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  • Closed Seasons

    The Transformation of Hunting in the Modern South

    by Julia Brock ...
    In a unique and personal exploration of the game and fish laws in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi from the Progressive Era to the 1930s, Julia Brock offers an innovative history of hunting in the New South. The implementation of conservation laws made significant strides in protecting endangered wildlife species, but it also disrupted traditional hunting practices and livelihoods, particularly ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Gwinnett County, Georgia, and the Transformation of the American South, 1818–2018

    by Julia Brock, William D. Bryan, Richard A. Cook Jr., Lisa L. Crutchfield, Edward Hatfield, Keith Hebert, R. Scott Huffard Jr., Jr., David Mason, Marko Maunula, Erica Metcalfe, Katheryn L. Nikolich, David B. Parker, Bradley R. Rice, Carey Olmstead Shellman ...
    In Gwinnett County’s two hundred years, the area has been western, southern, rural, suburban, and now increasingly urban. Its stories include the displacement of Native peoples, white settlement, legal battles over Indian Removal, slavery and cotton, the Civil War and the Lost Cause, New South railroad and town development, Reconstruction and Jim Crow, business development and finance in a ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Teaching Public History

    Edited by Julia Brock, Evan Faulkenbury ...
    The field of public history is growing as college and university history departments seek to recruit and retain students by emphasizing how studying the past can sharpen their skills and broaden their career options. But faculty have often sought to increase course offerings without knowing exactly what the teaching and practice of public history entails. Public historians have debated the ... Read more

    $25.69 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

  • Beyond Rosie

    A Documentary History of Women and World War II

    by Julia Brock, Jennifer W. Dickey, Richard Harker, Catherine Lewis ...
    More so than any war in history, World War II was a woman’s war. Women, motivated by patriotism, the opportunity for new experiences, and the desire to serve, participated widely in the global conflict. Within the Allied countries, women of all ages proved to be invaluable in the fight for victory. Rosie the Riveter became the most enduring image of women’s involvement in World War II. What Rosie ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817–1862

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    This "enlightening" social history of the construction of the Erie canal explores "19th-century perceptions of progress, politics, and the common good" ( Kirkus Reviews).Woven from a rich tapestry of research, The Artificial River is more than just a historical account of the Erie Canal—it encapsulates a pivotal era in United States history, especially the monumental strides in engineering, ... Read more

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  • You Can Do Anything

    The Surprising Power of a "Useless" Liberal Arts Education

    by George Anders ...
    A job seeking strategy guide revealing "the extraordinary ways a liberal arts education broadens the career opportunities of new graduates" ( The Hill ).For more than a decade, the national spotlight has focused on science and engineering as the only reliable choice for finding a successful post-grad career. Our destinies have been reduced to a caricature: learn to write computer code or end up ... Read more

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  • Code Girls

    The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

    by Liza Mundy ...
    The secret history of the American women who served as codebreakers during World War II is revealed in this New York Times bestseller.**"Prodigiously researched and engrossing." —**New York TimesRecruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, t... ... Read more

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  • Rooted

    The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership

    by Brea Baker ...
    Why is less than 1% of rural land in the U.S. owned by Black people? An acclaimed writer and activist explores the impact of land theft and violent displacement on racial wealth gaps, arguing that justice stems from the literal roots of the earth.“With heartfelt prose and unyielding honesty, Baker explores the depths of her roots and invites readers to reflect on our own.”—Donovan X. Ramsey, ... Read more

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  • The New Education

    How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux

    by Cathy N. Davidson ...
    A leading educational thinker argues that the American university is stuck in the past -- and shows how we can revolutionize it for our era of constant changeOur current system of higher education dates to the period from 1865 to 1925. It was in those decades that the nation's new universities created grades and departments, majors and minors, all in an attempt to prepare young people for a world ... Read more

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  • The Fifties

    by David Halberstam ...
    This vivid New York Times bestseller about 1950s America from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist is "an engrossing sail across a pivotal decade" ( Time ).Joe McCarthy. Marilyn Monroe. The H-bomb. Ozzie and Harriet. Elvis. Civil rights. It's undeniable: The fifties were a defining decade for America, complete with sweeping cultural change and political upheaval. This decade is... ... Read more

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  • Before the Movement

    The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights

    by Dylan C. Penningroth ...
    **"Penningroth's conclusions emerge from an epic research agenda.... Before the Movement presents an original and provocative account of how civil law was experienced by Black citizens and how their 'legal lives' changed over time . . . [an] ambitious, stimulating, and provocative book." —Eric Foner, New York Review of BooksWinner of the Beveridge Award, American Historical AssociationWinner of ... Read more

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