Haunted Valley and More Folk Tales of Appalachia
Black People are Indigenous to the Americas: Research Material for the Inquisitive
Who Do You Think You Are? Encyclopedia of Genealogy: The Definitive Guide to Tracing Your Family History
List of Free African Americans in the American Revolution: Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, and Delaware
Wise County Virginia
A Darkness at Dawn: Appalachian Kentucky and the Future
The Melungeons
The Story of Wise County Virginia
Where the Red Earth Meets the River: A Collection of Saponi and Catawba Culture and Beliefs
Tracing Your Ancestors Using DNA: A Guide for Family Historians
A New Voyage to Carolina
Tennessee Families: A Bibliographic Listing
Freedman of the Five Civilized Tribes
The Guineas of West Virginia
The State of North Carolina with Native American Ancestry: The Formation of the Eastern and Coastal Counties in North Carolina
The Original Scots Colonists of Early America, 1612-1783
Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination
Bertie County: An Eastern Carolina History
Tennessee Samplers: Female Education and Domestic Arts, 1800-1900
1850 U.S. Census – Subdivision 33, Hancock County, Tennessee
The Melungeons: The Pioneers of the Interior Southeastern United States 1526-1997
Annals of Southwest Virginia, Part 2
The History of Barbados
A Melungeon Winter
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land
The Black South and White Appalachia
Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
A History of Barbados: From Amerindian Settlement to Caribbean Single Market
Episode 14: Black Paddywhackery, Part 2
Carolina in Crisis: Cherokees, Colonists, and Slaves in the American Southeast, 1756-1763
A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and Carib to the Present
Melungeon Voices S4 E2 – Dr. Kathy Lyday
Some Superstitions in the Cumberland Mountains
Gullah Days: Hilton Head Islanders Before the Bridge 1861-1956
Slavery and the Evolution of Cherokee Society, 1540-1866
The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
1850 U.S. Census, Slave Schedule – Subdivision 32, Hancock County, Tennessee
The Underground Railroad Records
The Forgotten History of America: Little-Known Conflicts of Lasting Importance from the Earliest Colonists to the Eve of the Revolution
Witchcraft and the Devil in West Virginia
The Significance of the Frontier in American History
Albemarle County in Virginia
This Torrent of Indians: War on the Southern Frontier 1715-1728
Gullah Tears: The Enslaved Souls of Charleston
The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
Giving Glory to God in Appalachia: Worship Practices of Six Baptist Subdenominations
Big Stone Gap
Ashes and Stones: A Journey Through Scotland in Search of Women Hunted as Witches
Black Soldiers in America’s Wars 1754-1865
The Mixed-Blood Racial Strain of Carmel, Ohio, and Magoffin County, Kentucky
Colored Patriots of the American Revolution
Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
Native American Interactions: Multiscalar Analyses and Interpretations in the Eastern Woodlands
The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South 1670-1717
Arts and Crafts of the CherokeeMelungeon Voices S2 E1 – Kimberly Knight
Buccaneers of the Caribbean: How Piracy Forged an Empire
Cherokee Americans: The Eastern Band of Cherokees in the Twentieth Century
1755 Orange County, North Carolina Tax List
Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South
Proudly Red and Black: Stories of African and Native Americans
Eastern Band Cherokee Women: Cultural Persistence in Their Letters and Speeches
Folklore of the Scottish Highlands
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
King’s Mountain: The Epic of the Blue Ridge “Mountain Men” in the American Revolution
The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
Native Americans in Early North Carolina: A Documentary History
Race, Roots, and Relations: Native and African Americans
Kings Mountain and Its Heroes
1840 U.S. Census – Hawkins County, Tennessee
A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Piedmont North CarolinaMelungeon Voices S1 E2 – Beverly Scarlett
Sense of Place: American Regional Cultures
The Boone Connection: In the Lost Colonies
The Genetic Diversity of the Americas
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
2023 Melungeon Heritage Sound Project
One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race
Researching Scots-Irish Ancestors: The Essential Genealogical Guide to Early Modern Ulster, 1600-1800
The Black Potter + an Ugly Jug Named Slave
Minutes of the Flat River Baptist Association, 1830-1869
Melungeon Voices
“We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible”: A Reader in Black Women’s History
Unlikely Alliances: Native Nations and White Communities Join to Defend Rural Lands
Emerging Paradigms in Critical Mixed Race Studies
The Ancestry and Geographical Origins of St. Helena’s Liberated Africans
Wingless Flights: Appalachian Women in Fiction
Hawkins County Tennessee Deed Book 1, 1788-1800
What It Means to Identify as Melungeon
Radical Cartography: How Changing Our Maps Can Change Our World
Bullet Strikes from the First Day of the American Revolution
