Caribbean Natural History from a Native Perspective
by William F. Keegan and Lisabeth A. Carlson
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780817355081
Pub Date: October 2008
Format: Paperback
Keegan and Carlson, combined, have spent over 45 years conducting archaeological research in the Caribbean, directing projects in Trinidad, Grenada, St. Lucia, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, Grand Cayman, the Turks & Caicos Islands, and throughout the Bahamas.
The Story of Charles Patrick, a Civil Rights Pioneer
by Mignette Y. Patrick Dorsey
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 9780817355562
Pub Date: August 2010
Format: Paperback
Speak Truth to Power tells the story of Charles Patrick’s quest for justice in segregated Alabama on the eve of the Civil Rights movement and represents a telling instance of the growing determination of African Americans to be treated fairly, part of the broadening and deepening stream of resolve that led to the widespread activism of the Civil Rights movement.
Blockade Runners of the Confederacy, first published in 1958, offered the first in-depth look at the dashing figures, spies, and fast ships that ran the blockade. Generations of historians and Civil War buffs have considered it invaluable; this paperback edition makes the work available once again to a new generation of enthusiasts and scholars.
Foreword by Susanna Van Hoose Feld and Susanna Van Hoose
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 9780817355111
Pub Date: September 2009
Format: Paperback
The best work of one of Alabama’s longest-serving and most beloved sports journalists.Although he spent 43 years at the same job, Alf Van Hoose was not a man limited by the boundaries of his profession. As Birmingham News sports editor for 21 years and a columnist for a decade before that, Van Hoose helped define a city, a state, and a region largely known for sports. He was the writer of record for some of the biggest sporting events and personalities in the state of Alabama in the last half of the 20th Century. Wayne Hester, Van Hoose’s successor as sports editor of The News, in 1990, said, “To many sports fans over the years, Alf Van Hoose has been The Birmingham News.” But he was also much more than the “sports guy,” as older generations of Alabama sports fans who read this book will remember and younger ones will...
Creekside takes two partially interwoven story lines and linkes artifact and place, ancestors and descendants, the present and the past, and inspires the reader to explore the personal connections between them all in fresh and vital ways.
A biography of Fred “Dixie” Walker, a gifted ballplayer who played in the majors for 18 seasons and in 1,905 games, assembling a career batting average of .306 while playing for the Yankees, White Sox, Tigers, Dodgers, and Pirates.
