For those who live or love the tidal creeks and shores of the Lowcountry, the smell of pluff mud is the smell of home. Primordial and timeless, it is a cacophony of elements of the coast...salt, shells and teeming with life. And our b...

Nancy Hudson was involved in Panama City’s acquisition of the Panama City Publishing Company in 2005, obtained a grant for restoration of the building, and managed its transition into a museum in 2008. Now a volunteer at the mus...

A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy  Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white wo...

It's the most wonderful time of the year, especially in Alabama. Celebrate the spirit of the season with these tales of Christmases past from the heart of Dixie. There is the story of Helen Keller's first Christmas memories in Tuscumb...

From the authors of The South was Right! comes what one historian calls one of the most important and original histories of the Southern people. Punished with Poverty tells the unvarnished story of the intentional policy of economic ...

"Marvelous....THE FEUD is popular history as it ought to be written." ---Wall Street JournalNearly every American has heard of the Hatfields and the McCoys. The violent feud between these two families has become shorthand fo...

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POST"Compelling, insightful and important, Beneath a Ruthless Sun exposes the corruption of racial bigotry and animus that shadows a community, a state and a nation. A fasci...

On an August evening in the summer of 1973 in Tarboro, North Carolina a young woman walking alone was offered a ride by three young men. All of their lives were changed dramatically as the ensuing events became national news and for a...

The New Orleans mayor who removed the Confederate statues confronts the racism that shapes us and argues for white America to reckon with its past. A passionate, personal, urgent book from the man who sparked a national debate."T...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the most pernicious organizations in Ame...

Includes an All-New Afterword. An unflinching account of America’s most horrific racial massacre, The Burning is essential reading as America finally comes to terms with its racial past. When first published in 2001, socie...

Appalachian Magazine's Mountain Voice 2017 serves as an exhaustive collection of published online articles showcasing the Memories, Histories, and Tall Tales of life in Appalachia. Containing over eighty heart-warming and thought pro...

NEW ORLEANS: FACTS AND LEGENDS is a classic compilation of history, tales, and folklore about New Orleans. It is peppered with numerous vintage photographs of historic sites and the legendary men and women who framed Louisiana's life...

“For almost two decades, investigative journalist Jerry Mitchell doggedly pursued the Klansmen responsible for some of the most notorious murders of the civil rights movement. This book is his amazing story. Thanks to him, and t...

"Gripping and meticulously documented."―Don Schanche Jr., Washington PostForsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century, was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, f...

Prize-winning photographer Bruce Roberts has assembled a treasure trove of photos and stories that epitomize North Carolina from the 1950s to 1980. Catch a glimpse of simple farmers and farmhouses, lighthouses, Civil Rights demonstra...

Carolina Gold, the celebrated variety of rice established in the South Carolina Lowcountry, perhaps saved the fledgling colony at the beginning of the eighteenth century and remained integral to the local economy for nearly two hundre...

A collection of stories of people and events in the Florida Keys extending from the time the Keys were first occupied by humans, through the Second Seminole War, the coming of the Overseas Railway, and finally the opening of the first...

The Georgia Guidestones are a collection of standing stones near Elberton, Georgia. Built in 1980, they are primarily composed of six slabs of granite: one central pillar, four "major" stones that fan out from the center, an...

By the late nineteenth century, the city of Jacksonville was a vibrant cultural center on Florida's Atlantic coast. Through changing fortunes, Jacksonville has continued to grow and prosper by overcoming adversity and maintaining the ...