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Jody Baxter Noll,

The 1968 Florida Teachers' Strike

"In early 1968, more than 27,000 teachers across Florida mailed in their letters of resignation, creating the country's first statewide teacher strike. By going on strike, Florida's teachers fought f…

Marvin Bartlett

Spirit of the Bluegrass

Emmy-Winning Journalist Marvin Bartlett's 35-year journey through Kentucky's unique stories.For thirty-five years, Emmy award-winning television journalist Marvin Bartlett has traveled the state, collecti…

Christy Hyman

The Cultural Heritage Resilience of the Great Dismal Swamp

This work highlights local narratives that sustain traditions amidst historical silences, connecting cultural values to heritage tourism and Indigenous stewardship.The Cultural Heritage Resilience of the …

Tom Hanchett

Affordable Housing in Charlotte

Shows in detail the housing crisis in North Carolina's (USA) most populous city and beyond.

Mike Marshall

No Place for Pilgrims

While doing research for a term paper on civil rights for his ninth-grade civics class in the spring of 1976, Mike Marshall found an article in Timemagazine about William Moore, a thirty-five-year-old pos…

Elizabeth Varon

Longstreet

"An authoritative biography of the second-highest-ranking and most controversial Confederate general, who rejoined the Union after the Civil War, advising other Confederate soldiers to put that war b…

Mike Rayder

Altered on the Appalachian Trail

On August 3, 1973, from atop Katahdin, a sacred mountain in north-central Maine,Mike Rayder had not only found himself but much more since he had worked hard toovercome adversity along the way making him …

Theodore Catton

Mollie Brumley's Civil War

Mollie Brumley, a thirteen-year-old orphan, was living on a farm in the mountainous Ozarks of northwest Arkansas when the Civil War broke out. In a borderland region on the northern periphery of slavery a…

Flo Morrissey & Matthew E. White

Gentlewoman, Ruby Man

Beau Cleland

Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria

Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria recenters our understanding of the Civil War by framing it as a hemispheric affair, deeply influenced by the actions of a network of private parties and minor offici…

Malorie Mackey, Michael Maldonado

Haunted Hikes Great Smoky Mountains

The Great Smoky Mountains are home to over 100 official hiking trails just waiting to be explored. But did you know that these mountains also hold a surprising number of myths, legends, and reported incid…

Alan Pell Crawford

This Fierce People

A groundbreaking recovery of history; the overlooked story of the battles of America's Revolutionary War that were fought---and won---in the South.The famous battles that form the backbone of the story pu…

Denis Fleming

Thomas Jefferson and the Kentucky Constitution

A Major Influence in Kentucky LifeFounding Father Thomas Jefferson had a strong but little-known connection with the constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He had personal and politically motivated…

Alexis Okeowo

Blessings and Disasters

From a New Yorkerstaff writer and PEN award winner, a blend of memoir, history, and reportage on one of the most complex and least understood states in America."In Alabama, we exist at the border of …

Alexis Okeowo

Blessings and Disasters

From a New Yorkerstaff writer and PEN award winner, a blend of memoir, history, and reportage on one of the most complex and least understood states in America."In Alabama, we exist at the border of …

Jaimie Branch (1983-2022)

Fly Or Die Fly Or Die Fly Or Die ((World War))

Im Juli 2022, nur einen Monat bevor der Tod von Jaimie Branch die Welt erschütterte, befand sich die Trompeterin und Komponistin in den International Anthem Studios in Chicago, um einem Album den letzten …

Mikita Brottman

Guilty Creatures

"From the critically-acclaimed author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman comes the murky retelling of the murder of Mike Williams committed under the haze of faith and devotion. Perfect for true-crime…

Fray Andrés de San Miguel,

An Early Florida Adventure Story

This book makes available a rare eyewitness account of Florida's Spanish colonial period: the 1595 narrative of a teenager who journeyed from Spain to Mexico, Havana, and Florida, presenting an inside vie…

Marc David

Remembering the Cajun Past

Exploring how public history creates collective memory of this white ethnic group through memorialsCajuns arrived in southern Louisiana in the 18th century after the British exiled them from eastern Canad…