books about the south

Architecture

"Majestic!" The New York Times raves over Beehive's "classic series of Southern architecture books... from state to glorious state."

Bestsellers

Where to start? Browse our most popular books, including artist-naturalist John Abbot's brilliant collection of drawings Birds of Georgia.

Classics

Timeless Southern works including Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus and Erskine Caldwell's Trouble in July.

Documentary Histories

Compelling first-hand chronicles of Georgia life, from the wilds of frontier Georgia to the sprawling suburbs of the 20th century New South.

Illustrated Histories

History comes alive with photographs and drawings in these volumes, including Savannah Revisited and People of Georgia.

Natural Histories

Explore the colonial southern coastline through the notes and drawings of a young German colonist in Von Reck's Voyage.

Slavery

Detailed accounts of slave life, including autobiographies of fugitive slaves and recollections of former slaves in Neither More Nor Less Than Men and Slavery Time When I Was Chillun down on Marster's Plantation.

Civil War

Graphic depictions of the Civil War, including letters from confederate soldiers collected in Dear Mother: Don't grieve about me. If I get killed, I'll only be dead, with lithographs by Currier and Ives.

Southern Plantations

Daily plantation life, including a woman's struggle to manage her family's plantation in Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War.
Architecture of the Old South
Savannah, Georgia and the South
Civil War, slavery and southern plantations


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