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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Spirits of Just Men on location
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 […]
Garden & Gun reviews Spirits of Just Men
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 […]
Interview with The Gospel of the Working Class authors
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 […]
Religion in American History on Gospel of the Working Class
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 […]
Spirits of Just Men excerpt
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 […]
Charles Thompson on C-Span’s Book-TV
During Charles Thompson’s book signing at Book Expo, C-Span’s Book-TV stopped by to interview the author about his new book Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in […]
Moonshine on North Carolina Public Radio
Charles Thompson, author of the new book Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World, was a recent guest on North Carolina […]
Charlie Thompson at Book Expo
Charles D. Thompson Jr. signing copies of his new book Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World in the University of Illinois […]
Spirit of Rebellion wins WCSA award
Jarod Roll’s book Spirit of Rebellion: Labor and Religion in the New Cotton South has been awarded the Working Class Studies Association’s 2011 C.L.R. James Award for best published book for academic […]
Spirits of Just Men book signing at BEA
Charles D. Thompson Jr, author of the new book Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World, will sign copies at Book […]
A historian’s perspective on the 2011 Missouri spillway flood by Jarod Roll
Right now a man-made flood is inundating part of Missouri after the US Army Corps of Engineers ‘activated’ the Bird’s Point-New Madrid Spillway by dynamiting the riverfront levee guarding parts […]