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New Books in the American South

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John Shelton Reed, "Dixie Bohemia: A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s" (LSU Press, 2012)

50 mins; November 07, 2019

Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing

37 mins; November 03, 2019

Jay Driskell, "Schooling Jim Crow: The Fight for Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School" (UVA Press, 2014)

46 mins; November 01, 2019

Eileen Boris, "Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919-2019" (Oxford UP, 2019)

44 mins; November 01, 2019

Timothy Lehman, "Up the Trail: How Texas Cowboys Herded Longhorns and Became an American Icon" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)

63 hours 11 mins; October 31, 2019

Perla Guerrero, "Nuevo South: Asians, Latinas/os, and the Remaking of Place" (U Texas Press, 2017)

54 mins; October 31, 2019

Greta de Jong, "You Can’t Eat Freedom: Southerners and Social Justice after the Civil Rights Movement" (UNC Press, 2016)

34 mins; October 25, 2019

J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)

29 mins; October 24, 2019

Karen Cox, "Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South" (UNC Press, 2017)

35 mins; October 18, 2019

Andrew C. Baker, "Bulldozer Revolutions: A Rural History of the Metropolitan South" (U Georgia Press, 2018)

53 mins; October 18, 2019

Rafia Zafar, "Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning" (U Georgia Press, 2019)

63 hours 21 mins; October 11, 2019

Wiley Cash, "The Last Ballad" (William Morrow, 2017)

33 mins; October 11, 2019

Gregory P. Downs, "After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War" (Harvard UP, 2015)

82 hours 49 mins; October 09, 2019

Evan Bennett, "When Tobacco Was King: Families, Farm Labor, and Federal Policy in the Piedmont" (UP Florida, 2014)

45 mins; October 04, 2019

Thomas Aiello, "The Grapevine of the Black South" (U Georgia Press, 2018)

60 hours 6 mins; September 19, 2019

Jennifer A. Jones, "The Browning of the New South" (U Chicago Press, 2019)

56 mins; July 24, 2019

Jeanne Theoharis, "The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle outside of the South" (NYU Press, 2019)

44 mins; May 06, 2019

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, "They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South" (Yale UP, 2019)

60 hours 54 mins; March 29, 2019

Erin Stewart Mauldin, “Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South” (Oxford UP, 2018)

56 mins; November 09, 2018

Zachary Lechner, “The South of the Mind: American Imaginings of White Southernness, 1960–1980” (U Georgia Press, 2018)

76 hours 52 mins; October 31, 2018

William D. Bryan, “The Price of Permanence: Nature and Business in the New South” (U Georgia Press, 2018)

56 mins; August 23, 2018

Charles Hughes, “Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South” (UNC Press, 2015)

49 mins; June 06, 2018

Confederate Monuments with Kevin Levin

31 mins; November 16, 2017

Stephanie Hinnershitz, “A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South” (UNC Press, 2017)

65 hours 42 mins; November 14, 2017

Michael W. Twitty, “The Cooking Gene: A Journey through African American Culinary History in the Old South” (Amistad, 2017)

105 hours 59 mins; June 19, 2017

Brent Walker, “The Hidden South–Come Home” (Beaver’s Pond Press, 2016)

49 mins; July 01, 2016

Daniel Tortora, "Carolina in Crisis: Cherokees, Colonists, and Slaves in the American Southeast, 1756-1763" (UNC Press, 2015)

58 mins; December 18, 2015

Julie M. Weise, “Corazon de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South Since 1910” (UNC Press, 2015)

66 hours 6 mins; December 17, 2015

Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett, “Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights” (UNC Press, 2015)

31 mins; December 09, 2015

Glenn Feldman, “Nation within a Nation: The American South and the Federal Government” (UP of Florida, 2014)

19 mins; August 18, 2014

Glenn Feldman, “The Irony of the Solid South: Democrats, Republicans, and Race, 1865-1944” (University of Alabama Press, 2013)

28 mins; November 25, 2013

Jonathan D. Wells, “Women Writers and Journalists in the Nineteenth-Century South” (Cambridge UP, 2011)

62 hours 33 mins; October 23, 2013

Robert Cassanello, “To Render Invisible: Jim Crow and Public Life in New South Jacksonville” (University Press of Florida, 2013)

68 hours 17 mins; September 30, 2013

Angela Pulley Hudson, “Creek Paths and Federal Roads: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves and the Making of the American South” (University of North Carolina Press, 2010)

33 mins; August 20, 2012

Jeff Wilson, “Dixie Dharma: Inside a Buddhist Temple in the American South” (UNC Press, 2012)

66 hours 34 mins; July 20, 2012

Malinda Lowery, “Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation” (UNC Press, 2010

63 hours 38 mins; July 15, 2011

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