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  • Shreveport's Historic Oakland Cemetery

    Spirits of Pioneers and Heroes

    Serien series Landmarks
    Nearly as old as the city itself, Oakland Cemetery is one of Shreveport's most significant historical landmarks. Notable residents were laid to rest here as early as 1842. In a mass grave lie nearly eight hundred victims of a virulent yellow fever epidemic that struck the city in 1873. Others interred include Annie McCune, the famous Shreveport madam who operated a brothel in the city's red-light Lesen Sie mehr

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    von Henry Wiencek
    This "lovingly detailed history" chronicles the largest slaveholding family in the Old South, as its descendants—white and Black—grapple with its legacy ( The Dallas Morning News).A National Book Critics Circle Award WinnerSpanning two centuries of one family's history, The Hairstons tells the extraordinary story of the Hairston clan, once the wealthiest family in the Old South and the largest Lesen Sie mehr

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  • Freedom by Any Means

    Con Games, Voodoo Schemes, True Love and Lawsuits on the Underground Railroad

    von Betty DeRamus
    Following up Betty DeRamus’s Essence bestselling Forbidden Fruit, Freedom by Any Means follows the story of extraordinary acts of courage and love by Blacks in the American slave era with beautifully written and inspiring stories of how slaves used the law**—against all odds—**to gain freedom for themselv... Lesen Sie mehr

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  • Buried in the Bitter Waters

    The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America

    von Elliot Jaspin
    "Leave now, or die!" Those words-or ones just as ominous-have echoed through the past hundred years of American history, heralding a very unnatural disaster-a wave of racial cleansing that wiped out or drove away black populations from counties across the nation. While we have long known about horrific episodes of lynching in the South, this story of racial cleansing has remained almost entirely Lesen Sie mehr

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  • August Belmont: Grand Sachem Of New York

    von Daniel Alef
    In 1877, Charles Dana's New York Sun reported: "He taught New Yorkers how to eat, how to drink, how to dress, how to drive four-in-hands, how to furnish their houses, how to live generally according to the rules of the possibly somewhat effete, but unquestionably refined, society of the Old World." The subject was August Belmont, a man who ended up in the United States by accident, not by design, Lesen Sie mehr

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  • American Auto Trail-North Carolina's U.S. Highway 70

    von Lyn Wilkerson
    This edition in the American Auto Trails series explores the route of U.S. 70 across North Carolina, from the coastal town of Atlantic to the Smoky Mountains on the Tennessee State Line. U.S. 70 travels through the heart of the state, connecting the cities of Raleigh, Durham, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and Asheville. Driving maps and GPS Coordinates are provided for all listed historic sites. Lesen Sie mehr

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  • Politically Incorrect Guide to The South

    (And Why It Will Rise Again)

    von Clint Johnson
    The latest installment in the New York Times bestselling Politically Incorrect Guide series expands on the pro-South slant of the hugely successful Politically Incorrect Guide to American History. Author Clint Johnson shows why the South, with its emphasis on traditional values, family, faith, military service, good manners, small government, and independent-minded people, should certainly rise Lesen Sie mehr

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  • A Nutshell History of North Carolina

    von Ben Fortson
    A concise illustrated history of North Carolina, from its dubious beginnings as a pirate-filled colony to a popular tourist destination.Author and illustrator Ben Fortson presents North Carolina's history in the form of off-the-wall anecdotes, poignant insights and sublimely silly illustrations. Take a hilarious look at Daniel Boone's larger-than-life Carolina personality. Peruse an uproarious Lesen Sie mehr

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  • Hidden History of Horse Racing in Kentucky

    von Foster Ockerman
    A behind-the-scenes history of the Bluegrass State's iconic sport.Horse racing and the Commonwealth of Kentucky are synonymous. The equine industry in the state dates as far back as the eighteenth century, and some of that history remains untold. The Seventeenth Earl of Derby made the trip from England to Louisville for the famed Kentucky Derby. Many famous African American jockeys grew up in the Lesen Sie mehr

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  • Hidden History of Roanoke

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    von Nelson Harris
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    Author Nelson Harris delves into the annals of history to uncover these marvelous and mostly unknown stories of the Star City of the South. How did a Roanoke neighbor's secret upend North Carolina politics and why did a weeding scandal in Big Lick make front-page headlines in New York? These questions and many more are answered in this exciting volume of hidden stories and forgotten tales from the Lesen Sie mehr

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