Fire Ant Books imprint: 33 books
Inside Alabama
A Personal History of My State
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
An affectionate, irreverent, candid look at the "Heart of Dixie."
This book tells Alabama's history in a conversational style with an unapolo-getically subjective approach. Accessible to general readers and students alike, it recounts the history and politics of a state known for...
To the Boathouse
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
A neat and lavish, if constricting, childhood in the lush landscapes of North Carolina. Summers at a calm, remote beach house. A proper and religiously influenced prep school in Washington. Years at Bryn Mawr, an impulsive study trip to Paris, further education at Yale, married life, and divorced...
More than a Game
The Best of Alf Van Hoose
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
The best work of one of Alabama's longest-serving and most beloved sports journalists.
Although he spent 43 years at the same job, Alf Van Hoose was not a man limited by the boundaries of his profession. As Birmingham News sports editor for 21 years and a columnist for a decade before that,...
Pushmataha
A Choctaw Leader and His People
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
Valuable, original, and difficult-to-find resources on Choctaw history and culture.
This important book comprises two articles that appeared in the 1904 and 1906 volumes of Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society. In "Life of Apushimataha," Gideon Lincecum tells the story...
Cannoneers in Gray
The Field Artillery of the Army of Tennessee
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Winner of the 1984 Mrs. Simon Baruch University Award from the United Daughters of the Confederacy
Winner of the 1984 Fletcher Pratt Award from the Civil War Roundtable of New York
This enlarged edition of Cannoneers in Gray provides new detail concerning the activities of artillery units operating...
by Charles Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
In April 1735, twenty-year-old William MacGregor, possessing little more than a bottle of Scotch whiskey and a set of Shakespeare’s plays, arrives in Charles Town, South Carolina, to make his fortune in the New World. The Scottish Highlands, while dear to his heart, were in steep economic decline...
From Cape Charles to Cape Fear
The North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Examines naval logistics, tactics, and strategy employed by the Union blockade off the Atlantic coast of the Confederacy.
Gone to the Swamp
Raw Materials for the Good Life in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2008
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To make a living here, one had to be capable, confident, clever and inventive, know a lot about survival, be able to fashion and repair tools, navigate a boat, fell a tree, treat a snakebite, make...
Speak Truth to Power
The Story of Charles Patrick, a Civil Rights Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2010
On December 11, 1954, Charles Patrick drove to downtown Birmingham to buy a Boy Scout uniform for his son. Christmas traffic around the downtown department stores was heavy, and Patrick circled unsuccessfully until at last a streetside spot opened up and he began to pull in. As he did so, he was cut...
by Hamilton Cochran
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Within four weeks of the fall of Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln had declared a blockade of over four thousand miles of Confederate coastline, from Cape Henry in Virginia to the Mexican border. In response, professional runners, lured by both profits and patriotism, built faster, sleeker, low-profile...
Winged Defense
The Development and Possibilities of Modern Air Power--Economic and Military
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
This book is the basis for airpower doctrine in the US, and demonstrates how forward looking Gen Mitchell was even though the technology for conducting air operations was in its infancy when it was written. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with airpower history or aerospace doctrine.
William...
Talking Taino
Caribbean Natural History from a Native Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Keegan and Carlson, combined, have spent over 45 years conducting archaeological research in the Caribbean, directing projects in Trinidad, Grenada, St. Lucia, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, Grand Cayman, the Turks & Caicos Islands, and throughout the Bahamas. Walking...
Nancy Batson Crews
Alabama's First Lady of Flight
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2009
A riveting oral history/biography of a pioneering woman aviator.
This is the story of an uncommon woman--high school cheerleader, campus queen, airplane pilot, wife, mother, politician, business-woman--who epitomizes the struggles and freedoms of women in 20th-century America, as they first...
Dixie Walker of the Dodgers
The People's Choice
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
Fred “Dixie” Walker was a gifted ballplayer from a family of gifted athletes. (His father, uncle, and brother all played major league baseball.) Dixie Walker played in the majors for 18 seasons and in 1,905 games, assembling a career batting average of .306 while playing for the Yankees, White...