table of contents Breathing and Walking Around.............1 Kathy A. Bradley
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A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage..............................................2 Marly Youmans Going Farther into the Woods than the Woods Go.................................3 Seaborn Jones On the North Slope...................................4 Catharine Savage Brosman Emerson’s Brother...................................5 Philip Lee Williams A Never-Ending Groove..........................6 Anathalee G. Sandlin Life of Dreams................................................. 7 Andrew Derr A Light on Peachtree..............................8 Anne B. Jones A Titanic Love Story................................9 June Hall McCash Shakespeare’s History...........................10 Guy Story Brown The Marriage of Faith...........................11 Laura Dabundo Georgia..................................................12 Christopher C. Meyers & David Williams Liberty, State, and Union......................13 Luigi Marco Bassani Democracy in Twenty-First Century America..................................................14 Ronald B. Neal Nurturing the Vision.............................15 W. Glenn Jonas, Jr. A Choosing People................................16 Don A. Sanford† And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy....17 Karen Massey, editor The Life and Letters of Emily Chubbuck Judson, Volume 5..................................18 George H. Tooze, editor The James N. Griffith Series in Baptist Studies...................................19
Dear Reader, This is Not the End of the Book: A Conversation Curated by Jean-Philippe de Tonnac was published in June 2011 by Harvill Secker in England. This new book by Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carrière is simply a transcription of dialogues between these two writers about the state of the book. The title is the thesis. Neither believes the book is dead or anywhere near death. With e-books and electronic tablets and reading devices creating great excitement, it is reassuring that the book is still causing a stir. The form is not as significant as it once seemed. We have moved from clay tablets to animal skin to papyrus to vellum to paper and to digital and still the book is the carrier of civilizations (Thoreau). One person wrote recently that her house is suddenly straighter. Her reading device has all of her recent books on it and they are all in one place. Yet, she lamented, “I used to look at books beside my bed or couch like friends who were visiting. Now, I see one more electronic device.” Books for her are less personal now, and though she still loves reading, she has noticed that she watches more television than before. Mercer University Press is slowly moving to publishing selected titles for electronic devices as well as the print medium. This is not an exact science. Longevity of digital material is in serious question. One thing is for sure. A book published by this Press, printed on quality, recycled paper and bound in durable forms —all here in the USA—will survive a minimum of 300 years. The reading device will last only until the next one comes out, and the cost is much more than just the hardware. The book is indeed not dead. In truth, it is not even sick. It is alive and well and still moving civilizations by inspiring readers to a better life.
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Breathing and Walking Around
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Kathy A. Bradley, lives and writes in Bulloch County, Georgia, on a farm which, she is quick to point out, “is two miles from the nearest paved
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road.” She is an alumna of Wesleyan
Kathy A. Bradley
College and the Walter F. George School of Law of Mercer University, both in Macon, Georgia. She currently serves as an assistant district attorney for the Ogeechee Judicial Circuit.
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Parables of life and nature in South Georgia Breathing and Walking Around is not a memoir. It is a record of four years’ worth of observations of common people, everyday events, and the natural world made by Kathy Bradley from her home in the coastal plains of South Georgia. A lawyer by training, a storyteller by nature, she shares with precision and layer upon layer of sensory image simple tales that emerge, in the end, as parables. Beginning at Sandhill, the house she built on her family farm, Bradley takes the reader with her as she walks miles of dirt roads with the dogs Lily and Tamar, alert to the details of rural living—the movement of the seasons, the nearness and unpredictability of wildlife, the sights and sounds otherwise drowned out by twenty-first-century living. The meandering continues down the Atlantic beaches, the shorelines of inland lakes, backroads and interstates, and we are at her shoulder as she, like a paleontologist, uncovers joy in the magic and mystery of the familiar and the brand new. But Breathing and Walking Around is a true story and, so, along with the joy there are moments of questioning and uncertainty, moments when doubt challenges faith. It is in these moments, when Bradley struggles to bring order to her own life, that she most clearly articulates the universal truths that weave through all our stories, ribbons of continuity and hope.
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Walden Henry David Thoreau Introduction by Sam Pickering
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Simple Life on a Georgia Pond Amy Blackmarr
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A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage
Marly Youmans is the author of five novels, numerous stories, and three books of poetry, including The Throne of Psyche (Mercer, 2011.) A native of the Carolinas, she now lives
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near the mouth of the Susquehanna with her husband and three children. Discover more about this author at www. marlyyoumans.com.
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After a death at the White Camellia Orphanage, young Pip Tatnall leaves Lexsy, Georgia to become a road kid, riding the rails east, west, and north. A bright, unusual boy who is disillusioned at a young age, Pip believes that he sees guilt shining in the faces of men wherever he goes. On his picaresque journey, he sweeps through society, revealing the highest and lowest in human nature and only slowly coming to self-understanding. He searches the points of the compass for what will help, groping for a place where he can feel content, certain that he has no place where he belongs and that he rides the rails through a great darkness. His difficult path to collect enough radiance to light his way home is the road of a boy struggling to come to terms with the cruel but sometimes lovely world of Depression-era America. On Youmans’s prior forays into the past, reviewers praised her “spellbinding force” (Bob Sumner, Orlando Sentinel), “prodigious powers of description” (Philip Gambone, New York Times), “serious artistry,” “unobtrusively beautiful language,” and “considerable power” (Fred Chappell, Raleigh News & Observer), “haunting, lyrical language and fierce intelligence” (starred review, Publishers Weekly.) Howard Bahr wrote of The Wolf Pit, “Ms. Youmans is an inspiration to every writer who must compete with himself. I had thought Catherwood unsurpassable, but Ms. Youmans has done it. Her characters are real; they live and move in the stream of Time as if they had passed only yesterday. Her lyricism breaks my heart and fills me with envy and delight. No other writer I know of can bring the past to us so musically, so truly.” March 2012 | FICTION 6 x 9 | 288 pp. | Cloth, $24.00t | 978-0-88146-271-5 | H837 e-book | 978-0-88146-364-4 | H837e
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Going Farther into the Woods than the Woods Go
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Seaborn Jones of Lizella, Georgia, has published three chapbooks and two full-length books, Drowning from the Inside Out and Lost Keys. His work has appeared in the New York Quarterly, River Styx, and Southern Poetry Review. Honors include the
Seaborn Jones
Georgia Author of the Year Award in poetry, the Violet Reed Haas Poetry award, and selection as a Bread Loaf scholar. A former Marine, he was a lighting director for Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood of Make-believe, is a certified zoo curator, and has taught poetry in Macon and San Francisco.
