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Sarah M. Rios, "Diseases Have No Eyes: Valley Fever and Environmental Health Justice" (Temple UP, 2026)
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Sep 02, 2026 |
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Kiara Wyndham, "Diversityland: Hiding Racial Inequality in an American Suburb" (U California Press, 2026)
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Aug 17, 2026 |
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Daniel Byman, "American Pogroms: How Forgotten Massacres Shape America" (Oxford UP, 2026)
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Aug 14, 2026 |
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Jarvis C. McInnis, "Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South" (Columbia UP, 2025)
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Aug 12, 2026 |
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Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel, "Seeking Freedom in Indian Country: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Resistance Within the Five Tribes, 1790–1861" (LSU Press, 2026)
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Aug 03, 2026 |
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Virginia McGee Richards, "The Inner Passage: An Untold Story of Black Resistance Along a Southern Waterway" (MIT Press, 2026)
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Aug 01, 2026 |
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Robert Lee Maril, "Hungry Oklahoma: Confronting Poverty and Food Insecurity" (U Oklahoma Press, 2026)
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Jul 30, 2026 |
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Lily Kelting, "Against Heritage: The Reinvention of Traditional Foods" (UNC Press, 2026)
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Jul 24, 2026 |
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Angela Frederick, "Disabled Power: A Storm, A Grid, and Embodied Harm in the Age of Disaster" (NYU Press, 2025)
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Jul 18, 2026 |
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Gregg Andrews, "Shoe Workers in Hannibal, Missouri: The Rise and Fall of Manufacturing in America’s Hometown, 1890–1970" (LSU Press, 2026)
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Jul 08, 2026 |
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Gullah-Geechee Diasporas: Knowledge, Culture, and Black Lowcountry Legacies
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Jul 07, 2026 |
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Daniel Rood, "In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in America" (Norton, 2026)
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Jul 07, 2026 |
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Inside the Mississippi Marathon: How Mississippi Dramatically Improved Its Education System with Rachel Canter
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Jun 19, 2026 |
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Sarah McNamara, "Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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David Cunningham on Contesting Confederate Monuments (JP)
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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Mollie Barnes, "Paper Heroines: Women Writers in Conversation and Community Across the Sea Islands, 1838-1902" (U South Carolina Press, 2026)
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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Annette Gordon-Reed ed., "Jefferson on Race: A Reader" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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May 30, 2026 |
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Ashley Rose Young, "Nourishing Networks: The Public Culture of Food in New Orleans" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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May 29, 2026 |
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Claudia Smith Brinson, "Stories of Struggle: The Clash over Civil Rights in South Carolina" (U South Carolina Press, 2020)
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May 25, 2026 |
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James O'Neil Spady, "Take Freedom: Recovering the Fugitive History of the Denmark Vesey Affair" (UNC Press, 2026)
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May 23, 2026 |
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Justin Randolph, "Mississippi Law: Policing and Reform in America’s Jim Crow Countryside (UNC Press, 2026)
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May 17, 2026 |
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Shannon McKenna Schmidt, "You Can't Catch Us: Lady Bird Johnson’s Trailblazing 1964 Campaign Train and the Women Who Rode With Her" (Sourcebooks, 2026)
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May 10, 2026 |
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Jason R. Young, "The Mask of Memory: White Racial Fantasy After the Civil War" (UNC Press, 2026)
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May 01, 2026 |
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Constance Bailey et al. "Get It While It's Hot: Gas Station, Roadside, and Convenience Cuisine in the U.S. South" (LSU Press, 2026)
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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Kasey Jernigan, "Commod Bods: Embodied Heritage, Foodways, and Indigeneity" (U Arizona Press, 2026)
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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Mark A. Johnson, "American Bacon: The History of a Food Phenomenon" (U Georgia Press, 2026)
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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Voices from a Century of Struggle: Writings of the Jim Crow Era
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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Michael W. Tuck, "The Castle Slaves of the Gambia River: A Creole Community in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World" (Brill, 2026)
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Lindsay Rae Smith Privette, "The Surgeon's Battle: How Medicine Won the Vicksburg Campaign and Changed the Civil War" (UNC Press, 2025)
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Apr 04, 2026 |
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Abe Walker, "Reassembling the UAW: Insurgency, Contention, and the Struggle for Unionism in the American South" (Temple UP, 2026)
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Antwain K. Hunter, "A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715-1865" (UNC Press, 2025)
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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Danielle Wiggins, "Black Excellence: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Black Liberalism" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
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Mar 08, 2026 |
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Rebecca Sharpless, "People of the Wheat: Culture and Cultivation in North Texas" (U Texas Press, 2026)
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Mar 07, 2026 |
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Paul Gillingham, "Mexico: A 500-Year History" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2025)
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Mar 07, 2026 |
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Sarah Jones Weicksel, "A Nation Unraveled: Clothing, Culture, and Violence in the American Civil War Era" (UNC Press, 2026)
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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Fred Turner on Countercultures, Cybercultures, and Californian and Texan Ideologies
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Cecilia Márquez, "Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Feb 22, 2026 |
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Danielle N. Boaz, "Voodoo: The History of a Racial Slur" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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Blair Kelley, "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class" (LIveright, 2023)
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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Thomas Aiello, "Return of the King: The Rebirth of Muhammad Ali and the Rise of Atlanta" (U Nebraska Press, 2025)
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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O. Jennifer Dixon-McKnight, "We Paved the Way: Black Women and the Charleston Hospital Workers' Campaign" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, "Taco" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Caroline Peyton, "Radioactive Dixie: A Nuclear History of the American South" (U Georgia Press, 2025)
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Jan 17, 2026 |
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Brian Martin, "From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge: Canada and the Civil War" (ECW Press, 2022)
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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Sonya Lea, "American Bloodlines: Reckoning with Lynch Culture" (UP of Kentucky, 2025)
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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W. Ralph Eubanks, "When It's Darkness on the Delta: How America's Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land" (Beacon Press, 2026)
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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T. R. Johnson, "New Orleans: A Writer's City" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Robert D. Bland, "Requiem for Reconstruction: Black Countermemory and the Legacy of the Lowcountry's Lost Political Generation" (UNC Press, 2026)
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Jeff Roche, "The Conservative Frontier: Texas and the Origins of the New Right" (U Texas Press, 2025)
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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David Silkenat, "Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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Sylvia D. Hoffert, "Wagging Tongues and Tittle Tattle: Gossip, Rumor, and Reputation in a Small Southern Town" (U Georgia Press, 2025)
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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Gregory S. Wilson, "Poison Powder: The Kepone Disaster in Virginia and Its Legacy" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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Beau Cleland, "Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria: How Pirates, Smugglers, and Scoundrels Almost Saved the Confederacy" (U Georgia Press, 2025)
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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Gwyneth Mellinger, "Racializing Objectivity: How the White Southern Press Used Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
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Dec 06, 2025 |
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Erika Pani, "Torn Asunder: Republican Crises and Civil Wars in the United States and Mexico, 1848-1867" (UNC Press, 2025)
