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Absalom, Absalom!
• William Faulkner
• LITERATURE
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This is Faulkner's brilliant masterpiece on human nature and the Old South, a challenging but rewarding read.
(USS69, $13.95)
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Acadian to Cajun: Transformation of a People, 1803-1877
• Carl A. Brasseaux
• HISTORY
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A history of Louisiana's Acadians in the key period from the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 to 1877 and the end of Reconstruction.
(USS163, $22.00)
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Africans in America, America's Journey Through Slavery
• Charles Johnson
• Patricia Smith
• WBGH Series Research Team
• HISTORY
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A powerful collaborative effort that paints a vivid picture of the history of slavery in America, and celebrates the brave Africans who managed to preserve their heritage as they endured so many hardships.
(USS53, $17.00)
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Along the River Road: Past and Present on Louisiana's Historic Byway
• Mary Ann Sternberg
• GUIDEBOOK
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A guide to the historic River Road, the 100-mile route beside the Mississippi River stretching from Baton Rouge to New Orleans.
(USS178, $18.95)
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As I Lay Dying
• William Faulkner
• LITERATURE
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Faulkner's deadpan yet tragic tale of the Bundren family's journey across Mississippi with Addie, their deceased wife and mother, in tow.
(USS68, $12.95)
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The Awakening
• Kate Chopin
• Marilynne Robinson
• LITERATURE
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The 1899 novel that forever vanquished "feminine propriety." Chopin's exhilarating, tragic feminist novella sings with the Cajun and Creole cadences of her native New Orleans.
(USS229, $4.95)
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The Barber of Natchez
• Edwin Adams Davis
• William Ransom Hogan
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A vivid portrait of the life and times of the remarkable William Johnson, a free slave and successful businessman in Natchez, who writes of his family life, business successes and friendships with people of both races. Drawing on Johnson's diaries, letters and contemporary accounts. Johnson was murdered in 1851.
(USS401, $18.95)
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Battle on the Bay: The Civil War Struggle for Galveston
• Edward T. Cotham
• HISTORY
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A thorough recreation of the Battle of Galveston that incorporates historical elements and detailed characters of the battle.
(TEX02, $25.00)
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Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Missippi, 1770-1860
• Christopher Morris
• HISTORY
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A cultural study of Mississippi in the 18th and 19th century.
(USS160, $45.00)
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The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, The Classic Anthology from 1899 to 1967
• Langston Hughes
• LITERATURE
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A collection of groundbreaking works by luminaries including James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ralph Ellison and Alice Walker.
(GEN400, $16.99)
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The Birdwatcher's Companion to North American Birdlife
• Christopher W. Leahy
• Gordon Morrison
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A handsome, fully illustrated survey of the birds of North America, organized A to Z, covering birds, bird biology, conservation and birdwatching.
(NAM21, $19.95)
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Boat People
• Mary Gardner
• LITERATURE
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A novel about Vietnamese refugees in Galveston.
(TEX26, $15.95)
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Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
• Alvar Nuņez Cabeza de Vaca
• Cyclone Covey
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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The epic story of a conquistador lost in the American wilderness for eight years.
(SWU40, $17.95)
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Cajun and Creole Music Makers
• Barry Jean Ancelet
• Elemore Morgan
• MUSIC
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This book presents interviews with and photos of Cajun and Creole musicians in their surroundings.
(USS172, $40.00)
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Cajun Country
• Barry Jean Ancelet
• Jay D. Edwards
• Glen Pitre
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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An overview of the history and culture of the Cajuns of South Louisiana which investigates the social institutions and cultural activities of this ethnic group.
(USS153, $22.00)
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Cajun Country Guide
• Mason Fry
• Julie Posner
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive guide to South Louisiana's Cajun country, covering the region's culture, music, food.
(USS177, $17.95)
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The Cajuns, Americanization of a People
• Shane K. Bernard
• HISTORY
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A history of the Cajuns over the last 60 years.
(USS334, $20.00)
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Canaan's Tongue
• John Wray
• LITERATURE
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This fiercely poetic novel, set in the American South before and during the Civil War, traces the decline of a gang of horse-thieves and slave traders. The ringleader, a preacher known as "The Redeemer" is based on the historical outlaw John Murrell.
(USS406, $14.95)
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Chained to the Rock of Adversity: To Be Free, Black, and Female in the Old South
• Virginia Meacham Gould
• HISTORY
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Stories of the lives of Southern Black Women, told through personal letters and diaries.
(USS134, $22.95)
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The Civil War Times Illustrated Photographic History of the Civil War, Vicksburg to Appomattox
• William Davis
• Bell. I. Wiley
• HISTORY
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A big, beautiful history of the Civil War featuring 4,000 archival photographs, drawings and maps.
