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June 23, 2011

Charles Thompson on C-Span’s Book-TV

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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 […]

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June 15, 2011

Moonshine on North Carolina Public Radio

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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 […]

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May 31, 2011

Charlie Thompson at Book Expo

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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 […]

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May 16, 2011

Spirit of Rebellion wins WCSA award

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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 […]

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May 11, 2011

Spirits of Just Men book signing at BEA

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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 […]

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May 3, 2011 (May 4, 2011)

A historian’s perspective on the 2011 Missouri spillway flood by Jarod Roll

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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 […]

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March 16, 2011

Black Colleges and the NCAA Basketball Tournament by Charles Martin

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Basketball fans around the country are being swept up this week in the annual “March Madness.”  The first week of competition in the NCAA men’s tournament includes the infamous one-sided […]

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February 8, 2011

Kirkus reviews Spirits of Just Men

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The February 15, 2011, issue of Kirkus Reviews features an early endorsement of Charles D. Thompson’s forthcoming book Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital […]

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November 12, 2010

AARP The Magazine reviews Hands on the Freedom Plow

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The online version of AARP The Magazine just published a review of Hands on the Freedom Plow. “With the exception of Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, and Fannie Lou Hamer, […]

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October 19, 2010 (October 19, 2010)

Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on a Troubled Past by Claude A. Clegg III

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In deciding to write a book on the history of my hometown (Salisbury, NC), I became keenly interested in family history.  As a historian, I am perhaps naturally fascinated with […]

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