Center Books on the American South

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.

Books in this series

City of Memory
New Orleans, Before and After Katrina
John Woodin
With an essay by Craig E. Colten

Civil Rights Memorials and the Geography of Memory
Owen J. Dwyer and Derek H. Alderman

Everglades
Outside and Within
Marion Belanger

The Last Harvest
Truck Farmers in the Deep South
Perry Dilbeck
Conclusion by Tom Rankin

Look and Leave
Photographs and Stories from New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward
Jane Fulton Alt

The New Road
I-26 and the Footprints of Progress in Appalachia
Rob Amberg

Southern Comforts
Rooted in a Florida Place
Sudye Cauthen

Southern Crossings
Where Geography and Photography Meet
David Zurick

William Faulkner and the Southern Landscape
Charles S. Aiken

Series founder
and director
George F. Thompson

Get more information on the Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago.