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by Georgann Eubanks
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010

Read your way across North Carolina's Piedmont in the second of a series of regional guides that bring the state's rich literary history to life for travelers and residents. Eighteen tours direct readers to sites that more than two hundred Tar Heel authors have explored in their fiction, poetry, plays,...
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The Making of a Southern Democracy

North Carolina Politics from Kerr Scott to Pat McCrory

by Tom Eamon
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014

The story of modern politics in North Carolina is very much one of American democracy, with all its grand ambitions, limitations, and pitfalls. So argues Tom Eamon in his probing narrative of the state's political path since the 1940s. He charts the state's political transformation into a modern democratic...
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Pauli Murray and Caroline Ware

Forty Years of Letters in Black and White

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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009

In 1942 Pauli Murray, a young black woman from North Carolina studying law at Howard University, visited a constitutional law class taught by Caroline Ware, one of the nation's leading historians. A friendship and a correspondence began, lasting until Murray's death in 1985. Ware, a Boston Brahmin...
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Grandfather Mountain

The History and Guide to an Appalachian Icon

by Randy Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016

With its prominent profile recognizable for miles around and featuring vistas among the most beloved in the Appalachians, North Carolina's Grandfather Mountain is many things to many people: an easily recognized landmark along the Blue Ridge Parkway, a popular tourist destination, a site of annual...
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The Nature of the Outer Banks

Environmental Processes, Field Sites, and Development Issues, Corolla to Ocracoke

by Dirk Frankenberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012

North Carolina's Outer Banks are in constant motion, responding to weather, waves, and the rising sea level. Beaches erode, sometimes taking homes or sections of highway with them into the surf; sand dunes migrate with the wind; and storms open new inlets and dump sand in channels and sounds. A classic...
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A History of the Book in America

Volume 2: An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840

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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010

Volume Two of A History of the Book in America documents the development of a distinctive culture of print in the new American republic. Between 1790 and 1840 printing and publishing expanded, and literate publics provided a ready market for novels, almanacs, newspapers, tracts, and periodicals....
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Planters and the Making of a "New South"

Class, Politics, and Development in North Carolina, 1865-1900

by Dwight B. Billings
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017

Billings disputes the assumption that an incipient merchant class built the state's cotton mills; he reveals that a majority of the early mills was owned by prominent planters and agrarians. He shows the persistent hegemony and support for industrialization among the landed upper class and describes...
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by Sue Harden
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000

From the first colonization at Roanoke Island, the bizarre and inexplicable have shrouded the Tar Heel State. From history and legend, John Harden records ominous events that have shaped or colored state history.
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Covered with Glory

The 26th North Carolina Infantry at the Battle of Gettysburg

by Rod Gragg
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010

The battle of Gettysburg was the largest engagement of the Civil War, and--with more than 51,000 casualties--also the deadliest. The highest regimental casualty rate at Gettysburg, an estimated 85 percent, was incurred by the 26th North Carolina Infantry. Who were these North Carolinians? Why were...
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The First State University

A Walking Guide

by Marguerite E. Schumann
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

In a convenient format, Schumann offers a guide to the campus of the University of North Carolina and immediately adjacent areas in Chapel Hill that will be indispensable for walkers wishing to acquaint themselves with the University and its history. In the revised edition, she has added two hour-long...
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To Right These Wrongs

The North Carolina Fund and the Battle to End Poverty and Inequality in 1960s America

by Robert R. Korstad, James L. Leloudis
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011

When Governor Terry Sanford established the North Carolina Fund in 1963, he saw it as a way to provide a better life for the "tens of thousands whose family income is so low that daily subsistence is always in doubt." Illustrated with evocative photographs by Billy Barnes, To Right These...
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by Duane Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014

Meyer addresses himself principally to two questions. Why did many thousands of Scottish Highlanders emigrate to America in the eighteenth century, and why did the majority of them rally to the defense of the Crown. . . . Offers the most complete and intelligent analysis of them that has so far appeared.--William...
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The Coasts of Carolina

Seaside to Sound Country

by Bland Simpson, Scott D. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010

The Coasts of Carolina captures the vibrancy of the North Carolina oceanfront, sound country, and interior shores behind the barrier islands. Scott Taylor, who has been photographing the coast for almost thirty years, and Bland Simpson, whose many coastal books have delighted readers for two decades,...
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A Very Mutinous People

The Struggle for North Carolina, 1660-1713

by Noeleen McIlvenna
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009

Historians have often glorified eighteenth-century Virginia planters' philosophical debates about the meaning of American liberty. But according to Noeleen McIlvenna, the true exemplars of egalitarian political values had fled Virginia's plantation society late in the seventeenth century to create...
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