Forrest's Fighting Preacher: David Campbell Kelley of Tennessee

August 29, 2012

“Very little has been written about the important role that chaplains played during the Civil War as messengers of hope to the troops, and servants to God and country, so Dr. Bradley’s book fills an important void in the scholarship…”

— Gordon Belt, The Posterity Project

Tagged: Nonfiction

Radical Volunteers: Dissent, Desegregation, and Student Power in Tennessee

Katherine J. Ballentyne
University of Georgia Press
244 pages
$29.95

“Radical Volunteers tells the largely unknown story of southern student activism in Tennessee between the Brown decision in 1954 and the national backlash against the Kent State University shootings in May 1970. As one of the first statewide studies of student activism—and one of the few examinations of southern student activism—it broadens scholarly understanding of New Left and Black student radicalism from its traditionally defined hotbeds in the Northeast and on the West Coast.”

~the publisher