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Beech Mountain Man THE Memoirs of Ronda Lee Hicks

Thomas Burton Foreword by John Shelton Reed

“Thomas Burton’s edition of what amounts to an autobiography of Ronda Lee Hicks— fighter, drinker, womanizer, and storyteller—represents a wiff of late-night honky-tonk whiskey and tobacco in its realism. . . . Hicks is a talented raconteur, whose gifts are well displayed in Burton’s careful editing.” —Erika Brady, Western Kentucky University

Ronda Lee Hicks, as the traditional song goes, is “a man you don’t

meet every day.” Hailing from the Beech Mountain area of western North Carolina, Ronda is the offspring of the two families of great storytellers who are largely responsible for the area’s strong storytelling tradition of the International Wonder Tales of Jack. And his late cousin Ray Hicks was the famed “keeper” of the International Wonder Tales of Jack that have proven so popular in the Appalachian region for more than two centuries. Like Ray, Ronda is a gifted storyteller, but not of Jack Tales. Even so, Ronda’s stories about himself, his family, friends, and acquaintances are wonder tales no less. With great candor and sometimes jarring humor, Hicks recounts his life’s highs and lows. These events, ranging from drunken debauchery to brutality, are often shocking. He has had many close encounters with “the law” and was twice sent to prison. His relationships with women, including his two wives, have been tumultuous at best. This is the story of a violent, sometimes dissolute life—one that sounds more like it was lived in the mountains a hundred years ago than in contemporary Appalachia. Embedded in all of Ronda’s stories are numerous details of mountain life, work, entertainment, behavior, beliefs, values, and codes. Thus, through Ronda’s memoirs and interviews with noted Appalachian scholar Thomas Burton, readers will not only meet a truly singular individual but will also learn of many obscure features of southern Appalachian mountain culture, including its darker aspects. At the very least, the reader will wonder how Ronda Hicks lived to tell his fascinating tales at all.

Ronda Lee Hicks. Photo courtesy of Thomas Burton.

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Thomas Burton is professor emeritus of English at East Tennessee State University. He is the author of Serpent-Handling Believers and The Serpent and the Spirit: Glenn Summerford’s Story.



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Face Boss The Memoir of a Western Kentucky Coal Miner

Michael D. Guillerman

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Black Days, Black Dust The Memories of an African American Coal Miner Robert Armstead (as told to S. L. Gardner) Cloth ISBN 978-1-57233-175-4 $35s Paper ISBN 978-1-57233-176-1 $17.95t

A Guide to Historic Coal Towns of the Big Sandy River Valley George D. Torok Paper ISBN 978-1-57233-282-9 $24.95t

“From his first white-knuckled descent into a dank and dusty Kentucky coal mine until a third ruptured disc in his back forced him to end his underground career, Michael Guillerman learned volumes about the science and mechanics of extracting coal from deep inside the earth. In this first-person account of life in the mines, Guillerman recounts stories of the dangers of roof-bolting, the stress-breaking joy of practical jokes in the shower after work, and the enduring human bonds that allow miners to survive day to day despite the constant threats of injury and death that surround them. For readers who have wondered what it’s like to mine coal, Face Boss is about as close as it gets.” —Fred Sauceman, East Tennessee State University

Face Boss tells a story that few people have heard: what it is really like

to labor inside the dark and dangerous world of a vast underground coal mine. With unflinching honesty, as well as considerable humor and insight, Michael Guillerman recalls his nearly eighteen years of working as both a union miner and a salaried section foreman—or “face boss”—at the Peabody Coal Company’s Camp No. 2 mine in Union County, Kentucky. Guillerman undertook this memoir because of the many misconceptions about coal mining that were evidenced most recently in the media coverage of the 2006 Sago Mine disaster. Shedding some much-needed light on this little-understood topic, Face Boss is riveting, authentic, and often raw. Guillerman describes in stark detail the risks, dangers, and uncertainties of coal mining: the wildcat and contract strikes, layoffs, shutdowns, mine fires, methane ignitions, squeezes, and injuries. But he also discusses the good times that emerged despite perilous working conditions: the camaraderie and immense sense of accomplishment that came with mining hundreds of tons of coal every day. Along the way, Guillerman spices his narrative with numerous anecdotes from his many years on the job and discusses race relations within mining culture and the expanding role of women in the industry. While the book contributes significantly to the general knowledge of contemporary mining, Face Boss is also a tribute to those men and women who toil anonymously beneath the rolling hills of western Kentucky and the other coal-rich regions of the United States. More than just the story of one man’s life and career, it is a stirring testament to the ingenuity, courage, and perseverance of the American coal miner.

Michael D. Guillerman worked for the Peabody Coal Company from 1974 to 1991. Over his long career, his jobs included belt shoveler, timberman, shooter, drill and shuttle car operator, rock duster, and finally section foreman. Now retired, he lives with his wife, Marie, in Union County, Kentucky.

