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Amulets, Effigies, Fetishes, and Charms

Amulets, Effigies, Fetishes, and Charms

Native American Artifacts and Spirit Stones from the Northeast

by Edward J. Lenik

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817360443

Pub Date: October 2021

Format: Paperback

Rounds out Edward J. Lenik’s comprehensive and expert study of the rock art of northeastern Native Americans
 
Archaeologies of African American Life in the Upper Mid-Atlantic

Archaeologies of African American Life in the Upper Mid-Atlantic

Edited by Michael J. Gall and Richard F. Veit

Contributions by Michael J. Gall, Christopher Barton, John Bedell, Lu Ann De Cunzo, James A. Delle, Christopher C. Fennell, Tabitha C. Hilliard, William B. Liebeknecht, Christopher N. Matthews, Glenn R. Modica, Mark Nonestied, David Orr, Meagan M. Ratini, Ross Thomas Rava, Keri J. Sansevere, Jason P. Shellenhamer, Janet L. Sheridan and Richard F. Veit

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817360160

Pub Date: February 2021

Format: Paperback

New scholarship provides insights into the archaeology and cultural history of African American life from a collection of sites in the Mid-Atlantic
A Road Course in Early American Literature

A Road Course in Early American Literature

Travel and Teaching from Atzlán to Amherst

by Thomas Hallock

Price: $49.95

ISBN: 9780817320836

Pub Date: February 2021

Format: Hardcover

Essays that fuse literary scholarship and personal travelogue to explore American identity
 
Historic Watermills of North America

Historic Watermills of North America

A Visual Preservation

by Ken Boyd

Photographer Ken Boyd

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9780817320157

Pub Date: December 2020

Format: Hardcover

112 full-color artistic photographs of watermills still standing on the North American landscape
 
Visions of the Black Belt

Visions of the Black Belt

A Cultural Survey of the Heart of Alabama

by Robin McDonald and Valerie Pope Burnes

Photographer Robin McDonald

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9780817318796

Pub Date: August 2015

Format: Hardcover

Visions of the Black Belt offers a rich cultural overview of the emblematic core of Alabama known for its prairie soils, plantation manors, civil rights history, gothic churches, traditional foodways, and resilient and gracious people.
Alabama’s Civil Rights Trail

Alabama's Civil Rights Trail

An Illustrated Guide to the Cradle of Freedom

by Frye Gaillard

Foreword by Juan Williams

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817355814

Pub Date: June 2015

Format: Paperback

Alabama’s great civil rights events in a compact and accessible narrative, paired with a practical guide to Alabama’s preserved civil rights sites and monuments

Tohopeka

Tohopeka

Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812

Edited by Kathryn H. Braund

Introduction by Kathryn H. Braund

Contributions by Susan M. Abram, Kathryn H. Braund, Robert P. Collins, Gregory Evans Dowd, John E Grenier, David S. Heidler, Jeanne T. Heidler, Ove Jensen, Tom Kanon, James W. Parker, Craig T. Sheldon, Robert G. Thrower and Gregory A. Waselkov

Afterword by Ted Isham

Preface by Jay Lamar

Foreword by Marianne Mills

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817357115

Pub Date: July 2012

Format: Paperback

Tohopeka contains a variety of perspectives and uses a wide array of evidence and approaches, from scrutiny of cultural and religious practices to literary and linguistic analysis, to illuminate this troubled period.
Iron and Steel

Iron and Steel

A Driving Guide to the Birmingham Area Industrial Heritage

by James R. Bennett and Karen R. Utz

Price: $19.95

ISBN: 9780817356118

Pub Date: July 2010

Format: Paperback

This guidebook of historic iron-production sites is designed to give the reader a factual and illuminating look at the people and events that shaped Birmingham into one of America’s leading steel centers. Heavily illustrated in color and historical black-and-white photographs, it can be used while visiting parks or read as a coherent volume before or after a visit.

Indian Place Names in Alabama

Indian Place Names in Alabama

by William A. Read

Edited by James B. McMillan

Price: $24.95

ISBN: 9780817302313

Pub Date: October 1984

Format: Paperback

"What is the 'meaning' of names like Coosa and Tallapoosa? Who named the Alabama and Tombigbee and Tennessee rivers? How are Cheaha and Conecuh and Talladega pronounced? How did Opelika and Tuscaloosa get their names? Questions like these, which are asked by laymen as well as by historians, geographers, and students of the English language, can be answered only by study of the origins and history of the Indian names that dot the map of Alabama.—from the Foreword

Originally published by Professor Read in 1937, this volume was revised, updated, and annotated in 1984 by James B. McMillan and remains the single best compedium on the topic.

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