Life in Old Virginia, Vol. 1Melungeon Voices S5 E4 – Melungeon & Maroon Communities and the Underground Railroad
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Lost Cove, North Carolina: Portrait of a Vanished Appalachian Community, 1864-1957
Voices Worth the Listening: Three Women of Appalachia
Melungeons: The Last Lost Tribe in America
La Florida: Spanish Exploration & Settlement in North America, 1500 to 1600
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Our Mountain Heritage: Ancestors from Southwest Virginia (Including Edwards, Wright, Hay, Colley, Deel)
North Carolina’s Free People of Color 1715-1885
Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming
Wilkes County, NC, Pleas & Quarter Sessions Court Minutes, 1798-1805Power, Light & Outmigration
Tennessee, The Volunteer State 1769 – 1923
The Journey: A Genetic Genealogy Handbook with Case Studies
Melungeon Voices S3 Bonus – Live from the 2022 Author Event
Ascribed Ethnicity and the Ethnic Display Event: The Melungeons of Hancock County, Tennessee
The Southeastern IndiansMelungeon Voices S1 E4 – Paul Johnson
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
The Free Negro in Virginia 1619-1865
Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia
Belles of the Creek Nation
The Tuscarora War: Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies
Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana
Roxana: It Took a Rowdy Village in Letcher County, Kentucky to Nurture This Writer’s Young Mind
Living Indian Histories: Lumbee and Tuscarora People in North Carolina
Southern Folk Medicine: Healing Traditions from the Appalachian Fields and Forests
Early Families of Eastern and Southeastern Kentucky
Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies & Sparked the American Revolution
Catawba Nation: Treasures in History
The Wilderness Road: A Description of the Routes of Travel by Which the Pioneers and Early Settlers First Came to Kentucky
Folklore and Folklife: An Introduction
Melungeons: Footprints From the Past
Florida and the American Revolution: Free African Americans, Native Americans, British Loyalists and Florida’s Underappreciated Role in the Revolutionary War
The Berbers of Morocco: A History of Resistance
The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History
Creek Indian History: A Historical Narrative of the Genealogy, Traditions and Downfall of the Ispocoga or Creek Indian Tribe
Women of the Celts
The Indian Card: Who Gets to be Native in America
Writing the Geography of the Blue Ridge Mountains: How Displacement Recorded the Land
Classic Household Guide to Appalachian Folk Healing: A Collection of Old-Time Remedies, Charms, and SpellsEpisode 17: Pre-Deliverance, Part 3
Pendleton’s History of Tazewell County and Southwest Virginia
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
Saponi
Alliances: Re/Envisioning Indigenous-Non-indigenous Relationships
1830 U.S. Census – Floyd County, Kentucky
1870 U.S. Census – District 11, Hancock County, Tennessee
Mysterious Kentucky, Vol. 2: The Dark and Bloody Ground
Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations
The Racial Education of the Catawba IndiansEpisode 10: No Safe Harbor, Part 1
1850 U.S. Census, Slave Schedule – Wilkes County, North Carolina
The Malungeons
South from Hell-fer-Sartin: Kentucky Mountain Folk Tales
Litigating Whiteness: Trials of Racial Determination in the Nineteenth-Century South
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
Gibson Family Genealogy: A Melungeon Line
The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times
Letter from Walter A. Plecker to Local Registrars, et al.
Routes to Slavery: Direction, Ethnicity and Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade
Old Greasybeard: Tales from the Cumberland Gap
Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
Housekeeping in Old Virginia
The Catawba Nation and Its Neighbors
The Great Vanishing Act: Blood Quantum and the Future of Native Nations
Walking Toward the Sunset: The Melungeons of Appalachia
The Slave Trade: The History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440-1870
Indian Slavery in Colonial America
A Quick Guide to Zotero 7: Knowledge Management in Genealogy, History, and Other Fields
Jim Crow, Indian Style: The Disenfranchisement of Native Americans
Appalachian Heart: Oral Histories of the Mountain Elders
Joara: Tale of the New World, 1566 – 1568
Maroon Communities in South Carolina: A Documentary Record
Melungeons: The Vanishing Colony of Newman’s RidgeMelungeon Voices S1 E5 – Robert Wells
Indigenous Women from Appalachia in the Spanish Colonial Record
The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia
Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery
What They Never Told Us: True Stories of Family Secrets and Hidden Identities Revealed
The Lost Continent – Travels in Small-Town America
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
The First Black Slave Society: Britain’s “Barbarity Time” in Barbados, 1636-1876
A Struggle for Cherokee Community: Excavating Identity in Post-Removal North Carolina
How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Virginia Negro Soldiers and Seamen in the American Revolution
Wild Yet Tasty: A Guide to Edible Plants of Eastern Kentucky
