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Breaking Loose Together

The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina

by Marjoleine Kars
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003

Ten years before the start of the American Revolution, backcountry settlers in the North Carolina Piedmont launched their own defiant bid for economic independence and political liberty. The Regulator Rebellion of 1766-71 pitted thousands of farmers, many of them religious radicals inspired by the...
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Carolina Israelite

How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights

by Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015

This first comprehensive biography of Jewish American writer and humorist Harry Golden (1903-1981)--author of the 1958 national best-seller Only in America--illuminates a remarkable life intertwined with the rise of the civil rights movement, Jewish popular culture, and the sometimes precarious position...
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A Southern Life

Letters of Paul Green, 1916-1981

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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017

This exceptional collection provides new insight into the life of North Carolina writer and activist Paul Green (1894-1981), the first southern playwright to attract international acclaim for his socially conscious dramas. Green, who taught philosophy and drama at the University of North Carolina...
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Beyond Blackface

African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930

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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011

This collection of thirteen essays, edited by historian W. Fitzhugh Brundage, brings together original work from sixteen scholars in various disciplines, ranging from theater and literature to history and music, to address the complex roles of black performers, entrepreneurs, and consumers in American...
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The Battle of Vicksburg

A UNC Press Civil War Short, Excerpted from Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi

by Michael B. Ballard
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012

The Vicksburg campaign was among the longest of the Civil War, lasting from 26 May 1862 to 4 July 1863. This Civil War Short provides a compelling narrative of the final six weeks of the campaign, excerpted from Michael Ballard's Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi, which blends strategy...
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First Fruits of Freedom

The Migration of Former Slaves and Their Search for Equality in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1862-1900

by Janette Thomas Greenwood
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010

A moving narrative that offers a rare glimpse into the lives of African American men, women, and children on the cusp of freedom, First Fruits of Freedom chronicles one of the first collective migrations of blacks from the South to the North during and after the Civil War. Janette Thomas Greenwood...
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Reluctant Confederates

Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis

by Daniel W. Crofts
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014

Daniel Crofts examines Unionists in three pivotal southern states--Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee--and shows why the outbreak of the war enabled the Confederacy to gain the allegiance of these essential, if ambivalent, governments. "Crofts's study focuses on Virginia, North Carolina,...
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Schooling the New South

Pedagogy, Self, and Society in North Carolina, 1880-1920

by James L. Leloudis
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000

Schooling the New South deftly combines social and political history, gender studies, and African American history into a story of educational reform. James Leloudis recreates North Carolina's classrooms as they existed at the turn of the century and explores the wide-ranging social and psychological...
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Carolina Basketball

A Century of Excellence

by Adam Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010

Boasting six national championships and scores of Hall of Fame coaches and players, Carolina Basketball has come a long way from the first season--when the campus newspaper published a notice asking an unknown culprit to return the team's basketball. These pages are packed with little-known stories...
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Lessons from the Sand

Family-Friendly Science Activities You Can Do on a Carolina Beach

by Charles O. Pilkey, Orrin H. Pilkey
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016

Ever wonder where sand comes from? Or why shells are colored differently? Or how to estimate the size of a wave? Featuring more than forty fun hands-on activities for families with children, Lessons from the Sandreveals the science behind the amazing natural wonders found on the beaches of North Carolina...
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by David Stick
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015

The Outer Banks have long been of interest to geologists, historians, linguists, sportsmen, and beachcombers. This long series of low, narrow, sandy islands stretches along the North Carolina coast for more than 175 miles. Here on Roanoke Island in the 1580s, the first English colony in the...
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Walter Clark

Fighting Judge

by Aubrey Lee Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018

In this life of Walter Clark, the author tells of an antebellum boyhood on a Carolina plantation and a long career of involvement in the bitterest sociopolitical battles the state of North Carolina has known, which won Clark a national reputation as a liberal noted for his straight thinking and his...
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Carolina Cradle

Settlement of the Northwest Carolina Frontier, 1747-1762

by Robert W. Ramsey
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014

This account of the settlement of one segment of the North Carolina frontier -- the land between the Yadkin and Catawba rivers -- examines the process by which the piedmont South was populated. Through its ingenious use of hundreds of sources and documents, Robert Ramsey traces the movement of the...
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Boy Colonel of the Confederacy

The Life and Times of Henry King Burgwyn, Jr.

by Archie K. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000

Henry King Burgwyn, Jr. (1841-63), one of the youngest colonels in the Confederate Army, died at the age of twenty-one while leading the twenty-sixth North Carolina regiment into action at the battle of Gettysburg. In this sensitive biography, originally published by UNC Press in 1985, Archie Davis...
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