'Samplers reflected female education in the south and how those views changed over time. The majo...

Amid the rapid industrialization and urbanization of the early twentieth century, Progressive Era...

Amid the chaos of battle and the harsh conditions of prisoner-of-war camps, tens of thousands of ...

In the early days of the Cold War, the United States Army underwent a fundamental shift in its st...

When Claiborne Fox Jackson took the oath of office as Missouri's governor on January 3, 1861, onl...

The long-running Decisions Series tackles the Brown Water Navy.

In this scholarly treatment of a lesser-known denomination, J. Matthew Pinson offers a comprehens...

Sister Sandra Smithson, a Black Franciscan nun from Tennessee, lived her extraordinary life on th...

For six decades, Robert Morgan has been a preeminent voice in southern Appalachian literature. Gr...

True crime meets family memoir in this gripping story of faked death

What was served at President James K. Polk's White House dinners? What foods graced the table of ...

Around 1800, a Revolutionary War veteran named Micajah Frost came to the Cumberland Mountains of ...

At Liberty

Of the one hundred thousand Southerners who donned Federal uniforms during the Civil War, more th...

With no way for fans to verify their facts, the sportswriters of the 1920s enjoyed a near monopol...

The essayists in this volume argue that far more recognition is due to James Agee than is usually...

Widely regarded as the crown jewel of the Great Smoky Mountains, Mount Le Conte harbors the great...

Cedar glades are naturally occurring landscapes of the Central South. Geographically this include...

Perhaps no instrument better represents the music of Appalachia than the fretted dulcimer. The in...

The second half of the 19th century in Russian philosophy sees the more or less definitive triump...

Winner of the W.D. Weatherford Award

Basing her account on wills, probate records, published and unpublished census data, journals, di...

'William Strickland and the Creation of an American Architecture is a significant contribution to...

'Happy in the Service of the Lord' provides an in-depth look at the development of the African-Am...

In 1841, William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass formed a partnership that would last a dec...

'No one knows the world of Italian American Catholicism in contemporary New York better than Jose...

Like its predecessors, the fourth and final volume of Confederate Generals in the Western Theater...

Eliza Frances “Fanny” Andrews (1840–1931) was born into south-ern aristocracy in Washington, Geor...

In 1929, Lemuel Whitley Diggs arrived in Memphis as a newly minted physician from the Johns Hopki...

FOREWORD INDIES GOLD AWARD, SPORTS CATEGORY, 2016

After twenty-six-year-old author Breece D'J Pancake took his own life in April 1979, the West Vir...

“London Bridge in Plague and Fire is a brilliant cleaving of historical fact and Blakeian imagina...

Hazel Pendley creates heirloom-quality quilts. Ed Ripley wraps bits of fur and feathers into trou...

|Developed just after the close of the Civil War, the Springfield Gas Machine was a unique commer...

Many students of the Civil War have concluded that the overstudied conflict in the Eastern Theate...

In this provocative work, Cheryl Claassen challenges long-standing notions n this provocative wor...

Religion has long been a source of identity for many Southerners, and the Appalachian areas in pa...

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written...

The New Deal made vast sums of money available to cities, paved the way for innovations ion publi...

A legendary professor at Louisiana State University, T. Harry Williams not only produced such acc...

Over the past few decades, the vexing problems of climate change and finite resources have ignite...

'The Tullahoma Campaign took place in Middle Tennessee between Union General Rosecrans's Army of ...

In the first comprehensive biography of this religious writer, social crusader, and pastor of the...

'Serepta Jordan ... kept her diary from 1857 to 1864. She is a lively writer whose insights into ...

An estimated 200,000 men of German birth enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War, far mor...

Now updated with a new predface that examines dramatic changes in his favourite hiking and campin...

After the Civil War, the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee, forged a different path than most southe...

In many communities across North America in the 1960s and 1970s, the rural-relocation movement be...