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Karen Auman, "The Good Forest: The Salzburgers, Success, and the Plan for Georgia" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Doug MacCash, "Mardi Gras Beads" (Louisiana UP, 2022)
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Clint Smith, "How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America" (Little, Brown and Company, 2021)
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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Diane T. Feldman, "Borrowed Land, Stolen Labor, and the Holy Spirit: The Struggle for Power and Equality in Holmes County, Mississippi" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Amanda Laury Kleintop, "Counting the Cost of Freedom: The Fight Over Compensated Emancipation After the Civil War" (UNC Press, 2025)
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Michael W. Twitty, "Recipes from the American South" (Phaidon Press, 2025)
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Kalle Kananoja, "Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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Michael T. Bertrand, "Southern History Remixed: On Rock 'n' Roll and the Dilemma of Race" (UP Florida, 2024)
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Aaron Sheehan-Dean, "Fighting with the Past: How Seventeenth-Century History Shaped the American Civil War" (UNC Press, 2025)
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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Claire Whitlinger, "Between Remembrance and Repair: Commemorating Racial Violence in Philadelphia, Mississippi" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Constance Bailey, "Conversations with Kiese Laymon" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Philis Barragán-Goetz, "Reading, Writing, and Revolution: Escuelitas and the Emergence of a Mexican American Identity in Texas" (U Texas Press, 2020)
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Uzma Quraishi, "Redefining the Immigrant South: Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston During the Cold War" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Marlee S. Bunch, "Unlearning the Hush: Oral Histories of Black Female Educators in Mississippi in the Civil Rights Era"
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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Christopher M. Reali, "Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
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Aug 17, 2025 |
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Harriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" (Norton, 2025)
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Aug 16, 2025 |
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Matthew R. Sparks and Olivia Sizemore, "Haint Country: Dark Folktales from the Hills and Hollers" (UP of Kentucky, 2024)
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Stephanie McCurry, "Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the Civil War" (Harvard UP, 2019)
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Aug 09, 2025 |
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Meredith McCarroll, "Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film" (U Georgia Press, 2018)
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Aug 09, 2025 |
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Arianne Edmonds, "We Now Belong to Ourselves: J. L. Edmonds, the Black Press, and Black Citizenship in America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Michael Vorenberg, "Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War" (Random House, 2023)
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Charlotte Bentley, "New Orleans and the Creation of Transatlantic Opera, 1819–1859" (U of Chicago Press, 2022)
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Ahmad Greene-Hayes, "Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans" (U of Chicago Press, 2025)
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Jeremy Black, "The Civil War" (Saint Augustine's Press, 2025)
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth, "Finding the Singing Spruce: Musical Instrument Makers and Appalachia's Mountain Forests" (West Virginia UP, 2023)
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Julia Brock, "Closed Seasons: The Transformation of Hunting in the Modern South" (UNC Press, 2025)
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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John Bardes, "The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930" (UNC Press, 2024)
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Jul 05, 2025 |
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Bryan D. Jones, The Southern Fault Line: How Race, Class, and Region Shaped One Family's History" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Kathryn L. Beasley, "The Proof Is in the Dough: Rural Southern Women, Extension, and Making Money" (University of Georgia Press, 2025)
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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Victoria Bynum, "Deep Roots, Broken Branches: A History and Memoir" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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Frank X Walker, "Load in Nine Times: Poems" (Liveright, 2024)
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May 24, 2025 |
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Carrie Helms Tippen, "Unpalatable: Stories of Pain and Pleasure in Southern Cookbooks" (UP of Mississippi, 2025)
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May 17, 2025 |
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Jennifer Lynn Gross, "Sisterhood of the Lost Cause: Confederate Widows in the New South" (LSU Press, 2025)
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May 16, 2025 |
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No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Frederick Knight, "Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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Lesley J. Gordon, "Dread Danger: Cowardice and Combat in the American Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Megan Hunt, "Southern by the Grace of God: Religion, Race, and Civil Rights in Hollywood's American South" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Michael Vorenberg, "Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War" (Knopf, 2025)
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, "Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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"Steadfast Democrats" Five Years Later: A Conversation with Chryl N. Laird
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Andrew C. Isenberg, "The Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790-1850" (UNC Press, 2025)
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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Jeffrey Thomas Perry, "Law in American Meetinghouses: Church Discipline and Civil Authority in Kentucky, 1780–1845" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Benjamin Heber Johnson, "Texas: An American History" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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The Soundworld of Harriet Tubman
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Hiroshi Motomura, "Borders and Belonging: Toward a Fair, Realistic, and Sustainable Immigration Policy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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Anthony E. Kaye, "Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History" (FSG, 2024)
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Derek W. Black, "Dangerous Learning: The South's Long War on Black Literacy" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor, "America Under the Hammer: Auctions and the Emergence of Market Values" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Leonne M. Hudson, "Black Americans in Mourning: Reactions to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln" (Southern Illinois UP, 2024)
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Greg Childs on Seditious Conspiracy (EF, JP)
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Andrew Gomez, "Constructing Cuban America: Race and Identity in Florida's Caribbean South, 1868–1945" (U Texas Press, 2024)
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Jennie Lightweis-Goff, "Captive City: Meditations on Slavery in the Urban South" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Joshua D. Rothman, "The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America" (Basic Book, 2021)
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934" (UVA Press, 2020)
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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Kent Michael Shaw, "Missiology Reimagined: The Missions Theology of the Nineteenth-Century African American Missionary" (Pickwick, 2024)
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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Randy M. Browne, "The Driver’s Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Crystal R. Sanders, "A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs" (UNC Press, 2024)
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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Susanna Ashton, "A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin" (New Press, 2024)
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Dec 29, 2024 |
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Stephen Jackson, "The Patchwork of World History in Texas High Schools" (Routledge, 2022)
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Dianne Ashton and Melissa R. Klapper, "The Civil War Diary of Emma Mordecai" (NYU Press, 2024)
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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Ana Lucia Araujo, "Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Holly M. Karibo, "Rehab on the Range: A History of Addiction and Incarceration in the American West" (U Texas Press, 2024)
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Deondra Rose, "The Power of Black Excellence: HBCUs and the Fight for American Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Dec 07, 2024 |
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Maria Angela Diaz, "A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and Race Making in the Civil War–Era Gulf South" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
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Nov 30, 2024 |
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Mary Ellen Curtin, "She Changed the Nation: Barbara Jordan's Life and Legacy in Black Politics" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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Beverly Tomek and Matthew J. Hetrick, "New Directions in the Study of African American Recolonization" (UP of Florida, 2017)
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Nov 24, 2024 |
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Benjamin Barson, "Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons" (Wesleyan UP, 2024)
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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D. Andrew Johnson, "Enslaved Native Americans and the Making of Colonial South Carolina" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Texas Book Festival 2024: November 16-17
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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Aran Robert Shetterly, "Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City's Soul" (Amistad, 2024)
