Examines the creation of 'sporting plantations' in the South Carolina lowcountry during the first four decades of the twentieth century.

Whayne also offers an analysis of the forces at work on the local level. She suggests that concerted opposition to modernization existed even before New Deal pr

An intimate look inside Plymouth Plantation that goes beyond familiar founding myths to portray real life in the settlement—the hard work, small joys, and dee

The author of "Every Good-Bye Ain't Gone" presents a provocative, timely examination of racial identity. Itabari Njeri lays out with precision and power how lim

By 1650, Barbados had become the greatest wealth-producing area in the English-speaking world, the center of an exchange of people and goods between the British