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Damon L Fordham
Black Folk Tales and Chronicles of South Carolina

Throughout history, African Americans passed along folk tales to ease burdens and make sense of experiences. Tracing back to West Africa, this storytelling tradition provided laughter, instruction and res…

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Marc David
Remembering the Cajun Past

Exploring how public history creates collective memory of this white ethnic group through memorialsCajuns arrived in southern Louisiana in the 18th century after the British exiled them from eastern Canad…

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Marc David
Remembering the Cajun Past

Exploring how public history creates collective memory of this white ethnic group through memorialsCajuns arrived in southern Louisiana in the 18th century after the British exiled them from eastern Canad…

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Gordon Simmons
Mutiny in the Mountains

Mutiny in the Mountains uses labor history to show the way forward for millions of workers struggling in an age of uncertainty.In 1969, thousands of West Virginia state highway workers went on strike in f…

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Jason R Young
The Mask of Memory

Many of the sights and sounds that Americans associate with slavery are rooted in a grand historical myth. The image of the Big House, sitting atop carefully manicured rolling green hills is, in large par…

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Tyler Priest
Offshore Oildom

Offshore Oildom tells the riveting story of the United States' quest to secure the oil riches of the sea. Drawing on a wealth of untapped sources, Tyler Priest reveals how the offshore oil industry emerge…

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Lawrence R Samuel
Making Miami

"Very informative---includes subject areas that have remained underserved in terms of historiography."---Paul George , Resident Historian, HistoryMiami MuseumMaking Miami takes a deep dive into …

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Melanie Benson Taylor
The Weird South

"How do we read southern literature in a postplantation, postregional, and posthuman moment? How do we address the urgent contemporary catastrophes of the Anthropocene in these newly leveled landscap…

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Charles Edward Thomas
Scrip

In 1910, the L&N pushed its railroad into remote Harlan County, Kentucky, opening access to billions of tons of coal, the fuel that ran everything during the Industrial Revolution. Coal did it all. St…

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Victoria Bynum
Deep Roots, Broken Branches

A powerful, intimate portrait that weaves history across five generations of an American family

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Katherine Grandjean
Kingdom of Devils

The chilling account of America's first serial killers, whose brutal string of murders on the post-Revolutionary frontier reveal the violence at the heart of the young United StatesNo one knew Wiley Harpe…

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Daniel Rivero
Just Freedom

The story of an extraordinary expansion of voting rights and the obstacles holding back its implementationWhen Florida citizens voted in 2018 to pass Amendment 4 to the state constitution, which promised …

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Doug Kelly
Florida's Fishing Legends and Pioneers

Inside knowledge from Florida's fishing greats, showing how the sport has developed in the state over more than a centuryAs one of the most lauded fishing destinations in the United States, boasting world…

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Jack B McGuire
Killing the Kingfish

On September 8, 1935, Huey Long, a United States senator and former Louisiana governor, was fatally shot in a back corridor of the Louisiana state capitol. Although the most widely accepted theory holds t…

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Robert W Hastings
The American Alligator

A succinct study of the american alligator and its long and complex history with man and the environment.

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Fred Grant at Vicksburg

"On March 29, 1863, 12-year-old Frederick Grant, the eldest son of Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, arrived at his father's headquarters at Young's Point, Louisiana. Grant's Army of the Tennessee wa…

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Joshua Sharpe
The Man No One Believed

In 1985, a white man walked into a South Georgia church and brutally murdered Harold and Thelma Swain, two pillars of the area's Black community. The killer vanished into the night. For fifteen years, the…

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Richard Brust
Chambers V. Florida and the Criminal Justice Revolution

This book explores the history and enduring legacy of Chambers v. Florida, a landmark ruling that banned confessions obtained through mental or physical coercion in criminal trials and contributed to what…

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Dean Faulkner Wells, Lawrence Wells
Backstory

For every published article there is a backstory of behind-the-scenes adventures. Between 1980 and 2000, Dean Faulkner Wells and Lawrence Wells traveled coast to coast on magazine assignments. Backstory: …

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Richard Brust
Chambers V. Florida and the Criminal Justice Revolution

The history and enduring legacy of a breakthrough case in criminal justice reformIn 1940, the United States Supreme Court decided in Chambers v. Florida to ban confessions obtained through mental or physi…

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