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by Jock Lauterer
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
In the isolated North Carolina mountains, old-timers relive their lives in bits and pieces. They tell of a time when working together as a family was fun, when pleasures were simple, and when a handshake made a deal. Lauterer introduces thirty-five mountain folk whose memories and experiences bridge...
The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina
Pioneers for Women's Rights and Abolition
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2009
A landmark work of women's history originally published in 1967, Gerda Lerner's best-selling biography of Sarah and Angelina Grimke explores the lives and ideas of the only southern women to become antislavery agents in the North and pioneers for women's rights. This revised and expanded edition includes...
The Waterman's Song
Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, The Waterman's Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, rivermen, sailors, ferrymen, and other laborers who, from the colonial era through Reconstruction, plied the vast inland waters of North Carolina from the Outer...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
One of the few books concerned solely with the humor of a single state, this volume includes samples of what North Carolinians have laughed at -- and with -- from 1709 to the present. It is a rich anthology of Tar Heel anecdotes, homespun quips, hilarious stories, folklore, exaggerations, and observations....
Prison and Plantation
Crime, Justice, and Authority in Massachusetts and South Carolina, 1767-1878
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This broad, comparative study examines the social, economic, and legal contexts of crime and authority in two vastly different states over a one hundred year period. Massachusetts--an urban, industrial, and heterogeneous northern state--chose the penitentiary in its attempt to minimize the role of...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
The Civil War retains a powerful hold on the American imagination, with each generation since 1865 reassessing its meaning and importance in American life. This volume collects twelve essays by leading Civil War scholars who demonstrate how the meanings of the Civil War have changed over time.
The...
Bentonville
The Final Battle of Sherman and Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The battle of Bentonville, the only major Civil War battle fought in North Carolina, was the Confederacy's last attempt to stop the devastating march of William Tecumseh Sherman's army north through the Carolinas. Despite their numerical disadvantage, General Joseph E. Johnston's Confederate forces...
The Education of the Heart
The Correspondence of Rachel Mordecai Lazarus and Maria Edgeworth
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In 1815 a young North Carolina schoolteacher who was Jewish wrote to the celebrated Maria Edgeworth to ask why British novelists wrote in such a prejudiced manner about Jews. Maria was so moved by the letter that she set to work on a novel to make amends, and <3>Harrington<1> was published...
American Civil Wars
The United States, Latin America, Europe, and the Crisis of the 1860s
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
American Civil Wars takes readers beyond the battlefields and sectional divides of the U.S. Civil War to view the conflict from outside the national arena of the United States. Contributors position the American conflict squarely in the context of a wider transnational crisis across the Atlantic world,...
Hiroshima Diary
The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city. Though his responsibilities in the appalling chaos of a devastated city were awesome, he found time to record the story daily, with compassion and tenderness....
A Devil of a Whipping
The Battle of Cowpens
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The battle of Cowpens was a crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War in the South and stands as perhaps the finest American tactical demonstration of the entire war. On 17 January 1781, Daniel Morgan's force of Continental troops and militia routed British regulars and Loyalists under the command...
Learning to Win
Sports, Education, and Social Change in Twentieth-Century North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Over the past century, high school and college athletics have grown into one of America's most beloved--and most controversial--institutions, inspiring great loyalty while sparking fierce disputes.
In this richly detailed book, Pamela Grundy examines the many meanings that school sports took...
Businessman in the Statehouse
Six Years as Governor of North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
This is the story of Governor Hodges's years in the statehouse, told in his own words. It is lively, forceful, and honest--like the man himself. It is particularly relevant to the concept that states' rights should be regarded as a challenge to make state government honest, responsible, and forward...
How to Read a Florida Gulf Coast Beach
A Guide to Shadow Dunes, Ghost Forests, and Other Telltale Clues from an Ever-Changing Coast
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Come explore the geology of Florida's Gulf Coast beaches, from a bird's-eye view down to a crab's-eye view. You'll journey from Panhandle sugar-sand beaches to southwestern shell beaches, taking a fresh look at the ever-changing landscape. With Tonya Clayton as your guide, you'll learn how to recognize...