Founded in 1838 and located in extreme northeastern Louisiana, Madison Parish has a rich and colorful history. It is the setting of Kate Stone's best-selling Civil War diary, Brokenburn, and played an
Consisting of 18 earthen mounds and numerous additional habitation areas dating to A.D. 12501550, the Bottle Creek site was first professionally investigated in 1932 when David L. DeJarnette of the Al
These case studies explore how competing interests among the keepers of a community's heritage shape how that community both regards itself and reveals itself to others. As editors Celeste Ray and Lu
For subsistence farmers in eastern Kentucky, wealthy horse owners in the central Bluegrass, and tobacco growers in Western Kentucky, land was, and continues to be, one of the commonwealth's greatest s
Pierre Clément de Laussat was the last representative of a foreign power to exercise authority in Louisiana. Appointed colonial prefect by Napoleon Bonaparte, Laussat departed for Louisiana in January
Since the early 1700s, women of Spanish/Mexican origin or descent have played a central, if often unacknowledged, role in Texas history. Tejanas have been community builders, political and religious l
Home to the notorious "Blue Book," which indexed the names and addresses of every prostitute living in the city, New Orleans' infamous red light district gained a reputation as one of the most raucou
On the morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob numbering in the thousands marched across the railroad tracks dividing black from white in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and obliterated a black community then celebrat
In Goodbye to a River, John Graves defined what it means to know a river—as a real place, as a landscape of memory and imagination, and as "a piece of country, [that] hunted and fished and roamed over
An introduction to the geography, history, government, politics, economy, resources, people, and culture of Arkansas, including maps, charts, and a recipe.
An introduction to the geography, history, government, politics, economy, resources, people, and culture of Texas, including maps, charts, and a recipe.
A classic work on small community life in rural Alabama in the age before automobiles. Since its first publication in 1957, Horse and Buggy Days on Hatchet Creek has been a favorite of readers who hav
The complex issues of race and politics in nineteenth-century Texas may be nowhere more dramatically embodied than in three generations of the family of Norris Wright Cuney, mulatto labor and politica
Traces the history of the North Carolina Historical Commission, predecessor of the present-day North Carolina Office of Archives and History, from its beginning in 1903 through the first years of the
An introduction to the geography, history, government, politics, economy, resources, people and culture of Kentucky, including maps, charts, and a recipe.
Provides an overview of the state of Louisiana, covering its history, geography, government, economy, people, and culture and includes a recipe for pecan pralines.
In 1902, Martha Berry founded the Industrial School for Boys to educate the children of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, and in 1909 the school admitted women. The institution grew from a mountain
