In 1854 an assistant surgeon named Albert J. Myer entered the Union Army and created a system of transmitting information that would revolutionize military communications. His flag-and-torch system le
Though he has authored more than eleven novels including, Cassandra Singing, The Suicide’s Wife, Abducted by Circumstance, and the recent London Bridge in Plague and Fire, David Madden has been publis
The son of black sharecroppers, John Oliver Hodges attended segregated schools in Greenwood, Mississippi, in the 1950s and ’60s, worked in plantation cotton fields, and eventually left the region to e
“No one creates so many memorable, saucy aphorisms-piquant, bitter-sweet, arousing.” -Pat C. Hoy II, New York UniversitySam Pickering's essays are funny and wise-and always intoxicating, eggnog to war
The complicated and often vexed relationships between humans and their neighbors in the natural world are illuminated in this collection of sixteen essays that each showcase a particular animal or pla
The Big Sandy River Valley of Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia experienced a great coal boom at the end of the nineteenth century. The area attracted railroads, capital, corporations, and people.
Archaeologists mostly from the region itself but also across the country, report on findings and interpretations of prehistoric artifacts and sites in the eastern US mountain range that extends from N
This volume encompasses the last six months of Andrew Johnson's presidency (September 1868–February 1869) and March and April of 1869. During this time Johnson moved from being a considerably diminish
A chronicle of hardship and persistence, Removal Aftershock centers on the Seminoles and their experiences in the West after the federal government forced them out of their Florida homelands during th
A detailed investigation of one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War looks at events and participants to illuminate the controversy surrounding the engagement and to explore the factors creating
This literary study for scholars examines the action-adventure heroine in American fictional narratives, written by both men and women, of the 18th and 19th centuries. The study considers the use o
Bales, a naturalist and author, provides 12 essays about nature in East Tennessee, describing fleeting, short-lived, or transient flora and fauna: the short-eared owl; the jack-in-the-pulpit plant;
This volume contains 18 essays on writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans' chronicle of the daily lives and poverty of Alabama sharecroppers during the 1930s, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,
The Civil War in Southern Appalachian Methodism addresses a much-neglected topic in both Appalachian and Civil War history—the role of organized religion in the sectional strife and the war itself.
East Tennessee is loaded with great people, exciting places, and fascinating history. Explore the region through the eyes of local children and learn about all the things that make East Tennessee such
Southerners have a reputation as storytellers, as a people fond of telling about family, community, and the southern way of life. A compelling book about some of those stories and their consequences,
With a perfect balance of playfulness, humor, and apology, Philip Brady calls himself a bard. But he explains that, before the title became shrouded in mystery, bards were simply teachers, unknown and
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of America's most beautiful and popular national parks.? Located in the southern Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina, it is home to mor
Long before the red state/blue state divide, Americans have tended to think of the South as a natural home to and birthplace of Christian fundamentalism. Despite historical evidence and scholarly res
Consisting of eight original essays by noted scholars, this volume examines the history and culture of a unique population - those peoples in the Gulf region who descended from the colonial and antebe
An anthology of fiction, poetry, history, literary criticism and folklore about the mountainous region and the influences on it. The selections in volume 2 are organized around themes such as family a
This work collects the letters of Emory Upton, a Union general during the Civil War who was involved in the battles of Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and Spotsylvania and later taught at West Point. T
This volume collects the Civil War correspondence of Melvin Dwinell, a journalist and editor of the Rome Courier of Georgia and an officer in the Confederate army who wrote about 200 letters publis
Clanton explores the philosophy of religion in the work of classical American philosophers. He discusses C. S. Peirce and the reality of God; William James and the will to believe in mystical exper
Hiking Trails of the Great Smoky Mountains is an essential guide to one of America’s most breathtaking and rugged national parks. The second edition of this compellingly readable and useful book is co
"Between Barkley and Kentucky Lakes--two great, artificial bodies of water in western Tennessee and western Kentucky--lies a wooded land that looks from above like the flattened thumb of a green gia
Throughout world history, copper has been a significant metal for a vast number of cultures, from the oldest civilizations on record to the Bronze Age and Greek and Roman antiquity. Though replaced by
On the eve of the Civil War, Alexandria, Virginia, was a bustling city with a rich cultural heritage and a booming economy. Alexandrians staunchly supported staying in the Union, and yet once Virginia
“A haunting, evocative novel. In Prodigals, Mark Powell depicts a lost American landscape—the small towns and logging camps of the South during World War II, with their subculture of fugitives and t
Since 1972 the Rainbow Family of Living Light, a loosely organized and anarchistic nomadic community, has been holding large gatherings in remote forests to pray for world peace and create a model of
A Chickamauga Memorial tells the full and fascinating story of how the country's first federally preserved national military park came into being and how it paved the way for all that came afterwards,
“The land, the heat, the South's societal complexities (and perplexities) are all here. Utterly involving, wise and perceptive, this is a novel to remember. If you liked To Kill a Mockingbird, you w
Patty Jo Watson's prolific career began in the early 1950s as an energetic graduate student at the University of Chicago and culminated with her induction into the National Academy of Sciences and sub
“This is a splendid diary of a man and physician during the late antebellum years, sure to interest not only historians of medicine but also historians of gender, the South, and antebellum politics. .
Over the last generation, Appalachia has produced a number of women poets who have refined and redefined the boundaries of the region’s literature and identity. Her Words focuses on the work of twenty
Religion has long been a source of identity for many Southerners, and the Appalachian areas in particular have proven to be a virtual fortress protecting faith and culture. Yet, in a region popularly
When John M. Glen's Highlander: No Ordinary School, 1932-1962 first appeared in 1988, it was hailed as a full and authoritative study of one of the South's most extraordinary and controversial institu
During the latter part of the Victorian era, and in the context of Darwin’s evolutionary work about the roots of human nature, children became objects of study. The theory was that children and “pr
Volume one of a two volume set, this collection of essays details the lives and careers of confederate generals and their experiences west of the Appalachians during the Civil War. Each written in acc
Folklife along the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River? records the history, lore, and lifeways of people who once occupied the land that became the Big South Fork national River and Recreation Are
