As one of the oldest independent publishers in North Carolina, John F. Blair, Publisher, knows quite a bit about history. Our staff members and authors have a wealth of knowledge on many of the South's most important moments, from the Moravian settlement to the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement. So whether it's honoring the past or learning lessons from it,  we think these titles will be exactly what you're looking for.

All Guts, No Glory
Bill Elder

American Christmases
Joanne Martell

As Long As the Waters Flow
Frye Gaillard

Before Freedom, When I Just Can Remember
edited by Belinda Hurmence

Being A Boy
Paxton Davis

Blackbeard and Other Pirates of the Atlantic Coast
Nancy Roberts

Blackbeard the Pirate
Robert E. Lee

A Boy No More
Paxton Davis

Boys of the Battleship North Carolina
Cindy Horrell Ramsey

A Boy's War
Paxton Davis

Bushwhackers: The Civil War in North Carolina: The Mountains
William R. Trotter

Carolina Country Reflections: Looking at the Way We Were
Edited by Michael E. C. Gery

Charlotte Hawkins Brown: One Woman's Dream
Diane Silcox-Jarrett

Charlotte: Spirit of the New South
Mary Norton Kratt

Cherokee Voices: Accounts of Cherokee Life before 1900
Vicki Rozema

Civil War Blunders
Clint Johnson

Conecuh People: Words of Life from the Alabama Black Belt
Wade Hall

Deadly Goals: The True Story of an All-American Football Hero Who Stalked and Murdered
Wilt Browning

Deep Family: A Personal History
Dallas Read

Drawn to the Civil War
J. Stephen Lang
illustrations by Michael Caplanis

Duck: An Outer Banks Village
Judith Mercier

Erdmuth Dorothea: Countess Von Zinzendorf
Erika Geiger

A Family Affair: The Life, Times, and Sale of a Family-Owned Newspaper
Mark Wineka

Fear in North Carolina: The Civil War Journals and Letters of the Henry Family
Compiled by Karen L. Clinard and Richard Russell

First in Flight: The Wright Brothers in North Carolina
Stephen Kirk

Footsteps of the Cherokees: A Guide to the Eastern Homelands of the Cherokee Nation
Vicki Rozema

General Robert F. Hoke: Lee's Modest Warrior
Daniel W. Barefoot

Gone Home: Southern Folk Gravestone Art
Jack and Olivia Solomon

Good Morning! Forty Years on America's Longest Running and Most Successful Local TV Show
Lee Kinard

Gray Phantoms of the Cape Fear: Running the Civil War Blockade
Dawson Carr

Greetings From Charleston: A Pictorial Postcard History of Charleston, South Carolina W. Hugh Harkey, Jr.

A Guide to the Crooked Road: Virginia's Heritage Music Trail
Joe Wilson

Hark the Sound of Tar Heel Voices: 220 Years of UNC History
Edited by Daniel W. Barefoot

The Heart of Dixie: Southern Rebels, Renegades, and Heroes
Frye Gaillard

A Historian's Coast: Adventures into the Tidewater Past
David Cecelski

The History of Huntingdon College 1854-1954
Rhoda Coleman Ellison

Hugo Black of Alabama: How His Roots and Early Career Shaped the Great Champion of the Constitution
Steve Suitts

If I Were A Carpenter: Twenty Years of Habitat for Humanity
Frye Gaillard

In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone
Randell Jones

In the Footsteps of Davy Crockett
Randell Jones

In the Footsteps of J. E. B. Stuart
Clint Johnson

In the Footsteps of Robert E. Lee
Clint Johnson

In the Footsteps of Stonewall Jackson
Clint Johnson

Ironclads and Columbiads: The Civil War in North Carolina: The Coast
William R. Trotter

Islands, Capes, and Sounds: The North Carolina Coast
Thomas J. Schoenbaum

The Jamestown Adventure: Accounts of the Virginia Colony 1605-1614
Edited by Ed Southern

The Lee Girls
Mary Coulling

Let Us Die Like Brave Men: Behind the Dying Words of Confederate Warriors
Daniel W. Barefoot

The Life of General Francis Marion: A Celebrated Partisan Officer, in the Revolutionary War, Against the British and Tories in South Carolina and Georgia
Brigadier General P. Horry and Parson M. L. Weems

Linthead: Growing Up in a Carolina Cotton Mill Village
Wilt Browning

Lion's Share
Mark Wineka and Jason Lesley

Making Notes: Music of the Carolinas
Edited by Ann Wicker

Marvelous Old Mansions and Other Southern Treasures
Sylvia Higginbotham

Mighty Rough Times, I Tell You
edited by Andrea Sutcliffe

Millie-Christine: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
Joanne Martell

My CCC Days
Frank Davis

My Dear Father and Mother, The Personal Letters of Livingston N. Clinard
compiled by Karen L. Clinard and Richard Russell

My Folks Don't Want Me To Talk About Slavery
edited by Belinda Hurmence

Nags Headers
Susan Byrum Rountree

No Man's Yoke on My Shoulders
edited by Horace Randall Williams

North Carolina Barbecue: Flavored by Time
Bob Garner

North Carolina Nature Writing: Four Centuries of Personal
Narrative and Descriptions
Richard Rankin

North Carolina's State Historic Sites
Gary L. McCullough

On Jordan's Stormy Banks
edited by Andrew Waters

Outer Banks Architecture: An Anthology of Outposts, Lodges, and Cottages
Marimar McNaughton

Post Cards of Historic Blowing Rock (Volume II)
Blowing Rock Historical Society

Prayin' to Be Set Free: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Mississippi
Andrew Waters

Presidential Places: A Guide to the Historic Sites of U.S. Presidents
Gary Ferris

The Rocks: The True Story of the Worst Team in Baseball History
Wilt Browning

The Roots of Penderlea: A Memoir of a New Deal Homestead Community
Ann S. Cottle

Sand in My Shoes
Katharine Ball Ripley

Shell Castle: Portrait of a North Carolina House
Elizabeth Matheson

Silk Flags and Cold Steel: The Civil War in North Carolina: The Piedmont
William R. Trotter

Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Its Songs
Guy and Candie Carawan

A Short History of Watauga County (NC)
Michael Hardy

A Slice of Time: A Carolinas Album 1950-1990
Don Sturkey

They Went Into the Fight Cheering!
Walter C. Hilderman, III

Thriving in the Shadows: The Black Experience in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County
Fannie Flono

Topsail Island: Mayberry by the Sea
Ray McAllister


Torso: Eliot Ness and the Search for a Psychopathic Killer
Steven Nickel

A Travel Guide to Black Historical Sites and Landmarks in North Carolina
Lenwood G. Davis

Tunnel Vision: A True Story of Multiple Murder and Justice in Chaos at America's Biggest Marine Base
N. P. Simpson

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Fred D. Gray

Tracing Your Civil War Ancestor
Bertram Groene

Until He is Dead
James Thomas Rusher

Voices from St. Simons: Personal Narratives of an Island's Past
Edited by Stephen Doster

Voices from the Trail of Tears
Vicki Rozema

A Walk Through Old Salem
Walter Stone

We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard
edited by Belinda Hurmence

Weren't No Good Times
edited by Horace Randall Williams

Wild Horses of Shackleford Banks
Carmine Prioli
photographs by Scott Taylor

Wings of Denial
Warren Trest and Donald Todd

Winston-Salem: A History
Frank V. Tursi

The Winston-Salem Journal: Magnolia Trees and Pulitzer Prizes
Frank V. Tursi