Through the Back Door: Melungeon Literacies and Twenty-First Century Technologies
“Of Portuguese Origin”: Litigating Identity and Citizenship among the “Little Races” in Nineteenth-Century AmericaColonial-Era Wool Production + Buckskins & Hog Slaughters
The American South as We Know It
The Post Offices of Letcher County, Kentucky
The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean
A Church Book for Stony Creek Church
The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White
The Memory of ’76: The Revolution in American History
1850 U.S. Census – Subdivision 32, Hancock County, Tennessee
Folklore of Highland County, Ohio
The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People
The Free Negro in North Carolina 1790-1860
Forgotten Mountain Wisdom & Basic Survival Skills: Survival Tips from the US Military & Our Appalachian Ancestors
Antebellum Hillsborough, Slavery, and Enslaved and Free People of Color Who Worked at the Burwell School – 1837-1857
Santa Elena: A Brief History of the Colony, 1566-1587
Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence
The High Plains Sappony of Person County, North Carolina and Halifax County, Virginia: Sites of Significance in the Christie Indian Settlement
The Crime Without a Name: Ethnocide and the Erasure of Culture in America
Our Foothills III: Another Anthology by the Foothills Writers
The Unforeseen Wilderness: Kentucky’s Red River Gorge
History of Lexington Kentucky: Its Early Annals and Recent Progress
Your DNA Guide – the Book
The Philips: A “Free Mulatto” Family of Grenada
Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place
Black Indian Genealogy Research
Melun-Canlar (Turkish)
The Mind of the South
Tracing Ancestors in Barbados: A Practical Guide
Bones of Contention: The Repatriation of Native American Human Remains
Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848
On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice
Slavery in Wilkes County North Carolina
The Impact of Converso Jews on the Genomes of Modern Latin Americans
Forbidden Love: The Secret History of Mixed-Race America
Mountain Conjure and Southern Root WorkEpisode 11: No Safe Harbor, Part 2
A History of the Valley of Virginia
Decolonizing Indigenous Histories: Exploring Prehistoric/Colonial Transitions in Archaeology
Unofficial Guide to FamilySearch.org: How to Find Your Family History on the World’s Largest Free Genealogy Website
Slavery in Eastern Kentucky
Hoodoo Medicine: Gullah Herbal Remedies
Herbal Remedies of the Lumbee Indians
Roots of Survival: Native American Storytelling and the Sacred
Yellow Wife: A Novel
Western North Carolina: A History 1730-1913
Adventures in the Gene Pool
Legends of The Lumbee (and some that will be)
Kentucky Genealogical Research
Hawkins County Tennessee Circuit Court Minutes, 1822-1825
The Harris Family of Orange County, North Carolina: 318 Years of Black-American Indian Culture
Understanding the Importance of Medicinal Herbalism in Southern Appalachia: How Traditional Cultivation Shaped a Region
The Melungeon WitchMelungeon Voices S4 E5 – Melinda Trueblood Stimpson
My Melungeon Heritage: A Story of Life on Newman’s Ridge
Faith & Freedom: The Scots-Irish in America
To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice
The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women: Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South
Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
The Melungeons: Notes on the Origin of a Race
The Fate of the Exiled Acadians in South Carolina
Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links
Decolonizing “Prehistory”: Deep Time and Indigenous Knowledges in North America
The American Revolution: An Intimate History
The History of Tennessee: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time
The Serpent and the Fire: Poetries of the Americas from Origins to Present
1840 U.S. Census – Morgan County, KentuckyEpisode 13: Black Paddywhackery, Part 1
Some Slaves of Virginia, Volume III: Montgomery County, Prince Edward County, Richmond County, Roanoke County, Scott County
Tazewell County (Images of America)
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Women of the Mountain South: Identity, Work, and Activism
Scots and Scotch Irish: Frontier Life in North Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky
The Forging of the Cosmic Race: The Reinterpretation of Colonial Mexico
Secret Genealogy IV: Native Americans Hidden in Our Family Trees
Caribbeana; Being Miscellaneous Papers Relating to the History, Genealogy, Topography, and Antiquities of the British West Indies
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country
Capitalism and Slavery
Advanced Genetic Genealogy: Techniques and Case Studies
The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca
Lee County, Virginia: History Revealed Through Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of Its Ancestors
African Kingdoms of the Past: Kongo Ndongo (West Central Africa)
Who’s Afraid of Black Indians?
New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States
Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
Standing in Their Own Light: African American Patriots in the American RevolutionMelungeon Voices S5 E6 – At-Risk Populations of Appalachia & Southern U.S.