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America’s Main Street Hotels Transiency and Community in the Early Auto Age

John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle

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and towns across the United States, Main Street hotels were iconic institutions. They were usually grand, elegant buildings where families celebrated special occasions, local clubs and organizations honored achievements, and communities came together to commemorate significant events. Often literally at the center of their communities, these hotels sustained and energized their regions and were centers of culture and symbols of civic pride. America’s main street hotels catered not only to transients passing through a locality, but also served local residents as an important kind of community center. This new book by John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle, two leading experts on the nation’s roadside landscape, examines the crucial role that small- to mid-sized city hotels played in American life during the early decades of the twentieth century, a time when the automobile was fast becoming the primary mode of transportation. Before the advent of the interstate system, such hotels served as commercial and social anchors of developing towns across the country. America’s Main Street Hotels provides a thorough survey of the impact these hotels had on their communities and cultures. The authors explore the hotels’ origins, their traditional functions, and the many ups and downs they experienced throughout the early twentieth century, along with their potential for reuse now and in the future. The book details building types, layouts, and logistics; how the hotels were financed; hotel management and labor; hotel life and customers; food services; changing fads and designs; and what the hotels are like today. Brimming with photographs, this book looks at hotels from coast to coast. Its exploration of these important local landmarks will intrigue students, scholars, and general readers alike, offering a fascinating look back at that recent period in American history when even the smallest urban places could still look optimistically toward the future.

John A. Jakle is emeritus professor of geography at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Keith A. Sculle is the head of research and education for the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. He and Professor Jakle have coauthored The Gas Station in America; Motoring: The Highway Experience in America; Fast Food: Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age; Signs in Americaʼs Auto Age: Signatures of Landscape and Place; and Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture. With Jefferson S. Rogers, they are also coauthors of The Motel in America.



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Reading the Road U.S. 40 and the American Landscape Thomas J. Schlereth Paper ISBN 978-0-87049-945-6 $24.95s

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Global Connections and Local Receptions New Latino Immigration to the Southeastern United States

Edited by Fran Ansley and Jon Shefner

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Cuban-Jewish Journeys Searching for Identity, Home, and History in Miami Caroline Bettinger-López Paper ISBN 978-1-57233-098-6 $15s

Slave Cultures and the Cultures of Slavery Edited by Stephan Palmié Cloth ISBN 978-0-87049-903-6 $36s

“Scholars working on policy questions, demographic concerns, cultural studies, political economy, and ‘new destination’ will all find this book extremely useful.” —Altha J. Cravey, author of Women and Work in Mexico’s Maquiladoras

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decades, Latino immigration has transformed communities and cultures throughout the southeastern United States—and become the focus of a sometimes furious national debate. Global Connections and Local Receptions is one of the first books to provide an in-depth consideration of this profound demographic and social development. Examining Latino migration at the local, state, national, and binational levels, this book includes studies of southeastern locales and a statewide overview of Tennessee. Leading migration scholar Alejandro Portes offers a national analysis while Raúl Delgado Wise provides a Mexican perspective on the migration issue and its policy implications for both the United States and Mexico. This collection contains a broad base of contributions from legal scholars, sociologists, anthropologists, geographers, and political scientists. Readers will find demographic data charting trends in immigration, descriptions of organizing and of individual experiences, a quantitative comparison of new and old destinations, a critical history of U.S. immigration policy in recent decades, a report on access to housing and efforts to enact anti-immigrant laws, an assessment of how mass outmigration currently affects the national economy and communities in Mexico, analysis of the way dominant ideology frames “black-brown” relationships in southern labor markets, and a concluding essay with detailed recommendations for making U.S. immigration policy just and humane.

Frances L. Ansley is Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Tennessee College of Law in Knoxville. She is the author of numerous book chapters and the principal humanities adviser to a documentary film; her articles have been published in the California Law Review, Cornell Journal of International Law, Georgetown Journal of Poverty Law & Policy, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor & Employment Law, and numerous additional publications. Jon Shefner is associate professor of sociology and director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Global Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the coeditor of Out of the Shadows: Political Action and the Informal Economy in Latin America. His recent book is The Illusion of Civil Society: Democratization and Community Mobilization in Low-Income Mexico.

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Voices from the Nueva Frontera Latino Immigration in Dalton, Georgia

Edited by Donald E. Davis, Thomas M. Deaton, David P. Boyle, and Jo-Anne Schick

“This book will serve as a valuable resource for other scholars in their attempts to better understand how Latino newcomers are transforming their new homes in this country.” —Melvin Delgado, author of Social Work with Latinos: A Cultural Assets Paradigm

The Dalton–Whitfield County area of Georgia has one of the

highest concentrations of Latino residents in the southeastern United States. In 2006, a Washington Post article referred to the carpet-manufacturing city of Dalton as a “U.S. border town,” even though the community lies more than twelve hundred miles from Mexico. Voices from the Nueva Frontera explores this phenomenon, providing an indepth picture of Latino immigration and dispersal in the American interior along with a framework for understanding the economic integration of the South with Latin America. Voices from the Nueva Frontera sheds new light on the often invisible changes that have transformed this northwest Georgia town over the last thirty years. The book’s contributors explore changes to labor markets as well as educational, religious, and social organizations and show that Dalton offers a largely successful example of a community that has provided a home to a newly arriving immigrant work force. While debates about immigration have raged in the public spotlight in recent years, some of the most important voices—those of the immigrants themselves—have been nearly unheard. In this pathbreaking book, each chapter closes with the words of a worker, student, teacher, and many others directly involved in the immigrant experience. These narratives add human faces to the realities of dramatic change occurring in America’s rural communities and industrial towns. Sure to spark lively discussion in the classroom and beyond, Voices from the Nueva Frontera gives readers a look at individual human stories and provides much-needed documentation for what might be the most important social change in recent southern history.

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Donald E. Davis, Thomas M. Deaton, and David Boyle are on the faculty at Dalton State College. Jo-Anne Schick is the former director of the Georgia Project.



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At Home and Abroad Historicizing Twentieth-Century Whiteness in Literature and Performance

Edited by La Vinia Delois Jennings

White Man Mask, Zambia. From the Eiteljorg estate of Indianapolis, it is believed to be a depiction of a white man. Courtesy of Robert Ibold, www.masksoftheworld.com

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critical essays by scholars from Europe, South America, and the United States, At Home and Abroad presents a wide-ranging look at how whiteness—defined in terms of race or ethnicity—forms a category toward which people strive in order to gain power and privilege. Collectively these pieces treat global spaces whose nation building and identity formation have turned on biological and genealogical exigencies to whiten themselves. Drawing upon racialized, national practices implemented prior to and during the twentieth century, each of the essays enlists literature or performance to reflect the sociopolitical imperatives that secured whiteness in the respective locations they study. They range from examinations of whiteness in the literature of Appalachia and contemporary Argentinean poetry to an analysis of performances memorializing the colonial experience in Italy and an exploration of the white rap music of Eminem and contemporary multiracial passing. As the contributors show, literary and performance representations have the power to chronicle histories that reflect the behaviors and lived realities of our selves. Whether whiteness, in addition to its physical manifestation, presents itself as identity, symbol, racism, culture, social formation, political imposition, legal imposition, or pathology, it has been outed into the visible, even in national spaces where the term “whiteness” has yet to be translated and entered into the official lexicon. The ten essays collected here provide powerful insights into where and how the race for biological and genealogical whiteness persists in various geopolitical realms and the ways in which Nordic whites, as well as ethnic whites and nonwhites, resecure its ascendance.

La Vinia Delois Jennings is professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her recent critical study Toni Morrison and the Idea of Africa won the 2008 Toni Morrison Society Prize for Best Single-Authored Book on the Nobel laureate and PulitzerPrize-winning author.

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A Backward Glance The Southern Renascence, the Autobiographical Epic, and the Classical Legacy

Joseph R. Millichap

“I think that this book will have a wide appeal, and not just to students of southern literature. . . . Millichap’s work extends the observation that classical studies offer an increasingly substantial challenge to the hegemony of the Adamic myth, which has, until very recently, governed the field of American studies.” —John C. Shields, author of The American Aeneas: Classical Origins of the American Self

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literary modernism—Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Caroline Gordon, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, and Thomas Wolfe—refigured elements of classicism in the Southern Renascence. Specifically, Joseph R. Millichap demonstrates how these writers created modernist fiction and poetry even as they were indebted to classical languages, themes, structures, and genres. The title refers to Allen Tate’s formulation: “With the war of 1914–1918, the South reentered the world—but gave a backward glance as it stepped over the border; that backward glance gave us the Southern Renascence, a literature conscious of the past in the present.” A Backward Glance begins by establishing the historical background of the Southern Renascence and the theoretical contexts of the autobiographical epic in relation to the classical legacy of the southern modernist movement. For Millichap the autobiographical epic is a trope—not a genre—a text, or a group of texts that re-creates the personal life of its author in narrative structures ordered, to some extent, by allusion to or intertextuality with the ancient epos or mythos, while still locating both the life and work within the contexts of their contemporary culture. Devoting a chapter to each author, Millichap considers works of writers that exemplify the confluences of the autobiographical epic and the classical legacy within the framework of the Southern Renascence. Extrapolating from these seven writers and their selected works to more recent southern literature, Millichap adds an epilogue that ponders the continuing significance of the Southern Renascence, the autobiographical epic, and the classical legacy for today’s “post-southernism.”

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Robert Penn Warren’s Circus Aesthetic and the Southern Renaissance Patricia L. Bradley Cloth ISBN 978-1-57233-311-6 $28s

Ghostly Parallels Robert Penn Warren and the Lyric Poetic Sequence Randolph Paul Runyon Cloth ISBN 978-1-57233-465-6 $37s

Joseph R. Millichap is emeritus professor of English at Western Kentucky University. He is the author of Robert Penn Warren: A Study of the Short Fiction and Dixie Limited: Railroads, Culture, and the Southern Renaissance.



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Participatory Development in Appalachia Cultural Identity, Community, and Sustainability

Edited by Susan E. Keefe

1860s appliqué quilt by Eliza McKenzie, Meigs County, Tennessee. David Luttrell Photography. Courtesy of Quilts of Tennessee.

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Appalachian Cultural Competency A Guide for Medical, Mental Health, and Social Service Professionals Cloth ISBN 978-1-57233-333-8 $40s

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of as impoverished, backward, and victimized, the people of the southern mountains have long been prime candidates for development projects conceptualized and controlled from outside the region. This book, breaking with old stereotypes and the strategies they spawned, proposes an alternative paradigm for development projects in Appalachian communities—one that is far more inclusive and democratic than previous models. Emerging from a critical analysis of the modern development process, the participatory development approach advocated in this book assumes that local culture has value, that local communities have assets, and that local people have the capacity to envision and provide leadership for their own social change. It thus promotes better decision making in Appalachian communities through public participation and civic engagement. Filling a void in current research by detailing useful, hands-on tools and methods employed in a variety of contexts and settings, the book combines relevant case studies of successful participatory projects with practical recommendations from seasoned professionals. Editor Susan E. Keefe has included the perspectives of anthropologists, sociologists, and others who have been engaged, sometimes for decades, in Appalachian communities. These contributors offer hopeful new strategies for dealing with Appalachia’s most enduring problems—strategies that will also aid activists and researchers working in other distressed or underserved communities.

Susan E. Keefe is professor of anthropology at Appalachian State University. She is the editor of Appalachian Mental Health, and Appalachian Cultural Competency: A Guide for Medical, Mental Health, and Social Service Professionals.

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TVA Archaeology Seventy-five Years of Prehistoric Site Research

Edited by Erin E. Pritchard

Since its inception in 1933, the Tennessee Valley Authority

has played a dual role as federal agency and steward of the Tennessee River Valley. While known to most people today as an energy provider, the agency is also charged with managing and protecting the nation’s fifth-largest river system, the Tennessee River, and vast tracts of land and resources encompassing Tennessee and portions of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Virginia. Included in TVA’s mandate is the preservation of the archaeological record of the valley’s prehistoric peoples—a record that would have been forever lost beneath floodwaters had TVA not demonstrated a commitment to minimize its impact on the valley and sought to protect its archaeological resources. In TVA Archaeology, fourteen contributors who have worked with TVA in its conservation effort discuss prehistoric excavations conducted at Tellico, Normandy, Jonathan’s Creek, and many other sites. They explore TVA’s role in the excavations and how the agency facilitated prehistoric investigations along proposed dam sites. They also delve into the history of TVA as it grew from a New Deal program to a federal corporation and reveal how, during the agency’s formative years, the TVA board responded to prodding from archaeologists David DeJarnette and William Webb and molded TVA into the steward of a region it is today. TVA remains a mainstay of progress and conservation within an important region of the United States, and its safeguarding of the valley’s prehistory cements its legacy as more than just an energy supplier. Students and researchers interested in prehistoric archaeology, the Tennessee Valley, and the history of TVA will find this volume an invaluable contribution to the study of the region.

Erin E. Pritchard is an archaeologist with the Tennessee Valley Authority. Her work includes multiple archaeological site investigations, most notably Dust Cave in northern Alabama, and she has authored and coauthored numerous site reports for TVA.



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Archaeology of the Appalachian Highlands Edited by Lynne P. Sullivan and Susan C. Prezzano Cloth ISBN 978-1-57233-142-6 $55s

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White Collar Radicals TVA’s Knoxville Fifteen, the New Deal, and the McCarthy Era

Aaron D. Purcell

Roxie Paris, a cooperative witness for the government, testifies before the Dies Committee in the summer of 1940. Knoxville Journal, Cavalcade, 27 June 1943, Henry Hart Papers, Special Collections Library, University of Tennessee.

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TVA and the Tellico Dam A Bureaucratic Crisis in PostIndustrial America William Bruce Wheeler and Michael J. McDonald Paper ISBN 978-1-57233-370-3 $25.95s

David E. Lilienthal The Journey of an American Liberal Steven M. Neuse Cloth ISBN 978-0-87049-940-1 $42t

“This book will make a real contribution to the history of McCarthyism, the history of Tennessee, and the history of TVA.” —Russell B. Olwell, At Work in the Atomic City: A Labor and Social History of Oak Ridge, Tennessee

They came from all corners of the country—fifteen young, idealistic,

educated men and women drawn to Knoxville, Tennessee, to work for the Tennessee Valley Authority, one of the first of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal projects. Mostly holding entry-level jobs, these young people became friends and lovers, connecting to one another at work and through other social and political networks. What the fifteen failed to realize was that these activities—union organizing and, for most, membership in the Communist Party—would plunge them into a maelstrom that would endanger, and for some, destroy their livelihoods, social standing, and careers. White Collar Radicals follows their lives from New Deal activism in the 1930s through the 1940s and 1950s government investigations into what were perceived as subversive deeds. Aaron D. Purcell shows how this small group of TVA idealists was unwillingly thrust from obscurity into the national spotlight—victims and participants of the Red Scare in the years following World War II. The author brings into sharp focus the determination of the government to target and expose alleged radicals of the 1930s during the early Cold War period. The book also demonstrates how the national hysteria affected individual lives. White Collar Radicals is both a historical study and a cautionary tale. The Knoxville Fifteen, who endured the dark days of the McCarthy Era, now have their story told for the first time—a story that offers modern-day lessons on freedom, civil liberties, and the authority of the government.

Aaron D. Purcell is an associate professor and director of special collections at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.

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The Atomic Bomb and American Society New Perspectives

Edited by Rosemary B. Mariner and G. Kurt Piehler

“Because this book deals with everything from the Cuban Missile Crisis to the involvement of women in the Manhattan Project to the making of Hollywood films about the bomb, it should have a broad audience among a wide variety of scholars and students.” —Allan M. Winkler, Distinguished Professor of History, Miami University

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the latest research on the atomic bomb and its history, the contributors to this provocative collection of eighteen essays set out to answer two key questions: First, how did the atomic bomb,  a product of unprecedented technological innovation, rapid industrial-scale manufacturing, and unparalleled military deployment shape U.S. foreign policy, the communities of workers who produced it, and society as a whole? And second, how has American society’s perception of the bomb as a means of military deterrence in the Cold War era evolved under the influence of mass media, scientists, public intellectuals, and even the entertainment industry? In answering these questions, The Atomic Bomb and American Society sheds light on the collaboration of science and the military in creating the bomb; the role of women working at Los Alamos; the transformation of nuclear physicists into public intellectuals as the reality of the bomb came into widespread consciousness; the revolutionary change in military strategy following the invention of the bomb and the development of Cold War ideology; the image of the bomb that was conveyed in the popular media; and the connection of the bomb to the commemoration of World War II. As it illuminates the cultural, social, political, environmental, and historical effects of the creation of the atomic bomb, this volume contributes to our understanding of how democratic institutions can coexist with a technology that affects everyone, even if only a few are empowered to manage it.

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At Work in the Atomic City A Labor and Social History of Oak Ridge, Tennessee Russell B. Olwell Paper ISBN 978-1-57233-644-5 $24.95s

Rosemary B. Mariner is formerly Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair and Professor of Military Studies for the National War College. She is currently a lecturer in history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. G. Kurt Piehler is associate professor of history and former director of the Center for the Study of War and Society at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the author of Remembering War the American Way and World War II in the American Soldiers’ Lives series as well as the coeditor, with John Whiteclay Chambers II, of Major Problems in American Military History.



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John Mitchel Irish Nationalist, Southern Secessionist

Bryan McGovern

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Poet of the Lost Cause A Life of Father Ryan Donald Robert Beagle and Bryan Albin Giemza Cloth ISBN 978-1-57233-606-3 $48.95s

Theodore O’Hara Poet-Soldier of the Old South Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr. and Thomas Clayton Ware Cloth ISBN 978-1-57233-008-5 $32s

  “This is an informative, balanced biography that embraces a man who seemed defined by contradictions. McGovern unravels these to reveal how Mitchel made sense of himself and his world. The result is a must-read book for anyone interested in nineteenth-century Irish and American history.” —Susannah U. Bruce, author of The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861–1865

This book chronicles the life and times of John Mitchel, a radical Irish

nationalist who relocated to the American South, where he became an ardent supporter of the Confederacy before and during the Civil War. Mitchel was exiled for his beliefs by the British government in 1848, during the Great Famine (1845–52). Though neither a peasant nor a Catholic, he empathized with the plight of over one million impoverished Irish Catholic emigrants who fled starvation. These expatriates believed that they had been forced unwillingly from their homes by the British government, which they also blamed for causing the famine or at least creating conditions that seriously threatened Irish survival. As a publisher of several expatriate newspapers, Mitchel was able to echo the sentiments of his audience, and perhaps more important, shape the prevailing attitudes of Irish Americans attempting to adjust to a hostile society. Well educated, bourgeois, and respected by the Irish immigrant community, the Protestant Mitchel became an ardent Irish nationalist during a time when most Irish Protestants, including the “Scotch-Irish” in America, were becoming almost uniformly opposed to Irish nationalism. In giving full treatment to his experience in America, this first contemporary biography of Mitchel addresses the basic paradox of his ideology: why an Irish nationalist who called for an end to the British “enslavement” of the Irish enthusiastically supported the slave society of the American South. It thus sheds invaluable light on how Irish nationalism played out on both sides of the Atlantic and on issues of racism and cultural assimilation facing the United States during the mid-nineteenth century.   Bryan McGovern is an assistant professor of history at Kennesaw State University. He published an essay on Mitchel in New Hibernia Review.

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No Peace for the Wicked Northern Protestant Soldiers and the American Civil War

David Rolfs

“Civil War armies were probably the most religious in American history. Products of the Second Great Awakening in American Protestantism, many Northern soldiers believed they were fighting for God as well as country. Their faith helped them confront danger and possible death. In this fine study, David Rolfs shows how this war over secular issues was nevertheless infused with Christian rhetoric and convictions.” —James M. McPherson “This book makes an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the Civil War in general and to the place of religion in Northern common soldiers in particular. . . . In its use of primary materials (supplemented by printed letters), the book’s scholarly content rises to the level of the very best ‘people’s histories’ of the Civil War.” —Mark Noll

In the spring of 1861, young men throughout the Northern states rallied

around the Union flag, eager to punish the Confederate renegades who had brazenly inaugurated civil war by firing on Fort Sumter. Often driven by their Protestant religious beliefs, many northern soldiers believed they were enlisting in a just war to save their Christian government from a “wicked” Southern rebellion. These Protestant soldiers’ faith was severely tested by the hardships and tragedies they experienced in the Civil War. The vast majority easily justified their wartime service by reminding themselves and their loved ones that they were engaged in a holy cause to preserve the world’s only Christian republic. Others were genuinely haunted by the horrific violence of a seemingly endless civil war, and began to entertain serious doubts about their faith. The first comprehensive work of its kind, David Rolfs’s No Peace for the Wicked sheds new light on the Northern Protestant soldiers’ religious worldview and the various ways they used it to justify and interpret their wartime experiences. Drawing extensively from the letters, diaries and published collections of hundreds of religious soldiers, Rolfs effectively resurrects both these soldiers’ religious ideals and their most profound spiritual doubts and conflicts. No Peace for the Wicked also explores the importance of “just war” theory in the formulation of Union military strategy and tactics, and examines why the most religious generation in U.S. history fought America’s bloodiest war.

David Rolfs earned his doctorate at Florida State University and is currently an instructor of history at Maclay College Preparatory School in Tallahassee, Florida.



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In the Shadow of the Enemy The Civil War Journal of Ida Powell Dulany

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“Dulaney’s memoir provides a first-rate lesson in living on the home front during America’s greatest crisis. The diary is filled with rumors of war and unreliable stories of great victories and terrible defeats; such passages speak volumes about the inglorious realities of the Civil War.” —Brian D. McKnight, author of Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia

The Piedmont

area of Loudoun and Fauquier Counties, Virginia, near the Maryland border, was hotly contested throughout the Civil War. In the Shadow of the Enemy vividly chronicles one elite woman’s experiences on the home front of this dangerous locale. The mistress of a slave-holding estate, Ida Powell Dulany took over control of the extensive family lands once her husband left to fight for the Confederacy. More than just an elegantly written account of her own day-to-day experiences, Ida’s journal also shows how her community dealt with extreme conditions. It opens a window into the Southern culture of the time, demonstrating the importance of community, the locals’ unwavering faith in God and their belief in the Confederate cause, and their universal demonizing of Union soldiers. On a personal level, Ida’s writings reveal a courageous woman who, despite her vulnerability and isolation, refused to be intimidated. The editors’ introduction explains how Ida’s background shaped her and discusses her marriage to Hal Dulany, which was an atypical relationship for the time—one in which Hal viewed Ida as an intelligent partner. They also provide a brief overview of the relevant military history, including an examination of the role of the “Gray Ghost,” John S. Mosby, in the area. To put Ida’s writings into further context, the editors have interspersed helpful timelines throughout the diary, highlighting the key events that occurred over the course of the larger conflict.

Mary L. Mackall spent her early years at Blenheim, a pre-Revolutionary farm near Charlottesville, which inspired her lifelong interest in Virginia history. She and her husband divide their time between Alexandria and Selby, the family farm in Fauquier County, Virginia, where they operate an environmentally sensitive farm. Stevan F. Meserve has written extensively for North and South, Civil War Magazine, and Civil War News. He is the author of The Civil War in Loudoun County, Virginia: A History of Hard Times. Anne Mackall Sasscer grew up on Selby, a family farm near The Plains, Virginia, the home of Ida Powell Dulany’s youngest daughter. She writes family history for her children and seven grandchildren. A preservationist, she has worked on the restoration of historic Voices of the Civil War Trinity Episcopal Church in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, Peter S. Carmichael and the restoration of a family house in the old village Series Editor of Marlboro, where she and her husband live.

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Great Things Are Expected of Us The Letters of Colonel C. Irvine Walker, 10th South Carolina Infantry, C.S.A.

Edited by William Lee White and Charles Denny Runion

“This book will certainly appeal to anyone interested in the western theater of the war. . . . Having read many published and unpublished sets of letters written by soldiers of the Army of Tennessee, I can emphatically state that Walker’s correspondence is among the finest I have ever seen.” ­—Keith S. Bohannon, University of West Georgia

Great Things Are Expected of Us is a fascinating collection of letters

written by Lt. Col. Irvine Walker to his fiancée as he fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War’s Western Theater from May 1862 until April 1865. This correspondence offers candid, revealing insights into the mind of a man whose devotion to the Southern cause was matched only by his desire to maintain the status befitting his high station in society. A South Carolinian who fought in the Army of Tennessee, Walker was a quintessential representative of what historian Peter Carmichael has described as the “last generation of the Old South.” Walker viewed his participation in the war as the perfect opportunity to live up to the idealized sense of manhood championed by the men of his class and to defend its way of life. Not only do the letters provide firsthand accounts of the military campaigns in which Walker participated, but they also show the war from a uniquely human perspective. Writing with passion and literary verve, the young officer was refreshingly open yet careful to present himself and his fellow soldiers in a positive way. He was quick to defend his friends, but he could be scathing in his criticism of others. Of particular interest is his defense of General Braxton Bragg, a commander whom many have maligned but whom Walker greatly admired. Making these letters even more fascinating are the postwar corrections and commentary that Walker added when he had his letters transcribed decades after the conflict. Also included is an appendix containing Walker’s accounts of his participation in the battles of Franklin and Nashville. These various elements, along with the editors’ introduction and annotations, make Great Things Are Expected of Us a significant contribution to the Voices of the Civil War series and to our understanding of the Confederate elites and the war in the West.

William Lee White is a park ranger at Chickamauga-Chattanooga National Military Park. Charles Denny Runion is the owner of Better Insurance Schools in Atlanta. Voices of the Civil War Peter S. Carmichael Series Editor



Captain C. Irvine Walker in Georgetown, South Carolina, spring 1862. Courtesy of Betty Small Geer and C. Irvine Walker Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Summerville, South Carolina.

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In the Tennessee Mountains Mary Noailles Murfree

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Rugby, Tennessee Some Account of the Settlement Founded on the Cumberland Plateau Thomas Hughes With an Introduction by Benita J. Howell Paper ISBN 978-1-57233-611-7 $17.95s

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Our Southern Highlanders Horace Kephart Paper ISBN 978-0-87049-203-7 $24.95t

“The rapid ascent and decline of Murfree’s literary reputation, her unique standing as a popular interpreter of Appalachian people, her portrayals of strong female characters, and her complicated stance as an insider/outsider—tourist/native, southerner/non-southerner, male/female—all of these dimensions of Murfree make her an especially appealing subject of analysis.” —Barbara C. Ewell, Dorothy Harrell Brown Distinguished Professor of English, Loyola University of New Orleans

Writing under the pseudonym Charles Egbert Craddock, Mary Noailles

Murfree published her first collection of stories, In the Tennessee Mountains, in 1884. It quickly won critical and popular acclaim and was reprinted sixteen times in the first two years of its publication. Many notable writers and publishers praised Murfree’s work, and the “Dean of American Letters,” William Dean Howells, recognized her as one of the most significant writers of the burgeoning “local color” movement. When In the Tennessee Mountains was published, it was lauded for telling the “true” story of Appalachia. However, although she grew up in Tennessee, Murfree had almost no contact with the kinds of people she depicts in her stories. Indeed, she was a child of wealth and privilege whose primary experience of the people of Appalachia was with the local residents who interacted with her family during their summer vacations at Beersheba Springs, a Cumberland Mountains resort. Still, Murfree expressed much admiration for the Appalachian people who populate her writings and intended to depict them honestly. Bill Hardwig argues in his critical introduction to this new edition that In the Tennessee Mountains has much to teach us about the aesthetic, political, and literary scenes of 1880s America while contributing to current debates about “literary tourism” and regional writing. In addition, Hardwig has compiled a useful new bibliography that accounts for all of Murfree’s published and unpublished writing, along with critical works about her, including initial reviews of In the Tennessee Mountains, and contributions to current discussions of local color and regional writing.

Bill Hardwig is an assistant professor in the English Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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Tandem Lives The Frontier Texas Diaries of Henrietta Baker Embree and Tennessee Keys Embree, 1856–1884

Edited by Amy L. Wink

The mythology

of the frontier Texas woman portrays her as fiercely independent, strong willed, and adventurous. This eye-opening book, however, offers a far more complex and intimate version of women’s cultural experiences in mid-nineteenthcentury Texas by publishing, for the first time, the diaries of Henrietta Baker Embree and Tennessee Keys Embree. Henrietta and Tennessee were the sequential wives of Dr. John W. Embree of Belton, Texas, a physician, slaveholder, farmer, merchant, and man of mercurial temperament. Their diaries reveal the social and personal challenges women experienced in a region beset first by the Civil War and then by Reconstruction and offer insights into the two women’s struggles to survive as battered wives in a society that offered little support—and less chance of escape—for women bound by nineteenth-century ideas about gender roles. In the preface and other editorial matter that accompany the two diaries, Amy L. Wink draws on extensive primary research to fill in the blanks of Henrietta’s and Tennessee’s lives and place them in historical context. The diaries themselves richly illuminate how these women coped with such issues as domestic violence, childrearing, faith, frailty, and mortality. Most significantly, they show how Henrietta and Tennessee—and, by extension, countless other women like them—used their writing to construct their sense of personal identity and thereby to empower themselves in the face of debilitating external forces. An important contribution to the fields of history, women’s studies, psychology, and literature, Tandem Lives reveals anew the rich insights offered by the autobiographical writings of ordinary women.

Amy L. Wink is an adjunct professor at Austin Community College in Austin, Texas, and also works with clients as a writing coach and mentor. She is the author of She Left Nothing In Particular: The Autobiographical Legacy of Nineteenth-Century Women’s Diaries and has written for InsideHigherEd.com and other publications. For more information, visit her Web site, amywink.com, and the companion Web site to Tandem Lives, embreediaries.com.



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Sanctified Trial The Diary of Eliza Rhea Anderson Fain, a Confederate Woman in East Tennessee Edited by John N. Fain Voices of the Civil War Cloth ISBN 978-1-57233-313-0 $42t

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Communities Left Behind The Area Redevelopment Administration, 1945–1965

Gregory S. Wilson

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TVA and the Dispossessed The Resettlement of Population in the Norris Dam Area Michael J. McDonald and John Muldowny Paper ISBN 978-1-57233-164-8 $28s

“Throughout this terrific book, Wilson places this government agency—its creation, its lifespan and achievements, and its mixed legacies—in the broader context of postwar American history and, more specifically, the history of employment policy.” —Jason Scott Smith, author of Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933–1956

With clarity and insight, Gregory S. Wilson recounts the story of the Area

Redevelopment Administration and connects a nearly forgotten piece of American employment history to national and transnational developments in the making of social policy in the years between the New Deal and the Great Society. Communities Left Behind demonstrates how the United States has, since the Great Depression, tried but failed to address the nation’s structural inequalities, and it reopens discussions about poverty and economic dislocation in a period when the country is facing new economic challenges. The ARA was created in 1961 and remained in operation until 1965. Its goal was to assist communities, especially economically distressed ones in rural or undeveloped areas of the country, in generating employment opportunities. Unstated in the creation of the ARA was its intention to serve as an economic development project mostly for Appalachia and the American South, where nearly all of its money was spent. Wilson argues that the ARA was doomed to fail from the beginning because of the requirement that federal officials not interfere with state and local priorities. It simply was not possible to implement a federal initiative in the South without running afoul of local interests. And, to further complicate matters, the issue of race loomed in the background: when ARA policies aimed to improve employment opportunities for black southerners, they were invariably sabotaged by racist politics. This ambivalent legacy of the ARA is alive today, Wilson suggests, as areas of the nation that have struggled economically since the agency’s original creation—including inner cities, Native American reservations, Appalachia, and the rural South—continue to founder.

Gregory S. Wilson is associate professor of history at the University of Akron and coeditor of the Northeast Ohio Journal of History.

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Grist: The Journal for Writers

is a new national literary annual from the creative writing program at the University of Tennessee and features world-class fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction, along with interviews with renowned writers and essays about craft. Grist is distinguished from other journals by a commitment to exploring the nuances of the writer’s occupation. Its pages invite questions regarding the author’s choice of genre, form, and point-of-view, as well as facilitating discussions of those elusive terms “aesthetics” and “voice.” There are plenty of literary journals in the world, as well as a fair number of magazines devoted to aspects of craft, but no publication blends the two like Grist.

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A History of Knoxville’s Market Square

The Most Democratic Place on Earth Jack Neely Paper ISBN 978-0-578-00305-4 / 200 est. pages / 50 illustrations / $24.95t Distributed for Market Square District Publishing Available February 2009

Conceived before

Old Market House, c. 1940. Courtesy of the Beck Cultural Exchange Center.

the Civil War as a canny real-estate scheme by two very young, wealthy investors, Market Square came to be Knoxville’s most public spot, as if every man, woman, and child owned a piece of Market Square themselves. Crowned by its new Market House, opened in 1854, Market Square became the heart of an important trading borderland between North and South, and its citizens were nearly perfectly divided between the Confederacy and the Union during the Civil War. After the war, Market Square was a true melting pot of immigrants. The turn of the century witnessed the majestic rebuilding of Market House, but from these great heights, Market Square would fall to its greatest lows. Beset by suburbanization following World War II, Market House would strike many who beheld it as a sort of subarchitectural freak—and was torn down in 1960. Only in the last decade or so has Market Square been transformed into something resembling its former glory. Through it all, Market Square has served a unique, and vital, purpose in Knoxville. It has always been familiar to the whole community, black and white, rich and poor, old and young, city and country—in so many ways, the most democratic place on earth.

Jack Neely is the award-winning Secret History columnist for Metro Pulse, Knoxville’s weekly newspaper. He is the author of From the Shadow Side and Other Stories about Knoxville, Tennessee, and, with Aaron Jay, of The Marble City: A Photographic Tour of Knoxville’s Graveyards.

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II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was a vital link in the U.S. military’s atomic bomb assembly line—the site where scientists worked at a breakneck pace to turn tons of uranium into a few grams of the artificial element plutonium. To construct and operate the plants needed for this effort, thousands of workers converged on the “city behind a fence” tucked between two ridges of sparsely populated farmland in the Tennessee hills. At Work in the Atomic City explores the world of those workers and their efforts to form unions, create a community, and gain political rights over their city. It follows them from their arrival at Oak Ridge, to the places where they lived, and to their experiences in a dangerous and secretive workplace. The book examines the ongoing debates over workers’ rights at Oak Ridge—notably the controversy surrounding the new federal program intended to compensate workers and their families for injuries sustained on the job. At Work in the Atomic City is the first detailed account of the workers who built and labored in the facilities that helped ensure the success of the Manhattan Project—a story known, heretofore, only in broad outline.

Russell Olwell, an assistant professor of history at Eastern Michigan University, has published articles in ISIS, Tennessee Historical Quarterly, and Technology and Culture.



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historical and thematic survey of African American women’s poetry, Inventing Black Women examines the key developments that have shaped the growing body of poems by and about Black women over the nearly 125 years since the end of slavery and Reconstruction, as it offers incisive readings of individual works by important poets such as Alice B. Neal, Maggie Pogue Johnson, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Sonia Sanchez, Lucille Clifton, Audre Lorde, and many others.

Ajuan Maria Mance is an associate professor of English at Mills College and the Robert and Ann Wert Professor of American Literature. Her articles and reviews have appeared in such publications as (Re)Covering the Black Female Body, The Journal of African American Studies, and Callaloo.

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