Category - History
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The Myth of the Lost Cause: Why the South Fought the Civil War and Why the North Won
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /History isn't always written by the winners...Twenty-first-century controversies over Confederate monuments attest to the enduring significance o...
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Celebrating Southern Appalachian Food: Recipes & Stories from Mountain Kitchens
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /High country cooking fit to grace any table. Southern Appalachia has a rich culinary tradition. Generations of passed down recipes offer glimpses i...
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People's Plaza: Sixty-Two Days of Nonviolent Resistance
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /From June 12, 2020, until the passage of the state law making the occupation a felony two months later, peaceful protesters set up camp at Nashvill...
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Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A modern epic about the most consequential music culture today, Atlanta rap--a masterful, street-level story of art, money, race, class, and salvat...
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Cure: New Orleans Drinks and How to Mix 'em from the Award-Winning Bar
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /From the foremost figure on the New Orleans' drinking scene and the owner of renowned bar Cure, a cocktail book that celebrates the vibrant cityNew...
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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award.An American epic of scien...
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1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /With a new foreword by the author—Chris Rose’s New York Times bestselling collection: “A gripping book about life’s challenges in post-Katrina Ne...
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The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From before the dawn of the twentieth century until the arrival of the New Deal, one of the most protracted and deadly labor struggles in America...
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Mountains of the Heart: A Natural History of the Appalachians
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Part natural history, part poetry, Mountains of the Heart is full of hidden gems and less traveled parts of the Appalachian Mountains Stretching ...
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A Nutshell History of North Carolina
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /From its dubious beginnings as a pirate-filled colony to a popular tourist destination, North Carolina has an amazingly colorful history. Author ...
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Historic Rural Churches of Georgia
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95Original price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Aspects of Georgia’s unique history can only be told through its extant rural churches. As the Georgia backcountry rapidly expanded in the late e...
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Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War
PaperbackOriginal price $19.50 - Original price $19.50Original price $19.50$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Charles Dew’s Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indispensable account of the Southern states’ secession from...
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Travels on the St. Johns River
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /In 1765 father and son naturalists John and William Bartram explored the St. Johns River Valley in Florida, a newly designated British territory ...
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Coconuts and Collards: Recipes and Stories from Puerto Rico to the Deep South
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Finalist, International Association of Culinary Professionals Cookbook Awards in the Literary or Historical Food Writing Category When her fam...
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The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system,...
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Bourbon Curious: A Tasting Guide for the Savvy Drinker with Tasting Notes for Dozens of New Bourbons
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Award-winning whiskey writer and best-selling author Fred Minnick presents an easy-to-read interactive tasting journey that helps you select barr...
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Tar Heel Lightnin': How Secret Stills and Fast Cars Made North Carolina the Moonshine Capital of the World
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /From the late nineteenth century well into the 1960s, North Carolina boasted some of the nation's most restrictive laws on alcohol production and...
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Sacred Duty: A Soldier's Tour at Arlington National Cemetery
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A moving, reverent history—a tribute, really—to ‘The Old Guard’ … An ode to excellence and caring in service to the na...
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Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Scopes Trial and the battle over evolution and creation in America's schools In the summer of 1925, the...
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Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Christopher Knowlton, author of Cattle Kingdom and former Fortune writer, takes an in-depth look at the spectacular Florida land boom of the 1920...
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The Virginia Dynasty: Four Presidents and the Creation of the American Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“The narrative offers informed, exacting characterizations of the uncertain political alliances, strained interactions and ideological growing pa...
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Small Town, Big Music: The Outsized Influence of Kent, Ohio, on the History of Rock and Roll
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /2020 IPPY Awards Gold Medalist, Great Lakes Best Regional Nonfiction Relying on oral histories, hundreds of rare photographs, and original music ...
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The Fighting Bunch: The Battle of Athens and How World War II Veterans Won the Only Successful Armed Rebellion Since the Revolution
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In The Fighting Bunch: The Battle of Athens and How World War II Veterans Won the Only Successful Armed Rebellion Since the Revolution, New York ...
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Grandfather Mountain: The History and Guide to an Appalachian Icon
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /With its prominent profile recognizable for miles around and featuring vistas among the most beloved in the Appalachians, North Carolina's Grandf...
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