Women and Scottish Society, 1700-2000
Our Southern Highlanders: A Narrative of Adventure in the Southern Appalachians and a Study of Life Among the Mountaineers
Black and White Racial Identity: Theory, Research, and Practice
Cracking the Healer’s Code: A Prescription for Healing Racism & Finding Wholeness
Tales from the Hills and Hollers of Eastern Kentucky
The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America
The North Carolina Booklet: Great Events in North Carolina History
Our Side of the Mountain: A Pocahontas to Melungeon Revolution
The Ancestors Within: Celebrate and Honor Your Sacred Origins
Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples
The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions
Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, & the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia
1790 U.S. Census – Wilkes County, North Carolina
Escaping Servitude: A Documentary History of Runaway Servants in Eighteenth-Century Virginia
The Cherokee Perspective: Written by Eastern Cherokees
City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856
Compilation of History of the Cherokee Indians and Early History of the Cherokees
African Europeans: An Untold History
Politics, Labor, and Rebellions Real and Imagined: Slaves, Free People of Color, and Firearms in North Carolina, 1729-1865
“Any Sane Person”: Race, Rights, and Tribal Sovereignty in the Construction of the Dawes Rolls for the Choctaw NationMelungeon Voices S5 E3 – Discovering Melungeon & Indigenous Ancestry
Comparative Studies of North American Indians
The Buffalo Ridge Cherokee: A Remnant of a Great Nation Divided
Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom – and Revenge
Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains & Piedmont
Deep Roots, Broken Branches: A History and Memoir
Race Relations in Virginia and Miscegenation in the South 1776–1860
Native Women’s History in Eastern North America before 1900: A Guide to Researching and Writing
The ‘Twenty and Odd’: The Silences of Africans in Early Virginia Revealed
Indentured Servitude: Unfree Labour and Citizenship in the British Colonies
Jambalaya: The Natural Woman’s Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals
Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America
The Melungeons of Newman’s Ridge: An Insider’s Perspective
The Five Civilized Tribes: Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole
Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States
The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
Windows on the Past: The Cultural Heritage of Vardy
The Forgotten Centuries: Indians and Europeans in the American South 1521-1704
Witchcraft in the American Colonies, 1647-1662
The Negro in the American Revolution
After Pocahontas: Indian Women and the Law, 1830-1934
1850 U.S. Census, Slave Schedule – Subdivision 33, Hancock County, Tennessee
Slave Populations of the British Caribbean 1807-1834
Madoc’s Legacy
Monacans and Miners: Native American and Coal Mining Communities in Appalachia
The Vision Seeker: A Tale of the Tuscarora
Erasure & Tuscarora Resilience in Colonial North Carolina
Annals of Southwest Virginia, Part 1
The Gullah: The History and Legacy of the African American Ethnic Group in the American Southeast
Aboriginal Sites on Tennessee RiverMelungeon Voices S1 E1 – Frederick MurphyEpisode 12: No Safe Harbor, Part 3
A Unionist in East Tennessee: Captain William K. Byrd and the Mysterious Raid of 1861
The Tuscaroras: Mythology, Medicine, Culture
Studies in Folklore and Ethnicity
The Northwomen: Untold Stories from the Other Half of the Viking World
Ancient Ocean Crossings: Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas
New Perspectives on Racial Identity Development: Integrating Emerging Frameworks
The Black Seminoles: History of a Freedom-Seeking People
The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Cookery
Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American EducationMelungeon Voices S4 E6 – Scott WithrowMelungeon Voices S3 E7 – Dr. Melissa Carver
Haint Country: Dark Folktales from the Hills and Hollers
Melungeons, A Multi-Ethnic Population
Hawkins County Tennessee Circuit Court Minutes, 1810-1821
Generation by Generation: A Modern Approach to the Basics of Genealogy
Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia
Tazewell (Images of America)
Exploring Your Cherokee Ancestry: A Basic Genealogical Research Guide
Daniel Boone: Pioneer of Kentucky
Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia
First Families of Tennessee: A Register of Early Settlers and Their Present-Day Descendants
Black Majority: Race, Rice, and Rebellion in South Carolina, 1670-1740
1800 U.S. Census – Morgan Twp, Ashe County, North Carolina
1880 U.S. Census – District 91, Hancock County, Tennessee
Gabriel’s Challenge: Slaves and Crime in Late Eighteenth-Century Virginia
Carolina Haints: Ghosts, Folklore, and Mysteries of the Old North State
Research Like a Pro: A Genealogist’s Guide
Children of Perdition: Melungeons and the Struggle of Mixed America
The Everyday Life of the Clans of the Scottish Highlands
Surviving Indian Groups of the Eastern United States
Whispers from the Holler: Unraveling Appalachian Cryptids
Low Country Gullah Culture: Special Resource Study and Final Environmental Impact Statement
Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
A History of Rockbridge County, Virginia
Melungeon Ties
The Negro in the Caribbean
Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery
The Portuguese Making of America: Melungeons and Early Settlers of America
The Barbary Wars: American Independence in the Atlantic World
Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies
African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
Lucas Genealogy
Memoirs of the First Settlement of the Barbados, and Other the Carribbee Islands
Weaving an Otherwise: In-Relations Methodological Practice
The Story of Bacon’s Rebellion
Old Melungeon Gods: A Melungeon Folklore Minibook
The Melungeons: A Mixed-Blood Strain of the Southern Appalachians
A Question of Indian Identity in the Plecker Era: The Monacan Indian Nation in the Twentieth Century
Wisdom’s Daughter’s: Conversations with Women Elders of Native America
Washed in the Blood
Letters (About Melungeons)
The Catawba Indians: The People of the River
Who Are the Southern Mountaineers?
