"The New All-too-True-Blue History of Mississippi" is a creative history of Mississippi (or an "alternative" history, if you will). Events that are covered include, but are not limited to: TIME IMMEMORIAL -- Plaquemine Cultures, Mud Cats and Mud Pies 1540 to 1541 -- De Soto & the Female Lumberjacks 1716 -- Oldest Permanent Settlement on the Mississippi Founded 1817 - Statehood 1834 -- Slaves Returned to Africa 1863 - Siege of Vicksburg 1884 -- Shoes on the Wrong Feet 1898 -- Root Beer Invented 1903 -- "Teddy" Waits for Bigger Game 1940s - John Lomax Recordings 1945 -- "Black Boy" 1955 -- "Bo Diddley" 1956 -- Elvis and Ed 1962 - Battle of Oxford 1967 -- "In the Heat of the Knights in White Hoods" 1967 -- "Ode to Billie Joe" 1969 - Hurricane Camille 1977 -- "Margaritaville" 1996 -- "A Time to Kill" (Movie) 1996 -- "Ghosts of Mississippi" 2000 -- "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" 2005 -- Katrina & the Waves 2005 -- Klansman Konvicted Most of the events have explanatory images to help you visualize the history lessons.

"The New All-too-True-Blue History of Michigan" is a creative history of Michigan (or an "alternative" history, if you will). Events that are covered include, but are not limited to: TIME IMMEMORIAL- Glaciers, Mastodons, Paleo-Indians and So On 1668 - Marquette founds Sioux Buffy St. Marie 1763 to 1766 - Pontiac's Rebellion 1813 - Harrison takes Michigan back for the US 1837 - Free Statehood 1862 to 1866 -- Civil War Creates Soda Pop 1891 -- First International Submarine Railway Tunnel 1895 - Corn Flakes 1924 -- "So Big" 1937 - Flint Sit-Down Strike 1941 - "1913 Massacre" 1957 - Mackinac Bridge Completed 1959 - Motown records formed 1967 - Race Riots 1969 - Grand Funk Forms 1975 - Ted Nugent's Eponymous Album 1976 - Bob Seger's "Live Bullet" Album 1989 -- "Roger & Me" Movie 2001 - "Escanaba in da Moonlight" Most of the events have explanatory images to help you visualize the history lessons.

"The New All-too-True-Blue History of Iowa" is a creative history of Iowa (or an "alternative" history, if you will). Events that are covered include, but are not limited to: 1788 - First European Settler 1804 -- Sole Casualty of Lewis & Clark Expedition 1804 - Indians Tricked 1832 -- Black Hawk War 1843 - "New Purchase" Land Rush 1848 -- Winnebagos Moved Out 1850s - Utopian Communities Founded 1854 -- Twain in Muscatine 1855 and 1856 -- Twain in Keokuk 1856 -- First Bridge Across the Mississippi 1860 - Governor Assists Confederate of John Brown 1896 -- Rural Free Delivery 1930 -- American Gothic 1958 to 1966 -- Donna Reed Gets Her Own Show 1962 - "The Music Man" 1989 -- "Field of Nightmares" Most of the events have explanatory images to help you visualize the history lessons.

Formerly only available as volumes of the individual States, this anthology is one of five (West, Southwest, Midwest, Northeast, and Southeast) that combines alternative (wacky/zany) histories of the States of each region, in this case (Southeast), the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and (last but not least) West Virginia. Each anthology also contains, as a bonus, the alternative history of the "Ewe-Knighted States" as a whole.

On December 4, 1991 one of the most famous airlines in aviation history ceased operation. The famous blue and white logo was grounded. After pioneering most of the worlds air routes that are in use today, and introducing the travelling public to a variety of new aircraft, as well as introducing the world to the jet age, the "worlds most experienced airline" succumbed to the financial and regulatory pressures of the airline industry in this new age. The following stories will recount some of the many experiences these employees faced in adjusting to life without Pan Am. To this day, the public cannot understand how these thousands of employees remain as close as family wherever they are in the world On the following pages, many of the terrible predicaments that these employees faced will be recounted. Some are humorous some are sad and many show the resilience of the Pan Am family when faced with a crisis.

Traces the history of the golem legend and its appropriations in German texts and film as well as in post-Holocaust Jewish-American fiction, comics, graphic novels, and television. First mentioned in the Book of Psalms in the Hebrew Bible, the golem is a character in an astonishing number of post-Holocaust Jewish-American novels and has served as inspiration for such varied figures as Mary Shelley’s monster in her novel Frankenstein, a frightening character in the television series The X-Files, and comic book figures such as Superman and the Hulk. In The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction, author Elizabeth R. Baer introduces readers to these varied representations of the golem and traces the history of the golem legend across modern pre- and post-Holocaust culture. In five chapters, The Golem Redux examines the different purposes for which the golem has been used in literature and what makes the golem the ultimate text and intertext for modern Jewish writers. Baer begins by introducing several early manifestations of the golem legend, including texts from the third and fourth centuries and from the medieval period; Prague’s golem legend, which is attributed to the Maharal, Rabbi Judah Loew; the history of the Josefov, the Jewish ghetto in Prague, the site of the golem legend; and versions of the legend by Yudl Rosenberg and Chayim Bloch, which informed and influenced modern intertexts. In the chapters that follow, Baer traces the golem first in pre-Holocaust Austrian and German literature and film and later in post-Holocaust American literature and popular culture, arguing that the golem has been deployed very differently in these two contexts. Where prewar German and Austrian contexts used the golem as a signifier of Jewish otherness to underscore growing anti-Semitic cultural feelings, post-Holocaust American texts use the golem to depict the historical tragedy of the Holocaust and to imagine alternatives to it. In this section, Baer explores traditional retellings by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Elie Wiesel, the considerable legacy of the golem in comics, Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, and, finally, "Golems to the Rescue" in twentieth- and twenty-first-century works of film and literature, including those by Cynthia Ozick, Thane Rosenbaum, and Daniel Handler. By placing the Holocaust at the center of her discussion, Baer illustrates how the golem works as a self-conscious intertextual character who affirms the value of imagination and story in Jewish tradition. Students and teachers of Jewish literature and cultural history, film studies, and graphic novels will appreciate Baer’s pioneering and thought-provoking volume.