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Justene Hill Edwards, "Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank" (Norton, 2024)
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Nov 03, 2024 |
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Ashli Quesinberry Stokes and Wendy Atkins-Sayre, "Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia's Search for Resilience" (U South Carolina Press, 2024)
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Steven T. Katz, "The Holocaust and New World Slavery: A Comparative History, Volume 2" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Michael J. Alarid, "Hispano Bastion: New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837-1860" (U New Mexico Press, 2022)
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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Elizabeth Korver-Glenn and Sarah Mayorga, "A Good Reputation: How Residents Fight for an American Barrio" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Oct 13, 2024 |
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Steven T. Katz, "The Holocaust and New World Slavery: A Comparative History" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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Wayne A. Wiegand, "In Silence or Indifference: Racism and Jim Crow Segregated Public School Libraries" (UP of Mississippi, 2024)
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Anne Byrn, "Baking in the American South: 200 Recipes and Their Untold Stories" (Harper Celebrate, 2024)
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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The Epic Story of America's Great Migration: A Talk by Isabel Wilkerson
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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Karen Ordahl Kupperman, "Pocahontas and the English Boys: Caught Between Cultures in Early Virginia" (NYU Press, 2019)
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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Edwin P Rutan II, "High-Bounty Men in the Army of the Potomac: Reclaiming Their Honor" (Kent State UP, 2024)
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Aug 31, 2024 |
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James Barrera, "'We Want Better Education!': The 1960s Chicano Student Movement, School Walkouts, and the Quest for Educational Reform in South Texas" (Texas A&M UP, 2023)
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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Edward Pearson, "The Enslaved and Their Enslavers: Power, Resistance, and Culture in South Carolina, 1670-1825" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Crystal Wilkinson, "Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks" (Clarkson Potter, 2023)
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Tore C. Olsson, "Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Nik Ribianszky, "Generations of Freedom: Gender, Movement, and Violence in Natchez, 1779-1865" (U Georgia Press, 2021)
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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Sheila Curran Bernard, "Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Jul 28, 2024 |
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Donald L. Miller, "Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign that Broke the Confederacy" (Simon and Schuster, 2019)
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Jul 21, 2024 |
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Toby Green, "A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Theresa McCulla, "Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Kellie Carter Jackson, "We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance" (Seal Press, 2024)
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Felicia Arriaga, "Behind Crimmigration: ICE, Law Enforcement, and Resistance in America" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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Jeremy Schipper, "Denmark Vesey's Bible: The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Paula Marie Seniors, "Mae Mallory, the Monroe Defense Committee, and World Revolutions: African American Women Radical Activists" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
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Jun 22, 2024 |
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Sally Stocksdale, "When Emancipation Came: The End of Enslavement on a Southern Plantation and a Russian Estate" (McFarland, 2022)
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Shannon Bontrager, "Death at the Edges of Empire: Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Making of an American Nation, 1863-1921" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Financial Institutions and Enslavement
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Jun 08, 2024 |
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"Southern Humanities Review" magazine
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Matthew D. Morrison, "Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States" (U California Press, 2024)
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Robert Cochran, "Haunted Man's Report: Reading Charles Portis" (U Arkansas Press, 2024)
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Jun 01, 2024 |
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The History of Washington D.C., America’s New Rome
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May 29, 2024 |
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Stephen J. Silvia, "The UAW's Southern Gamble: Organizing Workers at Foreign-Owned Vehicle Plants" (IRL Press, 2023)
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May 29, 2024 |
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Dan Chapman, "A Road Running Southward: Following John Muir's Journey Through an Endangered Land" (Island Press, 2022)
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May 11, 2024 |
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Kendra Y. Hamilton, "Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
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May 10, 2024 |
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Robert K. D. Colby, "An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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May 10, 2024 |
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Crystal Wilkinson, "Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks" (Clarkson Potter, 2023)
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May 02, 2024 |
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John H. Cable, "Southern Enclosure: Settler Colonialism and the Postwar Transformation of Mississippi" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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Joseph M. Thompson, "Cold War Country: How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism" (UNC Press, 2024)
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Apr 06, 2024 |
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Greg Jarrell, "Our Trespasses: White Churches and the Taking of American Neighborhoods" (Fortress Press, 2024)
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt, "Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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Max Fraser, "Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Jonathan W. White, "Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Whitney Nell Stewart, "This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Thomas Mareite, "Conditional Freedom: Free Soil and Fugitive Slaves from the U.S. South to Mexico's Northeast, 1803-1861" (Brill, 2024)
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Sean M. Kelley, "American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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Ilyon Woo, "Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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Edda Fields-Black, "Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Kristine M. McCusker, "Just Enough to Put Him Away Decent: Death Care, Life Extension, and the Making of a Healthier South, 1900-1955" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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Neema Avashia, "Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place" (West Virginia UP, 2022)
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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Matthew Fox-Amato, "Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Feb 24, 2024 |
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Gregory D. Smithers, "Native Southerners: Indigenous History from Origins to Removal" (U Oklahoma Press, 2019)
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Norman Hill and Velma Murphy Hill, "Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain: The Extraordinary Story of Love, Civil Rights, and Labor Activism" (Regalo Press, 2023)
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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Jeanne Theoharis, "The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle outside of the South" (NYU Press, 2019)
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Todd Mildfelt and David D. Schafer, "Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind: James Montgomery and His War on Slavery" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Elizabeth Varon, "Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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Ethel Morgan Smith, "Path to Grace: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Joseph C. Russo, "Hard Luck and Heavy Rain: The Ecology of Stories in Southeast Texas" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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Scott Gac, "Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Bradley R. Clampitt, "Lost Causes: Confederate Demobilization and the Making of Veteran Identity" (LSU Press, 2022)
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Aimee Loiselle, "Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Kami Fletcher and Ashley Towle, "Grave History: Death, Race, and Gender in Southern Cemeteries" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Amy Von Lintel, "Georgia O'Keeffe's Wartime Texas Letters" (Texas A&M UP, 2020)
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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Laurent Dubois, “The Banjo: America’s African Instrument” (Harvard UP, 2016)
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: This Alarming Paradox, 1935-1962" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Yael A. Sternhell, "War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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Michelle R. Scott, "T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners' Booking Association in Jazz-Age America" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Jack D. Noe, "Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South" (LSU Press, 2021)
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Rachel Stephens, "Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture" (U Arkansas Press, 2023)
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Edward L. Ayers, "American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860" (Norton, 2023)
