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  • Bearing the Torch

    The University of Tennessee, 1794–2010

    by T.R.C. Hutton ...
    Bearing the Torch stands as a comprehensive history of the University of Tennessee, replete with anecdotes and vignettes of interest to anyone interested in UT, from the administrators and chancellors to students and alums, and even to the Vols fans whose familiarity with the school comes mainly from the sports page. It is also a biography of a school whose history reflects that of its state and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bloody Breathitt

    Politics and Violence in the Appalachian South

    by T.R.C. Hutton ...
    Series series New Directions in Southern History
    The notorious conflict between the Hatfield and the McCoy families of West Virginia and Kentucky is often remembered as America's most famous feud, but it was relatively brief and subdued compared to the violence in Breathitt County, Kentucky. From the Reconstruction period until the early twentieth century, Breathitt's 500 square miles of rugged upcountry land was known as "the darkest and ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Southern Scoundrels

    Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth Century

    by Jimmy L. Bryan Jr., Alexandra J. Finley, T. R. C. Hutton, John Lindbeck, Maria R. Montalvo, Elaine Frantz Parsons, Rodney Steward, Jeff Strickland ...
    The history of capitalist development in the United States is long, uneven, and overwhelmingly focused on the North. Macroeconomic studies of the South have primarily emphasized the role of the cotton economy in global trading networks. Until now, few in-depth scholarly works have attempted to explain how capitalism in the South took root and functioned in all of its diverse—and duplicitous—forms. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Birthright Citizens

    A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America

    by Martha S. Jones ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    Before the Civil War, colonization schemes and black laws threatened to deport former slaves born in the United States. Birthright Citizens recovers the story of how African American activists remade national belonging through battles in legislatures, conventions, and courthouses. They faced formidable opposition, most notoriously from the US Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott. Still, Martha S. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • A Dreadful Deceit

    The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America

    by Jacqueline Jones ...
    In 1656, a planter in colonial Maryland tortured and killed one of his slaves, an Angolan man named Antonio who refused to work the fields. Over three centuries later, a Detroit labor organizer named Simon Owens watched as strikebreakers wielding bats and lead pipes beat his fellow autoworkers for protesting their inhumane working conditions. Antonio and Owens had nothing in common but the color ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Promise of the New South

    Life After Reconstruction - 15th Anniversary Edition

    by Edward L. Ayers ...
    At a public picnic in the South in the 1890s, a young man paid five cents for his first chance to hear the revolutionary Edison talking machine. He eagerly listened as the soundman placed the needle down, only to find that through the tubes he held to his ears came the chilling sounds of a lynching. In this story, with its blend of new technology and old hatreds, genteel picnics and mob violence, ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Moonshiners and Prohibitionists

    The Battle over Alcohol in Southern Appalachia

    by Bruce E. Stewart ...
    Series series New Directions in Southern History
    A "masterly study" of how the business of homemade liquor shaped the history and culture of a region ( Journal of American History).Homemade liquor has played a prominent role in the Appalachian economy for nearly two centuries. The region endured profound transformations during the extreme prohibition movements of the nineteenth century, when the manufacturing and sale of alcohol—an integral part ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Here to Equality, Second Edition

    Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century

    by William A. Darity Jr., Andrea Kirsten Mullen ...
    Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically. But neither Reconstruction nor the New Deal nor the civil rights struggle led to an economically just and fair nation. Today, systematic inequality persists in the form of housing discrimination ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Joining Places

    Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South

    by Anthony E. Kaye ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    In this new interpretation of antebellum slavery, Anthony Kaye offers a vivid portrait of slaves transforming adjoining plantations into slave neighborhoods. He describes men and women opening paths from their owners' plantations to adjacent farms to go courting and take spouses, to work, to run away, and to otherwise contend with owners and their agents. In the course of cultivating family ties, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • A New History of Kentucky

    by James C. Klotter, Craig Thompson Friend ...
    When originally published, A New History of Kentucky provided a comprehensive study of the Commonwealth, bringing it to life by revealing the many faces, deep traditions, and historical milestones of the state. With new discoveries and findings, the narrative continues to evolve, and so does the telling of Kentucky's rich history. In this second edition, authors James C. Klotter and Craig Thompson ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Creating a Confederate Kentucky

    The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State

    by Anne E. Marshall ...
    Series series Civil War America
    In Creating a Confederate Kentucky, Anne E. Marshall traces the development of a Confederate identity in Kentucky between 1865 and 1925, belying the fact that Kentucky never left the Union. After the Civil War, the people of Kentucky appeared to forget their Union loyalties and embraced the Democratic politics, racial violence, and Jim Crow laws associated with former Confederate states. Marshall ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • First Fruits of Freedom

    The Migration of Former Slaves and Their Search for Equality in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1862-1900

    by Janette Thomas Greenwood ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    A moving narrative that offers a rare glimpse into the lives of African American men, women, and children on the cusp of freedom, First Fruits of Freedom chronicles one of the first collective migrations of blacks from the South to the North during and after the Civil War.Janette Thomas Greenwood relates the history of a network forged between Worcester County, Massachusetts, and eastern North ... Read more

    $23.99 USD