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The Yellowhammer War
The Yellowhammer War: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama© 2013 ed. Kenneth NoeUniversity of Alabama press320 pages First home of the Confederacy’s government, and site of some of its final battles, Alabama’s involvement in the Civil War was intense … Continue reading
Posted in history, Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged American Civil War, American South, essays, history, politics, Politics-CivicInterest
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The Redneck Manifesto
The Redneck Manifesto: How Hicks, Hillbillies, and White Trash Became Amerca’s Scapegoats© 1998 Jim Goad272 pages Rednecks of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your bills. Jim Goad’s The Redneck Manifesto is a raucous mixture of southern … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews, Society and Culture
Tagged American South, dissent, history, labor, poverty, social criticism, Society and Culture
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Daily Life in Anglo-Saxon England
Daily Life in Anglo-Saxon England© 2008 Sally Crawford224 pages Who were the Anglo-Saxons? For a people conquered in 1066, their culture seems strangely dominant; the land the Normans conquered remains England, not Greater Normandy, and Norman French is only … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged Anglo-Saxons, Britain, commerce, farming, history, manners and morals, Medieval, religion, social history
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This week at the library: Chimpanzees, El Niño, and simple living
This week at the library I’ve been working through a lull, having finished my last Stack o’ Books and having not yet gotten another one. My plans to fetch said stack were modified after I did a twelve-mile hike through … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews, science
Tagged archaeology, Brian Fagan, climate change, Frans de Waal, history, primates, science, week in review
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Look Away!
Look Away! A History of the Confederate States of America© 2003 William C. Davis496 pages While most Civil War histories concentrate on military campaigns, Look Away! chronicles the history of the Confederacy from a political and social perspective. Its attempt … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged American South, economics, history, law, military, slavery and rebellion, social history
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Forgotten Voices of the Great War
Forgotten Voices of the Great War© 2004 ed. Max Author336 pages Forgotten Voices of the Great War is a chronicle of the first great war, a story told not by one author but many. Interviews and written recollections from … Continue reading
Poor But Proud
Poor but Proud: Alabama’s Poor Whites© 2001 Wayne Flynt488 pages We might be poor but we’re proud And we’re living the best way we know how We don’t have much but we don’t look for pity Cause we’re country poor … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews, Society and Culture
Tagged Alabama, American South, history, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, poverty, social history, Wayne Flynt
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The First World War
The First World War© 2000 John Keegan528 pages The dawning of the 20th century seemed to promise nothing but good tidings for the civilized world; telegraphy and steam were knitting it together, economies were flourishing, and progress was on the … Continue reading
The Men Who United the States
The Men Who United the States: America’s Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible© 2013 Simon Winchester496 pages The Men who United the States is a storied account of how the American people came to … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged adventure, America, Colonial America, commerce, Early American Republic, history, outdoors, rivers, technology, Technology and Society, trains
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The Other Side of Western Civilization
The Other Side of Western Civilization: Readings in Everyday Life,© 1979 ed. Stanley Chodorow363 pages The Other Side of Western Civilization collects readings in social history ranging from antiquity to the Renaissance. Its subtitle Readings in Everyday Life is largely … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged classical world, Europe, history, Medieval, military, religion, Rome, transportation
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