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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. Photo courtesy of

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

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meet every day.” Hailing from the Beech Mountain area of western North Carolina, Ronda 6”x9” / 176 est. pages
is the offspring of the two families of great storytellers who are largely responsible for the 31 photos / $32.95t

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area’s strong storytelling tradition of the International Wonder Tales of Jack. And his late Available August 2009
cousin Ray Hicks was the famed “keeper” of the International Wonder Tales of Jack that
Appalachian Studies; Folklore
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 also of interest
with women, including his two wives, have been tumultuous at best. This is the story of a The Life and Times
violent, sometimes dissolute life—one that sounds more like it was lived in the mountains a of Ray Hicks
hundred years ago than in contemporary Appalachia. Keeper of the Jack Tales
Embedded in all of Ronda’s stories are numerous details of mountain life, work, Lynn Salsi
entertainment, behavior, beliefs, values, and codes. Thus, through Ronda’s memoirs Cloth ISBN 978-1-57233-621-6
$34.95t
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.

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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Appalachian Studies
also of interest
Black Days, Black Dust
The Memories of an African
American Coal Miner
Robert Armstead
(as told to S. L. Gardner)
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$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
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Face Boss
The Memoir of a Western Kentucky Coal Miner
Michael D. Guillerman
“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

In small cities 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 Paper ISBN 978-1-57233-655-1
centers of culture and symbols of civic pride. America’s main street hotels catered not only 6”x9” / 232 est. pages
to transients passing through a locality, but also served local residents as an important kind 70 photos, 3 tables / $29.95t
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This new book by John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle, two leading experts on the American Studies; Geography;
nation’s roadside landscape, examines the crucial role that small- to mid-sized city hotels Folklore, Folklife, Material Culture
played in American life during the early decades of the twentieth century, a time when the and Vernacular Architecture
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 also of interest
ups and downs they experienced throughout the early twentieth century, along with
Looking beyond the Highway
their potential for reuse now and in the future. The book details building types, layouts,
Dixie Roads and Culture
and logistics; how the hotels were financed; hotel management and labor; hotel life and Edited by Claudette Stager
customers; food services; changing fads and designs; and what the hotels are like today. and Martha A. Carver
Brimming with photographs, this book looks at hotels from coast to coast. Its Cloth ISBN 978-1-57233-467-0
exploration of these important local landmarks will intrigue students, scholars, and general $48s
readers alike, offering a fascinating look back at that recent period in American history
Reading the Road
when even the smallest urban places could still look optimistically toward the future.
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the American Landscape
John A. Jakle is emeritus professor of geography at the University of Illinois, Thomas J. Schlereth
Urbana-Champaign. Keith A. Sculle is the head of research and education for the Paper ISBN 978-0-87049-945-6
Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. He and Professor Jakle have coauthored The Gas $24.95s
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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Immigrant demonstration on April 10, 2006.
Photo courtesy of Student Action
with Farmworkers.
Cloth ISBN 978-1-57233-652-0
6”x9” / 384 est. pages
15 illustrations, 1 map, 3 tables
$52s
Available September 2009
Immigration/Ethnic Studies;
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Latino Studies; Anthropology,
Archaeology, and
Sociology; Appalachian Studies
also of interest
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
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Global Connections and Local Receptions
New Latino Immigration
to the Southeastern United States
Edited by Fran Ansley and Jon Shefner
“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
In recent 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

Francisco Palacios. Courtesy of

“This book will serve as a valuable resource for other scholars in their Thomas M. Deaton.
attempts to better understand how Latino newcomers are transforming
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their new homes in this country.” 6”x9” / 9 photos, 1 illustration,
—Melvin Delgado, author of 1 map / $37s
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The Dalton–Whitfield County area of Georgia has one of the Immigation and Ethnic Studies;
Latino Studies; Anthropology,
highest concentrations of Latino residents in the southeastern United States. In 2006, a Archaeology, and Sociology
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 in-
depth 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.
also of interest
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 Creoles of Color of
contributors explore changes to labor markets as well as educational, religious, and social the Gulf South
Edited by James H. Dormon
organizations and show that Dalton offers a largely successful example of a community
Paper ISBN 978-0-87049-917-3
that has provided a home to a newly arriving immigrant work force. While debates $17s
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.