Ribbons of Color Along the Eno River: The History of African Americans and People of Color Living on the Eno
We Talk, You Listen: New Tribes, New Turf
Belonging: A Culture of Place
More on the Free Black Population of the Southern Appalachian Mountains: Speculations on the North African ConnectionMelungeon Voices S5 E2 – “Generations: An Indigenous Exhibit”
DNA for Native American Genealogy
Mixing in the Mountains
Native American Women and the Burdens of Southern History
Researchers Tackle Mystery of the Melungeons
The Melungeons of Newman’s Ridge: A Portfolio of Portraits
The Indelible Appalachians
Archaeology at an Eighteenth Century Slave Settlement in Goose Creek, South Carolina
Becoming Melungeon: Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South
As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance
The Origin of Races
North from the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio
Free Negro Heads of Families in the United States in 1830
Black Atlantic: Power People Resistance
Witchcraft in Colonial Virginia
Taming Democracy: “The People,”, the Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution
The Southern Appalachians: A History of the Landscape
Whistlin’ and Crowin’ Women of Appalachia: Literacy Practices Since College
Black Indian Slave Narratives
Appalachian Fables and Facts: A Case Study of the Shenandoah National Park Removals
Scots in Jamaica 1655-1855
The Everything Guide to Online Genealogy: Trace Your Roots, Share Your History, and Create a Family TreeMelungeon Voices S4 E1 – Kiran Singh Sirah
“Genocide in America”, John King (Day 1)
The Mythico-Religious Origin of the Cherokees
The Original Lists of Persona of Quality; Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels; Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years; Apprentices; Children Stolen; Maidens Pressed; and Others Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations 1600-1700
Pioneer Families of Eastern and Southeastern Kentucky
King’s Mountain Men: The Story of the Battle with Sketches of the Soldiers Who Took Part
Slave Badges and the Slave-Hire System in Charleston, South Carolina, 1783-1865
The Melungeon Identity Movement and the Construction of Appalachian Whiteness
An Introduction to the Guineas: West Virginia’s Melungeons
Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina, From the Colonial Period to About 1820, Vol. I
Natives & Newcomers: Ethnic Southerners & Southern Ethnics
Her Words: Diverse Voices in Contemporary Appalachian Women’s Poetry
1860 U.S. Census, Slave Schedule – Wilkes County, North Carolina (Lower Division)
Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650-1775
A Genetic Atlas of Human Admixture History
Taking Up Serpents: Snake Handlers of Eastern Kentucky
Sweetgrass Baskets and the Gullah Tradition
“The Master Whished to Reproduce”: Slavery, Forced Intimacy, and Enslavers’ Interference in Sexual Relationships in the Antebellum South, 1808-1861
Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative
Almost White: A Study of Certain Racial Hybrids in the Eastern United States
The Indians’ New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact Through the Era of Removal
Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black AtlanticMarcus Garvey Revisited: Eugenics
The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity
Colonial Virginia
Map Guide to American Migration Routes, 1735-1815
Powhatan County Virginia Register of Free Negroes & Mulattoes
Appalachian Magazine’s Mountain Superstitions, Ghost Stories & Haint Tales
From Anatolia to Appalachia: A Turkish-American Dialogue
Enslaved Archives: Slavery, Law, and the Production of the Past
American Routes: Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race
Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
1860 U.S. Census, Slave Schedule – Granville County, North Carolina (article)
We’re Still Here: Contemporary Virginia Indians Tell Their Stories
Virginia Wills and Administrations 1632-1800
Black Mexico: Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times
Myths of the Cherokee
Melungeons Out of the Dungeon
Out of the WoodsEpisode 15: Pre-Deliverance, Part 1
The Birth Certificate: An American History
Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree
To Belong Here: A New Generation of Queer, Trans, and Two-Spirit Appalachian Writers
We Are All Catawba: Complete Genealogy of My Daddy’s Catawba Ancestors
White Servitude in Colonial South Carolina
Trees & Shrubs of Kentucky
Black Crown: Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean’s Forgotten Kingdom
Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future
A Panel of Ancestry Informative Markers for Estimating Individual Biogeographical Ancestry and Admixture From Four Continents: Utility and Applications
The Indian Trading Path and Colonial Settlement Development in the North Carolina Piedmont
Ancestors & Relatives: Genealogy, Identity, & Community
The Highland Clans
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
Battles that Changed History
“All the Real Indians Died Off” and 20 Other Myths About Native Americans
The Complications of Liberty: Free People of Color in North Carolina from the Colonial Period Through Reconstruction