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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William S. Kiser, "Illusions of Empire: The Civil War and Reconstruction in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Cecilia Márquez, "Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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Jennifer E. Brooks, "Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama" (LSU Press, 2022)
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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Matthew J. Clavin, "Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Greg Beets and Richard Whymark, "A Curious Mix of People: The Underground Scene of '90s Austin" (U Texas Press, 2023)
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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Drew A. Swanson, "A Man of Bad Reputation: The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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Nikki M. Taylor, "Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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Marisel C. Moreno, "Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Art" (U Texas Press, 2022)
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Danielle N. Boaz, "Voodoo: The History of a Racial Slur" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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Nick Tabor, "Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Kristen Green, "The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail" (Seal Press, 2022)
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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Alejandra Dubcovsky, "Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Robert Greene and Tyler D. Parry, "Invisible No More: The African American Experience at the University of South Carolina" (U South Carolina Press, 2021)
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, "The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Scott Creney and Brigette Adair Herron, "The Story of the B-52s: Neon Side of Town" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson, "Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution" (Polity, 2023)
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Rebecca J. Fraser, "Black Female Intellectuals in 19th Century America: Born to Bloom Unseen?" (Routledge, 2022)
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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Dylan C. Penningroth, "Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights" (Liveright, 2023)
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Laura F. Edwards, "The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South" (UNC Press, 2009)
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Diane Flynt, "Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived: The Surprising Story of Apples in the South" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Christopher F. Zurn, "Splitsville USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking Up the United States" (Routledge, 2023)
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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Robert F. Moss, "The Lost Southern Chefs: A History of Commercial Dining in the Nineteenth-Century South" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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A Better Way to Buy Books
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Race and Electrical Infrastructure in the Jim Crow South
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Padraic X. Scanlan, "Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain" (Robinson, 2021)
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Isabel Machado, "Carnival in Alabama: Marked Bodies and Invented Traditions in Mobile" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Jeanne K. Firth, "Feeding New Orleans: Celebrity Chefs and Reimagining Food Justice" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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Kidada E. Williams, "I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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Kathryn J. Edin et al., "The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America" (Mariner Books, 2023)
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Ana Lucia Araujo, "Museums and Atlantic Slavery" (Routledge, 2021)
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Mbaye Lo and Carl W. Ernst, "I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar Ibn Said's America" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Christopher C. Sellers, "Race and the Greening of Atlanta: Inequality, Democracy, and Environmental Politics in an Ascendant Metropolis" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Jennifer Cearns, "Circulating Culture: Transnational Cuban Networks of Exchange" (UP of Florida, 2023)
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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Carl Van Ness, "The Making of Florida's Universities: Public Higher Education at the Turn of the Twentieth Century" (UP of Florida, 2023)
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Bobby J. Smith II, "Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Jennifer Ritterhouse, "Discovering the South: One Man's Travels through a Changing America in the 1930s" (UNC Press, 2017)
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Linda Skeens, "Linda Skeens' Blue Ribbon Kitchen: Recipes & Tips from America's Favorite County Fair Champion" (83 Press, 2023)
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Driving While Black: African Americans and the Automobile
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Thurka Sangaramoorthy, "Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Blair Kelley, "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class" (LIveright, 2023)
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Finola O'Kane, "Landscape Design and Revolution in Ireland and the United States, 1688-1815" (Paul Mellon Centre, 2023)
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Jul 30, 2023 |
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Erica Abrams Locklear, "Appalachia on the Table: Representing Mountain Food and People" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Rebecca Sharpless, "Grain and Fire: A History of Baking in the American South" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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African American Women on the American Railroad: A Conversation with Miriam Thaggert
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Nikki M. Taylor, "Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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Thomas A. Castillo, "Working in the Magic City: Moral Economy in Early Twentieth-Century Miami" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Sarah L. Hall, "Sown in the Stars: Planting by the Signs" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Kathryn Olivarius, "Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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Kidada E. Williams, "I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Joel Lafayette Fletcher III, "With Hawks and Angels: Episodes from a Southern Life" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
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May 28, 2023 |
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Ed Mitchell et al., "Ed Mitchell's Barbeque" (Ecco, 2023)
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May 26, 2023 |
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Rebecca Brückmann, "Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood: White Women, Class, and Segregation" (U Georgia Press, 2021)
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May 22, 2023 |
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Book Talk 60: Cleo McNellly Kearns on Mark Twain’s "Huckleberry Finn"
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May 20, 2023 |
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The Life and Legacy of Robert E. Lee: A Conversation with Allen C. Guelzo
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May 16, 2023 |
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Bill Steigerwald, "30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South" (Lyons Press, 2017)
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May 13, 2023 |
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Kyla Sommers, "When the Smoke Cleared: The 1968 Rebellion and the Unfinished Battle for Civil Rights in the Nation's Capital" (New Press, 2023)
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May 08, 2023 |
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Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, "Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia" (Fordham UP, 2022)
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May 08, 2023 |
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Chad E. Pearson, "Capital's Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century" (UNC Press, 2022)
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May 02, 2023 |
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Charles Reagan Wilson, "The Southern Way of Life: Meanings of Culture and Civilization in the American South" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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Tatiana D. McInnis, "To Tell a Black Story of Miami" (UP of Florida, 2022)
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Thomas Aiello, "Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration: The Cultural Geography of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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Keith Brian Wood, "Memphis Hoops: Race and Basketball in the Bluff City,1968-1997" (U Tennessee Press, 2021)
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Mari N. Crabtree, "My Soul Is a Witness: The Traumatic Afterlife of Lynching" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Apr 08, 2023 |
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Alexander Rose, "The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy" (Mariner Books, 2022)
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Apr 08, 2023 |
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Leah Mickens, "In the Shadow of Ebenezer: A Black Catholic Parish in the Age of Civil Rights and Vatican II" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Katherine Johnston, "The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd, "Southern Beauty: Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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David Wright Faladé, "Black Cloud Rising" (Grove Press, 2022)
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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Robin M. Morris, "Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women: Gender, Georgia, and the Growth of the New Right" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Damian Alan Pargas, "Freedom Seekers: Fugitive Slaves in North America, 1800–1860" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Jefferson Cowie, "Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power" (Basic Book, 2022)
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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T. R. Johnson, "New Orleans: A Writer's City" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Jovan Scott Lewis, "Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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Thomas Aiello, "Dixieball: Race and Professional Basketball in the Deep South, 1947-1979" (U Tennessee Press, 2019)
