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 | Center Books on the American South, a series of the Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago George F. Thompson, series founder and directorGet more information on the Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago.
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| The Center for American Places, which is now based at Columbia College Chicago, was founded in 1990 by George F. Thompson, a former editor at the Johns Hopkins University Press. Since that time, the Center has brought to publication more than 320 works across dozens of disciplines, including geography, history, landscape and urban studies, photography, and creative nonfiction. The Center has won or shared more than 100 editorial prizes, including best-book honors in thirty-one academic fields. The Center's publishing program is designed to enhance the public's understanding of, appreciation for, and affection for the places of the Americas the rest of the world—whether urban, suburban, rural, or wild. The program is guided by the view that books provide the intellectual and emotional foundation for comprehending—and caring for—the places where we live, work, and commune. The Center Books on the American South series provides a regional focus for this guiding view. Volumes in the series include The Last Harvest, which documents the disappearing livelihood of the southern truck farmer, and Southern Comforts, a moving meditation on how development is changing Florida's natural and cultural landscapes. Coming in August 2008: | |
| Civil Rights Memorials and the Geography of Memory Derek Alderman and Owen Dwyer The first critical reading of the monuments, museums, parks, and streets dedicated to the black struggle for civil rights ISBN 978-1-930066-83-0 | |
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