(USS156, $39.98)
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Classic Natchez: An Illustrated Tour through a Remarkable Antebellum Town
• Van J. Martin
• Randolph Delehanty
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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Antebellum South presented through photographs and essays on 43 Natchez homes, including maps, floor plans, and a timeline.
(USS136, $39.95)
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The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
• Eudora Welty
• LITERATURE
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All the stories written by Welty, the pride of Jackson, Mississippi, in a single volume.
(USS250, $16.00)
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The Coming of Age in Mississippi
• Anne Moody
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A powerful and provocative autobiography of the author's fight against racism in the 1950s South.
(USS140, $6.99)
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Compass Guide Georgia
• John T. Edge
• Robb Helfrick
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guidebook to Georgia, featuring detailed maps, literary excerpts, and travel information.
(USS58, $21.95)
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Compass Guide Tennessee
• Robert Brandt
• Joseph Allen
• GUIDEBOOK
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Handsomely produced, illustrated and informative, this guide is an overview of the culture, history and attractions of Tennessee. It features numerous photographs, literary excerpts and practical travel information.
(USS293, $22.00)
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Creole New Orleans, Race and Americanization
• Joseph Logsdon
• Arnold R. Hirsch
• HISTORY
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A scholarly history of New Orleans, focusing on Creole and Black contributions.
(USS171, $24.95)
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Creoles of Color of the Gulf South
• James H. Dormon
• HISTORY
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The eight contributors explore Creole origins, language, music and culture in this scholarly history.
(USS166, $34.00)
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A Curtain of Green and Other Stories
• Eudora Welty
• LITERATURE
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Welty's first collection of stories, which includes the classic "A Worn Path," established her reputation as a leading southern writer.
(USS402, $14.00)
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Delta Wedding
• Eudora Welty
• LITERATURE
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An expertly written comedy about white southerners on the brink of marriage.
(USS251, $14.00)
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The Devil's Backbone: Story of the Natchez Trace
• Jonathan Daniels
• HISTORY
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A brief, pocket history of the development, exploration and settling of the Natchez Trace, which stretches from Natchez, Mississippi, across northwestern Alabama to Nashville.
(USS142, $5.95)
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Eyewitness Guide New Orleans
• Eyewitness Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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A thorough, gorgeously illustrated guidebook.
(USS305, $20.00)
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Flash for Freedom
• George MacDonald Fraser
• LITERATURE
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In this fifth installment in the rollicking series, our self-serving, cowardly Victorian hero finds himself playing a role in the Civil War.
(USS372, $15.00)
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Flashman and the Angel of the Lord
• George MacDonald Fraser
• LITERATURE
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George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman finds himself at the center of extraordinary events in this 10th installment in the entertaining, meticulously researched series. Flashy is kidnapped in Cape Town (talk about reluctant) and soon with John Brown on his fateful 1859 raid at Harper's Ferry.
(USS371, $15.00)
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Folklife in Louisiana, Images of Tradition
• Frank de Caro
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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An exhibit catalog featuring 166 black-and-white photographs of work by local artists.
(USS165, $31.95)
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The Forgotten People, Cane River's Creoles of Color
• Gary B. Mills
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A scholarly account of a Louisiana Creole community.
(USS210, $20.95)
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The Founding of New Acadia
• Carl A. Brasseaux
• HISTORY
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Early Acadian settlement and culture in Louisiana by respected Cajun historian Carl Brasseaux.
(USS162, $20.95)
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The Free People of Color of New Orleans, An Introduction
• Mary Gehman
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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An interesting portrait of the creole "free people of color."
(USS211, $8.95)
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From Slavery to Freedom, A History of African Americans
• John Hope Franklin
• HISTORY
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A classic history of the African American experience.
(USA39, $75.00)
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Galveston Map
• Rand McNally Maps
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(TEX27, $4.95)
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Gardens of New Orleans, Exquisite Excess
• Jeanette Hardy
• Lake Douglas
• Richard Sexton
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A sumptuously photographed tour of the grander gardens of New Orleans.
(USS231, $40.00)
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Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause and the Emergence of the New South, 1865-1913
• Gaines M. Foster
• HISTORY
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A social history of Southern attitudes in the wake of the Civil War.
(USS220, $35.00)
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Graceland, Going Home with Elvis
• Karen Ann Marling
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A serious, engaging analysis of Graceland and the phenomenon of Elvis Presley.
(USS191, $14.95)
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park Map
• Trails Illustrated
•
A colorful, detailed map of the national park at a scale of 1:62,000.
(USE29, $11.95)
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Great Smoky Mountains, A Visitor's Companion
• George Wuerthner
• Douglas W. Moore
• GUIDEBOOK
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A compact guide to the history, wildlife, geology and tourism of the Great Smoky Mountains.
