island at the Center of the World</... ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • 13 Days In October: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

    by Howard Brinkley ...
    Never has the world come as close to the catastrophic destruction that nearly came to pass in October 1962. The United States and the Soviet Union, uneasy allies in World War II but Cold War rivals after the defeat of Germany, squared off over the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. This launched 13 days of tense negotiations between the two nations, as both President John F. Kennedy and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Five Points

    The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood

    by Tyler Anbinder ...
    The very letters of the two words seem, as they are written, to redden with the blood-stains of unavenged crime. There is Murder in every syllable, and Want, Misery and Pestilence take startling form and crowd upon the imagination as the pen traces the words." So wrote a reporter about Five Points, the most infamous neighborhood in nineteenth-century America, the place where "slumming" was ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Blackwell's Island Lunatic Asylum

    by W H Davenport ...
    This look by a former patient gives an idealized view of the conditions at the lunatic asylum on Blackwell's island, which was also home to a poor farm and a prison during the mid 19 century. Short, entertaining reading. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Whole History Of Grandfather's Chair

    by Nathaniel Hawthorne ...
    This is the annotated edition including both volumes of the book, a rare and extensive biographical essay on the author, a special introductory to the book, as well as an essay by Edgar Allan Poe on Hawthorne's tale-writing. About 1840 the first part of "Grandfather's Chair" was written, and published in Boston and New York; the second part not being brought out till 1842. This is a series of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Center of the World of Steel: Pittsburgh 1900. Illustrated

    by Walden Fawcett ...
    Pittsburgh Pennsylvania was the center of the world of Steel at the beginning of the 20th century. Take a look at Steel and Steel making in the industrial powerhouse of turn of the century Pittsburgh. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • A Great Day to Fight Fire

    Mann Gulch, 1949

    by Mark Matthews ...
    Mann Gulch, Montana, 1949. Sixteen men ventured into hell to fight a raging wildfire; only three came out alive. Searing the fire into the nation’s consciousness, Norman Maclean chronicled the Mann Gulch tragedy in his award-winning book Young Men and Fire. Still, the silence of the victims’ families robbed Maclean’s account of an essential personal dimension. Shifting the focus from the fire to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • American Political History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Donald T. Critchlow ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political parties, popular democracy, centralized government, and a strong executive office. Yet the country's national politics have historically included all those features. In American Political History: A Very Short Introduction, Donald Critchlow takes on this contradiction between original theory and actual ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Ghost Dogs of the South

    by Randy Russell, Janet Barnett ...
    Award-winning husband-and-wife folklorists Randy Russell and Janet Barnett have gone to the dogs. Digging deeply through the rich field of Southern folklore, the authors have discovered that a dog's devotion to its human does not always end at the grave. Dogs can be as peculiar as people. Their relationship with humans is complex. In story after story from Southern homes, there is strong evidence ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wild Horses in My Blood

    An 1890s Girlhood in New Mexico

    by Eva Pendleton Henderson ...
    Eva Pendleton Henderson, a member of the historical Chisum family, recounts her life on the windy border country of southern New Mexico in the 1890s when it was still a territory. Growing up in a time of legends—Pancho Villa afoot, the rumblings of the first automobile terrifying horses as well as men, drought and fate walking hand in hand, the end of the old West and the beginning of the new. An ... Read more

    $4.99 USD