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by Helen G. Edmonds
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Edmonds gives a detailed and accurate record of the political careers of prominent North Carolina blacks who held federal, state, county, and municipal offices. This record shows that the ration of Afro-American voters was so low that black domination was neither a reality nor a threat.
Backstage Stories: Wonders, Relics, and a Beer Fridge
An article from Southern Cultures 17:4, The Music Issue
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The headlining band were nasty rogues, hitting on freakishly skinny underage chicks while I heard it all half asleep."
Captured on film: Johnny Cash, Tift Merrit, the Avett Brothers, and many other artists. And some of them reveal their tales about the most celebrated and notorious space...
The South in Red and Purple: Southernized Republicans, Diverse Democrats
An article from Southern Cultures 18:3, Fall 2012: The Politics Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Politically, the South is not an assembly of states, acting in unison, in the grip of one party. The region is not one South, undivided."
This article appears in the Fall 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook.
Southern Cultures is published...
Carolina del Norte: Geographies of Latinization in the South
A Special Issue of Southeastern Geographer, Summer 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Table of Contents, Volume 51, Number 2:
Special Issue
Carolina del Norte: Geographies of Latinization in the South
Guest Editors: Altha J. Cravey and Gabriela Valdivia
Carolina del Norte: An Introduction
Altha J. Cravey and Gabriela Valdivia
part i: notes from the field
We Play...
Tar Heel Dead
Tales of Mystery and Mayhem from North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
From O. Henry to Lilian Jackson Braun, North Carolina has nurtured some of the world's best-known mystery writers. This unique collection of mystery short stories showcases some of North Carolina's best writing talent from the past and the present--some famous, some less well known. Some of the mysteries...
Tradition, Treme, and the New Orleans Renaissance: Lolis Eric Elie interviewed by Sara B. Franklin
An article from Southern Cultures 18:2, Summer 2012: The Special Issue on Food
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
I see the participatory nature of food in New Orleans as being in the dishes. My guess is that none of the fine chefs in town would accept the challenge of putting their gumbo against somebody's mother's gumbo."
This article appears in the Summer 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue...
The KISS Letter: An Encounter with Elvis
An article from Southern Cultures 17:4, The Music Issue
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The last time I kissed him he only had on half a shirt. He has a wonderful chest. I am really crazy about him now+have the funniest feeling in me, all over."
After she saw the King in concert and met him backstage, she wrote this letter to her friends at camp. Here's the original spicy note...
Tar Heel History on Foot
Great Walks through 400 Years of North Carolina's Fascinating Past
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This lively collection of 34 of the best history walks in North Carolina highlights the richness and diversity of the state's history, from the time of its first settlement to the present. Veteran guidebook author Lynn Setzer leads readers on short walks in state parks and natural areas, state historic...
Little Rivers and Waterway Tales
A Carolinian's Eastern Streams
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Bland Simpson regales us with new tales of coastal North Carolina's "water-loving land," revealing how its creeks, streams, and rivers shape the region's geography as well as its culture. Drawing on deep family ties and coastal travels, Simpson and wife and collaborator Ann Cary Simpson...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Generally regarded as the most important of the Civil War campaigns conducted in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, that of 1864 lasted more than four months and claimed more than 25,000 casualties. The armies of Philip H. Sheridan and Jubal A. Early contended for immense stakes. Beyond the agricultural...
The Heart of Confederate Appalachia
Western North Carolina in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
In the mountains of western North Carolina, the Civil War was fought on different terms than those found throughout most of the South. Though relatively minor strategically, incursions by both Confederate and Union troops disrupted life and threatened the social stability of many communities. Even...
Freedom for Themselves
North Carolina's Black Soldiers in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
More than 5,000 North Carolina slaves escaped from their white owners to serve in the Union army during the Civil War. In Freedom for Themselves Richard Reid explores the stories of black soldiers from four regiments raised in North Carolina. Constructing a multidimensional portrait of the soldiers...
The Tuscarora War
Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
At dawn on September 22, 1711, more than 500 Tuscarora, Core, Neuse, Pamlico, Weetock, Machapunga, and Bear River Indian warriors swept down on the unsuspecting European settlers living along the Neuse and Pamlico Rivers of North Carolina. Over the following days, they destroyed hundreds of farms,...
Preachers, Pedagogues, and Politicians
The Evolution Controversy in North Carolina, 1920-1927
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This is the story of the evolution controversy set off by the Scopes trial. It deals with the problems in North Carolina educational institutions and such outstanding men as Poteat, Chase, Odum, and Morrison who sought reform.
Originally published in 1966.
A UNC Press Enduring Edition...