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January 17, 2013

Rebels and Runaways wins Florida Historical Society award

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Larry Eugene Rivers’ recent University of Illinois Press book, Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida has earned the Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Award from the Florida Historical […]

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September 11, 2012 (September 12, 2012)

LA Times reviews The Beautiful Music All Around Us

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This week the Los Angeles Times published a sparkling review of Stephen Wade’s new book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience. “Musician and folklorist Stephen Wade dissects […]

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August 9, 2012

New in paperback: Hands on the Freedom Plow

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On August 27, 2012, we will publish a paperback edition of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC, edited by Faith S. Holsaert, Martha Prescod Norman Noonan, […]

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July 6, 2012 (July 6, 2012)

Q&A with Ghost of the Ozarks author Brooks Blevins

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In 1929 a drifter named Connie Franklin was killed in the Arkansas Ozarks and his teenage fiancé was raped. Five local men were arrested for the crimes. On the eve […]

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May 15, 2012

Book trailer for The Beautiful Music All Around Us

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Stephen Wade’s forthcoming book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience will be published in September 2012. Visit Stephen’s information page for details on his […]

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May 1, 2012

Brooks Blevins discusses Arkansas murder

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Brooks Blevins, author of the new book Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South, was recently interviewed for the Ozarks Public Radio segment Sense of Place. […]

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November 7, 2011

“Spirit of Rebellion” wins Missouri History Book Award

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Dr. Jarod Roll received the 2011 Missouri History Book Award at a ceremony in Columbia’s Tiger Hotel on November 5. Roll won the award for his book, Spirit of Rebellion: […]

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October 20, 2011

Spirits of Just Men on location

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A Reading from Spirits of Just Men by Charles Thompson from Charles D. Thompson on Vimeo.   See how you can help fund, via a Kickstarter campaign, the documentary film project […]

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October 6, 2011 (October 6, 2011)

Garden & Gun reviews Spirits of Just Men

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The October/November 2011 issue of Garden & Gun magazine includes Clyde Edgerton’s review of Charles Thompson’s new book Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine […]

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August 12, 2011

Interview with The Gospel of the Working Class authors

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Religion in American History has published a three part interview with Erik Gellman and Jarod Roll, authors of the new book The Gospel of the Working Class: Labor’s Southern Prophets […]

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August 8, 2011

Religion in American History on Gospel of the Working Class

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Last week the Religion in American History blog published a complimentary piece on Erik Gellman and Jarod Roll’s new book The Gospel of the Working Class: Labor’s Southern Prophets in New […]

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July 6, 2011

Spirits of Just Men excerpt

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This morning Berfrois—Intellectual Jousting in the Republic of Letters—is featuring an excerpt from Charles Thompson’s new book Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital […]

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