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Dead and Gone: Classic Crimes of North Carolina

With his distinctively witty, anecdotal, and disarming voice, Yow journeys to the shore--from the Outer Banks to the Gulf of Mexico--and shares his encounters with some of the most familiar and beloved coastal birds.

Nicolas Rosenthal reorients our understanding of the experience of American Indians by tracing their migration to cities, exploring the formation of urban Indian communities, and delving into the shifting relationships between reservations and urban areas from the early twentieth century to the present.

Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery

Drawing on an array of published and archival sources, Christian McWhirter analyses the myriad ways music influenced popular culture in the years surrounding the US civil war and discusses its deep resonance for both whites and blacks, South and North.

Though Martha OPatsyO Jefferson Randolph's name is familiar because of her famous president father, Kierner is the first historian to place Patsy at the center of her own story, taking readers into the largely ignored private spaces of the founding era.

Crossroads at Clarksdale: The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta after World War II

National Insecurities: Immigrants and U.S. Deportation Policy since 1882

Dixie Dharma: Inside a Buddhist Temple in the American South

Crabgrass Crucible: Suburban Nature and the Rise of Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America

Commonsense Anticommunism: Labor and Civil Liberties between the World Wars

"This volume of the Littlefield series is devoted to the land and river campaigns that took place in the Western theater of operations--from the Mississippi River eastward to the Appalachian Highlands"--Preface.

Home Grown: Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico's War on Drugs

Memories of Conquest: Becoming Mexicano in Colonial Guatemala

The debate over women's roles in the Southern Baptist Convention's conservative ascendance is often seen as secondary to theological and biblical concerns. Elizabeth Flowers argues, however, that for both moderate and conservative Baptist women - all of whom had much at stake - disagreements that touched on their familial roles and ecclesial authority have always been primary.

From Broadwater's view, no single figure can tell us more about the origins of the American republic than our fourth president. Madison was remarkably resilient and survived repeated setbacks in the War of 1812. Yet, Madison never fully grappled with American slavery.

Sexual Revolutions in Cuba: Passion, Politics, and Memory

As its interests have become deeply tied to the Middle East, the United States has long sought to develop a usable understanding of the people, politics, and cultures of the region. In Imagining the Middle East, Matthew Jacobs illuminates how Americans' ideas and perspectives about the region have shaped, justified, and sustained U.S. cultural, economic, military, and political involvement there.

While it was not until 1871 that slavery in Cuba was finally abolished, African-descended people had high hopes for legal, social, and economic advancement as the republican period started. This analyses the racial politics and culture of black civic and political activists during the Cuban Republic.

Confronting America: The Cold War between the United States and the Communists in France and Italy

Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State

Addresses the history and treatment of backache, taking the 'Hadlerian' approach to backaches and the backache treatment industry in order to separate the helpful from the hype. This title argues that regional back pain is overly medicalized by doctors, surgeons, and alternative therapists who purvey various treatment regimens.

Anetso, the Cherokee Ball Game: At the Center of Ceremony and Identity

Chronicles the legal and social transformations that led to the transfer of ownership of employee innovation from labor to management. This book addresses scholarly deficiencies in the histories of labor, intellectual property, and the business of technology.

Shows that theological issues in general - and the ancient Christian doctrine of original sin in particular - became important to both the culture at large and to a generation of American Protestants during a postwar 'age of anxiety' as the Cold War took root.

Crisscrossing her home state of North Carolina over the course of six tasty years, the author visited families in their own kitchens and discovered a treasure trove of delicacies. This title offers the recipes for more than 220 of these confections, along with tips and instructions for successfully creating desserts and candies.

New Orleans was the largest city in the Confederacy, protected in part by Fort Jackson, which was just 65 miles down the Mississippi River. On April 27, 1862, Confederate soldiers at Fort Jackson rose up in mutiny against their commanding officers. This book examines various sources to determine why the soldiers rebelled at such a decisive moment.

Combining traditional Appalachian folktale plots with a contemporary sensibility, this title presents fourteen stories of a funny, magical, yet familiar world.

William Lowndes Yancey (1814-63) was one of the leading secessionists of the Old South. This biography examines his personality and political life. Born in Georgia but raised in the North by a fiercely abolitionist stepfather and an emotionally unstable mother, Yancey grew up believing that abolitionists were cruel, meddling, and hypocritical.

Presenting an examination of Spanish California, this book aims to illuminate Indian struggles against a confining colonial order and amidst harrowing depopulation. Concentrating on the experiences of the Costanoan and Esselen peoples during the colonial period, it concludes with an epilogue that carries the story of their survival.