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Saida Grundy, "Respectable: Politics and Paradox in Making the Morehouse Man" (U California Press, 2022)
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Jonathan W. White and Lydia J. Davis, ed., "My Work Among the Freedmen: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss" (U Virginia Press, 2021)
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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Laura Janet Feller, "Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color Line" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Labor Journalism, Farmworkers, and Reynolds Tobacco with Victoria Bouloubasis
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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M. V. Hood and Seth C. McKee, "Rural Republican Realignment in the Modern South: The Untold Story" (U South Carolina Press, 2022)
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Emily Strasser, "Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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Michael Lawrence Dickinson, "Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680-1807" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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J. Brent Morris, "Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Viola Franziska Müller, "Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Emily A. Owens, "Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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The History of the Black Urban Working-Class in the United States
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Poverty, Race, and Rural Sanitation
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Jonathan W. White, "To Address You as My Friend: African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Jan 08, 2023 |
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Felicity M. Turner, "Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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Jefferson Cowie, "Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power" (Basic Books, 2022)
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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"Gone with the Wind" Revisited
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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Kevin R. C. Gutzman, "The Jeffersonians: Presidents Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe, 1801-1825" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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Lauren N. Haumesser, "The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856-1861" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Michael Ayers Trotti, "The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Sonya Y. Ramsey, "Bertha Maxwell-Roddey: A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership" (UP of Florida, 2022)
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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Gregory Smithsimon, "Liberty Road: Black Middle-Class Suburbs and the Battle Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Elizabeth N. Ellis. "The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Yasmine Ali, "Walk Through Fire: The Train Disaster That Changed America" (Citadel Press, 2023)
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Catherine Bateson, "Irish American Civil War Songs: Identity, Loyalty, and Nationhood" (Louisiana UP, 2022)
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Norm Cohen et al., "An American Singing Heritage: Songs from the British-Irish-American Oral Tradition as Recorded in the Early Twentieth Century" (A-R Editions, 2021)
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Virginia L. Summey, "The Life of Elreta Melton Alexander: Activism within the Courts" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Barbara E. Mattick, "Teaching in Black and White: The Sisters of St. Joseph in the American South" (Catholic U of America Press
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Char Miller, "West Side Rising: How San Antonio's 1921 Flood Devastated a City and Sparked a Latino Environmental Justice Movement" (Maverick Books, 2022)
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Christopher Willoughby, "Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in US Medical Schools" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Anna Arabindan-Kesson, "Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Caroline Grego, "Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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R. Isabela Morales, "Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Clayton J. Butler, "True Blue: White Unionists in the Deep South during the Civil War and Reconstruction" (LSU Press, 2022)
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Andrew McIlwaine Bell, "The Origins of Southern College Football: How an Ivy League Game Became a Dixie Tradition" (LSU Press, 2020)
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Sam W. Haynes, "Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas" (Basic Books, 2022)
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Regina L. Wagner, "Electoral Patterns in Alabama: Local Change and Continuity Amid National Trends" (Palgrave MacmIllan, 2022)
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Guy Lancaster, "American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching" (U Arkansas Press, 2021)
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Dan Immergluck, "Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta" (U California Press, 2022)
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Charles Sawyer, "B. B. King: From Indianola to Icon: A Personal Odyssey with the 'King of the Blues'" (Schiffer Publishing, 2022)
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Alena Pirok, "The Spirit of Colonial Williamsburg: Ghosts and Interpreting the Recreated Past" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Robert P. Watson, "George Washington's Final Battle: The Epic Struggle to Build a Capital City and a Nation" (Georgetown UP, 2021)
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Wendy Gonaver, "The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840–1880" (UNC Press, 2019)
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Kenneth H. Kolb, "Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate" (U California Press, 2021)
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Timothy Paul Bowman, "You Will Never Be One of Us: A Teacher, a Texas Town, and the Rural Roots of Radical Conservatism" (U of Oklahoma Press, 2022)
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Emily Bingham, "My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song" (Knopf, 2022)
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Amy Potter et al., "Remembering Enslavement: Reassembling the Southern Plantation Museum" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Carl A. Brasseaux and Donald W. Davis, "Asian-Cajun Fusion: Shrimp from the Bay to the Bayou" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Jodi Skipper, "Behind the Big House: Reconciling Slavery, Race, and Heritage in the U.S. South" (U Iowa Press, 2022)
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Marissa R. Moss, "Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be" (Henry Holt, 2022)
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Davida Breier, "Sinkhole" (U New Orleans Press, 2022)
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Marcus Nevius on Becoming a Historian, Marronage, Slave Resistance, and More!
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Sep 03, 2022 |
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Christopher M. Reali, "Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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John M. Shaw, "Following the Drums: African American Fife and Drum Music in Tennessee" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Peter H. Wood, "Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion" (Norton, 1996)
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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The Battle of Buxton: Saving a Lighthouse in the Era of Climate Change
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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Michael K. Beauchamp, "Instruments of Empire: Colonial Elites and U.S. Governance in Early National Louisiana, 1803–1815" (LSU Press, 2021)
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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John Joe Schlichtman, "Showroom City: Real Estate and Resistance in the Furniture Capital of the World" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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Katharine A. Burnett and Monica Carol Miller, "The Tacky South" (LSU Press, 2022)
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Thulani Davis, "The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Tanya M. Peres and Aaron Deter-Wolf, "Baking, Bourbon, and Black Drink" (U Alabama Press, 2018)
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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David Silkenat, "Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Rain Prud'homme-Cranford and Darryl Barthé, "Louisiana Creole Peoplehood: Afro-Indigeneity and Community" (U Washington Press, 2022)
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Joseph Boone, "Furnace Creek" (Eyewear Publishing, 2021)
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Amy L. Stone, "Queer Carnival: Festivals and Mardi Gras in the South" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Stephen Deusner, "Where the Devil Don't Stay: Traveling the South with the Drive-By Truckers" (U Texas Press, 2021)
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross, "Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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May 31, 2022 |
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Anjanette Delgado, "Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness" (UP of Florida Press, 2021)
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May 27, 2022 |
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Brandon T. Jett, "Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South" (Louisiana State UP, 2021)
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May 27, 2022 |
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Glenda E. Gilmore, "Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination: An Artist's Reckoning with the South" (UNC Press, 2022)
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May 10, 2022 |
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The Future of Statues: A Conversation with Alex Von Tunzelmann
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May 03, 2022 |
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Joan DeJean, "Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast" (Basic, 2022)
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May 02, 2022 |
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Rana A. Hogarth, "Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840" (UNC Press, 2017)
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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João B. Chaves, "The Global Mission of the Jim Crow South: Southern Baptist Missionaries and the Shaping of Latin American Evangelicalism" (Mercer UP, 2022)
