Local History

Born in Jim Crow–era Monroe, North Carolina, Robert F. Williams and Mabel Williams were the state's most legendary African American freedom fighte...

Winner: Albert Castel Book AwardWinner: Tennessee History Book AwardWinner: Emerging Civil War Book AwardWinner: Douglas Southall Freeman History A...

From heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, manifestations and related supernatural phenomena, to first-hand encounters with phantoms and spirits,...

Building on the legacies of Harriet Jacobs's life and work, this issue explores sojourning as a creative and intellectual act, specifically engagin...

By challenging the rules of enslavement and, later, pushing the boundaries of free citizenship in North Carolina, Lunsford Lane (1803–79) became a ...

Newspapers are a tough business, and no one knows that better than Rob Christensen, who was chief political reporter at North Carolina's capital ne...

In the nation's so-called heartland, racism is sometimes subtler than in other parts of the country but just as insidious. When Black communities a...

In the nation's so-called heartland, racism is sometimes subtler than in other parts of the country but just as insidious. When Black communities a...

Winner: David J. Weber-William P. Clements PrizeWinner: Robert G. Athearn AwardChoice Outstanding Academic Title“Someday,” Candelaria Garcia said t...

When and under what circumstances are disaster survivors able to speak for themselves in the public arena? In Consuming Katrina: Public Disaster an...

A beautiful photographic stroll around the bookshops, restaurants, literary locations and authors’ neighbourhoods in the Big Apple. ...

A Definitive Tour Through the World of Sex for Pay.

Published in 1971, Georgia’s Last Frontier presents the history of one of the state’s least developed regions. During the 1830s, Carroll County was...

Between 1966 and 2015, the city of Atlanta was transformed. Black politicians ascended to the top of the power structure for the first time thanks ...

Born in Jim Crow–era Monroe, North Carolina, Robert F. Williams and Mabel Williams were the state's most legendary African American freedom fighte...

Mildred English’s College in the Country traces the development of adult education programs at West Georgia College and in surrounding rural areas....

Over the last two decades, the political narrative of the “liberal coasts” and the “conservative heartland” has become something of a truism, leadi...

Winner: Dorothy Schwieder Excellence in Research AwardTucked into the files of Iowa State University’s Cooperative Extension Service is a small, in...

E. Merton Coulter’s biography of William Montague Browne portrays the life of an Irish journalist living in the north who moved south to adopt the ...

Published in 1961, Georgia Journeys traces the development of Georgia with a particular emphasis on the lives of the ordinary men and women who hel...

Published in 1964, this biography of Joseph Vallence Bevan tells the story of Georgia’s first official historian. Born in Ireland, Bevan moved with...

In the decade after the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board decision, it became clear to students, parents, and community members alike that court cases w...

Kentucky Women: Their Lives and Times introduces a history as dynamic and diverse as Kentucky itself. Covering the Appalachian region in the east t...

The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera traces the development of the Florida-Alabama coast as a tourist destination from the late 1920s and ea...

Published in 1958 as a memoriam for E. Merton Coulter, Georgians in Profile is a collection of fourteen biographical essays that detail the lives o...

Based on years of research and thousands of notes left by John Bennett, Mr. Skylark is an unusually intimate biography of a pivotal figure in the C...