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
Featuring new critical essays by scholars from Europe, South
America, and the United States, At Home and Abroad presents a wide-ranging look at how
Cloth ISBN 978-1-57233-656-8
whiteness—defined in terms of race or ethnicity—forms a category toward which people
6”x9” / 280 est. pages / $42s
Tennessee Studies in Literature, strive in order to gain power and privilege. Collectively these pieces treat global spaces
Volume 44 whose nation building and identity formation have turned on biological and genealogical
exigencies to whiten themselves.

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Drawing upon racialized, national practices implemented prior to and during
Cultural Studies; Literature—
the twentieth century, each of the essays enlists literature or performance to reflect
Comparative World
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.
also of interest As the contributors show, literary and performance representations have the power
Critical Essays on to chronicle histories that reflect the behaviors and lived realities of our selves. Whether
John Edgar Wideman whiteness, in addition to its physical manifestation, presents itself as identity, symbol,
Edited by Bonnie TuSmith racism, culture, social formation, political imposition, legal imposition, or pathology, it has
and Keith E. Byerman been outed into the visible, even in national spaces where the term “whiteness” has yet to
Cloth ISBN 978-1-57233-469-4
be translated and entered into the official lexicon.
$32s
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 Pulitzer-
Prize-winning author.

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in Literature

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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 Cloth ISBN 978-1-57233-659-9
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This is the first book-length work to examine how major figures of southern Available February 2009
literary modernism—Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Caroline Gordon, Allen Tate, Robert American Literature
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 also of interest
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.” Robert Penn Warren, Critic
A Backward Glance begins by establishing the historical background of the Southern Charlotte H. Beck
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Renascence and the theoretical contexts of the autobiographical epic in relation to the
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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 Robert Penn Warren’s Circus
author in narrative structures ordered, to some extent, by allusion to or intertextuality with Aesthetic and the
Southern Renaissance
the ancient epos or mythos, while still locating both the life and work within the contexts of
Patricia L. Bradley
their contemporary culture.
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Devoting a chapter to each author, Millichap considers works of writers that exemplify $28s
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 Ghostly Parallels
to more recent southern literature, Millichap adds an epilogue that ponders the continuing Robert Penn Warren and the Lyric
Poetic Sequence
significance of the Southern Renascence, the autobiographical epic, and the classical legacy
Randolph Paul Runyon
for today’s “post-southernism.” 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.
Cloth ISBN 978-1-57233-657-5
6”x9” / 240 est. pages
2 tables / $40s
Often thought 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

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participatory development approach advocated in this book assumes that local culture
Social Work; Anthropology; has value, that local communities have assets, and that local people have the capacity
Appalachian Studies 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
also of interest of successful participatory projects with practical recommendations from seasoned
professionals. Editor Susan E. Keefe has included the perspectives of anthropologists,
Appalachian
Cultural Competency sociologists, and others who have been engaged, sometimes for decades, in Appalachian
A Guide for Medical, communities. These contributors offer hopeful new strategies for dealing with Appalachia’s
Mental Health, most enduring problems—strategies that will also aid activists and researchers working in
and Social Service Professionals other distressed or underserved communities.
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$40s
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, Cloth ISBN: 978-1-57233-650-6
Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Virginia. Included in TVA’s mandate 6”x9” / 344 est. pages
is the preservation of the archaeological record of the valley’s prehistoric peoples—a 61 photos, 24 tables / $45s