Poems from one of the most original voices in contemporary American Poetry Going Farther into the Woods than the Woods Go opens with the poet speaking from an interior landscape in which life is going too fast and he is lonely and isolated from himself and others. Life is brutal, and the speaker finds himself constantly questioning his self-worth, yet in a surrealistic, witty fashion perhaps best described as black humor. As the book moves forward, the point of view shifts to a landscape largely identified as a desert. Many of these poems address the horrors of war, with concerns such as political liberation, elections, and the plight of refugees. In the third section of the book, the point of view shifts to third person. In this section, the speaker confronts and challenges the reader to face reality, but the speaker poses questions that the reader cannot answer. In fact, the reader is often faced with impossible demands at times amounting to a form of blackmail. Throughout the book, the aloneness and isolation of the individual is the paramount theme; yet, despite the darkness of the poet’s vision, his fresh, vivid imagery, use of wit and humor, and his unique approach to style and content make this book a showcase for one the most interesting and original voices in contemporary American poetry.
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Misfits and Marble Fauns Religion and Romance in Hawthorne and O’Connor Wendy Piper
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On the North Slope
Catharine Savage Brosman, who lives in Houston, is emerita professor of French at Tulane University (New Orleans) and Honorary Research
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Professor at the University of Sheffield
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(England). She currently serves as poetry editor for Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. She is the author of eight previous works of poetry and is the author or editor of numerous books on French literature. Her book of poems Breakwater was published in 2009 by Mercer University Press.
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On the North Slope, Catharine Savage Brosman’s ninth collection of poetry, displays once more the impressive range of her artistry and her powerful poetic vision. Divided into four parts, the volume includes free verse, blank verse, and rhymed quatrains. Taken together, the poems impart the very feeling of consciousness and illuminate both its potentialities and its burdens as it relates to the world. After the introductory poem, the first part, “A Commonwealth of Place,” features the winds, snow, light, and sunset of a Colorado winter. Following poems combine elements of personal and historical experience with mountain and desert scenes, which illustrate the subtle bonds between such experiences and their natural and cultural settings. “Order Under the Sun” comprises eighteen lyrics, mostly rhymed, dealing with flowers, birds, trees, and—one of Brosman’s specialties—foodstuffs, including carrots, honey, and garlic. The tone of these lyrics, which focus on the human meaning of such natural objects, ranges from humorous to grave. “The Scripted Fate” brings together narrative and lyric poems treating the poet’s girlhood, in addition to such topics as failure and unhappiness, dying, and friendship and love, ending with an affirmation of married happiness. The final part, “Themes for the Muses,” features creative artists—Rodin, Donizetti, Liszt, and Yeats, among others—and performers. The poems emphasize creative work but even more the often dramatic dimensions of artists’ lives and the implications of artistic vision. Readers of Brosman’s new collection will find a generous spectrum of responses to experience, both light and dark, in poems of great verbal and visual appeal. APRIL 2012 | poetry 6 x 9 | 140 pp. | Paper, $17.00t | 978-0-88146-273-9 | P444
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Philip Lee Williams is the muchhonored author of sixteen published books, including three non-fiction works and two volumes of poetry. He won the
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2004 Michael Shaara Prize for A Distant Flame, and in addition to a Governor’s Award in the Humanities, is a member of the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. In 2011, his The Flower Seeker: An Epic Poem of William Bartram won the Books
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A fictional glimpse into the heart of the least-known Emerson brother Few people know that Ralph Waldo Emerson had a mentally challenged brother. Now, in a deeply moving novel in letters, noted writer Philip Lee Williams imagines the last year of this brother’s sad but transcendent life as he lives with a farm family in Massachusetts. Emerson’s Brother shows how this brother, Bulkeley, deals in his own way with many of the themes Waldo did, including nature, self-reliance, and love. Writing letters to his brother and friends such as Henry David Thoreau, Bulkeley Emerson aches with the need to express himself, trapped as he is in the prison of his own genetics. Though Bulkeley’s journey toward the end of his life can be agonizing and filled with unfilled longing, there is a quiet acceptance, too, as he nears his time to become part of nature itself. “ This fascinating novel about the least-known Emerson brother brings to life the Transcendental currents of the time and shows how hard it was, for all the Emersons, to live up to the expectations of their forefathers. Fans of Henry Thoreau and Waldo Emerson, as well as anyone with a brother, will find this novel an emotional recreation of an important period and place in our history.”
—Joel Myerson Carolina Distinguished Professor of American Literature, Emeritus, University of South Carolina and co-author of The Emerson Brothers: A Fraternal Biography in Letters.
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A Never-Ending Groove
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Referred to by the late Jerry Wexler as one of the men most responsible for the Southern Rock sound that came out of Macon, Georgia, in the ’70s, Johnny Sandlin’s music career began in the early ’60s playing with other musicians who went on to leave their mark in music history including Dan Penn, David Briggs, Norbert Putnam, Jerry Carrigan, Roger Hawkins, David Hood, Eddie Hinton and fellow HourGlass band members, Paul Hornsby, Pete Carr and Gregg and Duane Allman. When the HourGlass broke up, he became staff drummer for Tone Studio in Miami but soon moved to Macon where he again joined the Allmans, first as the drummer in the Capricorn studio rhythm section and then as recording engineer, producer and vice-president of Capricorn Records and head of A&R. Sandlin also produced, mixed, and mastered albums for the Allman Brothers Band, Gregg Allman, Gregg and Cher, Richard Betts, Johnny Jenkins, Elvin Bishop, Wet Willie, Bonnie Bramlett, Alex Taylor, Cowboy, Delbert McClinton, Widespread Panic and many others. Since leaving Capricorn, Johnny works as an independent engineer and producer, is co-owner of Rockin’ Camel Records, and continues to record in his own studio, Duck Tape Music, in Decatur, Alabama. His work has earned him five platinum and ten gold albums.
