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The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys: The True Story

by Dean King

For more than a century, the enduring feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys has been American shorthand for passionate, unyielding, and even violent confrontation. Yet despite numerous articles, books, television...


In Search of The Diamond Brooch: A Southern Family's Account of 1820s Pioneer Florida Through The Civil War to Modern Day

by Terri Gerrell & Pete Gerrell

In Search of The Diamond Brooch is a southern historical saga starting with the migration of the pioneer families to the North Florida area. This is the story of a family that settled in North Florida in the...


The Ghosts of Mississippi: The Murder of Medgar Evers, the Trials of Bryon De La Beckwith, and the Haunting of the New South

by Maryanne Vollers

Revised and reissued with a new epilogue, the award-winning classic Ghosts of Mississippi tells the inside story of one of the most rankling murder cases of the civil rights era. In this historical page-turner,...


Rethinking the Irish in the American South: Beyond Rounders and Reelers

by Bryan Albin Giemza

Studies of the Irish presence in America have tended to look to the main corridors of emigration, and hence outside the American South. Yet the Irish constituted a significant minority in the region. Indeed,...


A Delicate Balance: Constructing a Conservation Culture in the South Carolina Lowcountry

by Angela C. Halfacre & Cynthia Barnett

An interdisciplinary study of conservation efforts and attitudes in the Carolina lowcountry


Kentucky Bourbon: The Early Years of Whiskeymaking

by Henry G. Crowgey

Kentucky Bourbon: The Early Years of Whiskeymaking tells the story of bourbon's evolution, debunking many popular myths along the way. Back in print for the first time in twenty five years, Kentucky Bourbon...


Trapped!: The Story of Floyd Collins

by Robert K. Murray & Roger W. Brucker

"When Floyd Collins became trapped in a cave in southern Kentucky in early 1925, the sensationalism and hysteria of the rescue attempt generated America's first true media spectacle, making Collins's story one...


Southern Black Women in the Modern Civil Rights Movement

by Merline Pitre & Clarissa Myrick-Harris

Throughout the South, black women were crucial to the Civil Rights Movement, serving as grassroots and organizational leaders. They protested, participated, sat in, mobilized, created, energized, led particular...


Talking Appalachian: Voice, Identity, and Community

by Amy D. Clark & Nancy M. Hayward

Tradition, community, and pride are fundamental aspects of the history of Appalachia, and the language of the region is a living testament to its rich heritage. Despite the persistence of unflattering stereotypes...


Looking Back Mississippi: Towns and Places

by Forrest Lamar Cooper

For the past three decades, historian and archivist Forrest Lamar Cooper has written a regular column for Mississippi Magazine about unusual, fascinating aspects of the state's history, culture, products, and...


Almost Hollywood: The Forgotten Story of Jacksonville, Florida

by Blair Miller

Blair Miller tells the story of the motion picture industry as it developed in Jacksonville after the turn of the twentieth century. Almost Hollywood reveals the meteoric rise and fall of Jacksonville in early...


Seasons of War

by Daniel E. Sutherland

The story of Culpeper County, Virginia, is a unique one in Civil War history. Nestled in one of the South’s most strategically important locations, it was occupied by the Northern army, recaptured by the Confederacy,...


Finding Florida

by T. D. Allman

Over its long history, Florida has been many things: a native realm protected by geography; a wilderness that ruined Spanish conquistadors; a place to start over; "god's waiting room." With a native population...


They Had No Voice: My Fight for Alabama's Forgotten Children

by Douglas Kalajian, Denny Abbott & John Walsh

Denny Abbott first encountered the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children at Mt. Meigs as a twenty-one-year-old probation officer for the Montgomery County Family Court. He would became so concerned about...


We Shall Not Be Moved: The Jackson Woolworth's Sit-In and the Movement It Inspired

by M. J. O'Brien

Once in a great while, a photograph captures the essence of an era: Three people--one black and two white--demonstrate for equality at a lunch counter while a horde of cigarette-smoking hotshots pour catsup,...


Beast in Florida: A History of Anti-Black Violence

by Marvin Dunn

A symbolic embodiment of racial violence and hatred, "The Beast" openly prowled the nation between the Civil War and the civil rights movement. The reasons it appeared varied, with psychological, political,...


The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South

by Bruce Levine

In this major new history of the Civil War, Bruce Levine tells the riveting story of how that conflict upended the economic, political, and social life of the old South, utterly destroying the Confederacy and...


Thunder of Freedom: Black Leadership and the Transformation of 1960s Mississippi

by Cheryl Reitan, Sue [Lorenzi] Sojourner & John Dittmer

The world's eyes were on Mississippi during the summer of 1964, when civil rights activists launched an ambitious African American voter registration project and were met with violent resistance from white supremacists....


Builders of a New South: Merchants, Capital, and the Remaking of Natchez, 1865-1914

by Aaron D. Anderson

Builders of a New South describes how, between 1865 and 1914, ten Natchez mercantile families emerged as leading purveyors in the wholesale plantation supply and cotton handling business, and soon became a dominant...


The Battles of Kings Mountain and Cowpens: The American Revolution in the Southern Backcountry

by Melissa A. Walker

The American South is so identified with the Civil War that people often forget that the key battles from the final years of the American Revolution were fought in Southern states. The Southern backcountry was...