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Screen Doors and Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook Best Price: $19.47 This is a wonderful book. It has great stories and really good recipes. I am not a good cook,...	Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History Best Price: $4.99 Isaac's Storm,a non -fiction account of the 1900 Galveston Hurricane, reads like a book of...	Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Best Price: $4.45 While I enjoyed reading "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," I had a hard time...	1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina Best Price: $7.00 1 Dead in Attic by Chris Rose. The title is taken from writing on a flood destroyed house,...	Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story Best Price: $8.25 I had the pleasure of meeting and spending a week with Dr. Timothy Tyson as part of a Civil...



Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America Best Price: $4.42 Living near the Mississippi river made this particularly interesting. However, it is a good...	The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction Best Price: $15.52 This book is heartbreaking; and a literary and historical tour de force. A brilliant rendition...	Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders Best Price: $25.71 The Freedom Rider mug shots were collected by Mississippi's State Sovereignty Commission, which...	The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square Best Price: $15.57 Ned Sublette, author of Cuba and Its Music, embarks on a daring undertaking in a detailed and...	On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation Best Price: $14.06 This book is heartrending but also uplifting. It brings into focus a national hero, Scipio...



"Myne Owne Ground": Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676 Best Price: $16.55 I read this book for my college history class. It was a great look into a society that we know...	Cavalryman of the Lost Cause: A Biography of J. E. B. Stuart Best Price: $21.12 Cavalryman of the Lost Cause is the first major biography in decades of the famous Confederate...	The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise Best Price: $5.96 The Swamp is fascinating, relevant, timely, and compelling. It's not just a scientific study of...	The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South (and Why It Will Rise Again) Best Price: $10.55 don't bother reading this book , the book is full of generalizations that have no statistical...	Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer (Civil War America) Best Price: $25.04 After a dearth of many years, four biographies of southern soldier and politician Wade Hampton...

A Season of Night: New Orleans Life After Katrina Best Price: $15.64 A Season of Night is a wonderfully written story of the author's love affair with New Orleans...	The Mind of the South Best Price: $8.89 W. J. Cash is hard to pin down. Liberals, from C. Vann Woodward to Nell Painter, seem to have...	A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation Best Price: $3.37 Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs are among a handful of former slaves in the Old South who...	Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction Best Price: $7.97 An interesting review of the southern black population, and how their self esteem was, and...	Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation Best Price: $4.75 After finishing Joseph Ellis' Washington and Jefferson books in the past week, I was in the mood...

A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration Best Price: $17.40 Steven Hahn's history "A Nation Under Our Feet" (2004) tells an inspiring and broad...	Ava's Man Best Price: $4.84 Ava's man was Bragg's maternal grandfather who passed away before Rick was born into poverty. ...	The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics: The Personalities, Elections, and Events That Shaped Modern North Carolina Best Price: $18.61 In "The Paradox of Tarheel Politics", veteran reporter Rob Christensen, of the Raleigh...	Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (Gender and American Culture) Best Price: $16.00 The influence of sex on gender is often mistakenly emphasized to the extent where sex and gender...	Foxfire 12 (Foxfire) Best Price: $10.30 To start, pay no attention to Publisher's Weekly when the whine about the repeativeness of the...

White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America) Best Price: $16.21 This book is first, well written and then well researched. As someone who grew up in Atlanta...	Driving with the Devil: Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR Best Price: $8.76 Its no surprise that while baseball/basketball/and football games are usually playing to...	Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity Best Price: $10.87 In considering the American South, most people tend to view it as distinctive and different from...	Storyville, New Orleans: Being an Authentic, Illustrated Account of the Notorious Red Light District Best Price: $12.77 This volume could be the all-time official history of that legendary Red Light District of New...	The Jamestown Project Best Price: $16.40 Ordering books through Amazon is my favorite shopping method. One of my ancestors came to...

Twelve Years a Slave (Library of Southern Civilization) Best Price: $14.74 I, like another reviewer, read this about 8 years ago when in a college Civil War course. I...	The South Was Right! Best Price: $13.99 As a reformed Confederate, I read this book many years ago and revisited it recently as I...	The Execution of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, and the Search for Justice in the American South Best Price: $11.65 I had never heard of the Willie Francis Story before, but after reading this book I will never...	Ramblings of a Lowcountry Game Warden: A Memoir Best Price: $18.70 Often game violation cases make the news, with bloodthirsty tales of egregious over-hunting,...	A Religious Orgy in Tennessee: A Reporter's Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial Best Price: $10.00 The Scope trial would fit into today's world so easily. Each side was absolutely 100% correct...

Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery Best Price: $11.98 First, disclosure of potential conflict of interest. The author and I are both faculty at the...	Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 Best Price: $23.94 Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore's DEFYING DIXIE: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919 - 1950 is the...	Jamestown, the Buried Truth Best Price: $12.96 For many years, archeologists believed that Jamestown, the site of the first permanent English...	The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935 Best Price: $21.56 This is a magnificent book. Fantastic readings and pictures that hold you to the events and give...	My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered Best Price: $4.00 One of the best first hand accounts of the civil rights movement I have read. There were things...

Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family Best Price: $3.80 My emotions ran the gamut from rage, indignation, incredulity, to fear. ANYONE considering...	The River Where America Began: A Journey Along the James Best Price: $3.98 This history book was very informative. I was born in the area. Very detailed summary of...	Roanoke, 2nd Edition: The Abandoned Colony Best Price: $7.98 This is an excellent review of all topics related to the preparations, settlement, and ultimate...	The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America) Best Price: $20.00 Lassiter's book addresses the creation of contemporary Republican Party dominance in the South. ...	Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South (Gender and American Culture) Best Price: $8.04 Everything arrived in perfect order

The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror and the Death of Reconstruction Best Price: $14.06 The Colfax Massacre is a fabulous book--insightful, colorful, and very thorough. I don't...	Arkansas: A Narrative History Best Price: $19.00 History books from provincial history departments frequently suffer from effusions of PC...	Why New Orleans Matters Best Price: $5.00 The author writes about life in New Orleans before the storm. He remembers the bands, the food,...	The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans Best Price: $3.97 We often think we have read and heard enough about the history of slavery in the United States. ...	Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America Best Price: $8.84 This book was wonderfully written. It went into great details and sometimes the reader had to be...

A Farewell to Justice: Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination, And the Case That Should Have Changed History Best Price: $11.98 The book could use some editing (the writing is ponderous and repetitious at times) but the...	Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign Best Price: $11.69 Going Down Jericho Road is an excellent history of the sanitation workers' strike in Memphis and...	Coal River Best Price: $13.89 As a committed conservationist, I really, really want to give Coal River a positive review. No...	The Story of the Plott Hound: Strike & Stay Best Price: $14.62 I purchased the book on a whim, just for the fact that I'm from North Carolina and had heard my...	Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence & Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley Best Price: $10.00 This book has some weaknesses, but it still deserves five stars for the introduction of the...

Hemingway's Hurricane Best Price: $6.83 The hurricane that hit the Florida Keys in 1935 is still listed as the most intense hurricane to...	Victims: A True Story Of The Civil War Best Price: $13.64 There were Southern sympathizers in the North and Northern sympathies in the South. The people...

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