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Life of Dreams
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The legacy of a legendary sports journalist and storyteller Life of Dreams is the first complete biography of Fred McFerrin Russell, one of the all-time stars in sports journalism. This biography details how the Vanderbilt man started with the Nashville Banner in the late 1920s, ascended to Sports Editor and remained with this paper loyally for sixty-nine years. He led the daily charge against the better-funded Tennessean, and it was a fierce rivalry for decades until the Banner folded in 1998. Russell’s early success led to a position with the nationally recognized Saturday Evening Post, and from 1949–1962, he was the annual voice of college football with his immensely popular “Pigskin Preview.” He built long-lasting relationships with coaches, players, and other writers in the business, and Russell wrote with a style that reflected his personality: fair, informative, and always with a sense of humor. He was a storyteller, whether it was athletes such as Bobby Jones or Red Grange; or coaches such as Red Sanders or Paul “Bear” Bryant, one of his closest friends. Outliving almost all of his contemporaries, Russell rubbed elbows with some of the greats of the twentieth century, with men such as Sparky Anderson, George Steinbrenner, Archie Manning, Vince Dooley, and Lou Holtz. One of the unique elements of this biography is the Russell legacy and the connection that exists between Russell’s past and the sportswriters of today and the future. Two years after Grantland Rice died in 1954, Russell helped to organize the Grantland Rice Scholarship, a four-year sportswriting scholarship awarded to an entering freshman at Vanderbilt University.
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A Light on Peachtree
Anne B. Jones (PhD) is the author of Tides of Fear, STOP, Gold Thunder, All Around the Track, and Brave at Heart. She taught school thirty-one years, and
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volunteer probation officer, and public relations writer. As a freelance writer and author, she makes numerous presentations on her books and on writing and publishing topics. She is a member of the Atlanta Woman’s Club.
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The Atlanta Woman’s Club has steered the development and identity of Atlanta since 1895. Headquartered in the elegant and historic Wimbish House on Peachtree Street, the club symbolizes both a vibrant past and continuing hope for this unique Southern city. Through their affiliation with the Georgia and General Federation of Women’s Clubs, members have helped improve the quality of life in Atlanta, the South, and the world in the fields of politics, human rights, poverty, the arts, education, health, conservation and the understanding of international affairs. As educational advocates, they worked to set the foundation of the Atlanta Public Kindergarten system and Georgia’s public library system. Along with other Georgia Federation of Women’s Club members, the Atlanta Woman’s Club is a vested owner of Tallulah Falls School, one of the most esteemed college preparatory private schools in the country. They helped establish the first farmers’ market in metro Atlanta and were instrumental in promoting the acquisition of a landing field and the building of what is now Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Few are aware of the club’s enormous effect on its community and state, or its ties to the Georgia Federation of Women’s Clubs (GaFWC) and the General Federation of Women’s Clubs (GFWC), both of which have been a major force in the history of Georgia and the nation. A Light on Peachtree: A History of the Atlanta Woman’s Club is the story of the remarkable efforts and accomplishments of the Atlanta Woman’s Club from 1895 to present time.
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A Titanic Love Story
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June Hall McCash is the author, co-author, or editor of seven books, six nonfiction works and a historical
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Georgia Author of the Year Award for first novel. She holds PhD and MA degrees from Emory University and a BA from Agnes Scott College. Before becoming a full-time writer, McCash was founding director of the university honors program and chair of the department of Foreign Languages at Middle Tennessee State University. She and her husband divide their time between Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and
Their tragic death on the Titanic ended the lives of this remarkable couple devoted to business, family, and philanthropy This book traces the life of Isidor and Ida Straus, both German Jewish immigrants who arrived as children in America in the early 1850s. Isidor’s father, Lazarus, was an itinerate peddler in Georgia, but within one generation the family became the wealthy owners of Macy’s Department Store in New York. A Titanic Love Story follows the Strauses’ life from Talbotton, Georgia, where an anti-Semitic incident caused them to move to nearby Columbus. The devastation of Columbus at the end of the Civil War brought the family to New York, where Isidor met and eventually married the young Ida Blun. Ida and Isidor balanced the demands of business, family, and service to others and carved out their individual roles in those domains. A Titanic Love Story emphasizes their work together as a couple, focusing not only on Isidor’s important roles as businessman, member of congress, and philanthropist, but also on Ida’s contributions as an intelligent partner, the soul of the household, and matriarch of the family, as well as a stalwart supporter of her husband and one who engaged in philanthropic and creative activities of her own. The Strauses were wealthy Jews within their New York community, and as people committed to the welfare of their family, their city, their country, and those less fortunate than themselves, they dealt with their own grief, illness, and occasional brushes with anti-Semitism. Ironically, their final happy days in the south of France lead to their unexpected sailing on the Titanic. Both died as they had lived, with dignity, honor, loyalty to one another, and compassion for others. The public outpouring of grief at their deaths, even by today’s standards of over-the-top journalism, was remarkable. MARCH 2012 | BIOGRAPHY 6 x 9 | 288 pp. | Cloth $35.00t | 978-0-88146-277-7 | H840 | Index | Illustrations
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Guy Story Brown was awarded his PhD from the University of Dallas Institute of Philosophic Studies. He is director of The Straight Gate, a 3-acre 501c3
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residential prison aftercare project in Oak Cliff, Texas, and a Fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture.
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“Between the House and the Chicken Yard”
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The First Part of King Henry the Sixth is Shakespeare’s first work for the stage, his first dramatic hit, and, also, his most controversial and suspect history play, a literary genre he perfected. From the vantage of his opening act its close study affords the original introduction to all the histories and the Shakespearean stage as such, as well as to his idea of time and the world generally, that is, to the Shakespearean education. In the course of this initiation there emerges a world, a stage, and, even, a Shakespeare that may increasingly seem more than a little strange to us, whether as seen through the lens of the old bardic conventions or the theories of recent academic revisions, but that are, at the same time, almost certainly more intimately familiar to the original editors of the 1623 folio, and the play itself increasingly revealed as a striking tour de force debut as fresh as the poet everyone is drawn to in the first place.
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Laura Dabundo is professor of English and coordinator of Religious Studies at Kennesaw State University. She is editor of The Encyclopedia of Romanticism:
Christianity in Jane Austen and William Wordsworth
Culture in Britain, 1780–1830s and Jane Austen and Mary Shelley and Their
Laura Dabundo
Sisters: Romantic Women’s Fiction in Context and has written articles on many Romantic writers. Born in Philadelphia and educated in Pennsylvania, she teaches British Romanticism, the Gothic, the Bible as Literature, Mystery and Detective Fiction, and editing. Currently, she is studying Irish Romantic writers and their faith.
