University of Georgia Press
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A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia
$21.95 Add to cartGetting acquainted with local flora and fauna is the perfect way to begin to understand the wonder of nature. The natural environment of Southern Appalachia, with habitats that span the Blue Ridge to
- Series: Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books
- Author: McLarney, Rose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0820374504
- Language: English
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Chet Atkins: Mr. Guitar
$39.95 Add to cartChet Atkins was arguably the most influential American guitarist of the twentieth century and, through his work as a recording executive, is often credited as a founder of the Nashville Sound. In Chet
- Series: Music of the American South
- Author: Cusic, Don
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0820373397
- Language: English
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Grant’s Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan
$32.95 Add to cartGrant’s Enforcer offers a gripping story of the early years after the Civil War and the campaign led by President Grant’s attorney general Amos T. Akerman to destroy the Ku Klux Klan. Akerman, a forme
- Author: Gugliotta, Guy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0820373362
- Language: English
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Hope Never to See It: A Graphic History of Guerrilla Violence During the American Civil War
$19.95 Add to cartHope Never to See It illustrates two exceptional incidents of occupational and guerrilla violence in Missouri during the American Civil War. The first is a Union spy’s two-week-long murder spree targe
- Author: Fialka, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0820369551
- Language: English
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January 6 and the Politics of History
$23.95 Add to cartOn January 6, 2021, more than two thousand rioters stormed the doors of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., hoping to interrupt the peaceful transfer of power from former president Donald T
- Series: History in the Headlines
- Author: Downs, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0820364045
- Language: English
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A History of Sautee Nacoochee
$34.95 Add to cartVirtually every landscape is a palimpsest, created by the imprint, however ephemeral, that people have left everywhere they have been. As one peels back layers of history, the true nature of a place c
- Author: Jones, Tommy Hart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0820369586
- Language: English
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Civil Sights: Sweet Auburn, a Journey Through Atlanta’s National Treasure
$29.95 Add to cartOnce the wealthiest Black neighborhood in the world, the Sweet Auburn Historic District in Atlanta, Georgia, now occupies a distinct place, both historically and geographically. It is at once the glob
- Author: Kansas, Gene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0820367702
- Language: English
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American Sheep: A Cultural History
$29.95 Add to cartWhy did Thomas Jefferson write that he would be happy if all dogs went extinct? What economic opportunity did attorney John Lord Hayes envision for the newly emancipated during Reconstruction? What Am
- Author: Bannor, Brett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0820367168
- Language: English
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A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia
$24.95 Add to cartNorthern Appalachia is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and home to a broad range of ecological and human cultures. With A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia, editors Todd Davis an
- Series: Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books
- Author: Davis, Todd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0820367427
- Language: English
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Books Through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books Movement
$39.95 Add to cartPeople organizing prison books programs have quietly gathered in basements, storage spaces, and the back rooms of secondhand bookstores for the last seventy years, reading letters written by incarcera
- Author: Marquis, Dave Mac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0820365874
- Language: English
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Japa and Other Stories
$25.95 Add to cartThese eight brutally beautiful stories are struck full of fragmented dreams, with highly developed thieves, misadventurers, and displaced characters all heaving through a human struggle to anchor them
- Series: Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
- Author: Nwachukwu, Iheoma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0820367273
- Language: English
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James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia: A Founder’s Journey from Slave Trader to Abolitionist
$22.95 Add to cartFounded by James Oglethorpe on February 12, 1733, the Georgia colony was envisioned as a unique social welfare experiment. Administered by twenty-one original trustees, the Georgia Plan offered Englan
- Author: Thurmond, Michael L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0820366005
- Language: English
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Roe v. Wade: Fifty Years After
$22.95 Add to cartJust over fifty years ago on January 22, 1973, the United States Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade assured millions of women that abortion was a protected constitutional right due to a woman’s rig
- Series: History in the Headlines
- Author: Clinton, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 15 2024
- ISBN10: 082036567X
- Language: English
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Bon App?tit, Y’All: Recipes and Stories from Three Generations of Southern Cooking, Revised and Updated, with New Recipes
$24.95 Add to cartFeaturing new recipes and photographs, this revised and updated edition of Virginia Willis’s best-selling culinary classic also features new variations and commentary on the original recipes plus opti
- Author: Willis, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0820367192
- Language: English
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Best Copy Available: A True Crime Memoir
$28.95 Add to cartIn the winter of 1984, Sharon Nicorvo was violently raped while delivering pizza to Fort Monmouth Army Base in New Jersey. At the same time, her seven-year-old son Jay was being subjected to repeated
- Series: The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction
- Author: Nicorvo, Jay Baron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0820367362
- Language: English
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Beware the Tall Grass
$22.95 Add to cartBeware the Tall Grass weaves the stories of the Sloans, a modern family grappling with their young son Charlie’s troubling memories of a past life as a soldier in Vietnam, and Thomas Boone, a young ma… [more below]
- Author: Morris, Ellen Birkett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: March 15 2024
- ISBN10: 9798988732105
- Language: English
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The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam
$26.95 Add to cartThe Broken Country uses a violent incident that took place in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2012 as a springboard for examining the long-term cultural and psychological effects of the Vietnam War. To make … [more below]
- Series: Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creati
- Author: Rekdal, Paisley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0820351172
- Language: English
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Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
$23.95 Add to cart“Beyond Katrina” is poet Natasha Trethewey’s very personal profile of her natal Mississippi Gulf Coast and of the people there whose lives were forever changed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Trethewey’s
- Author: Trethewey, Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 082034902X
- Language: English
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Joy Rides Through the Tunnel of Grief: A Memoir
$23.95 Add to cartJoy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief is a fresh and ferocious memoir-in-essays that maps the boundaries of love, language, and creative urgency. When Nelson’s father dies from an accident caused by c
- Series: The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction
- Author: Nelson, Jessica Hendry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0820365475
- Language: English
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Kill Your Masters: Run the Jewels and the World That Made Them
$28.95 Add to cartAll the unwritten rules of rap say it doesn’t happen like this. Yet Killer Mike, a Black man from Atlanta, Georgia, and El-P, a white man from Brooklyn, New York, have transformed what should have bee
- Series: Music of the American South
- Author: Doelen, Jaap Van Der
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0820367826
- Language: English