Sifters: Native American Women’s Lives
DNA USA: A Genetic Portrait of America
Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp
Voicing Identity: Cultural Appropriation and Indigenous Issues
Academia vs. Genealogy: Prospects for Reconciliation and Progress
Mountain Folk: More Oral Histories of the Appalachian People
Melungeons: A Study in Racial Complexity – A Review Essay
Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution
Yellow Woman: Mary Lumpkin and the Transformation of the Legacy of the Devil’s Half Acre
The Higginbotham Family
The Black Book
Sustaining Identity, Recapturing Heritage: Exploring Issues of Public History, Tourism, and Race in a Southern Town
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
1619 – Twenty Africans: Their Story, and Discovery of Their Black, Red, & White Descendants
Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts
History of Pioneer Kentucky
Wonderful Discovery; Being an Account of a Recent Exploration of the Celebrated Mammoth Cave, in Edmonson County, Kentucky
The Wills of Nash County, North Carolina, Vol. 1: 1777-1848
The Untold History of the Tuscaroras Who Remained in North CarolinaMelungeon Voices S1 E3 – Bill Gipson
Redbone Chronicles
Slavery’s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons
The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution
Louisa County Road Orders 1742-1748
Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending Racism in Post-Racial America
African American Voices: The Life Cycle of Slavery
Ancestors and Others: New and Selected StoriesMelungeon Voices S1 E6 – Sonja Griffin Evans
The Seminole Indians of Florida
Shades of Freedom: Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal Process
Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail
Hollows, Peepers, and Highlanders: An Appalachian Mountain Ecology
The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its Peoples
Sympathetic Magic in the Kentucky Mountains: Some Curious Folk-Survivals
Free Blacks in Colonial America
“The First Man was Red”: Cherokee Responses to the Debate Over Indian Origins, 1760-1860
First Steps in North Carolina History
Brooding Over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women’s Lethal Resistance
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
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Anonymous Was a Woman: A Celebration in Words and Images of Traditional American Art – and the Women Who Made It
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Up Cutshin & Down Greasy: Folkways of a Kentucky Mountain Family
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Origin Traditions of American Racial Isolates: A Case of Something Borrowed
Tennessee Templars: A Register of Names, With Biographical Sketches, of the Knights Templar of Tennessee, and Brief Histories of the Grand and Subordinate Commanderies
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Journal of a Lady of Quality; Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the years 1774 to 1776
The Last Storytellers: Tales from the Heart of Morocco
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Blood of the Isles: Exploring the Genetic Roots of Our Tribal History
Turtle Island: Foods and Traditions of the Indigenous Peoples of North America
A History of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
White Devil: A True Story of War, Savagery, and Vengeance in Colonial America
American Prisoners in the Barbary Nations, 1784-1816
Ancestral Lineage Healing
A Tale of Two Colonies: What Really Happened in Virginia and Bermuda?
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The History of Carolina Containing the Exact Description and Natural History of that Country
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Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire
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The Other Side of the Coin: Race, Generations and Reconciliation
The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
The Use of the Terms “Negro” and “Black” to Include Persons of Native American Ancestry in “Anglo” North America
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Declarations of Independence: Indigenous Resilience, Colonial Rivalries, and the Cost of Revolution
The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, & Endurance in Early America
Demon Copperhead
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Smoky Mountain Mysteries: Stories About Magnificent Mountains Unique People
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The Lost Colony of Roanoke: New Perspectives
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52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing
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Pocahontas’s People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia through Four Centuries
The Great White Lies: Dr. Walter Plecker, Eugenics, Melungeons, and Virginia Genealogy
First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History
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Sheer Resilience: An Untold Story of a Free Community of Color in Orange County, N.C.