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record that would have been forever lost beneath floodwaters had TVA not demonstrated a Available May 2009
commitment to minimize its impact on the valley and sought to protect its archaeological Archaeology
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 also of interest
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 Cave Archaeology of the
Eastern Woodlands
steward of a region it is today.
Essays in Honor of
TVA remains a mainstay of progress and conservation within an important region of Patty Jo Watson
the United States, and its safeguarding of the valley’s prehistory cements its legacy as more Edited by David H. Dye
than just an energy supplier. Students and researchers interested in prehistoric archaeology, Cloth ISBN 978-1-57233-608-7
the Tennessee Valley, and the history of TVA will find this volume an invaluable $42.95s
contribution to the study of the region.
Archaeology of the
Appalachian Highlands
Erin E. Pritchard is an archaeologist with the Tennessee Valley Authority. Her work Edited by Lynne P. Sullivan
includes multiple archaeological site investigations, most notably Dust Cave in northern and Susan C. Prezzano
Alabama, and she has authored and coauthored numerous site reports for TVA. Cloth ISBN 978-1-57233-142-6
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White Collar Radicals

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

Aaron D. Purcell

“This book will make a real contribution to the history of McCarthyism, the history of
Roxie Paris, a cooperative witness for
the government, testifies before the Dies Tennessee, and the history of TVA.”
Committee in the summer of 1940. —Russell B. Olwell, At Work in the Atomic City:
Knoxville Journal, Cavalcade, 27 June 1943,
Henry Hart Papers, Special Collections A Labor and Social History of Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Library, University of Tennessee.

Cloth ISBN 978-1-57233-661-2

6”x9” / 288 est. pages
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
37 photos / $39.95s
Authority, one of the first of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal projects. Mostly
Available July 2009 holding entry-level jobs, these young people became friends and lovers, connecting to one

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Tennessee Studies; another at work and through other social and political networks.
History—Twentieth Century; What the fifteen failed to realize was that these activities—union organizing and, for
Appalachian Studies 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
also of interest 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
TVA and the Tellico Dam
government to target and expose alleged radicals of the 1930s during the early Cold War
A Bureaucratic Crisis in Post-
Industrial America period. The book also demonstrates how the national hysteria affected individual lives.
William Bruce Wheeler and White Collar Radicals is both a historical study and a cautionary tale. The Knoxville
Michael J. McDonald Fifteen, who endured the dark days of the McCarthy Era, now have their story told for
Paper ISBN 978-1-57233-370-3 the first time—a story that offers modern-day lessons on freedom, civil liberties, and the
$25.95s authority of the government.
David E. Lilienthal
The Journey of Aaron D. Purcell is an associate professor and director of special collections at
an American Liberal Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.
Steven M. Neuse
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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,
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Distinguished Professor of History, Miami University
6”x9” / 470 est. pages

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the latest research on the atomic bomb and its history, the
Available February 2009
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 History—Twentieth Century
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? also of interest
In answering these questions, The Atomic Bomb and American Society sheds light
At Work in the Atomic City
on the collaboration of science and the military in creating the bomb; the role of women
A Labor and Social History
working at Los Alamos; the transformation of nuclear physicists into public intellectuals of Oak Ridge, Tennessee
as the reality of the bomb came into widespread consciousness; the revolutionary change Russell B. Olwell
in military strategy following the invention of the bomb and the development of Cold Paper ISBN 978-1-57233-644-5
War ideology; the image of the bomb that was conveyed in the popular media; and the $24.95s
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.

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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Poet of the Lost Cause
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Donald Robert Beagle and
Bryan Albin Giemza
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Theodore O’Hara
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Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr.
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John Mitchel
Irish Nationalist, Southern Secessionist
Bryan McGovern
“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.”
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—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 also of interest
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
Thinking Confederates
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The Hour of Our Nation’s Agony
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The Civil War Letters of Lt. William
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theory in the formulation of Union military strategy and tactics, and examines why the by J. B. Polley of Hood’s
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Richard B. McCaslin
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31 photos, 2 maps / $44.95t
Voices of the Civil War
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also of interest
Sanctified Trial
The Diary of Eliza Rhea Anderson
Fain, a Confederate Woman in
East Tennessee
Edited by John N. Fain
Cloth ISBN 978-1-57233-313-0
$42t
A Very Violent Rebel
The Civil War Diary
of Ellen Renshaw House
Edited by Daniel E.
Sutherland
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In the Shadow of the Enemy
The Civil War Journal of Ida Powell Dulany
Edited by Mary L. Mackall, Stevan F. Meserve and Anne Mackall Sasscer
“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
Trinity Episcopal Church in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, Voices of the Civil War
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 Captain C. Irvine Walker in Georgetown,
of Tennessee, I can emphatically state that Walker’s correspondence is among the finest I South Carolina, spring 1862. Courtesy of
Betty Small Geer and C. Irvine Walker
have ever seen.” Chapter, United Daughters of the
Confederacy, Summerville, South Carolina.
­—Keith S. Bohannon, University of West Georgia
Cloth ISBN 978-1-57233-663-6
Great Things Are Expected of Us is a fascinating collection of letters 6”x9” / 216 est. pages
8 photos / $35.95t
written by Lt. Col. Irvine Walker to his fiancée as he fought for the Confederacy in the
Voices of the Civil War