(USE330, $19.95)
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Gulf Coast Seashore Life, Alabama to Texas
• Raymond Leung
• James Kavanaugh
• FIELD GUIDE
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This fold-out, laminated reference features illustrations of almost 150 species commonly found on the beaches of the Gulf of Mexico.
(USS217, $5.95)
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Gumbo Ya-Ya, A Collection of Louisiana Folk Tales
• Robert Tallant
• Edward Dreyer
• Lyle Saxon
• LITERATURE
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A wonderful collection of charming, outrageous, time-honored, common, obscure, exotic and famous folk tales of Louisiana -- and especially of New Orleans.
(USS208, $19.95)
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Hardluck Ironclad, The Sinking and Salvage of the Cairo
• Edwin C. Bearss
• HISTORY
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The story of the sinking of the "Cairo," a Union gunboat lost in the Yazoo River, paired with the story of its recovery, 100 years later. Civil War historian Edwin C. Bearss, who provided this firsthand account, was an integral part of the recovery. The "Cairo" can now be seen on display in Vicksburg.
(WAR17, $23.95)
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Huey Long
• T. Harry Williams
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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The definitive biography of the larger-than-life southern politician.
(USS348, $25.00)
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Huntsville Map
• Rand McNally Maps
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A map of Huntsville, Alabama at a scale of 1:40,000.
(USS390, $4.95)
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Inherit the Wind
• Jerome Lawrence
• Robert E. Lee
• LITERATURE
•
The case of a biology teacher accused of teaching evolution to his students.
(USS180, $5.99)
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Inside War, The Guerilla Conflict in Missouri during the American Civil War
• Michael Fellman
• HISTORY
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(USM36, $18.95)
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Jackson, Natchez and Vicksburg Map
• Riley Maps
•
A regional map of Mississippi at scale of 1:50,000, covering Jackson, Natchez and Vicksburg.
(USS403, $4.95)
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Kingbird Highway, The Story of a Natural Obsession That Got a Little Out of Hand
• Kenn Kaufman
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Kaufman's absorbing account of coming-of-age as a Wichita teenager on the road in 1973 with a summer's pay in his pocket and the goal of seeing as many birds as he could in a year.
(BRD27, $14.00)
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The Known World
• Edward P. Jones
• LITERATURE
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Set in a fictitious Virginia county in the antebellum years, this great, Pulitzer-winning novel is a consideration of the wages of slavery and an avowal of the peculiar institution's primacy in the American psyche.
(USS379, $24.95)
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Lonely Planet New Orleans
• Tom Downs
• John T. Edge
• GUIDEBOOK
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This practical guide to New Orleans features maps, a good overview of culture, history and nature, and much nuts-and-bolts information on accommodations and sightseeing.
(USS186, $18.99)
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Louisiana Map
• Rand McNally Maps
•
A colorful road map of Louisiana at a scale of 1:976,000.
(USS263, $4.95)
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The Majesty of Natchez
• Reid Smith
• Steven Brooke
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
•
Acclaimed photographer Steven Brooke's amazing photos of historic homes in Natchez.
(USS133, $17.95)
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Midnight Magic: Selected Stories of Bobbie Ann Mason
• Bobbi Ann Mason
• LITERATURE
•
A good selection of Mason's stories, most set in the south.
(USS193, $16.95)
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The Most Southern Place on Earth, The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity
• James C. Cobb
• HISTORY
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A social history of the Mississippi Delta.
(USS332, $19.95)
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The National Trust Guide to New Orleans
• Roulhac Toledano
• GUIDEBOOK
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An in-depth guide to the architectural heritage, culture and history of New Orleans. With chapters on historic preservation, neighborhood profiles and an introduction to the city's various architectural styles.
(USS98, $24.95)
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Native Universe, Voices of Indian America
• Clifford E. Trafzer
• ANTHOLOGY
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This sumptuously illustrated cultural history, written exclusively by Native Americans, is published in celebration of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.
(USA95, $40.00)
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New Orleans Houses, A House-Watchers Guide
• Lloyd Vogt
• GUIDEBOOK
•
A compact guide to the architecture of New Orlean with maps and 100 drawings.
(USS213, $24.95)
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New Orleans Map
• Borch Maps
•
A folded, laminated map of the city center of New Orleans.
(USS207, $7.95)
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New Orleans Yesterday and Today, A Guide to the City
• O.K. Le Blanc
• Charles L. Dufour
• John Chase
• John Wilds
• Walter G. Cowan
• GUIDEBOOK
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A guide to New Orleans, its history, traditions and beauty.