Fresh insight into the works and lives of two English Romantic writers Near its heart, English Romanticism—across many writers— acknowledges and celebrates a community that is not just secular but that derives meaning from a religious association and, in fact, a particularly defined religion, that is, Anglican Christianity. William Wordsworth and Jane Austen, premier English Romantic poet and novelist, were baptized, confirmed, and buried (and for Wordsworth, married) in conformity with the Church of England. Of course, Wordsworth’s commitment flagged in his twenties, but with marriage and responsibility came respectability and parishioner status. However, most twentieth-century critics interpret these writers’ works outside the Christian realities with which their lives were much imbued, except for late Wordsworthian poems from his purported decline into conservative politics and religion and evident poetic senility. Jane Austen did not live long enough to have a late decline, but critics have nonetheless overlooked her faith. It is not necessarily the surface of her writing, but Christianity is unquestionably the sea out of which her characters arise, her plots bubble up, and her themes unfold. It was her and their reality. Notwithstanding this negative or blind critical precedent, Laura Dabundo highlights what most readers are conditioned to disregard, the ways in which the church saturates the writing of Wordsworth and Austen. The Church of England’s liturgy has traditionally been based on Scripture, which these writers would have known. This book, then, links their faith to their works.
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Religion and Romance in Hawthorne and O’Connor Wendy Piper
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Constructions of Audience and Tone in O’Connor, Gautreaux, and Percy L. Lamar Nisly Cloth | $35.00t | H813 978-0-88146-214-2
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The Spiritual Journal of Henry David Thoreau Malcolm Clemens Young Cloth | $35.00t | H793 978-0-88146-158-9
Inside the Church of Flannery O’Connor Sacrament, Sacramental, and the Sacred in Her Fiction Joanne Halleran McMullen and John Parish Peede Paper | $22.95t | P380 978-0-88146-138-1
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Christopher C. Meyers is a professor of history at Valdosta State University
A Brief History
where he teaches Georgia history, US
Christopher C. Meyers and David Williams
political history, and U.S. military history. His previous books include The Empire State of the South and Union General John A. McClernand and the Politics of Command. David Williams a professor of history at Valdosta State University where he
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teaches Georgia history, the Old South, and the Civil War era. His previous books include Plain Folk in a Rich Man’s War: Class and Dissent in Confederate Georgia and The Georgia Gold Rush: Twenty-Niners, Cherokees, and Gold Fever. titl e s o f i n t e r e st
Home of the Infantry
The History of Fort Benning Peggy A. Stepflug and Richard Hyatt
Father Mercer
The Story of a Baptist Stateman Anthony L. Chute Paper | $20.00t | P436 978-0-88146-262-3
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This Georgia Rising Education, Civil Rights, and the Politics of Change in Georgia in the 1940s Patrick Novotny
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The Empire State of the South
Georgia History in Documents and Essays Christopher C. Meyers Cloth | $50.00s | H758 978-0-888146-110-7 Paper | $28.00t | P377 978-0-888146-111-4
An up-to-date, balanced history of the state of Georgia Here, for the first time is a brief, balanced, and up-to-date history of Georgia from the early Native Americans to the twenty-first century. Based on the most recent research, Georgia: A Brief History surveys the people and events that shaped our state’s history in a style that reads easily and flows effortlessly. Beginning with the earliest Native American settlements, the story tells of first contacts between area natives and Spanish from Florida, British from Carolina, and James Oglethorpe leading the effort to found a colony called Georgia. That colony passed out of the British Empire during the American Revolution, a conflict that was as much a civil war as a war for independence. In the following decades, the Creek and Cherokee were driven out as Georgia was transformed into a cotton kingdom dominated by a minority of slaveholders, who finally sought to make slavery perpetual in a war that often pitted Georgians against each other. In the aftermath of the Civil War, the state struggled with the consequences of the conflict, political, social, and economic. The postwar years were highlighted by economic stagnation, questions over the meaning of freedom, and one-party politics. Race relations pervaded the state’s history after the Civil War until well into the twentieth century and those struggles are traced from Reconstruction to Jim Crow to the Civil Rights Era. In the latter half of the twentieth century, and carrying into the twenty-first, Georgia drifted away from the provincialism that characterized its history and moved toward modernity.
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Luigi Marco Bassani, born in Chicago, and educated mostly in Italy and in the United States, is professor of History of Political Theory at the University of Milan, Italy. Though he has published
The Political Theory of Thomas Jefferson
widely on subjects ranging from
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revolutionary syndicalism to libertarian theory, his paramount research interest is on American political thought from
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the Revolution to the Civil War.
Finding Jefferson beneath the rubble of biased interpretations Author of the Declaration of Independence, diplomat in France, leader of the opposition to the Federalists in the 1790s, president of the United States from 1801 to 1809, critical conscience of the country until his death on July 4, 1826, Thomas Jefferson is the most widely studied, fascinating, and genuinely representative Founding Father of the entire age, a classical liberal “philosopher-king” that America produced in the birth throes of the Republic. Bassani surveys Jefferson’s views in the twofold articulation—the rights of man and state’s rights—that represents the core of all his political ideas. While recent scholarship on the subject tends to portray a union devotee, nonindividualistic, antiproperty rights Jefferson, with possible communitarian, if not even protosocialist undertones, this work will do Jefferson justice. After careful examination of his political theory, the readers will recognize the third president as a champion of limited government, natural rights, and antagonism of the states towards interference by federal powers.
