Clinton: A Brief History by Nancy Griffith

Memphis Barbecue: A Succulent History of Smoke, Sauce & Soul (American Palate)

Memphis is equivalent elements track and food--the items of a group marked with grit and resiliency. The city's blues and soul song have lifted spirits, whereas fish fry has been a major company ever because red meat first entered the culinary panorama of Memphis with Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, who introduced the hot international its first herd of pigs.

Laboratories of Virtue: Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History ... and the University of North Carolina Press)

Michael Meranze makes use of Philadelphia as a case learn to research the connection among penal reform and liberalism in early the USA. In Laboratories of advantage, he translates the evolving procedure of legal punishment as a microcosm of social tensions that characterised the early American republic. enticing fresh paintings at the heritage of punishment in England and continental Europe, Meranze lines legal punishment from the past due colonial process of publicly inflicted corporal consequences to the institution of penitentiaries within the Jacksonian interval.

California through Native Eyes: Reclaiming History (Indigenous Confluences)

So much California histories commence with the arriving of the Spanish missionaries within the overdue eighteenth century and very easily bypass to the Gold Rush of 1849. extensively absent from those tales are the views and studies of the folks who lived at the land lengthy ahead of eu settlers arrived.

Marfa: The Transformation of a West Texas Town

A small city within the immense wilderness of West Texas, Marfa draws viewers from around the globe to its artwork foundations and galleries, movie and track fairs, and layout and structure symposiums. whereas beginners occasionally see it as "another Santa Fe," long-time citizens usually take a bemused, even disapproving perspective towards the adjustments that Marfa has passed through seeing that artist Donald Judd got here to city within the Nineteen Seventies and commenced developing areas for his personal and different artists' paintings.