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Fevers, Agues, and Cures: Medical Life in Old Virginia
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Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science
The Only Land I Know: A History of the Lumbee Indians
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Survey of Demography, Anthropometry, and Genetics in the Melungeons of Tennessee: An Isolate of Hybrid Origin in Process of Dissolution
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More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889
African Merchants, Notables and the Slave Trade at Old Calabar, 1720: Evidence from the National Archives of Scotland
Jewish Morocco: A History from Pre-Islamic to Postcolonial Times
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Beginning Black Indian History and Genealogy – the Cherokees
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Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando De Soto and the South’s Ancient Chiefdoms
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Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South
Zotero for Genealogy: Harnessing the Power of Your Research
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Native Southerners: Indigenous History from Origins to Removal
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Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
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Final Report of the United States De Soto Expedition Commission
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A Demand of Blood: The Cherokee War of 1776
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We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
A History of Blacks in Kentucky from Slavery to Segregation, 1760-1891
Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing
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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
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Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History
Appalachian Folklore Unveiled: Mysterious Happenings of Folk Spirits and Mystic Shades from the Ancient Foothills
Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture
The Drifters: A Christian Historical Novel About the Melungeon Shantyboat People
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Native Carolinians: The Indians of North Carolina
Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation
The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America
Toward a New History of the Appalachian South
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The Bat Creek Stone Revisited: A Fraud Exposed
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From a Race of Storytellers: Essays on the Ballad Novels of Sharyn McCrumb
White Servitude in the Colony of Virginia: A Study of the System of Indentured Labor in the American Colonies
The Croatan Indians of Sampson County, North Carolina: Their Origin and Racial Status
Voices from the North Carolina Mountains: Appalachian Oral Histories
White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity
History for Genealogists
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing
A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
A Geographic Analysis of White-Negro-Indian Racial Mixtures in Eastern United States
A History of the United States: The Planting of a Nation in the New World, 1000 – 1660
The Silversmiths of Kentucky 1785-1850
Tracing Your Ancestors from 1066 to 1837: A Guide for Family Historians
Boone Before Boone: The Archaeological Record of Northwestern North Carolina Through 1769
Turtle Island
A Guide to the Wildflowers & Ferns of Kentucky
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In the Hands of the Great Spirit: The 20,000 Year History of American Indians
A Collection of Memories, Histories, and Tall Tales of Appalachia
The Lowrie History
Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica
The Powhatan Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional Culture
Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
A History of Rockingham County, Virginia
The Golden Trade of the Moors
Trickster Tales of Southeastern Native Americans: Stories from the Creek, Natchez, Seminole, Catawba, Cherokee, and Other Nations
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
Understanding the Connections Between Black and Aboriginal Peoples
Footprints on the Sands of Time: A History of South-western Virginia and North-western North Carolina
Living Stories of the Cherokee
Blurring the Lines of Race & Freedom: Mulattoes & Mixed Bloods in English Colonial America
A History of North Carolina in the Proprietary Era, 1629-1729
Time Before History: The Archaeology of North Carolina
The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution
Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina
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The Juan Pardo Expeditions: Explorations of the Carolinas and Tennessee, 1566-1568
Lest We Forget: The Melungeon Colony of Newman’s Ridge
Campbell’s Abstract of Creek Freedman: Census Cards and Index
Overhill Cherokee Archaeology at Chota-Tanasee
The Forgotten World War: Exploring the Secret History of the American Revolution, from Spain to India and Back Again
Hidden Chains: The Slavery Business and North East England 1600-1865
Words of Power: Voices from Indian AmericaMelungeon Voices S3 E5 – Janeen Stephens
One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race
Kentucky Families: A Bibliographic Listing of Books about Kentucky Families
Eugenics as Indian Removal: Sociohistorical Processes and the De(con)struction of American Indians in the Southeast
Life in the Pee Dee: Prehistoric and Historic Research on the Roche Carolina Tract, Florence County, South Carolina
The History of Freemasonry in South Carolina from Its Origin in the Year 1736 to the Present Time
Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery
Voices of the Matriarchs: Listening to the Prayers of Early Modern Jewish Women
The John Gray Blount Papers: Vol. 2, 1790-1795
Southern Communities: Identity, Conflict, and Memory in the American South
Yuchi Indian Histories Before the Removal Era
Chronicles of a Kentucky Settlement
Black Elders: The Meaning of Age in American Slavery and Freedom
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
Allen Family Papers, Addition: 1834-1942
More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean
The Mystery of the Melungeons
Russell County, Virginia: History Revealed Through Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of Its Ancestors
Sang Branch Settlers: Folksongs and Tales of a Kentucky Mountain Family
Trade and Conflict in Angola: The Mbundu and Their Neighbours Under the Influence of the Portuguese 1483-1790
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Confounding the Color Line: The Indian-Black Experience in North America
Will Allen Dromgoole: A Biographical Sketch
Changing is Not Vanishing: A Collection of American Indian Poetry to 1930
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
Appalachian Folklore: Omens, Signs and Superstitions
Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World