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candid, revealing insights into the mind of a man whose devotion to the Southern cause was Available May 2009
matched only by his desire to maintain the status befitting his high station in society. Civil War; American History
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. also of interest
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 A Fierce, Wild Joy
The Civil War Letters of Colonel
with passion and literary verve, the young officer was refreshingly open yet careful to present Edward J. Wood, 48th Indiana
himself and his fellow soldiers in a positive way. He was quick to defend his friends, but he Volunteer Infantry Regiment
could be scathing in his criticism of others. Of particular interest is his defense of General Edited by Stephen E. Towne
Braxton Bragg, a commander whom many have maligned but whom Walker greatly admired. Voices of the Civil War
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is an appendix containing Walker’s accounts of his participation in the battles of Franklin and Memoirs of the Stuart Horse
Nashville. These various elements, along with the editors’ introduction and annotations, make Artillery Battalion
Great Things Are Expected of Us a significant contribution to the Voices of the Civil War series Moorman’s and Hart’s Batteries
and to our understanding of the Confederate elites and the war in the West. Edited by Robert J. Trout
Voices of the Civil War
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William Lee White is a park ranger at Chickamauga-Chattanooga National Military Park. $45t
Charles Denny Runion is the owner of Better Insurance Schools in Atlanta.
Lee’s Last Casualty
The Life and Letters of Sgt. Robert
Voices of the Civil War W. Parker, Second Virginia Cavalry
Peter S. Carmichael Edited by Catherine M. Wright
Series Editor Voices of the Civil War
Cloth ISBN 978-1-57233-630-8
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In the Tennessee Mountains

Mary Noailles Murfree

Edited by Bill Hardwig

“Hardwig makes Murfree come alive for us, and he helps us to see why we should still care
about her work and her understanding of her historical moment and region.”
—Stephanie Foote, author of Regional Fictions:
Culture and Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Paper ISBN 978-1-57233-660-5

“The rapid ascent and decline of Murfree’s literary reputation, her unique standing as a
6”x9” / 216 pages / 12 photos
$24.95s popular interpreter of Appalachian people, her portrayals of strong female characters, and
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male/female—all of these dimensions of Murfree make her an especially appealing subject of
Literature and Criticism—Fiction; analysis.”
American Literature
—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
also of interest 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
Rugby, Tennessee
Some Account of the American Letters,” William Dean Howells, recognized her as one of the most significant writers
Settlement Founded of the burgeoning “local color” movement.
on the Cumberland Plateau When In the Tennessee Mountains was published, it was lauded for telling the “true” story
Thomas Hughes of Appalachia. However, although she grew up in Tennessee, Murfree had almost no contact
With an Introduction by
with the kinds of people she depicts in her stories. Indeed, she was a child of wealth and
Benita J. Howell
Paper ISBN 978-1-57233-611-7 privilege whose primary experience of the people of Appalachia was with the local residents
$17.95s who interacted with her family during their summer vacations at Beersheba Springs, a
Cumberland Mountains resort. Still, Murfree expressed much admiration for the Appalachian
Hawk’s Nest people who populate her writings and intended to depict them honestly.
A Novel
Bill Hardwig argues in his critical introduction to this new edition that In the Tennessee
Hubert Skidmore
Paper ISBN 978-1-57233-280-5 Mountains has much to teach us about the aesthetic, political, and literary scenes of 1880s
$19.95t 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
Our Southern Highlanders published and unpublished writing, along with critical works about her, including initial
Horace Kephart reviews of In the Tennessee Mountains, and contributions to current discussions of local color
Paper ISBN 978-0-87049-203-7
and regional writing.
$24.95t