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The Political Theory of Thomas Jefferson Luigi Marco Bassani Cloth | $35.00t | H802 978-0-88146-186-2
The Bully Pulpit and the Melting Pot
American Presidents and the Immigrant, 1897–1933 Hans P. Vought
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Our Presidents and Their Hymns C. Edward Spann and Michael E. Williams, Sr. Cloth | $35.00t | H763 978-0-88146-117-6
Footnotes to History
A Primer on the American Political Character Griffin B. Bell†; John P. Cole, editor Cloth | $25.00t | H668 978-0-86554-904-3
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Democracy in Twenty-First Century America
Ronald B. Neal’s (PhD Vanderbilt University) research and writing interests include religion, gender, culture, religion, ethics and politics, modern and postmodern philosophy, Third World cultures, and popular culture. He is the
Race, Class, Religion, and Region
present chairman of the Committee on
Ronald B. Neal
Black Cultures and the Study of Religion, a sectional division of the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion (SECSOR). Currently, he is a visiting assistant professor in the department of Religion at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Addressing the racial and economic crisis in America o th e r titl e s i n V o ic e s o f A f r ica n D iasp o r a s e r i e s
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A Pictorial Life and Times Carrie M Dumas Cloth | $45.00t | H704 978-0-88146-016-2
Erasing Public Memory
Race, Aesthetics, and Cultural Amnesia in the Americas Joseph A. Young and Jana Evans Braziel editors Cloth | $60.00s | H736 978-0-88146-076-6 Paper | $30.00t | P327 978-0-88146-058-2
The Souls of W. E. B. DuBois
New Essays and Reflections Edward J. Blum and Jason R. Young, editors Cloth | $45.00t | H777 978-0-88146-136-7
W. E. B. DuBois and Race
Essays Celebrating the Centennial Publication of the Souls of Black Folk Chester J. Fontenot, Jr., Mary Alice Morgan, and Sarah Gardner, editors Cloth | $35.00s | H545 978-0-86554-727-8
Democracy in Twenty-First Century America: Notes on Race, Class, Religion, and Region is an exercise in religious and political philosophy. Fundamentally concerned with the racial and economic crisis of democracy in the United States, this book engages the new face of inequality in America and the new challenges presented to the American democratic project. Neal claims that the racial and economic inequality of today are reflective of two Americas—First World America and Third World America—which were made visible in 2005 through the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Katrina on America’s Gulf Coast. Katrina’s devastation revealed social conditions that are pervasive throughout America and the South. In particular, it revealed a class of abandoned citizens who are referred to throughout this book as America’s Least Wanted. Addressing the population of one Southern state, South Carolina, this book contends that the vestiges of America’s past are now compounded with unprecedented racial and economic dilemmas. Such a state of affairs calls for reinvigorated religious and political thinking where democracy is concerned. The author turns to the thought of Benjamin Elijah Mays, a religious and political thinker who contributed to the expansion of American democracy during the latter half of the twentieth century and is one resource for engaging the crisis of democracy in twenty-first-century America.
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W. Glenn Jonas, Jr. is the Howard Professor of Religion and chairman of the department of Religion and Philosophy at Campbell University in Buies Creek,
First Baptist Church, Raleigh, 1812–2012
North Carolina. He is the author of A Critical Evaluation of Albert Henry
W. Glenn Jonas, Jr.
Newman, Church Historian, co-author of A Journey of Faith: Introduction to Christianity and Christianity: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Guide for Students, and editor of The Baptist River: Essays on Many Tributaries of a Diverse Tradition. He has served as interim pastor of twelve churches in Eastern North Carolina. He and his wife Pam live in Buies Creek and have two daughters,
The rich history of a prominent North Carolina church The First Baptist Church of Raleigh, North Carolina was established on March 7, 1812. Throughout two centuries of existence it has become one of the most prominent Baptist churches in North Carolina and has been a steady presence for the religious community in the city of Raleigh. This book examines the rich, 200-year history of this historic congregation from its inception in 1812 to the present. More than just a simple history of a congregation, the church’s history is recounted within its context, nationally, regionally, and within the broader context of Baptist history. The contextualization of the history of First Baptist Church of Raleigh makes this a unique approach of history from the “bottom up” rather than from the “top down.”
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Separating God and Ceasar in the Land of the Free Lee Canipe Paper | $27.00t | P427 978-0-88146-239-5
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A Baptist Democracy
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A Choosing People
Don A. Sanford† served as historian and historian-emeritus for the Seventh Day Baptist Historical Society for
The History of Seventh Day Baptists
twenty-two years.
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A Short Declaration of the Mystery of Iniquity (1611/1612) Thomas Helwys†; Richard Groves, editor
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The People Are Holy
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The Awakening of the Freewill Baptists Benjamin Randall and the Founding of an American Religious Tradition Scott Bryant
The freedom and responsibility of choice is one of the basic tenets of Baptist beliefs. Seventh Day Baptists as a part of this Baptist heritage for over 350 years have upheld and practiced that right. The decision to follow the Bible instead of ecclesiastical authority and tradition led them to accept the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath which sets them apart from other Baptists, but as Dr. Winthrop Hudson noted, “Seventh Day Baptists are separate but not sectarian.” A Choosing People: The History of Seventh Day Baptists documents the history of this oldest Sabbathkeeping Christian denomination within the framework of both religious and secular history from the Reformation in Europe to modern times in America. Mid-seventeenth-century origins amid persecution gave way to gradual decline in England but dramatic growth in America through development of associational relationships during the eighteenth century. Churches struggled to apply ideals of freedom and equality to harsh realities of the American Revolution and Civil War. Nineteenth-century expansion with the western frontier fostered organization of a General Conference and related societies in missionary and educational outreach despite continuing tensions between autonomy and associational ties. A mission to China lasted one hundred years and spawned global extension leading to establishment of a World Federation of conferences at the same time that twentiethcentury social, scientific, organizational, ecumenical, and theological issues challenged all Christian groups. Originally published in 1992, this book has been thoroughly updated to the present, this new edition brings greater accuracy and thoroughness to this engaging history of the choices, struggles, and beliefs of Seventh Day Baptists.
