“Time to Go Back and Tell the Whole Story”
April 22, 2015 Rock’n’Roll icon John Oates has signed a book deal with St. Martin’s Press and will release a memoir, still untitled, in 2016.
Nonfiction
America's Historically Black Colleges and Universities: A Narrative History, 1837-2009
America's Historically Black Colleges and Universities: A Narrative History, 1837-2009
Bobby L. Lovett
Mercer University Press
256 pages
$25
“This narrative provides a comprehensive history of America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The book concludes that race, the Civil Rights movements, and black and white philanthropy had much affect on the development of these minority institutions.”
–From the publisher
In the Beginning: The Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College
In the Beginning: The Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College
Echol Nix Jr.
Mercer University Press
240 pages
$35
“In the Beginning highlights the history of the world’s largest religious memorial to the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Inspired essays on education, social justice, nonviolence, peace, ecumenism, and civil and human rights are offered in honor of Lawrence Edward Carter, Sr., founding dean of the Martin Luther King, Jr. International Chapel. This book is a lasting tribute and valuable contribution to the history and educational mission of Morehouse College.”
–From the publisher
We're In This Together: Public-Private Partnerships in Special and At-Risk-Education
We're In This Together: Public-Private Partnerships in Special and At-Risk-Education
Mark T. Claypool and John M. McLaughlin
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
130 pages
$22
“The book offers grounded and thought provoking perspectives on: the legal framework of PL94-142 and its successor IDEA; the disconnect between the needs of young children with autism and public school special education services; and the significant size of the at-risk population and the shortcomings of efforts to serve those students. “
–From the publisher
Tuckaleechee Cove: A Passage through Time
Tuckaleechee Cove: A Passage through Time
Boyce N. Driskell, Robert Norrell
University of Tennessee Press
$24.95
“Nestled amid the western slopes of the Great Smoky Mountains in East Tennessee, bisected by the Little River, and including the community of Townsend, Tuckaleechee Cove is known today as “the peaceful side of the Smokies.” Celebrated for its natural beauty, the area is also the site of human habitation dating back at least 13,000 years.”
–From the publisher
Bloody Breathitt: Politics and Violence in the Appalachian South
Bloody Breathitt: Politics and Violence in the Appalachian South
T.R.C. Hutton
University of Kentucky Press
444 pages
$28
“Eudora Welty once said that ‘One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.’ Nowhere has local history proved so vital to understanding region as it has for Appalachian scholarship, as this latest entry in the field amply demonstrates. Like the best of those ‘one place’ studies, Hutton’s masterful portrait of Kentucky’s Breathitt County offers both compelling stories and insightful analysis of the multiple forms of violence that played out in this most notorious of highland South locales, while shedding considerable light on how such brutal power struggles played out elsewhere in the region and well beyond.”
–John C. Inscoe, author of Race, War, and Remembrance in the Appalachian South