Historical Sketches of Kentucky: Embracing Its History, Antiquities, and Natural Curiosities
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Tales from the Cloud Walking Country (Classic Appalachian Folktales)
A Wandering Tribe: Dispersal of the Catawba Nation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Blacks in the Dutch World: The Evolution of Racial Imagery in a Modern Society
Outwitting the Devil: Jack Tales from Wise County Virginia
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The Complete Guide to FamilyTreeDNA
Slave Society in the Danish West Indies: St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix
Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South
The Lambert Tapes, Volume Two: Cherokee History
How They Shine: Melungeon Characters in the Fiction of Appalachia
Africans in the Old South: Mapping Exceptional Lives across the Atlantic World
Black Loyalists: Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia’s First Free Black Communities
A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC
Black Drink: A Native American Tea
Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina, From the Colonial Period to About 1820, Vol. III
Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence
Native American Recipes from the Appalachian Mountains: AAIWV Tribal Cookbook
A Note on the Melungeons
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A Desolate Place for a Defiant People: The Archaeology of Maroons, Indigenous Americans, and Enslaved Laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp
Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment: Appalachian Women’s Literacies
An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America’s Domestic Slave Trade
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Abstract of North Carolina Wills
First People: The Early Indians of Virginia
Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence
The Tate Family: From England to Tennessee
Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race
Eerie Appalachia: Smiling Man Indrid Cold, The Jersey Devil, The Legend of Mothman and More
The Road to Black Ned’s Forge: A Story of Race, Sex, and Trade on the Colonial American Frontier
Mountain Passages: Natural and Cultural History of Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains
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Unruly Women: The Politics of Social & Sexual Control in the Old South
Colonial Bertie County North Carolina Deed Books A-H, 1720-1757
Bertie County: A Brief History
The Forgotten Portuguese: The Melungeons and Other Groups
African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame
Unlocking the Past: How Archaeologists Are Rewriting Human History with Ancient DNA
Ginseng Diggers: A History of Root and Herb Gathering in Appalachia
The Missing Thread: A Women’s History of the Ancient World
Red, White & Black: The Peoples of Early North America
The Caribbean Before Columbus
Republic of Indians: Empires of Indigenous Law in the Early American South
Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities
Divide and Rule: Red, White, and Black in the Southeast
Indians in Seventeenth-Century Virginia
Greenbrier Pioneers and Their Homes
Blood on the River: James Town 1607
Carolina Genesis: Beyond the Color Line
Early American Rebels: Pursuing Democracy from Maryland to Carolina, 1640-1700
“Who’s Your People?”: Cumulative Identity Among the Salyersville Indian Population of Kentucky’s Appalachia and the Midwest Muckfields, 1677-2000
Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America’s Most Notorious Pirates
The Melungeons: An Annotated Bibliography
The Southern Highlander and His Homeland
Planters and Pioneers: Life in Colonial Virginiia
Voices of Our Ancestors: Teachings from the Wisdom Fire
American Colonies: The Settling of North America
The Shores of Freedom: The Maritime Underground Railroad in North Carolina, 1800-1861
American Indian Trickster Tales
The Sleuth Book for Genealogists: Strategies for More Successful Family History Research
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The Colored Patriots of the American RevolutionIn the Land of the Cherokee + the Warrior Dance
A Study of Tri-Racial Isolates in Eastern United States
Troublesome Rising: A Thousand-Year Flood in Eastern Kentucky
Samuel Wiseman’s Book of Record: The Official Account of Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia, 1676-1677
Social Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: An Inquiry into the Origin of the Higher Planting Class
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Tennessee Folk Culture: An Annotated Bibliography
Amazigh Arts in Morocco: Women Shaping Berber Identity
The Birth of Black America: The First African Americans and the Pursuit of Freedom at Jamestown
Earth Medicine: Ancestors’ Ways of Harmony for Many Moons
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GodPretty in the Tobacco Field
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The Ghost Dance: Ethnohistory & Revitalization
The Living Races of Man
American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace
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Hidden Stories of the American Revolution: Contributions of Women, Enslaved People, Immigrants, and Indigenous People
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Annals of Tazewell County from 1800 to 1924
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The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities
Beyond Black and Red: African-Native Relations in Colonial Latin America
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Melungeon Portraits: Lived Experience and Identity
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A New History of the American South
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Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century
Craeft: An Inquiry into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts
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They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America
The Farfarers: A New History of North America
1850 U.S. Census – Morgan County, Kentucky
Melungeons: and Other Pioneer Families
History of the Early Settlement and Indian Wars of Western Virginia
All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life
The Cherokee Nation
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
A History of Tennessee and Tennesseeans: The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry and Modern Activities
The Last Conquistadors of Southeast North America: Pedro Menéndez and the Collapse of La Florida’s Frontier
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
History and Heritage Made Accessible: The Lee County, Virginia Story
Big Stone Gap (Images of America)
Witches, Ghosts, and Signs: Folklore of the Southern Appalachians
Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800
Hillbilly Women: Mountain Women Speak of Struggle and Joy in Southern Appalachia
Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America
Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by SeaRESOURCE CENTER
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