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Nina M. Yancy, "How the Color Line Bends: The Geography of White Prejudice in Modern America" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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John S. Huntington, "Far-Right Vanguard: The Radical Roots of Modern Conservatism" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Lindsey Krinks, "Praying with Our Feet: Pursuing Justice and Healing on the Streets" (Brazos, 2021)
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Kate Clifford Larson, "Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Jenifer L. Barclay, "The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America" (U of Illinois Press, 2021)
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Mark Newman, "Desegregating Dixie: The Catholic Church in the South and Desegregation, 1945-1992" (UP of Mississippi, 2018)
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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Erin L. Thompson, "Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments" (Norton, 2022)
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Steven J. Brady, "Chained to History: Slavery and US Foreign Relations to 1865" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Carole Emberton, "To Walk about in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner" (Norton, 2022)
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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K. Stephen Prince, "The Ballad of Robert Charles: Searching for the New Orleans Riot Of 1900" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Michael Gorra, "The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War" (Liveright Publishing, 2020)
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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Sherry Scott, "Playhouses: Sexuality and Fundamentalism" (Black Rose Writing, 2022)
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Gregg Cantrell, "The People's Revolt: Texas Populists and the Roots of American Liberalism" (Yale UP, 2020)
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Rachel Marie-Crane Williams, "Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching" (Verso, 2021)
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Max Krochmal and Todd Moye, "Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas" (U Texas Press, 2021)
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Eric Herschthal, "The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Gregory Samantha Rosenthal, "Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Frank Andre Guridy, "The Sports Revolution: How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics" (U Texas Press, 2021)
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Ada Ferrer, "Cuba: An American History" (Scribner, 2021)
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Baker A. Rogers, "King of Hearts: Drag Kings in the American South" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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Tyler D. Parry, "Jumping the Broom: The Surprising Multicultural Origins of a Black Wedding Ritual" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Fay A. Yarbrough, "Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Howard Philips Smith, "A Sojourn in Paradise: Jack Robinson in 1950s New Orleans" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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Suzanne Cope, "Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement" (Lawrence Hill Books, 2021)
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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Andrew J. Kunka, "The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse: Taking Risks in the Service of Truth" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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Rosa Hawkins and Steve Bergsman, "Chapel of Love: The Story of New Orleans Girl Group the Dixie Cups" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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Warren E. Milteer Jr., "North Carolina's Free People of Color, 1715-1885" (LSU Press, 2020)
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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Catherine Gentile, "Sunday's Orphan" (Booklocker.com, 2021)
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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Sonia Hernández and John Morán González, "Reverberations of Racial Violence: Critical Reflections on the History of the Border" (U Texas Press, 2021)
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Warren E. Milteer, Jr., "Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Lee B. Wilson, "Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–1783" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, "Race Brokers: Housing Markets and Segregation in 21st Century Urban America" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Bryant Terry, "Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora" (4 Color Books, 2021)
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Cassandra Lane, "We Are Bridges: A Memoir" (Feminist Press, 2021)
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Marianne Worthington, "The Girl Singer" (Fireside Industries, 2021)
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Mia Bay, "Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Edward L. Ayers, "Southern Journey: The Migrations of the American South, 1790-2020" (LSU Press, 2020)
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Joseph C. Ewoodzie, "Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Clint Smith, "How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America" (Little, Brown and Company, 2021)
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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Shelby Criswell, "Queer As All Get Out: 10 People Who've Inspired Me" (Street Noise Books, 2021)
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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Steven P. Brown, "Alabama Justice: The Cases and Faces That Changed a Nation" (U Alabama Press, 2020)
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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James Bailey Blackshear and Glen Sample Ely, "Confederates and Comancheros: Skullduggery and Double-Dealing in the Texas-New Mexico Borderlands" (U Oklahoma Press, 2021)
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Stephen Cushman, "The Generals' Civil War: What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh, "The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Chris McLaughlin, "Mississippi Barking: Hurricane Katrina and a Life That Went to the Dogs" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Alice L Baumgartner, "South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War" (Basic Books, 2020)
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Elizabeth McCain, "A Lesbian Belle Tells: OUTrageous Southern Stories of Family, Loss, and Love" (Crystal Heart Imprints, 2020)
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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Aaron Cometbus and Scott Satterwhite, "A Punkhouse in the Deep South: The Oral History Of 309" (UP of Florida, 2021)
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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M. E. J. Huff and Carole Ann King, "Alabama Quilts: Wilderness Through World War II, 1682-1950" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Kalle Kananoja, "Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Alecia P. Long, "Cruising for Conspirators: How a New Orleans DA Prosecuted the Kennedy Assassination As a Sex Crime" (Boundless South, 2021)
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Vanessa M. Holden, "Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Thomas Michael Kersen, "Where Misfits Fit: Counterculture and Influence in the Ozarks" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb, "Race Unequals: Overseer Contracts, White Masculinities, and the Formation of Managerial Identity in the Plantation Economy" (Lexington, 2021)
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Lettie Gay, "Two Hundred Years of Charleston Cooking" ( U South Carolina Press, 2021)
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Michael Twitty, "Rice: A Savor the South Cookbook" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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Michael J. Bustamante, "Cuban Memory Wars: Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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Mark A. Johnson, "Rough Tactics: Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877-1932" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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Sarah Hepola on Drinking in a "Dry" Texas County
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Robert Wooster, "The United States Army and the Making of America: From Confederation to Empire, 1775-1903" (UP of Kansas, 2021)
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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Kevin McGruder, "Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Jeffery A. Jenkins and Justin Peck, "Congress and the First Civil Rights Era, 1861-1918" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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Kevin Waite, "West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Ken Ellingwood, "First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery" (Pegasus Books, 2021)
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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Nathan Kalmoe, "With Ballots and Bullets: Partisanship and Violence in the American Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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Candace Bailey, "Unbinding Gentility: Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-Century South" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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Sebastian N. Page, "Black Resettlement and the American Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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Todd M. Kerstetter, "Flood on the Tracks: Living, Dying, and the Nature of Disaster in the Elkhorn River Basin" (Texas Tech UP, 2019)
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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Martin Summers, "Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Jeanne Pitre Soileau, "Yo' Mama, Mary Mack, and Boudreaux and Thibodeaux: Louisiana Children's Folklore and Play" (UP of Mississippi, 2016)
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Roopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs, "The Digital Black Atlantic" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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Jody Edward Ginn, "East Texas Troubles: The Allred Rangers' Cleanup of San Augustine" (U Oklahoma Press, 2019)
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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Edward G. Longacre, "Unsung Hero of Gettysburg: The Story of Union General David McMurtrie Gregg" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Timothy D. Walker, "Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad" (U Massachusetts Press, 2021)
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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No Choice: Why Is It So Hard to Get an Abortion in the South?
