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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...

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

In the early days of the Cold War, the United States Army underwent a fundamental shift in its st...

When Claiborne Fox Jackson took the oath of office as Missouri's governor on January 3, 1861, onl...

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

The first book devoted entirely to the natural history of the forty-four species of amphibians no...

On a November afternoon in 1864, the weary Gen. John Bell Hood surveyed the army waiting to attac...

Colorful, dramatic, blundering, and tragic – these are some of the adjectives that have been appl...

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

“Groce offers a gracefully written, impressively researched narrative account of the experience o...

Published in 1957 to wide acclaim, James Agee's A Death in the Family was posthumously awarded th...

Scholars who teach, write, or speak on the history and culture of the Appalachian region are freq...

Accompanied by the author's striking line drawings, each chapter in Natural Histories showcases a...

Although the Voting Rights Act of 1965 removed the last legal barriers to voting in the South, th...

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Before the Great Smoky Mountains became a national park, the region was a lush wilderness dotted ...

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The Fellowship Independent Baptist Church was a group of fundamental Christian believers broadly ...

Tennessee’s geologic history has evolved in myriad ways since its initial formation more than a b...

“Smoking and Culture is an outstanding example of what is possible when new methods and theoretic...

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

Winner of the W.D. Weatherford Award

Basing her account on wills, probate records, published and unpublished census data, journals, di...

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

The Civil War in Southern Appalachian Methodism addresses a much-neglected topic in both Appalach...

With their stirring depictions of a proud people striving for fulfillment in a land of natural be...

|In this innovative work, Julia King moves nimbly among a variety of sources and disciplinary app...

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

Seeking a taste of unspoiled wilderness, more than nine million people visit the Great Smoky Moun...

Tennessee’s biotic diversity has been well documented in field guides dedicated to its wildflower...

Turn on, tune in, drop out, Timothy Leary advised young people in the 1960s. And many did, creati...

In the summer of 1936, writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans, on assignment for Fortune...

'Cliff Boyd's collection of archaeological research honors the long and distinguished career of G...

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

R. Tait McKenzie, the Sculptor of Athletes

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

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

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 n this provocative wor...

Religion has long been a source of identity for many Southerners, and the Appalachian areas in pa...

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written...