The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of America's most beautiful and popular national p...

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'Having won a considerable victory at Fredericksburg only months earlier, Gen. Robert E. Lee woul...

'In Knoxville and here at the University of Tennessee, Charlie Tombras is perhaps best known for ...

'From 1849 to the early 1980s, fewer than one hundred highly educated, White, European and Americ...

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

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

'William Macy Stanton (1888-1969) was born to a Quaker family in northern Appalachia. He attended...

A Yankee Horseman in the Shenandoah Valley

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The Greatest Calamity

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One of the most notorious German spies of the twentieth century, Lothar Witzke lived a life that ...

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'Unlike many collections of original essays, this one is consistently fresh, coherent, and excell...

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Focusing on the menhaden fishermen of the southern coastal regions, The Fish Factory is an engagi...

Brings together a wealth of autobiographical writings, fiction, poetry, speeches, sermons, essays...

This volume presents full annotated text of five hundred documents from Andrew Jackson's fifth pr...

'After the death of his paddling companion, a German shepherd-labrador retriever mix named Jasper...

Though he has authored more than eleven novels, David Madden has been publishing short stories fo...

'This book will be of great use to historians of the western theatre of the Civil War, to the rea...

As a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, an army chaplain, a college professor, a...

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

Winner of the W.D. Weatherford Award

This is the most thorough analysis of slavery on the Georgia coast that we likely will ever have....

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

Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book

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Among the myriad books examining the Battle of Gettysburg, Summer Thunder is one of a kind. A ter...

Through close examination of Louisa May Alcott's letters, journals, and published writings, this ...

'Bowen has probed the working of Andrew Johnson's mind. His analysis illuminates the character of...

In the House of the Serpent Handler offers an intimate and engrossing look at the latest generati...

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'This book provides the first institutional and social history of America's first hall of fame, t...

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

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'In 1860, Orlando S. Palmer left his home in north Alabama to study law in Tennessee and the foll...

In Yankee Moderns, Michael Hoberman explores the convergence of folk regional identity -- a cultu...

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

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Working in isolation on a Connecticut farm, Julia Smith (1792-1886) translated the Bible into Eng...

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

Although vernacular architecture scholarship has expanded beyond its core fascination with common...

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

In this provocative work, Cheryl Claassen challenges long-standing notions about hunter-gatherer ...