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-nineteenth-
century Texas by publishing, for the first time, the diaries of Henrietta Baker Embree and
Tennessee Keys Embree. Cloth ISBN 978-1-57233-504-2
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Texas, a physician, slaveholder, farmer, merchant, and man of mercurial temperament. 5 maps / $56s

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first by the Civil War and then by Reconstruction and offer insights into the two women’s American History;
struggles to survive as battered wives in a society that offered little support—and less Women’s Studies
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
also of interest
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 She Left Nothing in Particular
thereby to empower themselves in the face of debilitating external forces. The Autobiographical Legacy
of Nineteenth-Century
An important contribution to the fields of history, women’s studies, psychology, and Women’s Diaries
literature, Tandem Lives reveals anew the rich insights offered by the autobiographical Amy L. Wink
writings of ordinary women. Cloth ISBN 978-1-57233-145-7
$25s
Amy L. Wink is an adjunct professor at Austin Community College in Austin, Texas, and
Sanctified Trial
also works with clients as a writing coach and mentor. She is the author of She Left Nothing
The Diary of Eliza Rhea Anderson
In Particular: The Autobiographical Legacy of Nineteenth-Century Women’s Diaries and has Fain, a Confederate Woman in
written for InsideHigherEd.com and other publications. For more information, visit her East Tennessee
Web site, amywink.com, and the companion Web site to Tandem Lives, embreediaries.com. Edited by John N. Fain
Voices of the Civil War
Cloth ISBN 978-1-57233-313-0
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Cloth ISBN 978-1-57233-664-3
6”x9” / 224 est. pages
4 photos, 7 tables / $41s
Available April 2009
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TVA’s Public Planning
The Vision, the Reality
Walter L. Creese
Cloth ISBN 978-0-87049-638-7
$40s
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$25s
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
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Communities Left Behind
The Area Redevelopment Administration, 1945–1965
Gregory S. Wilson
“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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Federal Policies toward African American Workers from
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Judson MacLaury
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Goodness Gracious, Miss Agnes

Patchwork of Country Living
Lera Knox
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Lera Knox
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Grist: The Journal for Writers
Volume 2, Issue 2
Editor, Charlotte Pence / Managing Editor: Tim Sisk / Fiction Editor: Brad Tice / Poetry Editor: Joshua Robbins
Paper ISBN 978-0-9799366-1-6 / $11.95t
Distributed for the University of Tennessee Department of English

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 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,
Old Market House, c. 1940.
Courtesy of the Beck as if every man, woman, and child owned a piece of Market Square themselves. Crowned
Cultural Exchange Center. 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 sub-
architectural 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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Black Americans in the Roosevelt Era
Liberalism and Race
John B. Kirby
Paper ISBN 978-0-87049-349-2 / 272 pages / $24.95s
African American Studies, American History, Twentieth Century History

“An impressively researched and clearly written contribution to the intellectual history of the
Great Depression.”
—Raymond Wolters, Journal of American History

This original and vital study enriches our understanding of the New
Deal, the African American experience, and liberal reform.

At Work in the Atomic City Inventing Black Women

A Labor and Social History of
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Russell B. Olwell
Paper ISBN 978-1-57233-644-5
176 pages / 13 photos, 1 table / $24.95s
Tennessee Studies; American History;
Twentieth Century History
Founded during World War
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.
African American Women Poets and
Self-Representation, 1877–2000
Ajuan Maria Mance
Paper ISBN 978-1-57233-651-3
216 pages / $24.95s
African American Studies; Literature
and Criticism–Poetry
2008 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
“Students and scholars of African American poetry or of African
American women writers will find Professor Mance’s study a rich,
invaluable resource. Inventing Black Women incisively delineates the
historical contexts that shaped the intricate and troubled relationships
among gender, race, and poetry.”
—Virginia C. Fowler, Virginia Tech
The first 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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