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  • Grave History

    Death, Race, and Gender in Southern Cemeteries

    by Carroll West, Joy M. Giguere, Antoinette Jackson, Scarlet Jernigan, Brian Palmer, Erin Hollaway Palmer, Lynn Rainville, Kaniqua Robinson, Adam Rosenblatt, Shari L. Williams, Adrienne Chudzinski ...
    Grave sites not only offer the contemporary viewer the physical markers of those remembered but also a wealth of information about the era in which the cemeteries were created. These markers hold keys to our historical past and allow an entry point of interrogation about who is represented, as well as how and why.Grave History is the first volume to use southern cemeteries to interrogate and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Nashville Architecture

    A Guide to the City

    by Carroll Van West ...
    “This book is one that all residents of Nashville—and visitors, too—are going to want to have on their bookshelves.” —Don H. Doyle, author of Nashville since the 1920sSince the turn of the eighteenth century, social movements and technological advances have strongly impacted cosmopolitan identity in America. Nashville, in particular, has experienced one transformation after another as change ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • African Americans of Giles County

    by Carla J. Jones, Tonya M. Hull ...
    Series series Images of America
    Giles County was founded on November 14, 1809, and is known as the land of milk and honey. The county is home to over 30 National Register properties, Civil War skirmish sites, a varied cultural heritage, and intersecting Trail of Tears routes (Benge�s and Bell�s). It is also the beginning place for many well-known African Americans, such as noted architect Moses McKissack, founder of McKissack ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Voyage of the Adventure

    Retracing the Donelson Party's Journey to the Founding of Nashville

    by John Guider, Albert Bender Jr, Jeff Sellers Jr, Carroll Van West Jr., Learotha Williams Jr. ...
    In the harsh winter of 1779, as the leader of a flotilla of settlers, John Donelson loaded his family and thirty slaves into a forty-foot flatboat at the present site of Kingsport, Tennessee. Their journey into the wilderness led to the founding of a settlement now known as Nashville—over one thousand river miles away. In the fall of 2016, photographer John Guider retraced the Donelson party’s ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    Mostly About Nibble the Bunny (UNABRIDGED)

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    by JOHN BRECK ...
    Narrated by Robert West, Lewis Carroll, Karen Loch, Katherine Kulesa ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 53 min

    Follow, “A Very Small Bunny Has a Very Big Adventure” as Nibble Rabbit romps through the clover patch and into the woods where he founds the other woodland creatures including Doctor Muskrat, Chatter Squirrel, Hooter the Owl, and Silvertip the Fox. This is part of the “Told at Twilight Stories” by John Breck ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The 1619 Project

    A New Origin Story

    by Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine ...
    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.“[A] groundbreaking compendium . . . bracing and urgent . . . This collection is an extraordinary update to an ongoing project of vital truth-telling.”—Esquire**NOW AN EMMY ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Look Up, Nashville! A Walking Tour of Nashville, Tennessee

    by Doug Gelbert ...
    There is no better way to see America than on foot. And there is no better way to appreciate what you are looking at than with a walking tour. Whether you are preparing for a road trip or just out to look at your own town in a new way, a downloadable walking tour is ready to explore when you are.Each walking tour describes historical and architectural landmarks and provides pictures to help out ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Men Who United the States

    America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible

    by Simon Winchester ...
    “Simon Winchester never disappoints, and The Men Who United the States is a lively and surprising account of how this sprawling piece of geography became a nation. This is America from the ground up. Inspiring and engaging.” —Tom BrokawSimon Winchester, acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman, delivers his first book about America: a fascinating ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Four Hundred Souls

    A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

    Edited by Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present—edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire.FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post, Town & Country, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Walking New York

    Manhattan History on Foot

    by Keith Taillon ...
    “There is no city like New York and no better tour guide to it than Keith Taillon! I’m a lifelong New Yorker but he has taught me things about each neighborhood and every block I never knew before. Keith brings the ‘city that never sleeps’ alive in a way no one else can.” – Anderson CooperJoin Keith Taillon on twelve of his most popular walking tour routes, examining in depth the various ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • How the States Got Their Shapes

    by Mark Stein ...
    "[A] wonderfully entertaining account of an often-overlooked oddity of America's history: how the jigsaw-puzzle layout of the United States emerged." —VogueThe New York Times BestsellerWhy does Oklahoma have that panhandle? Did someone make a mistake?We are so familiar with the map of the United States that our state borders seem as much a part of nature as mountains and rivers. Even the oddities ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Amsterdam

    by Gerald R. Snyder, Robert H. von Hasseln ...
    Series series Postcard History Series
    In the 1700s, Amsterdam was just a small trading village in upstate New York. Utilizing its superior location astride critical waterways, the village grew during the westward expansion of the early 1800s to become an industrial powerhouse. By the 20th century, Amsterdam had become America's foremost rug-making center, nicknamed the 'Carpet City,' and the seventh largest city in New York. Waves of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus