Blair imprint: 92 books
This African-American Life
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
From 1994 to 2003, Hugh Price served as president and CEO of the National Urban League. During his tenure, he tripled the League’s endowment, restructured its board of directors and staff; conceived and launched the League’s Campaign for African-American Achievement; established the League’s...
Bob Garner's Book of Barbeque
North Carolina's Favorite Food
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In 1994, Bob Garner began doing short features about barbecue for UNC-TV’s statewide public-television magazine program, North Carolina Now. In 1996, he published North Carolina Barbecue: Flavored by Time, taking readers on a delectable journey across the state in search of the best examples of...
Chained to the Land
Voices from Cotton & Cane Plantations
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
During the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration sent workers to interview over 2,200 former slaves about their experiences during slavery and the time immediately after the Civil War. The interviews conducted with the former Louisiana slaves often showed a different life from the slaves in neighboring...
by Erik Lars Myers, Sarah H. Ficke
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Boasting more craft breweries than any other state in the South, North Carolina is the state of Southern beer. In 2012, Erik Lars Myers wrote North Carolina Craft Beer & Breweries, which profiled 45 breweries. Since then, the number of breweries has more than tripled to over 140 and is still growing....
Far More Terrible for Women
Personal Accounts of Women in Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
De massa call me and tell me, "Woman, I’s pay big money for you, and I’s done dat 'cause I wants you to raise me chillum. I’s put you to live with Rufus for dat purpose. Now, if you doesn’t want whippin’ at de stake, you do what I wants." I thinks ‘bout Massa buyin’ me off...
I Was Born in Slavery
Personal Accounts of Slavery in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
When you think of early Texas history, you think of freedom fighters at the Alamo and rugged cowboys riding the plains. You usually don’t think too much about slavery in the Lone Star State. Although slavery existed in Texas only from the second decade of the 19th century to the close of the Civil...
Witness to Change
From Jim Crow to Political Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
While exiled from her beloved hometown of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, Sybil Haydel Morial began to document her remarkable life. In this memoir, she focuses on the sweeping changes—desegregation, the end of Jim Crow, the fight for voting rights and political empowerment—that transformed...
by Richard Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1981
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1981
The Andy Griffith Show was one of the most successful series in television history. It ranked among the top ten shows in the nation during each of its eight prime-time seasons, from 1960 to 1968. Over forty years later, the 249 episodes still remain some of the most frequently watched syndicated shows...
Before Freedom, When I Just Can Remember
Personal Accounts of Slavery in South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
During the 1930s, the Federal Writers’ Project undertook the task of locating former slaves and recording their oral histories. The more than ten thousand pages of interviews with over two thousand former slaves were filed in the Library of Congress, where they were known to scholars and historians...
My Folks Don't Want Me To Talk About Slavery
Personal Accounts of Slavery in North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Former slaves themselves—an important but long-neglected source of information about the institution of slavery in the United States. Who could better describe what slavery was like than the people who experienced it? And describe it they did, in thousands of remarkable interviews sponsored by the...
by Cindy Horrell Ramsey
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
On July 11, 1942, the USS North Carolina steamed into Pearl Harbor. She was a magnificent ship—the first in a new class of battleships, simultaneously monstrous and fast. She was two-and-a-half-football-fields long and so wide she could barely pass through the Panama Canal on her journey to Hawaii....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Voices of Cherokee Women is a compelling collection of first-person accounts by Cherokee women. It includes letters, diaries, newspaper articles, oral histories, ancient myths, and accounts by travelers, traders, and missionaries who encountered the Cherokees from the 16th century to the present....
Mighty Rough Times, I tell You
Personal Accounts of Slavery in Tennessee
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
In 1929, the Social Sciences Department at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, began recording the oral histories of former slaves. During the mid-1930s, the Federal Writers’ Project undertook a similar effort, ultimately compiling more than two thousand interviews and ten thousand pages of...
We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard
Personal Accounts of Slavery in Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
In the 1930s, the Federal Writers’ Project undertook a massive effort at gathering the oral testimony of former slaves. Those ex-slaves were in their declining years by the time of the Great Depression, but Elizabeth Sparks, Elige Davison, and others like them nonetheless provided a priceless record...