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And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy Sermons by Women in Baptist Life Karen Massey, editor
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Karen Massey is associate professor of Christian Education and Faith Development at Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a curriculum writer for children and adults, has written various articles for journals and magazines, and is a retreat leader for women’s groups. Massey is an ordained Baptist minister, and has served local churches in Georgia and Kentucky. She is a past national president of Baptist Women in Ministry. RElat e d titl e s i n w o m e n ’ s st u di e s
Fresh perspectives and inspiration from women in the pulpit As long as there have been Baptists in America, there have been female Baptist ministers and preachers. Unfortunately, some Baptist denominations have not always been kind to them. Due to theological debate, often the existence of these female ministers has been ignored, and their words have not been recorded. This book of sermons seeks to record the words, insights, and experiences of several women ministers and preachers so as not to become part of the lost generations of women who have gone before them. Even when the denomination and some churches have looked unfavorably on women preachers and ministers, God has consistently called their daughters to ministry and service. It is hoped that others can be inspired by the wisdom and creativity of these women, and be challenged by fresh perspectives on biblical texts. The women who contributed sermons to this book represent a wide variety of ministerial roles and vocations. Among the writers are denominational leaders such as Carolyn Weatherford Crumpler (former executive director of Woman’s Missionary Union and former moderator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship), Pam Durso (executive director of Baptist Women in Ministry), and Colleen Burroughs (executive VP of Passport Camps, Inc.). College and seminary professors include Helen Lee Turner (Furman University), Libby Bellinger (Baylor University) and Tracy Hartman (Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond). Pastors include Mimi Walker (Druid Hills Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia) and Sarah Jackson Shelton (Baptist Church of the Covenant, Birmingham, Alabama). This book is practical in its arrangement for classroom use or group readings.
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In Search of Status, 1845–2000 David T. Morgan
400 Years of Baptist Service Charles W. Deweese
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American Protestant Women and the Orient in the Nineteenth Century Lisa J. Pruitt Paper | $25.00s | P313 978-0-86554-888-6
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George H. Tooze was born in Boston and educated at Gordon College (BS), Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary (MDiv), and Andover Newton Theological School (DMin). In forty years of pastoral ministry, he
Volume 5, October 1851–September 1852
served churches in Gardner, Beverly,
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and Malden, Massachusetts, and Indianapolis, Indiana, retiring from active ministry in December 2003. He is married to Constance Taylor Tooze.
Volume 5 of the complete correspondence of a nineteenth-century woman, missionary, and writer th e L i f e a n d L e tt e r s o f e mily ch u bb u ck j u ds o n
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Biographies and Timelines George H. Tooze, editor Cloth | $60.00t | H772 978-0-88146-131-2
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January 1847– September 1851 George H. Tooze, editor Cloth | $60.00t | H803 978-0-88146-189-3
Emily Chubbuck Judson (1817–1854) was a nationally known writer of the mid-nineteenth century. With pieces appearing alongside those by Edgar Allan Poe and James Fenimore Cooper, she walked in literary company second to none. She wrote children’s books, essays, and stories. During her fascinating life, she was a prolific letter writer. In 1845, she met Adoniram Judson and they married in 1846. His work in Burma (Myanmar) had made him famous as a Baptist missionary. After his death in 1850, Emily returned to the States in 1851 and spent the last years of her life writing and publishing a volume of poetry, a volume of missionary stories, a memoir of her sisters who had died as young women entitled My Two Sisters and helped to produce a biography of her husband. Volume 5 covers October 1, 1851–September 30, 1852. This is the year that Emily Judson worked with Dr. Francis Wayland, president of Brown University, on preparing A Memoir of the Life and Labors of Rev. Adoniram Judson, D.D. This volume is filled with letters from prominent ministers and missionaries of that time, all of whom were involved in the mission movement, and whose lives and ministries had been greatly impacted by Adoniram Judson. There is also correspondence from the Judson children who took Emily as their “new Mamma.” The six-volume series of The Life and Letters of Emily Chubbuck Judson is published in cooperation with the American Baptist Historical Society.
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The James N. Griffith Series in Baptist Studies This series on Baptist life and thought explores and investigates Baptist history, offers analyses of Baptist theologies, provides studies in hymnody, and examines the role of Baptists in societies and cultures around the world. The series also includes classics of Baptist literature, letters, diaries, and other writings. —Walter B. Shurden, series editor Adiel Sherwood: Baptist Antebellum Pioneer in Georgia Jarrett Burch P258 | 978-0-86554-890-9 | $22s And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy: Sermons by Women in Baptist Life Karen Massey, editor P447 | 978-0-88146-285-2 | $25t The Awakening of the Freewill Baptists: Benjamin Randall and the Founding of an American Religious Tradition Scott Bryant H815 | 978-0-88146-216-6 | $35t The Axioms of Religion E. Y. Mullins†; C. Douglas Weaver, editor P392 | 978-0-88146-164-0 | $32t Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1781–1845 Timothy Whelan, editor H780 | 978-0-88146-144-2 | $55t A Baptist Democracy: Separating God and Caesar in the Land of the Free Lee Canipe P427 | 978-0-88146-239-5 | $27t The Baptist River: Essays on Many Tributaries of a Diverse Tradition W. Glenn Jonas P353 | 978-0-88146-120-6 | $24s Baptists on the American Frontier : A History of Ten Baptist Churches... Chester R. Young H373 | 978-0-86554-479-6 | $45t Baptist Theology: A Four-Century Study James Leo Garrett H767 | 978-0-88146-129-9 | $55t The Bloudy Tenant of Persecution for Cause of Conscience Roger Williams; Richard Grove, editor / Historical Introduction by Edwin Gaustad H578 | 978-0-86554-766-7 | $40t The Challenges of Roger Williams: Religious Liberty, Violent Persecution, and the Bible James Byrd, Jr. H582 | 978-0-86554-771-1 | $40s A Choosing People: The History of Seventh Day Baptists Don A. Sanford†, editor H846 | 978-0-88146-284-5| $35t Church-State Matters: Fighting for Religious Liberty in Our Nation’s Capital J. Brent Walker H762 | 978-0-88146-115-2 | $28t Congregation and Campus: North American Baptists in Higher Education William H. Brackney H771 | 978-0-88146-130-5 | $49t Courage and Hope: The Stories of Ten Baptist Women Ministers Pamela R. Durso and Keith E. Durso P320 | 978-0-86554-420-8 | $18t Distinctively Baptist: Essays on Baptist History: A Festschrift in Honor of Walter B. Shurden Marc A. Jolley and John D. Pierce, editors H640 | 978-0-86554-770-4 | $45s Diverging Loyalities: Baptists in Middle Georgia during the Civil War Bruce Gourley H833 | 978-0-88146-258-6 | $35t Domestic Slavery Considered as a Scriptural Institution Francis Wayland and Richard Fuller / Nathan A. Finn and Keith Harper, editors H755 | 978-0-88146-107-7 | $45s Esteemed Reproach: The Lives of Reverend James Ireland and Reverend Joseph Craig Keith Harper and C. Martin Jacumin P270 | 978-0-86554-914-2 | $25s A Genetic History of Baptist Thought: With Special Reference to Baptists in Britain and North America William H. Brackney P269 | 978-0-86554-913-5 | $40s In Search of the New Testament Church: The Baptist Story C. Douglas Weaver H653 | 978-0-88146-106-0 | $45s P346 | 978-0-88146-105-3 | $23s I Will Sing the Wondrous Story: A History of Baptist Hymnody in North America Paul Richardson and David Music P429 | 978-0-88146-243-2 | $35t The Life and Letters of Emily Chubbuck Judson George Tooze, editor Vol. 1: Biographies/Timelines H772 | 978-0-88146-131-2 | $60t Vol. 2: 1826–1845 H783 | 978-0-88146-149-7 | $60t Vol. 3: 1846–1847 H791 | 978-0-88146-156-5 | $60t Vol. 4: 1848–September 1851 H803 | 978-0-88146-189-3 | $60t Vol. 5: October 1851–September 1852 H803 | 978-0-88146-189-3 | $60t
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Charles W. Deweese retired in 2009 as executive director of the Baptist History and Heritage Society in Atlanta, Georgia, a position he had held since
Memoirs of Gratitude and Hope
1999. Previously, he served on the
Charles W. Deweese, editor
staffs of Providence House Publishers in Franklin, Tennessee, in 1995–1998, and the Historical Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1973–1994. He has
Available in e-book format
authored/edited numerous books and booklets in Baptist studies, including Women Deacons and Deaconesses: 400 Years of Baptist Service (Mercer, 2005). C ontrib u tors From Fear to Faith B ob a g ee Befriending Fear K athr y n M u l l er Lo p e z One of the Better Cancers to Get c . do u g l as wea v er Objects in Mirror Closer than They Appear Pa u l a B . H oo p er My Experience with Melanoma B i l l S herman Sharing More than Scars diana brid g es No Jokes on April Fools’ Day s l a y den A . y arbro u g h The Chemotherap-ista Reports K e l l y be l cher Cancer Cannot... e D D rowe l l Dividing Time norma s . H edin Prostate Cancer and Ancient Philosophy M arc A . J o l l e y Where is God in All This? Lane H . Powe l l Discovering Life’s Meaning via the Shock Waves of Cancer char l es w. deweese Life’s Fragility and God’s Sufficiency cind y mcc l ain God, Me, and Cancer g era l d L . d u r l e y Allowing Space for Grace j u no m . shar p The Goodness of God M e l v in T . J ackson Looking the “Big C” Straight in the Face john e . chownin g
Personal journeys of illness and faith Cancer and Healing: Memoirs of Gratitude and Hope provides firstperson glimpses into the cancer experiences of eighteen Baptists. In fact, every person connected with this book, including the publishing director, editor, and writers, has had and/or currently has cancer. Their very lives comprise the primary resources of this work. Since more than half a million people die in the United States every year from cancer, writers included in this volume feel a strong sense of gratitude and hope. They share passionately about their own survival experiences and compassionately for those who do not survive and for those for whom the announcement of cancer may picture into their tomorrows. Autobiography, honestly written, can provide extraordinary insights into basic human achievements and dilemmas. Writings about oneself, including experiences, attitudes, and lessons, can penetrate deep into one’s identity and can even expose one’s vulnerabilities. While risky, such efforts at laying out the soul constitute the true stuff of a person’s life situation. This book takes that risk, believing that while frank and open talk about a particular illness—cancer—can get intensely personal, the purpose is to help readers deal redemptively with cancer and its treatments and side effects. These writers, male and female, white and black, live in ten states. They have suffered various cancers: carcinoma, leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, melanoma, and others, which have affected many parts of their bodies and emotions. They have not written to make money. All royalties from sales of this book will be donated to the American Cancer Society. Each contributor knows the suffering related to cancer and its treatment. More importantly, each has experienced a growing appreciation for the healing power of God and biblical values as a consequence of being forced to delve into a dark and difficult world. March 2012 | essays 5.75 x 8.75 | 224 pp. | Paper, $20.00t | 978-0-88146-343-9 | P450 e-book | 978-0-88146-344-6 | P450e
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The Tifts of Georgia: Connecticut Yankees in King Cotton’s Court John D. Fair H817 | $35.00t | 9780881462180 The History of the Mercer University School of Medicine, 1965–2007 Martin L. Dalton, Jr., M.D., FACS H796 | $45.00s | 9780881461619 Presidential Praise: Our Presidents and Their Hymns C. Edward Spann and Michael E. Williams, Sr. H763 | $35.00t | 9780881461176 The Empire State of the South: Georgia History in Documents and Essays Christopher C. Meyers H758 | $50.00s | 9780881461107 P377 | $28.00t | 9780881461114
