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  • A Man of Bad Reputation

    The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction

    by Drew A. Swanson ...
    Five years after the Civil War, North Carolina Republican state senator John W. Stephens was found murdered inside the Caswell County Courthouse. Stephens fought for the rights of freedpeople, and his killing by the Ku Klux Klan ultimately led to insurrection, Governor William W. Holden’s impeachment, and the early unwinding of Reconstruction in North Carolina. In recounting Stephens’s murder, the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Remaking Wormsloe Plantation

    The Environmental History of a Lowcountry Landscape

    by Drew A. Swanson ...
    Series series Environmental History and the American South
    Why do we preserve certain landscapes while developing others without restraint? Drew A. Swanson’s in-depth look at Wormsloe plantation, located on the salt marshes outside of Savannah, Georgia, explores that question while revealing the broad historical forces that have shaped the lowcountry South.Wormsloe is one of the most historic and ecologically significant stretches of the Georgia coast. It ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Beyond the Mountains

    Commodifying Appalachian Environments

    by Drew A. Swanson ...
    Series series
    Beyond the Mountains explores the ways in which Appalachia often served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of nature. The region operated alternately as frontier, wilderness, rural hinterland, region of subsistence agriculture, bastion of yeoman farmers, and place to experiment with modernization. In these various takes on the southern mountains, scattered ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

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    A Man of Bad Reputation

    The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction

    by Drew A. Swanson ...
    Narrated by Bill Andrew Quinn ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 58 min

    Five years after the Civil War, North Carolina Republican state senator John W. Stephens was found murdered inside the Caswell County Courthouse. Stephens fought for the rights of freedpeople, and his killing by the Ku Klux Klan ultimately led to insurrection, Governor William W. Holden's impeachment, and the early unwinding of Reconstruction in North Carolina. In recounting Stephens's murder, the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Blue, the Gray, and the Green

    Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War

    by Brian Allen Drake, Lisa M. Brady, John C. Inscoe, Megan Kate Nelson, Kenneth Noe, Aaron Sachs, Mart A. Stewart, Paul S. Sutter, Drew A. Swanson, Timothy Johnson0, Dr. Timothy Silver1, Kathryn J. Shively2 ...
    Series series
    The Blue, the Gray, and the Green is one of only a handful of books to apply an environmental history approach to the Civil War. This book explores how nature—disease, climate, flora and fauna, and other factors—affected the war and also how the war shaped Americans’ perceptions, understanding, and use of nature. The contributors use a wide range of approaches that serve as a valuable template for ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Record, Document, Archive

    Constructing the South out of Region

    by Scott Romine, Katherine Adams, Keith Cartwright, Layla Amar, Kerrigan Casey, Julie R. Enszer, Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder, Sarah Gaby, Bryan Giemza, Allison Harris, Jacquelyne Thoni Howard, Hannah L. Jacobs, Qurat Khan, Bridget M. Marshall, Brianna McGruder, Rose Norman, Katie Owens-Murphy, Chaitra M. Powell, Rafael R. Solórzano, Drew Swanson, Dolores Flores-Silva ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    Grounded in critical theory, southern studies, archival methodologies, and anticolonial thought, Record, Document, Archive illuminates how the U.S. South is made knowable through the acts, objects, and systems that produce records, documents, and archives. Rather than treating “the South” as a fixed geography or predetermined object of study, this innovative, forward-thinking collection reframes ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • A Golden Weed

    Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South

    by Dr. Drew A. Swanson ...
    Series series Yale Agrarian Studies Series
    Drew A. Swanson has written an “environmental” history about a crop of great historical and economic significance: American tobacco. A preferred agricultural product for much of the South, the tobacco plant would ultimately degrade the land that nurtured it, but as the author provocatively argues, the choice of crop initially made perfect agrarian as well as financial sense for southern planters ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Leisure, Plantations, and the Making of a New South

    The Sporting Plantations of the South Carolina Lowcountry and Red Hills Region, 1900–1940

    by Julia Brock, Daniel Vivian, Jennifer Betsworth, Robin Bauer Kilgo, Matthew A. Lockhart, Hayden Ross Smith, Drew Swanson ...
    Series series New Studies in Southern History
    Leisure, Plantations, and the Making of New South investigates the social, architectural, and environmental history of sporting plantations in the South Carolina lowcountry and the Red Hills region of southeast Georgia and northern Florida. Although plantations figure prominently in histories of the post-emancipation South, historians have paid little attention to the redevelopment of plantations ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Writing History with Lightning

    Cinematic Representations of Nineteenth-Century America

    by Kenneth Greenberg, William L. Andrews, Lesley J. Gordon, John David Smith, Jonathon Sarris, Catherine Clinton, John F. Marszalek, Ryan Keating, Joseph Beilein, Brian Rouleau, Donna Barbie, Allison Dorsey, Stephen Whitfield, Marcus Rediker, Nicole Etcheson, Diane Miller Sommerville, Graham Hodges, Drew Swanson, Michael Burlingame, Tom Lee, James Crisp, Kevin Waite, Jacob Lee, Matthew E. Stanley ...
    Films possess virtually unlimited power for crafting broad interpretations of American history. Nineteenth-century America has proven especially conducive to Hollywood imaginations, producing indelible images like the plight of Davy Crockett and the defenders of the Alamo, Pickett’s doomed charge at Gettysburg, the proliferation and destruction of plantation slavery in the American South, Custer’s ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Historical Animal

    by Jason Colby, Abraham H. Gibson, Sandra Swart, Zeb Tortorici, Lisa Cox, Concepción Cortés Zulueta, David Gary Shaw, Andria Pooley-Ebert, Noah Cincinnati, Dolly Jørgensen, Nicola Foote, Charles W. Gunnels, IV, Stephanie Zehnle, Drew Swanson, Scott A. Miltenberger, Andrew McEwen, Courtney E. White ...
    The conventional history of animals could be more accurately described as the history of human ideas about animals. Only in the last few decades have scholars from a wide variety of disciplines attempted to document the lives of historical animals in ways that recognize their agency as sentient beings with complex intelligence. This collection advances the field further, inviting us to examine our ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Georgia's Planting Prelate

    by Hubert Owens ...
    Series Book 24 - Georgia Open History Library
    Georgia’s Planting Prelate consists of notes on the life of the Reverend Stephen Elliott, a bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the mid-1800s and the only presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America. These notes are accompanied by the full text of the bishop’s address on horticulture given in 1851 in Macon, which displays his remarkable ... Read more

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  • Joining Places

    Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South

    by Anthony E. Kaye ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    In this new interpretation of antebellum slavery, Anthony Kaye offers a vivid portrait of slaves transforming adjoining plantations into slave neighborhoods. He describes men and women opening paths from their owners' plantations to adjacent farms to go courting and take spouses, to work, to run away, and to otherwise contend with owners and their agents. In the course of cultivating family ties, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD