Catholics, Conquistadores, and Other American Origin Stories
La Florida explores a Spanish thread to early American history that is unfamiliar or even unknown to most Americans. As La Florida uncovers, it was Spanish influence, not English, which drove America's early history. By focusing on America's Spanish heritage, the book's collection of stories complicates and sometimes challenges how Americans view ......
Nestled along the Gulf coast and overlapping with ten ecoregions, Houston is a remarkably biodiverse city. Migratory birds pass through the Bayou City by the thousands each spring and fall. The many bayous are home to American Alligators and Black-bellied Whistling Ducks. Sections of Gulf Coast prairie remain, providing habitat for exquisitely ......
This volume contains the journals of four Moravians who traveled to and lived in the colony of Georgia between 1734 and 1737. The journals describe the passage to Georgia, life in early Georgia, and Moravian religious practices, and suggested reasons for the eventual abandonment of the Georgia Moravian settlement.
Empire, Land, and Religion in the Rappahannock Region
In The Huguenot-Anglican Refuge in Virginia, Lonnie H. Lee traces the hidden history of a Huguenot emigrant community established in eight counties along the Rappahannock River of Virginia in 1687, with the arrival of an Anglican-ordained Huguenot minister from Cozes, France named John Bertrand.
Death Care, Life Extension, and the Making of a Healthier South, 1900-19
As the twentieth century began, Black and white southerners alike dealt with low life expectancy and poor healthcare in a region synonymous with early death. But the modernization of death care by a diverse group of actors changed not only death rituals but fundamental ideas about health and wellness. Kristine McCusker charts the dramatic ......
Energy, Landscape, Climate, and Race in the U.S. South
Forests as Fuel uses extensive multi-sited ethnography to address the complexities of bioenergy development, highlighting the impacts of varying perceptions of climate change in rural, forest- dependent communities within the US South.
Food forests are the next step in sustainable home and community gardening. A food forest, or a forest garden, contains edible plants that mimic ecosystems and patterns found in nature. In order to enhance food security and practice permaculture in our own backyards and communities, it is key to understand which plants are best for local food ......
From old country roads to dense forest paths, Kentucky boasts more than 1,500 miles of marked and maintained trails. Fully updated and revised, author Johnny Molloy describes some of the best hikes in the state, from 1-mile nature trails to multiday backpacks.
Rockhounding Texas is a complete guide to finding, collecting, and preparing Texas' gems & minerals. With this book anyone can learn where to find unusual mineral displays, fossils, jasper, agate, and petrified wood-not to mention more obsidian than one rockhound could possibly collect in a lifetime. An outstanding resource for experts and novices ......