This detailed book tells us how Mitchell learned his trade - contributing to the production of the cumbersome Nighthawk (designed to combat the German Zeppelin threat) and gradually coming to…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

A witty and sometimes outrageous collection of essays presenting one Southerner’s viewpoint about what makes the South the South. As the Washington Post said, Reed knows his region intimately, probably…

With characteristic tongue-in-cheek wit, Reed tackles the questions, Just what is the South today? Where is it? Why are Southerners so devoted to it? Instructional maps include Where Kudzu Grows…

Thousands of years ago a secret underground society found evidence that one day demons would break through the earth and devour the land. Decade after decade they compiled evidence and…

As the nation seems to yearn for redemption from the evils that threaten its tranquility, the authors maintain that Joseph Campbell’s monomythic hero is alive and well, but significantly displaced…

In this lavishly illustrated biography of silversmith and graphic artist William Spratling (1900-1967), Taylor Littleton reintroduces one of the most fascinating American expatriates of the early twentieth century. Best known…

Presents a portrait of life in a Southern Piedmont mill village after the Great Depression. This work describes the cotton mill workers of York as sympathetic, three-dimensional human beings, something…