The Tropic of Cracker (Florida History and Culture) by University Press of Florida $19.95
"The Tropic of Cracker will . . . end the debate once and for all, of whether the term ‘Cracker’ is derogatory or a source of great pride. Al Burt has a masterpiece here."--Sandra Bogan, Florida Audubon SocietyFrom the preface:"The Tropic of Cracker survives in myth, memory, and love of natural Florida. It exists more in the mind than in geography, more in the memory than in the sight, more...

Smokestack Lightning: Adventures in the Heart of Barbecue Country by Frank Stewart $25.00
A humorous cultural study of the art of the barbecue brings readers from the cow heads of south Texas and the pig snouts of East St. Louis to the competition circuit events of Memphis and the Big Pig Jig in Vienna, Georgia.

Plantation Homes of the James River by The University of North Carolina Press $31.95
Bruce Roberts takes us on a photographic tour of fourteen of the famous colonial Virginia plantation houses nestled along the shores of the Lower James River from Richmond east to Jamestown and Williamsburg. Now carefully restored, often with the original furnishings, these houses are glorious monuments to a bygone era.If you have never visited the James River plantations, this book will inspire...

Must See Mississippi: 50 Favorite Places by Mary Rose Carter $40.00
Must See Mississippi: 50 Favorite Places is a fifty-site tour through the Magnolia State\'s historic locales, ranging from the graceful swinging bridge at Tishomingo State Park to the Biloxi Lighthouse, a miraculous survivor of Hurricane Katrina. Each locale contributes a unique piece of the state\'s rich and multilayered story, told through Mary Carol Miller\'s text and more than one hundred...

Terra Incognita: Photographs of America's Third Coast by Chronicle Books $245.00

Indiana by Graphic Arts Center Pub Co $39.95

A South Carolina Album, 1936-1948 by Constance B. Schulz $21.95
In the 1930s and 1940s, a group of talented photographers under the direction of Roy Stryker was sent to South Carolina to document the lives of ordinary people in a project funded by the Historical Section of the Farm Security Administration, the Office of War Information, and Standard Oil of New Jersey. The results of the best efforts of those photographers are published together in A South...

Rancher: Photographs of the American West by Bunker Hill Publishing $39.95
Rancher is a photographic tribute to the people and landscape of the American West. Rancher captures the soil and soul of ranching people, their culture and emotions, their land. This book offers an opportunity to see what ranchers do, an opportunity for strangers to look beyond the theme-park West of honky-tonk songs and colored straw hats to the reality of worn boots, stained felt headgear, and...

Washington, DC: A Historic Walking Tour (Images of America) by Arcadia Publishing $18.99
When it was passed in 1789, the Constitution set out the boundaries not only for a new government but for a new capital city as well. At the time, the new District of Columbia covered 5,000 acres, dominated by marshland on the south, pastureland on the area that is now the Mall, farms near the White House and Capitol Hill, and undeveloped woods throughout. Covering Capitol Hill, the Mall, the Old...

Washington by Night: Vintage Photographs from the 30's by Starwood Pub $39.95
Armed with a camera and inspiration from a book of photography called Paris by Night by Brassai, young darkroom technician Volkmar Wentzel, who lived in a tiny garret in Washington, D.C., walked into the gas-lit grandeur of the nighttime city and launched his remarkable career with these stunning images of the Capital in the '30s. 40 tritone photographs, many never before published.