Footnotes to History: A Primer on the American Political Character Griffin B. Bell†, John P. Cole, editor H668 | $25.00t | 9780865549043
Educating the Urban New South: Atlanta and the Rise of Georgia State University, 1913–1969 Merl E. Reed H784 | $35.00t | 9780881461480 The Tragedy and the Triumph of Phenix City Alabama Margaret Anne Barnes H462 | $30.00t | 9780865546134 Black Lebeda: The Russian Famine Diary of Ara Kazan District Supervisor J. Rives Childs, 1921–1923 Jamie H. Cockfield, editor H701 | $40.00s | 9780881460155 Home of the Infantry: The History of Fort Benning Peggy A. Stelpflug and Richard Hyatt H741 | $35.00t | 9780881460872 Col. Burton’s Spiller & Burr Revolver: An Untimely Venture in Confederate Small Arms Manufacturing Matthew Norman H406 | $22.95 | 9780865545311
Sherman’s 1864 Trial of Battle to Atlanta Philip L. Secrist† P220 | $24.00t | 9780865547452 This Cruel War: The Civil War Letters of Grant and Malinda Taylor Robert A. Taylor and Ann K. Blomquist H487 | $32.95t | 9780865546547 Under the Southern Cross: Soldier Life with Gordon Bradwell and the 31st Georgia Infantry Herb Bridges H496 | $35.00t | 9780865546677
The Courthouse and the Depot: The Architecture of Hope in an Age of Despair...1833–1910 Wilber W. Caldwell H564 | $50.00s | 9780865447483 Three Years with Wallace’s Zouaves: The Civil War Memoirs of Thomas Wise Durham Jeff Patrick H623 | $35.00t | 9780865548220 Vale of Tears: New Essays on Religion and Reconstruction W. Scott Poole, H685 | $49.95s | 9780865549623 P322 | $25.00t | 9780865549876 The Moving Appeal: Mr. McClanahan, Mrs. Dill, and the Civil War’s Great Newspaper Run Barbara G. Ellis H576 | $45.00t | 9780865547643 Requiem for a Lost City: A Memoir of Civil War Atlanta and the Old South Robert Davis, Jr. H466 | $32.95t | 9780865546226 Dear Old Roswell: Civil War Letters of the King Family of Roswell, Georgia Tammy Galloway H614 | $35.00t | 9780865548114 Myra Inman: A Diary of the Civil War in East Tennessee William Snell, editor H443 | $35.00t | 9780865545908 Repairing the March of Mars : The Civil War Diaries of John Samuel Apperson, Hospital Steward in the Stonewall Brigade, 1861–1865 John Herbert Roper, editor H586 | $45.00t | 9780865547797
A Southern Soldier’s Letters Home: The Civil War Letters of Samuel Burney, Cobb’s Georgia Legion, Army of Northern Virginia Nat S. Turner, editor H618 | $35.00t | 9780865548169
To The Manner Born: The Life of General William H. T. Walker Russell K. Brown P295 | $30.00t | 9780865549449 Thomas R. R. Cobb: The Making of a Southern Nationalist William B. McCash P283 | $30.00t | 9780865548589 The Stilwell Letters: A Georgian in Longstreet’s Corps, Army of Northern Virginia Ronald H. Moseley, editor H610 | $35.00t | 9780865548077 Rice Gold: James Hamilton Couper and Plantation Life on the Georgia Coast James Bagwell P225 | $25.00t | 9780865547971 Battle of Despair: Bentonville and the North Carolina Campaign Robert P. Broadwater H624 | $35.00t | 9780865548213 The South: A Tour of Its Battlefields and Ruined Cities...1867 John Townsend Trowbridge†; Unabridged P310 | $35.00t | 9780865549692 Keep All My Letters: The Civil War Letters of Richard and Henry Brooks, 51st Georgia Infantry Katherine Holland H633 | $35.00t | 9780865548404
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The Greatest Champion That Never Was: The Life of W. L. “Young” Stribling Jaclyn Weldon White H828 | $30.00t | 9780881462524 There Is More than One Way to Spell Wiener: The Story of Nu-Way Ed Grisamore P441 | $18.00t | 9780881462692 Richard Brevard Russell, Jr.: A Life of Consequence Sally Russell H834 | $35.00t | 9780881462593 Growing a Better America: Smart, Strong, and Sustainable Chuck Leavell with J. Marshall Craig SP101 | $24.95t | 9780615434582 No Saints, No Saviors: My Years with the Allman Brothers Band William H. Perkins H688 | $25.00t | 9780865549678 Never Put a Ten-Dollar Tree in a Ten-Cent Hole….and Other Stories Ed Grisamore H822 | $24.00t | 9780881462333 Back to the Garden: The Goal of the Journey Jackie K. Cooper P423 | $18.00t | 9780881462340 Five Big Mountains: A Regular Guy’s Guide to Climbing Orizaba, Elbrus, Kilimanjaro, Aconcagua, and Vinson David Schaeffer H809 | $29.00t | 9780881462104
Relationship Banker: Eugene W. Stetson, Wall Street, and American Business, 1916–1959 James L. Hunt H672 | $35.00t | 9780865549159 Thy Will Be Done: A Biography of George W. Truett Keith E. Durso H792 | $35.00t | 9780881461572 Loving Beyond Your Theology: The Life and Ministry of Jimmy Raymond Allen Larry L. McSwain H805 | $35.00t | 9780881462050 The Spiritual Journal of Henry David Thoreau Malcolm Clemens Young H793 | $35.00t | 9780881461589 A Tramp’s Wallet Sam Pickering P424 | $25.00t | 9780881462357 A Comfortable Boy: A Memoir Sam Pickering H773 | $26.00t | 9780881461824 One Step Ahead of Hitler: A Jewish Child’s Journey through France Fred Gross P420 | $18.00t | 9780881462258 Elie Wiesel: A Religious Biography Frederick L. Downing H752 | $29.00t | 9780881460995
Relationship Banker: Eugene W. Stetson, Wall Street, and American Business, 1916–1959 James L. Hunt H672 | $35.00t | 9780865549159 W. H. Whitsitt: The Man and the Controversy James H. Slatton H774 | $40.00t | 9780881461336 Maynard Adams: Southern Philosopher of Civilization Glenn Blackburn H597 | $45.00t | 978086547902 Carl Vinson: Patriarch of the Armed Forces James F. Cook H566 | $35.00t | 9780865547544 The Sicilian Judge: Anthony Alaimo, an American Hero Vincent Coppola H768 | $30.00t | 978080881461251 Whiskey before Breakfast: A Novel Benjy Griffith H766 | $24.95t | 9780881461237 The Campfire Boys: A Novel Philip Lee Williams H788 | $26.00t | 9780881461534 Masters and Savages: A Novel James Dawsey H787 | $26.00t | 9780881461411
The Divine Comics: A Vaudeville Show in Three Acts Philip Lee Williams P435 | $35.00t | 9780881462616 Washed in the Blood Lisa Alther H832 | $26.00t | 9780881462579 The Greats of Cuttercane Terry Kay H827 | $22.00t | 9780881462494 e-book H827e | $19.00t | 9780881462500 Bogmeadow’s Wish Terry Kay H821 | $26.00t | 9780881462302 e-book H821e | $19.00t | 9780881462470 The Book of Marie: A Novel Terry Kay H742 | $23.00t | 9780881460827 Christmas Gift! Ferrol Sams H810 | $25.00t | 9780881462111 Down Town: A Novel Ferrol Sams H734 | $25.00t | 9780881460728 Whisper to the Black Candle: Voodoo, Murder, and the Case of Anjette Lyles Jaclyn Weldon White P360 | $16.00t | 9780881460469
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