Books in the Brown Thrasher Books series

A candid account of James Kilgo's African sojourn, conveying the untamed beauty of the bush country with the attention of a seasoned naturalist and the wonder of a first-time visitor. Kilgo recalls what Africa revealed to him and reflects on the customs and beliefs that were all around him.

This is a narrative account of the fall of the Confederacy told from the perspective of Jefferson Davis, his offical entourage, and his family as they tried to hold the government together while staying one step ahead of their Union Army pursuers.

A collection of most of the writings published by the Cherokee leader Elias Boudinot. The work documents letters, articles, pamphlets and editorials in order to demonstrate the stages of Boudinot's religious, philosophical and political growth.

This study examines the reasons behind the demise of Radical Reconstruction in Georgia, showing that a primary factor was the extraordinary fairness on the part of the state's black leaders in dealing with their former masters. The book also looks at recent writing on Reconstruction.

Published in 1895 as a souvenir of the Woman's Building at the Cotton States and International Exposition held in Atlanta, this charming cookbook offers readers an opportunity to try recipes that were favorites of their grandmothers and great-grandmothers.

Part history and part meditation, Down to Now is a southern journalist's intensely personal account of the civil rights movement in the South during the 1960s. First published in 1971 and written mostly from the author's own recollections, tapes, and notes, the book blends detailed reportage of the dramatic events with insightful commentary.

This text explains the American South's linguistic heritage with 3000 humorous specimens of the region's speech.

A graphic portrayal of the sharecropper's plight. This book documents the living conditions of the sharecroppers, America's poor rural underclass. Supported by commentary, the poor tell how the tenant system exploited whites and blacks alike and fostered animosity between them.

Based mainly on detailed journals and letters written by the Salzburgers' pastor, Johann Martin Boltzius, this work describes the expulsion of the Salzburger emigrants, their journey to Georgia, the hardships they endured, and their eventual success.

This is Burns' story of his escape from a Georgia chain gang in 1921, after being sentenced to six to ten years' hard labour for robbery. He lived as a free man for seven years before being recaptured and returned to the chain gang. Escaping again, he was a fugitive when his story was published.

This is the story of the journey of Erskine Caldwell as he set out across the South to find his black boyhood friend, at the zenith of the civil rights movement. It seeks to answer questions surrounding the race problem through the many people that he met.

The author of this book recalls his boyhood during the 1950s in the small hometown of Wade, North Carolina, where whites and blacks lived and worked within each other's shadows.

John Walden, a young black man, decides to pass for white in order to earn what he feels is his share of the American dream. Without sentimentality, this novel probes deeply into the white South's obsessions with race and privilege.

The memoir of the youth of Donald Windham in Depression-era Atlanta. The recollections describe the pleasant memories of his childhood as well as the less happy ones, and recount Windham's increasing desire for a world beyond Atlanta.

These seven stories, set in the rural South and West, delve beneath the surface of ordinary lives, revealing their foibles and idiosyncracies. For example, an old deaf woman is kidnapped by a stranger whom she takes to the devil, and a money-grubbing man meets a woman no less hard than himself.

This is a chronicle of Bulldogs' football from 1891 to 1916. Players covered include George Woodruff, Herschel Walker, and Hafford Hay.