This collection of essays brings together diverse approaches to the analysis of Native American culture in the protohistoric period

This is the first book-length work on wartime race relations in Tennessee, and it stresses the differences within the slave community as well as Military Governor Andrew Johnson’s role in emancipation.

This collection of provocative and timely essays addresses the ways in which religious and educational institutions have come to define one another and American culture and identity.

Since its first publication in 1957, Horse and Buggy Days on Hatchet Creek has been a favorite of readers who have enjoyed the entertaining, highly readable account of a southern boy’s life in the 1880s and 1890s. With a wry sense of humor and clear-eyed affection, Mitchell Garrett recalls growing up in a verdant valley of the Appalachian foothills in eastern Alabama.

The fundamental mission of medicine is caring, and curing may be only one component of that broad mission

 A book about the first three capitals of Alabama: St. Stephens, Huntsville, and Cahawba, 1818-1826.

This valuable book is an excellent overview of long-term archaeological investigations in the valley that remains at the forefront of studies on the First Americans.

This visually stunning portrait of Alabama's many diverse wetland habitats and their associated plants and animals is a passionate plea for their thoughtful care and protection.

"This is a book that anyone interested in South Carolina history, the emergence of the New South, and the southern press, so important to the regional culture, will find valuable. Clark has researched all the important manuscript collections and a wide variety of other sources. He also writes in a style that is lucid and imaginative." —Journal of Southern History

This tale of youth and the immutable forces of society arrayed against its innocence and optimism has been called the best football novel in years.

The Divided Mind of Protestant America is a documented overview of American Protestantism in American culture from beginning to end.

Norman Corwin is regarded as the most acclaimed creative artist of radio’s Golden Age (mid 1930s to late 1940s). Corwin worked as a producer for CBS at a time when radio was the centerpiece of American family life. His programs brought high moments to the medium during a period when exceptional creativity and world crisis shaped its character and conviction. From Corwin's remarkable work during WWII to his defense of freedom of speech during the McCarthy era, Bannerman’s book is more than biography: it is also social history—the story of network radio, its great achievements and ultimate decline.

The author has taken the concept of organizational culture from corporate literature and applied it to two unique government programs, the Peace Corps and VISTA.

Nicaragua’s Mosquito Shore provides a general history of eastern Nicaragua from the time of the first British entry in 1633 to the present. The territory is populated chiefly by Mosquito Indians, who speak their own language and some Mosquito. Dozier develops the history of the current political troubles in Nicaragua, which had their origin in the early 1930s and which center about the control of the rich area inhabited by the Mosquitos. His book presents the historical background for the tragic events that are now taking place in that region.

The only comprehensive description of the fossil-vertebrate content of this important part of the world.