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The United States’ health care system stands out for its strict division of policies dealing with public health and individual...

Just south of Miami Beach lies the southernmost sand barrier island of the continental United States-Key Biscayne. Long the symbol...

With the Commonwealth of Virginia's Public Park Condemnation Act of 1928, the state surveyed for and...

From the formation of the first institutions of representative government and the use of slavery in...

From the Hill to the Horizon explores 150 years of MBA from the perspective of students, alumni, teachers, and headmasters....

A rich survey of folk practices prior to mortuaries and the funeral industry Author: Burnett, Abby Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Illustration: ......

A breathtaking country of rugged mountain peaks, uninhabited desert, and spectacular river canyons, Big Bend is one of the United...

Kentucky is nationally renowned for horses, bourbon, rich natural resources, and unfortunately, hindered by a deficient educational system. Though its...

Federal New Deal programs of the 1930s and World War II are often credited for transforming the South, including Texas,...

In Tales from Kentucky Funeral Homes, William Lynwood Montell has collected stories and reminiscences from funeral home directors and embalmers...

" "A woman was sitting on the witness stand, and the lawyer asked her, 'Did you, or did you not,...

This collection is the first comprehensive, cohesive volume to unite Appalachian history with its culture. Richard A. Straw and H....

In Bahia, Brazil, the decades following emancipation saw the rise of reformers who sought to reshape the citizenry by educating...

In the late sixteenth century, Spanish explorers described encounters with North American people they called "Jumanos." Although widespread contact with...

Although the origins, application, and socio-historical implications of the Jim Crow system have been studied and debated for at least...

Probably no American journalist, man or woman, has had a more extraordinary career than Grace Halsell. Before President Lyndon Johnson...

The South's New Racial Politics presents an original thesis about how blacks and whites in today's South engage in a...

John Alexander Williams's West Virginia: A History is widely considered one of the finest books ever written about the state....

In this concise yet comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and crisply written study, The Improbable Era places developments over the last three...

On May 16, 1861, the Kentucky state legislature passed an ordinance declaring its neutrality, which the state's governor, Beriah Magoffin, confirmed four days...