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Todne Thomas, "Kincraft: The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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Joshua D. Rothman, "The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America" (Basic Book, 2021)
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May 20, 2021 |
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Justene Hill Edwards, "Unfree Markets: The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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May 19, 2021 |
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Kathryn Benjamin Golden, "Armed in the Great Swamp': Fear, Maroon Insurrection, and the Insurgent Ecology of the Great Dismal Swamp" (2021)
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May 19, 2021 |
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Susan M. Reverby, "Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy" (UNC Press, 2013)
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May 05, 2021 |
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Karlos K. Hill, "The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History" (U Oklahoma Press, 2021)
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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E. Patrick Johnson, "Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South" (U of North Carolina Press, 2011)
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Fatima Shaik, "Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood" (HNOC, 2021)
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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Tamika Y. Nunley, "At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C." (UNC Press, 2021)
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Regina N. Bradley, "Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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Julio Capó Jr., "Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940" (UNC Press, 2017)
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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B. K. Mitchell, et al., "Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana" (HNOC, 2021)
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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Thomas C. Holt, "The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Mary Ann Cherry, "Morris Kight: Humanist, Liberationist, Fantabulist: A Story of Gay Rights and Gay Wrongs" (Process, 2020)
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Elizabeth L. Jemison, "Christian Citizens: Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Post-Emancipation South" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Zach Sell, "Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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David A. Less, "Memphis Mayhem: A Story of the Music That Shook Up the World" (ECW Press, 2020)
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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Jonathan S. Holloway, "The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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William C. Kashatus, "William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia" (U Notre Dame Press, 2021)
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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B. Brian Foster, "I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Michael J. Pfeifer, "The Making of American Catholicism: Regional Culture and the Catholic Experience" (NYU Press, 2021
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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Theodore D. Segal, "Point of Reckoning: The Fight for Racial Justice" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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Robert Elder, "Calhoun: American Heretic" (Basic Books, 2021)
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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Ty Seidule, "Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause" (St. Martin's Press, 2021)
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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Kaitland M. Byrd, "Real Southern Barbecue: Constructing Authenticity in Southern Food Culture" (Lexington, 2019)
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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Stephanie McCurry, "Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the Civil War" (Harvard UP, 2019)
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Studying LBGT Organizing in China: A Conversation with Caterina Fugazzola
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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Daniel B. Rood, "The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Paul O. Jenkins, "Bluegrass Ambassadors: The McLain Family Band in Appalachia and the World" (West Virginia UP, 2020)
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Richard Kreitner, "Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union" (Little Brown, 2020)
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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Earl Wright II, "Jim Crow Sociology: The Black and Southern Roots of American Sociology" (University of Cincinnati Press, 2020)
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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Gretchen Sorin, "Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights" (Liveright, 2020)
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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Michael Gorra, "The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War" (Liveright, 2020)
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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Jason Berry, "City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300" (UNC Press, 2018)
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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Chris Hamby, "Soul Full of Coal Dust: The True Story of an Epic Battle for Justice" (Little Brown, 2020)
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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Elizabeth Catte, "Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia" (Belt, 2021)
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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Queer Voices of the South: Year in Review
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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Ashon T. Crawley, "The Lonely Letters" (Duke UP, 2020)
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: This Alarming Paradox, 1935-1962" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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Pip Gordon, "Gay Faulkner: Uncovering a Homosexual Presence in Yoknapatawpha and Beyond" (UP Mississippi, 2019)
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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John Garrison Marks, "Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery: Race, Status, and Identity in the Urban Americas" (U of South Carolina Press, 2020)
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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Connor Towne O’Neill, "Down Along with That Devil’s Bones" (Algonquin Books, 2020)
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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Robert Fieseler, "Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation" (Liveright, 2018)
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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Karlos K. Hill, "The Murder of Emmett Till: A Graphic History" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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Morris Ardoin, "Stone Motel: Memoirs of a Cajun Boy" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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Denise E. Bates, "Basket Diplomacy: Leadership, Alliance-Building, and Resilience among the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, 1884-1984" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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B. Heersink and J. A. Jenkins, "Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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John F. Marszalek III, "Coming Out of the Magnolia Closet: Same-Sex Couples in Mississippi" (U Mississippi Press, 2020)
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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Colin Woodard, "Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood" (Viking, 2020)
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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Aaron Carico, "Black Market: The Slave's Value in National Culture after 1865" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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Jennifer Atkins, "New Orleans Carnival Balls: The Secret Side of Mardi Gras, 1870-1920" (LSU Press, 2017)
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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J. Browning and T. Silver, "An Environmental History of the Civil War" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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Alex Sayf Cummings, "Brain Magnet: Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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Aug 05, 2020 |
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Anne Lindsay, "Reconsidering Interpretation of Heritage Sites: America in the Eighteenth Century" (Routledge, 2020)
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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Lesly-Marie Buer, "RX Appalachia: Stories of Treatment and Survival in Rural Kentucky" (Haymarket, 2020)
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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Ann Tucker, "Newest Born of Nations: European Nationalist Movements and the Making of the Confederacy" (UVA Press, 2020)
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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Emily Wallace, "Road Sides: An Illustrated Companion to Dining and Driving in the American South" (U Texas Press, 2019)
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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Jerry Gershenhorn, "Louis Austin and the Carolina Times: A Life in the Long Black Freedom Struggle" (UNC Press, 2018)
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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Nicole Myers Turner, "Soul Liberty: The Evolution of Black Religious Politics in Postemancipation Virginia" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Jul 06, 2020 |
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Nicole Maurantonio, "Confederate Exceptionalism: Civil War Myth and Memory in the Twenty-First Century" (UP of Kansas, 2019)
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Jul 03, 2020 |
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Michael Goldfield, "The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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Howard Philips Smith, "Southern Decadence in New Orleans" (LSU Press, 2018)
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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E. Engelhardt and L. Smith, "The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell: Contemporary Appalachian Table" (Ohio UP, 2019)
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May 25, 2020 |
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Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934" (UVA Press, 2020)
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May 04, 2020 |
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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Peter La Chapelle, "I’d Fight the World: A Political History of Old-Time, Hillbilly, and Country Music" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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Adam H. Domby, "The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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Christopher Tomlins, "In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Apr 20, 2020 |
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Mary Stanton, "Red, Black, White: The Alabama Communist Party, 1930–1950" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger, "Southern Comforts: Drinking and the US South" (LSU Press, 2020)
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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Lane Windham, "Knocking on Labor's Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide" (UNC Press, 2017)
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Apr 03, 2020 |
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Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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Jessica Wilkerson, "To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice" (U Illinois Press, 2018)
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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Marcus P. Nevius, "City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856" (U Georgia Press, 2020)
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Mar 20, 2020 |
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John Weber, "From South Texas to the Nation: The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2015)
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Mar 20, 2020 |
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Alan Taylor, "Thomas Jefferson’s Education" (W. W. Norton, 2019)
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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Melissa Walker and Giselle Roberts, "Women’s Diaries and Letters of the South" (U South Carolina Press)
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Mar 13, 2020 |
