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JFK’s Legacy

…the Cold War. Six months later, sustained civil-rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, gripped the world’s attention. Not long after that, a coup against the South Vietnamese government threatened to drag…

As American As Apple Pie

…who weren’t much different from men who later fought in the Civil War. Also, for an insurrectionist, he was surprisingly conventional in many respects: a family man, devout Christian, and…

The Ravine

Sunstone Press
260 pages
$24.95


“A compelling story inspired by real events, The Ravine evokes a South during the early years of the Civil Rights movement where a complex mixture of love and hate, ignorance and enlightenment, and guilt and innocence coexist. It promises to keep the reader on edge until its dramatic and unexpected conclusion.”

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The Ravine

Onward Southern Soldiers: Religion and the Army of Tennessee in the Civil War

The History Press
128 pages
$19.99


“Using primary source material such as diaries, letters, journals and sermons of the Army of Tennessee, Traci Nichols-Belt, along with Gordon T. Belt, presents the history of the vital role of the army’s religious practices.”

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Onward Southern Soldiers: Religion and the Army of Tennessee in the Civil War

Murfreessboro in the Civil War

The History Press
128 pages
$19.99


“As combat escalated, the bloody Battle of Stones River and the Nashville Campaign brought more destruction. Yet at war’s end, the resilient locals remained and rebuilt their town from the rubble. Authors and Civil War historians Michael Bradley and Shirley Farris Jones track the tumult of the proceedings to recount the compelling story of Murfreesboro during the Civil War.”

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Murfreessboro in the Civil War

Georgia Democrats, The Civil Rights Movement, and the Shaping of The New South

University Press of Florida
288 pages
$74.95


“In this timely volume, Tim Boyd challenges one of the most prominent explanations for this shift: the ‘white backlash’ theory. Taking the political experience in Georgia as a case study, he makes a compelling argument that New South politics formed out of the factional differences within the state Democratic Party and not simply as a result of white reactions to the civil rights movement.”

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Georgia Democrats, The Civil Rights Movement, and the Shaping of The New South
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