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Unmasking the Klansman may read like a work of fiction but is actually a biography of Asa Carter, one of the South's most notorious white supremacists (and secret Klansman). During the 1950s, the North Alabama political firebrand became known across the region for his right-wing radio broadcasts and leadership in the white Citizens' Council movement. Combining racism and thinly-concealed anti-Semitism, he created a secret Klan strike force tha...

School choice, widely touted as a system that would ensure underprivileged youth have an equal opportunity in education, has grown in popularity in the past fifteen years. The strategies and rhetoric of school choice, however, resemble those of segregationists who closed public schools and funded private institutions to block African American students from integrating with their white peers in the wake of the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v....

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They are as diverse as America. Young and old. Of color and white. Urban and rural. Immigrants and native born. They are students and teachers. Athletes and artists. Lawyers, doctors, politicians, farmers, architects, novelists, and more. Names familiar and unfamiliar. Superheroes, figuratively, and in one case, real! They have founded major corporations and grassroots organizations or struck out on their own. But as diverse a lot as they may ...

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The assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby robbed the nation of the closure it so desperately needed following the death of John F. Kennedy. The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald asks what might have happened if the assassin had lived to stand trial for his murder of America's beloved president. This meticulously researched and riveting courtroom drama follows prosecutors Abe Summer and Elaine Navarro as they work to bring Oswald to justice ...

In 1974 John Egerton published his seminal work, The Americanization of Dixie. Pulitzer Prize-winner Cynthia Tucker and award-winning author Frye Gaillard carry Egerton's thesis forward in The Southernization of America, a compelling series of linked essays considering the role of the South in shaping America's current political and cultural landscape. They dive deeper, examining the morphing of the Southern strategy of Richard Nixon and Ronal...

Released to commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of the marriage of F. Scott Fitzgerald to Zelda Sayre of Montgomery, Alabama, All of the Belles is a unique collection of Fitzgerald's Tarleton stories, written as an ode to his new bride. Set in the fictional Tarleton, these stories recreate the Southern character and pre-modern attitude of 1920s Montgomery and are revealing of America's greatest twentieth-century writer's budding talent.

The history of Alabama is characterized by strife, be it racial or economic, political or religious. The story of Alabama's capitals is similarly contentious, and The Five Capitals of Alabama describes the political intrigue, community heartbreaks, and significant historic shifts that brought the capital of Alabama from St. Stephens to Montgomery. Filled with vibrant photography and historical documents, The Five Capitals of Alabama is a must-...

The British colony of West Florida-which once stretched from the mighty Mississippi to the shallow bends of the Apalachicola and portions of what are now the states of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana-is the forgotten fourteenth colony of America's Revolutionary era. The colony's eventful years as a part of the British Empire form an important and compelling interlude in Gulf Coast history that has for too long been overlooked. For...

There were countless fervent supporters of the Confederacy in the South before, during, and after the Civil War, but perhaps none were as ardent or influential as the so-called fire-eaters, who worked in Southern communities to sway them toward secession. The South's Forgotten Fire-Eater details the life and activism of David Hubbard, an Alabama fire-eater who did much to turn northern Alabama for the Confederacy. His is a cautionary tale of r...

One of the earliest public historically black universities, Alabama State University is a vital source of African American excellence situated directly in the Heart of Dixie. From Marion to Montgomery tells the little-known story of the university's origin as the Reconstruction-era Lincoln Normal School in Marion, Alabama. How did a little school in Lowndes County become one of the world's most renowned HBCUs?

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2019 Foreword INDIES Finalist American Founders reveals men and women of African descent as key protagonists in the story of American democracy. It chronicles how black people developed and defended New World settlements, undermined slavery, and championed freedom throughout the hemisphere from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries. While conventional history tends to reduce the roles of African Americans to antebellum slavery and the ...

A Hard Rain is a sweeping account of the 1960s, told decade by decade. Author Frye Gaillard was a Vanderbilt college student in the very early 1960s, and his experiences there informed his lifetime as a journalist. This new work is his first comprehensive account reflecting on those transformative years.

Mark Twain's Literary Resources opens a revealing window into the creative mind of Mark Twain by identifying, locating, and (in many cases) discussing thousands of reading materials - books, stories, essays, poems, newspapers, magazines, and more - that informed and influenced the great writer. The publication of Volume I of a three-volume set by internationally respected Twain scholar Dr. Alan Gribben represents 45 years of research. His stud...

The Annotated Pickett's History of Alabama, And Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the Earliest Period is a one-of-a-kind publication. It represents a major addition to the literature on the early settlement of Alabama and the Deep South. The NewSouth Books edition of the work is fully illustrated, and has been updated for contemporary readers and annotated for the first time. Significantly, the work is comprehensively indexed and c...

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Clyde Bolton has long been a dean of the Southern sportswriting community. Now this popular columnist focuses his beguiling prose on his boyhood memories in his delightful memoir, Hadacol Days. The title is taken from a high school cheer: "Statham Wildcats on the Ball, They've Been Drinking Hadacol." The Statham in the cheer refers to Statham High School, Statham, Georgia, now as long gone as Hadacol, but equally effervescent in the author's n...