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Jamie L. H. Goodall, "Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay: From the Colonial Era to the Oyster Wars" (The History Press, 2020)
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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Justin Nystrom, "Creole Italian: Sicilian Immigrants and the Shaping of New Orleans Food Culture" (U Georgia Press, 2018)
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Mar 05, 2020 |
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Ellen Griffith Spears, "Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town" (UNC Press, 2016)
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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Emily E. LB. Twarog, "Politics of the Pantry: Housewives, Food, and Consumer Protest in Twentieth-Century America" (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Feb 26, 2020 |
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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Bryant Simon, "The Hamlet Fire: A Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives" (The New Press, 2017)
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Feb 21, 2020 |
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Donald L. Miller, "Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign that Broke the Confederacy" (Simon and Schuster, 2019)
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Feb 19, 2020 |
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Blain Roberts and Ethan J. Kytle, "Denmark Vesey’s Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy" (The New Press, 2018)
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Feb 14, 2020 |
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Megan Kate Nelson, "The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West" (Scribner, 2019)
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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Blain Roberts, "Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South" (UNC Press, 2016)
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Feb 07, 2020 |
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R. Scott Huffard, Jr., "Redemption: Railroads and the Reconstruction of Capitalism in the New South" (UNC Press, 2019)
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Feb 05, 2020 |
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Jacob Remes, "Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the Progressive Era" (U Illinois Press, 2015)
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Jan 31, 2020 |
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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Lowell Mick White, "Burnt House" (Buffalo Times Press, 2018)
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Jan 28, 2020 |
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Adrienne Petty, "Standing Their Ground: Small Farmers in North Carolina Since the Civil War" (Oxford UP, 2013)
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Jan 24, 2020 |
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Brian Cervantez, "Amon Carter: A Lone Star Life" (U Oklahoma Press, 2019)
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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Blake Perkins, "Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks" (U Illinois Press, 2017)
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Jan 17, 2020 |
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Mark Barr, "Watershed" (Hub City Press, 2019)
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Jan 15, 2020 |
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Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, "Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America" (W. W. Norton, 2019)
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Jan 14, 2020 |
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Chad Pearson, "Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
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Jan 10, 2020 |
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Keri Leigh Merritt, "Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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Jan 03, 2020 |
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Alex Lichtenstein, "Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid" (Indiana UP, 2016)
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Dec 27, 2019 |
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Talitha LeFlouria, "Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South" (UNC Press, 2016)
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Dec 20, 2019 |
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Katherine Rye Jewell, "Dollars for Dixie: Business and the Transformation of Conservatism in the Twentieth Century" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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Dec 13, 2019 |
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Wilson Jeremiah Moses, "Thomas Jefferson: A Modern Prometheus" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Dec 10, 2019 |
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Matthew Hild and Keri Leigh Merritt, "Reconsidering Southern Labor History" (UP of Florida, 2018)
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Dec 06, 2019 |
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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Kathryn Holliday, "The Open-Ended City: David Dillon on Texas Architecture" (U Texas Press, 2019)
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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Cindy Hahamovitch, "The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945" (UNC Press, 2010)
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Nov 29, 2019 |
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Michelle Haberland, "Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000" (U Georgia Press, 2015)
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Nov 22, 2019 |
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Dave Tell, "Remembering Emmett Till" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
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Nov 14, 2019 |
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Kenneth Fones-Wolf, "Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South: White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie" (U Illinois Press, 2015)
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Nov 08, 2019 |
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John Shelton Reed, "Dixie Bohemia: A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s" (LSU Press, 2012)
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
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Nov 03, 2019 |
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Jay Driskell, "Schooling Jim Crow: The Fight for Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School" (UVA Press, 2014)
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Nov 01, 2019 |
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Eileen Boris, "Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919-2019" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Nov 01, 2019 |
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Timothy Lehman, "Up the Trail: How Texas Cowboys Herded Longhorns and Became an American Icon" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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Perla Guerrero, "Nuevo South: Asians, Latinas/os, and the Remaking of Place" (U Texas Press, 2017)
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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Greta de Jong, "You Can’t Eat Freedom: Southerners and Social Justice after the Civil Rights Movement" (UNC Press, 2016)
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Oct 25, 2019 |
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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Karen Cox, "Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South" (UNC Press, 2017)
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Oct 18, 2019 |
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Andrew C. Baker, "Bulldozer Revolutions: A Rural History of the Metropolitan South" (U Georgia Press, 2018)
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Oct 18, 2019 |
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Wiley Cash, "The Last Ballad" (William Morrow, 2017)
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Oct 11, 2019 |
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Rafia Zafar, "Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
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Oct 11, 2019 |
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Gregory P. Downs, "After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War" (Harvard UP, 2015)
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Oct 09, 2019 |
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Evan Bennett, "When Tobacco Was King: Families, Farm Labor, and Federal Policy in the Piedmont" (UP Florida, 2014)
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Oct 04, 2019 |
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Thomas Aiello, "The Grapevine of the Black South" (U Georgia Press, 2018)
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Sep 19, 2019 |
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Jennifer A. Jones, "The Browning of the New South" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
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Jul 24, 2019 |
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Jeanne Theoharis, "The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle outside of the South" (NYU Press, 2019)
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May 06, 2019 |
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Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, "They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Mar 29, 2019 |
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Erin Stewart Mauldin, “Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South” (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Nov 09, 2018 |
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Zachary Lechner, “The South of the Mind: American Imaginings of White Southernness, 1960–1980” (U Georgia Press, 2018)
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Oct 31, 2018 |
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William D. Bryan, “The Price of Permanence: Nature and Business in the New South” (U Georgia Press, 2018)
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Aug 23, 2018 |
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Charles Hughes, “Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South” (UNC Press, 2015)
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Jun 06, 2018 |
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Confederate Monuments with Kevin Levin
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Nov 16, 2017 |
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Stephanie Hinnershitz, “A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South” (UNC Press, 2017)
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Nov 14, 2017 |
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Michael W. Twitty, “The Cooking Gene: A Journey through African American Culinary History in the Old South” (Amistad, 2017)
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Jun 19, 2017 |
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Brent Walker, “The Hidden South–Come Home” (Beaver’s Pond Press, 2016)
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Jul 01, 2016 |
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Daniel Tortora, "Carolina in Crisis: Cherokees, Colonists, and Slaves in the American Southeast, 1756-1763" (UNC Press, 2015)
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Dec 18, 2015 |
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Julie M. Weise, “Corazon de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South Since 1910” (UNC Press, 2015)
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Dec 17, 2015 |
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Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett, “Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights” (UNC Press, 2015)
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Dec 09, 2015 |
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Glenn Feldman, “Nation within a Nation: The American South and the Federal Government” (UP of Florida, 2014)
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Aug 18, 2014 |
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Glenn Feldman, “The Irony of the Solid South: Democrats, Republicans, and Race, 1865-1944” (University of Alabama Press, 2013)
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Nov 25, 2013 |
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Jonathan D. Wells, “Women Writers and Journalists in the Nineteenth-Century South” (Cambridge UP, 2011)
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Oct 23, 2013 |
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Robert Cassanello, “To Render Invisible: Jim Crow and Public Life in New South Jacksonville” (University Press of Florida, 2013)
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Sep 30, 2013 |
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Angela Pulley Hudson, “Creek Paths and Federal Roads: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves and the Making of the American South” (University of North Carolina Press, 2010)
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Aug 20, 2012 |
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Jeff Wilson, “Dixie Dharma: Inside a Buddhist Temple in the American South” (UNC Press, 2012)
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Jul 20, 2012 |
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Malinda Lowery, “Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation” (UNC Press, 2010
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Jul 15, 2011 |