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  • George Masa: A Life Reimagined

    From Cornell University librarian Janet McCue and documentary filmmaker Paul Bonesteel comes the first comprehensively researched biography of the visionary Japanese photographer whose dedication to art and conservation helped spur the national park movement in the Great Smoky Mountains and the creation of the Appalachian Trail.What moves a person to leave all that they have known for something ... Read more

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    A Food History of the Modern South

    by John T. Edge ...
    **“The one food book you must read this year."*—Southern LivingOne of Christopher Kimball’s Six Favorite Books About Food*A people’s history that reveals how Southerners shaped American culinary identity and how race relations impacted Southern food culture over six revolutionary decades**Like great provincial dishes around the world, potlikker is a salvage food. During the antebellum era, slave ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Appalachian Trail

    A Biography

    The Appalachian Trail is America's most beloved trek, with millions of hikers setting foot on it every year. Yet few are aware of the fascinating backstory of the dreamers and builders who helped bring it to life over the past century.The conception and building of the Appalachian Trail is a story of unforgettable characters who explored it, defined it, and captured national attention by hiking it ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Getting Away with Murder

    The True Story of the Emmett Till Case

    by Chris Crowe ...
    **A JANE ADDAMS BOOK AWARD HONOR BOOK • An in-depth examination of the Emmett Till murder case, a hate crime that helped spark the Civil Rights Movement and continues to teach Americans about the urgent need for equal rights—updated and revised with a new chapter.“Crowe pays powerful tribute to a boy whose untimely death spurred a national chain of events.”—Publishers Weekly**In August 1955, a ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • What Is Juneteenth?

    Illustrated by Manuel Gutierrez ...
    Series series What Was?
    Discover more about Juneteenth, the important holiday that celebrates the end of chattel slavery in the United States.On June 19, 1865, a group of enslaved men, women, and children in Texas gathered around a Union solder and listened as he read the most remarkable words they would ever hear. They were no longer enslaved: they were free. The inhumane practice of forced labor with no pay was now ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Remembering Emmett Till

    by Dave Tell ...
    Communications professor Dave Tell explores the thin line between honoring and exploiting a murder victim's memory in Remembering Emmet Till.Take a drive through the Mississippi Delta today and you'll find a landscape dotted with memorials to major figures and events from the civil rights movement. Perhaps the most chilling are those devoted to the murder of Emmett Till, a tragedy of hate and ... Read more

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  • New Orleans

    A Food Biography

    Series series Big City Food Biographies
    Beignets, Po’ Boys, gumbo, jambalaya, Antoine’s. New Orleans’ celebrated status derives in large measure from its incredibly rich food culture, based mainly on Creole and Cajun traditions. At last, this world-class destination has its own food biography. Elizabeth M. Williams, a New Orleans native and founder of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum there, takes readers through the history of the ... Read more

    $29.49 CAD

  • Louisiana Crawfish

    A Succulent History of the Cajun Crustacean

    by Sam Irwin ...
    The hunt for red crawfish is the thing, the raison d'etre, of Acadian spring. Introduced to Louisiana by the swamp dwellers of the Atchafalaya Basin, the crawfish is a regional favorite that has spurred a $210 million industry. Whole families work at the same fisheries, and annual crawfish festivals dominate the social calendar. More importantly, no matter the occasion, folks take their boils ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Katharine and R.J. Reynolds

    Partners of Fortune in the Making of the New South

    "A tour de force . . . a top-notch study of a powerful couple negotiating the shifting socioeconomic world of the New South and early corporate America."— Journal of American HistorySeparately they were formidable—together they were unstoppable. Despite their intriguing lives and the deep impact they had on their community and region, the story of Richard Joshua Reynolds and Katharine Smith ... Read more

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  • The Cajuns

    Americanization of a People

    The past sixty years have shaped and reshaped the group of French-speaking Louisiana people known as the Cajuns. During this period they have become much like other Americans and yet have remained strikingly distinct. The Cajuns: Americanization of a People explores these six decades and analyzes the forces that had an impact on Louisiana's Acadiana.In the 1940s, when America entered World War II, ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Fairhope

    Series series Images of America
    Three centuries of Utopian dreams came true in the 1890s, when a group of idealists founded Fairhope as a cooperative colony on a lush bluff along Alabama�s Gulf Coast. The visionary settlers thought their experimental village had a �fair hope� of success. An oasis of idealism and equality, Fairhope not only succeeded but grew into an elegant enclave of individualism and intellect. The bayside ... Read more

    $17.91 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Super-Scenic Motorway

    A Blue Ridge Parkway History

    The most visited site in the National Park system, the 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway winds along the ridges of the Appalachian mountains in Virginia and North Carolina. According to most accounts, the Parkway was a New Deal “Godsend for the needy,” built without conflict or opposition by landscape architects and planners who traced their vision along a scenic, isolated southern landscape. The ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD