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Against The Klan: A Newspaper Pub-Lisher In South Louisiana During The 1960s, A. Blake Denton Feb 2022

Against The Klan: A Newspaper Pub-Lisher In South Louisiana During The 1960s, A. Blake Denton

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Lou Major Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2021 ISBN: 9780807175408 188 p. $29.95 (ebk)


The Complete Collections Assessment Manual: A Holistic Approach, Austina M. Jordan Feb 2022

The Complete Collections Assessment Manual: A Holistic Approach, Austina M. Jordan

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M. M. Kelly Chicago: ALA Neal-Schuman, 2020 ISBN: 9780838918685 272 p. $57.99 (Pbk)


Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music And Changed American Culture, Chris Andrews Feb 2022

Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music And Changed American Culture, Chris Andrews

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Grace Elizabeth Hale Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020 ISBN: 9781469664057 384 p. $20.00 (Pbk)


Spreadsheets For Librarians: Getting Results With Excel And Google Sheets, Monique Martinez Feb 2022

Spreadsheets For Librarians: Getting Results With Excel And Google Sheets, Monique Martinez

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Bruce White Santa Barbara: Libraries Unlimited, 2021 ISBN: 9781440869310 305 p. $50.00 (Pbk)


Taste The State: South Carolina’Ssignature Foods, Recipes, And Their Stories, Christine Anderson Feb 2022

Taste The State: South Carolina’Ssignature Foods, Recipes, And Their Stories, Christine Anderson

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Kevin Mitchell & David S. Shields Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2021 ISBN: 9781643361963 248 p. $34.99 (Hbk)


Life Of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, Or Black Hawk: An Autobiography, Carol Walker Jordan Feb 2022

Life Of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, Or Black Hawk: An Autobiography, Carol Walker Jordan

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Michael A. Lofaro, ed. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2021 ISBN: 9781621906360 $25.00 (Pbk)


Low Country: A Southern Memoir, Kristine Stilwell Oct 2021

Low Country: A Southern Memoir, Kristine Stilwell

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J. Nicole Jones New York: Catapult, 2021 ISBN: 9781948226868 240 p. $26.00 (Hbk)


Racing For America: The Horse Race Of The Century And The Redemption Of A Sport, Sarah Grace Glover Oct 2021

Racing For America: The Horse Race Of The Century And The Redemption Of A Sport, Sarah Grace Glover

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James C. Nicholson Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2021 ISBN: 9780813180649 248 p. $26.00 (Hbk)


A Short History Of Charleston, Revised And Expanded Edition, Carol Walker Jordan Oct 2021

A Short History Of Charleston, Revised And Expanded Edition, Carol Walker Jordan

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Robert N. Rosen Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2021 ISBN: 9781643361864 216 p. $18.99 (Pbk)


Lethal State: A History Of The Death Penalty In North Carolina, Carol Walker Jordan May 2019

Lethal State: A History Of The Death Penalty In North Carolina, Carol Walker Jordan

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Lethal State: A History of the Death Penalty in North Carolina. Seth Kotch. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2019. ISBN 978-1-4696-4987-0 (pbk: $27.95); ISBN 978-1-4696-4986-3 (Hard: $90); ISBN 978-1-4696-4988-7 (EBook: $21.99). 320 p.


Mothers And Strangers: Essays On Motherhood From The New South, Carol Walker Jordan May 2019

Mothers And Strangers: Essays On Motherhood From The New South, Carol Walker Jordan

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Mothers and Strangers: Essays On Motherhood From The New South. Samia Serageldin and Lee Smith, eds. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2019. ISBN 978-1-4696-5767-5 (pbk: $22); 978-1-4696-5168-2 (EBook: $16.99). 264 p.


Order And Ardor: The Revival Spirituality Of Oliver Hart And The Regular Baptists In Eighteenth-Century South Carolina, Carol Walker Jordan May 2019

Order And Ardor: The Revival Spirituality Of Oliver Hart And The Regular Baptists In Eighteenth-Century South Carolina, Carol Walker Jordan

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Order and Ardor: The Revival Spirituality of Oliver Hart and the Regular Baptists in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina. Eric C. Smith. Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 2019. ISBN 978-1-61117-878-4 (Hard); 978-1-1117-879-1 (Ebook). Both formats $44.99. 168 p.


A South Carolina Upcountry Saga: The Civil War Letters Of Barham Bobo Foster And His Family, 1860-1863, Tim Dodge May 2019

A South Carolina Upcountry Saga: The Civil War Letters Of Barham Bobo Foster And His Family, 1860-1863, Tim Dodge

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A South Carolina Upcountry Saga: The Civil War Letters of Barham Bobo Foster and his Family 1860-1863. A. Gibert Kennedy, ed. Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 2019. ISBN: 978-1-61117-924-8 (cloth), ISBN: 9768-1-64336-02205 (ebook), $49.99 both formats. 360 p.


Charleston: City Of Gardens, Melinda F. Matthews May 2019

Charleston: City Of Gardens, Melinda F. Matthews

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Charleston: City of Gardens. Louisa Pringle Cameron. Columbia: University of South Carolina, 2018. ISBN: 978-1-61117-818-0 (Hard). $44.99. 162 p.


The South Of The Mind: American Imaginings Of White Southerness, 1960-1980, Carol Walker Jordan Feb 2019

The South Of The Mind: American Imaginings Of White Southerness, 1960-1980, Carol Walker Jordan

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The South of the Mind: American Imaginings of White Southernness, 1960-1980. Zachary J. Lechner. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018. ISBN 978-0-8203-5371-5 (Hard: $99.95) ISBN 978-0-8203-5390-6: Pbk: $28.95). 232 p.


Our Prince Of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy, Carol Walker Jordan Feb 2019

Our Prince Of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy, Carol Walker Jordan

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Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy. Edited by Nicole Seitz and Jonathan Haupt. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018. ISBN 978-0-8203-5448-4 (Hard); ISBN 978-0-8203-5449-1 (Ebook). $29.95. 320 p.


The Desegregation Of Public Libraries In The Jim Crow South: Civil Rights And Local Activism, Carol Walker Jordan Feb 2019

The Desegregation Of Public Libraries In The Jim Crow South: Civil Rights And Local Activism, Carol Walker Jordan

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The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South: Civil Rights and Local Activism . Wayne. A. Weigand and Shirley A. Weigand, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2018. ISBN 978-0-8071-6867-7 (Hard: $38). 280 p.


English Ethnicity And Culture In North America, Paris E. Webb Feb 2019

English Ethnicity And Culture In North America, Paris E. Webb

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English Ethnicity and Culture in North America. David T. Gleeson, ed. Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-61117-786-2 (Hardback); ISBN: 978-1-61117-787-9 (ebook). $49.99. 240 p.


Andrew Jackson: A Rhetorical Portrayal Of Presidential Leadership, Carol Walker Jordan Feb 2019

Andrew Jackson: A Rhetorical Portrayal Of Presidential Leadership, Carol Walker Jordan

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Andrew Jackson: A Rhetorical Portrayal of Presidential Leadership. Amos Kiewe. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2019. $39.95.


Masters Of Violence: The Plantation Overseers Of Eighteenth-Century Virginia, South Carolina And Georgia, Carol Walker Jordan Feb 2019

Masters Of Violence: The Plantation Overseers Of Eighteenth-Century Virginia, South Carolina And Georgia, Carol Walker Jordan

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Masters of Violence: The Plantation Overseers of Eighteenth-Century Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia. Tristan Stubbs. Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 2018. ISBN 978-1-61117-884-5 (Hard). ISBN 978-1-61117-885-2 (Ebook). $44.99. 248 p.


The Climb From Salt Lick: A Memoir Of Appalachia, Melanie Dunn Feb 2019

The Climb From Salt Lick: A Memoir Of Appalachia, Melanie Dunn

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The Climb from Salt Lick: A Memoir of Appalachia. Nancy Abrams. Morgantown: Vandalia Press, 2018. ISBN 978-1-946684-18-9 (Pbk.). ISBN 978-1-946684-19-6 (ePub). ISBN 978-1-946684-20-2 (PDF). $26.99. 276 p.


Ellen Shipman And The American Garden, Melinda F. Matthews Feb 2019

Ellen Shipman And The American Garden, Melinda F. Matthews

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Ellen Shipman and the American Garden. Judith B. Tankard. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018. ISBN: 978-0-8203-5208-4 (Hard). $39.95. 298 p.


Moonshiners And Prohibitionists: The Battle Over Alcohol In Southern Appalachia, Carol Walker Jordan Feb 2019

Moonshiners And Prohibitionists: The Battle Over Alcohol In Southern Appalachia, Carol Walker Jordan

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Moonshiners and Prohibitionists: The Battle over Alcohol in Southern Appalachia. Bruce E. Stewart. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2018. ISBN 978-0-8131-3000-2 (Hard: $70); ISBN 978-0-8131-7619-2 (Pbk: $30).


The Criminalization Of Black Children: Race, Gender, And Delinquency In Chicago's Juvenile Justice System, 1899-1945, Carol Walker Jordan Jun 2018

The Criminalization Of Black Children: Race, Gender, And Delinquency In Chicago's Juvenile Justice System, 1899-1945, Carol Walker Jordan

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The Criminalization of Black Children: Race, Gender, and Delinquency in Chicago’s Juvenile Justice System, 1899-1945. Tera Eva Agyepong. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. ISBN 978-1-4696-3644-3 (pbk.: $24.95), 978-1-4696-3865-2 (hard.;$90.00), 978-1-4696-3866-9 (Ebook; $18.99). 196 p.


Black Boys Burning: 1959 Fire At The Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School, Carol Walker Jordan Jun 2018

Black Boys Burning: 1959 Fire At The Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School, Carol Walker Jordan

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Black Boys Burning: The 1959 Fire at the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School. Grif Stockley. Jackson: The University Press of Mississippi, 2017. ISBN 978-1-4968-1269-8. 210 p. $35.00


A Political Campanion To W.E.B. Du Bois, Tim Dodge Jun 2018

A Political Campanion To W.E.B. Du Bois, Tim Dodge

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A Political Companion to W.E.B. Du Bois. Nick Bromell, ed. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2018. ISBN: 978-0-8131-7490-7 (hardcover; al. paper), ISBN: 978-0-8131-7493-8 (epub.), ISBN: 978-0-8131-7492-1 (pdf), 364 p. $80 all formats.


Black Litigants In The Antebellum American South, Carol Walker Jordan Jun 2018

Black Litigants In The Antebellum American South, Carol Walker Jordan

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Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South. Kimberly M. Welch. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. ISBN 978-1-6496-3643-6 (hard.: $39.95), 978-1-4696-3645-0 (Ebook; $29.99) 328 p.


Black Intellectual Thought In Modern America: A Historical Perspective, Carol Walker Jordan Jun 2018

Black Intellectual Thought In Modern America: A Historical Perspective, Carol Walker Jordan

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Black Intellectual Thought In Modern America: A Historical Perspective. Edited by Brian D. Behnken, Gregory D. Smithers, and Simon Wendt. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2017. ISBN 978-1-4968-1365-7. 240 p. $65.00.


Carolina Catch: Cooking North Carolina Fish And Shellfish From Mountains To Coast, Melinda F. Matthews Jun 2018

Carolina Catch: Cooking North Carolina Fish And Shellfish From Mountains To Coast, Melinda F. Matthews

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Carolina Catch: Cooking North Carolina Fish and Shellfish from Mountains to Coast. Debbie Moose. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. ISBN: 978-1-4696-4050-1 (cloth: alk.paper); 978-1-4696-4051-8 (ebook) 185 p. $35.00.


In The House Of The Serpent Handler: A Story Of Faith And Fleeting Fame In The Age Of Social Media, Carol Walker Jordan Jun 2018

In The House Of The Serpent Handler: A Story Of Faith And Fleeting Fame In The Age Of Social Media, Carol Walker Jordan

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In the House of the Serpent Handler: A Story of Faith and Fleeting Fame in the Age of Social Media. Julia C. Duin, Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2017. ISBN 978-1-6219-0375-8 (paper/PDF). $24.95