Columbia, South Carolina: A History (Brief History) by Alexia Jones Helsley

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

Memphis is equivalent elements track and food--the items of a neighborhood marked with grit and resiliency. The city's blues and soul track have lifted spirits, whereas fish fry has been a significant enterprise ever due to the fact that red meat first entered the culinary panorama of Memphis with Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, who introduced the hot global 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 examine to research the connection among penal reform and liberalism in early the US. In Laboratories of advantage, he translates the evolving procedure of legal punishment as a microcosm of social tensions that characterised the early American republic. attractive contemporary paintings at the historical past of punishment in England and continental Europe, Meranze strains legal punishment from the past due colonial approach of publicly inflicted corporal consequences to the institution of penitentiaries within the Jacksonian interval.

California through Native Eyes: Reclaiming History (Indigenous Confluences)

Such a lot California histories commence with the arriving of the Spanish missionaries within the past due eighteenth century and with ease bypass to the Gold Rush of 1849. significantly absent from those tales are the views and reports of the folk who lived at the land lengthy ahead of eu settlers arrived.

Marfa: The Transformation of a West Texas Town

A small city within the titanic wasteland of West Texas, Marfa draws viewers from around the globe to its artwork foundations and galleries, movie and track gala's, and layout and structure symposiums. whereas newbies occasionally see it as "another Santa Fe," long-time citizens usually take a bemused, even disapproving angle towards the adjustments that Marfa has gone 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.