(USS170, $18.95)
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The Night the War Was Lost
• Charles L. Dufour
• HISTORY
•
Charles Dufour contends that with the fall of New Orleans in the spring of 1862, the South had lost the Civil War. In explaining the reasons for the seizure of New Orleans and its results, Dufour also explores a more personable aspect of the war: the people involved and their losses.
(USS107, $25.00)
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Off the Beaten Path Alabama
• Gay N. Martin
• GUIDEBOOK
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A quirky guide to unique festivals, restaurants and locales of Alabama, from small town rattlesnake races to landmark locations from the Civil Rights Movement.
(USS397, $13.95)
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Off the Beaten Path Louisiana, A Guide to Unique Places
• Gay N. Martin
• GUIDEBOOK
•
A guide to unique local restaurants as well as some of Louisiana's less publicized attractions, such as swamp cruises and alligator farms.
(USS398, $13.95)
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Prisoners of War
• Steve Yarbrough
• LITERATURE
•
A complex, enormously satisfying tale of family, history or War set in WWII-era rural Mississippi.
(USS349, $23.00)
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The Quiet Game
• Greg Iles
• LITERATURE
•
A murder mystery set in Natchez, Mississippi.
(USS141, $7.99)
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Return to Wild America, A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul
• Scott Weidensaul
• NATURAL HISTORY
•
An eye-opening trek in the footsteps of conservation pioneers Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher, whose 1953 journey across America resulted in the classic Wild America.
(USA123, $15.00)
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River Horse: The Logbook of a Boat Across America
• William Least Heat-Moon
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
•
William Heat-Moon and a small crew travel westward across the rivers of America in a dual-outward boat dubbed "River-Horse."
(USM117, $14.00)
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Robert E. Lee
• Roy Blount, Jr.
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
•
A lively short biographical essay in the excellent Penguin Lives series, matching writers and subjects.
(USS377, $19.95)
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Sailing Ship Elissa
• Jim Cruz
• Patricia Bellis Bixel
• HISTORY
•
Life of Elissa as a working sailing ship, to the glorious restoration at the Texas Seaport Museum.
(TEX09, $22.95)
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Satchmo, The Genius of Louis Armstrong
• Gary Giddins
• MUSIC
•
A biography of jazz legend Louis Armstong.
(MUS35, $16.00)
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Seven Story Mountain, The Union Campaign at Vicksburg
• Phillip M. Thienel
• HISTORY
•
A history of Grant's efforts at Vicksburg.
(USS157, $35.00)
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Swapping Stories, Folktales from Louisiana
• Carl Lindahl
• LITERATURE
•
Two hundred tales as compiled by a statewide storytelling project.
(USS168, $25.00)
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Texas and the Arkansas River Valley: Smithsonian Guides to Historic America
• Alice Gordon
• Jerry Camarillo Dunn
• Mel White
• Tim Thomson
• Donald Young
• GUIDEBOOK
•
A guide to places of historical interest in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas
(TEX28, $19.95)
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Through a Night of Horrors
• Shelley Henley Kelley
• Casey Edward Greene
• NATURAL HISTORY
•
Letter and memoirs documenting the disastrous storm of 1900.
(TEX04, $24.95)
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Time Out New Orleans
• Time Out
• GUIDEBOOK
•
Compact and up-to-date, this is an outstanding guide for where to go and what to do in New Orleans.
(USS187, $19.95)
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Vicksburg, 47 Days of Siege
• A.A. Hoehling
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
•
A history of the Vicksburg Campaign as told through the diaries and memoirs of eyewitnesses to the events.
(USS154, $19.95)
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A Weekend in September
• John Edward Weems
• HISTORY
•
An honest and vivid account of the Galveston storm, as told from survivors of the storm.
(TEX12, $13.95)
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White Terror, The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction
• Allen W. Trelease
• HISTORY
•
A history of the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in Reconstruction Era South.
(USS221, $24.95)
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William Johnson's Natchez, The Ante-Bellum Diary of a Free Negro
• Edwin Adam Davis
• William Ransom Hogan
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
•
The personal diary of William Johnson, a free Negro of Natchez, Mississippi. Discovered in 1938, this first person account reveals the hardship he endured as he went from a former slave to a successful businessman.
(USS139, $34.95)
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Wilson's Creek, The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It
• Richard W. Hatcher, III
• William Garrett Piston
• HISTORY
•
A detailed history of the Battle of Wilson's Creek.
(USM10, $45.00)
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Women and New Orleans, A History
• Nancy Ries
• Mary Gehman
• HISTORY
•
A history of women in the Crescent City from Creole belles, Voodoo queens, and nuns, to slave women and modern personalities.
(USS215, $10.95)
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Zydeco
• Ben Sandmel
• Rick Olivier
• MUSIC
•
A handsomely illustrated tribute to the dance music of Loiuisiana's black Creole community.
(USS176, $30.00)
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