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On Barbecue
John Shelton Reed is one of today’s most knowledgeable authors on the subject of barbecue. Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue, written with his wife, Dale Volberg Reed,…
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Opportunity Lost
In Opportunity Lost, Marcus D. Pohlmann examines the troubling issue of why Memphis city school students are underperforming at alarming rates. His provocative interdisciplinary analysis, combining both history and social…
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Rebellion and Realignment
Arkansas, the Old South’s last frontier, was forced, after the election of Lincoln, to face the issue of secession. A decade earlier, the state had spurned all efforts from within…
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Selma
In 1989, Alston Fitts published a brief history of the city of Selma, Alabama, from its founding through the aftermath of the civil rights movement. Selma: A Bicentennial History is…
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South Carolina Provincials
Jim Piecuch earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees at the University of New Hampshire and his Ph.D. at the College of William & Mary in Virginia. He is a former…
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Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century
Essays by the distinguished historian of southern religion Wayne Flynt, that illuminate the often overlooked complexity among southern Protestants. Throughout its dramatic history, the American South has wrestled with…
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Suffering in the Army of Tennessee
Confederate historiography of the Civil War is rich with stories of leaders and decision makers—oft-repeated names immortalized by their association with America’s great trial of the 1860s. But while scholarship…
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The Coast Guard in Hampton Roads
The US Coast Guard has a long history of saving lives and deterring and defeating threats in the Hampton Roads area that dates to the Revolutionary War era. The Coast…
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