The University Of North Carolina Press: 2381 books
How to Read a North Carolina Beach
Bubble Holes, Barking Sands, and Rippled Runnels
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Take a walk on the beach with three coastal experts who reveal the secrets and the science of the North Carolina shoreline. What makes sea foam? What are those tiny sand volcanoes along the waterline? You'll find the answers to these questions and dozens more in this comprehensive field guide to the...
The North Carolina Experience
An Interpretive and Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
This collection of nineteen original essays on selected topics and epochs in North Carolina history offers a broad survey of the state from its discovery and colonization to the present. Each chapter consists of an interpretive essay on a specific aspect of North Carolina's history, a collection of...
The Battle for North Carolina's Coast
Evolutionary History, Present Crisis, and Vision for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2011
The North Carolina barrier islands, a 325-mile-long string of narrow sand islands that forms the coast of North Carolina, are one of the most beloved areas to live and visit in the United States. However, extensive barrier island segments and their associated wetlands are in jeopardy. In The Battle...
Down Home
Jewish Life in North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
A sweeping chronicle of Jewish life in the Tar Heel State from colonial times to the present, this beautifully illustrated volume incorporates oral histories, original historical documents, and profiles of fascinating individuals. The first comprehensive social history of its kind, Down Home demonstrates...
Light and Air
The Photography of Bayard Wootten
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
A trailblazer for women photographers in the South, North Carolina's Bayard Wootten (1875-1959) overcame economic hardship, gender discrimination, and the obscurity of a small-town upbringing to become the state's most significant early female photographer. This advocate of equality for women combined...
The Bohemian South
Creating Countercultures, from Poe to Punk
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
From the southern influence on nineteenth-century New York to the musical legacy of late-twentieth-century Athens, Georgia, to the cutting-edge cuisines of twenty-first-century Asheville, North Carolina, the bohemian South has long contested traditional views of the region. Yet, even as the fruits...
"Boomtown Rabbits": The Rabbit Market in Chatham County, North Carolina, 1880-1920
An article from Southern Cultures 18:2, Summer 2012: The Special Issue on Food
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Although the same cottontails flourished across the region, Chatham County turned its rabbits into something like a regional brand, recognized throughout the South and along the eastern seaboard. By the end of the nineteenth century, Siler City had become the de facto rabbit capital of the southeast."
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Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Art historians have long been accustomed to thinking about art and artists in terms of national traditions. This volume takes a different approach, suggesting instead that a history of art based on national divisions often obscures the processes of cultural appropriation and global exchange that shaped...
North Carolina in the Connected Age
Challenges and Opportunities in a Globalizing Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
At a time when North Carolina's population is exploding and its economy is shifting profoundly, one of the state's leading economists applies the tools of his trade to chronicle these changes and to inform North Carolinians in easy-to-understand terms what to expect in the future.
Today we...
Discovering North Carolina
A Tar Heel Reader
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This splendid anthology offers an engaging journey through four centuries of North Carolina life. It draws on a wealth of sources--histories, biographies, diaries, novels, short stories, newspapers, and magazines--to show how North Carolina's rich history and remarkable literary achievements cut across...
School Resegregation
Must the South Turn Back?
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Confronting a reality that many policy makers would prefer to ignore, contributors to this volume offer the latest information on the trend toward the racial and socioeconomic resegregation of southern schools. In the region that has achieved more widespread public school integration than any other...
Zeb Vance
North Carolina's Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
In this comprehensive biography of the man who led North Carolina through the Civil War and, as a U.S. senator from 1878 to 1894, served as the state's leading spokesman, Gordon McKinney presents Zebulon Baird Vance (1830-94) as a far more complex figure than has been previously recognized.
Vance...
The Black Bard of North Carolina
George Moses Horton and His Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
For his humanistic religious verse, his poignant and deeply personal antislavery poems, and, above all, his lifelong enthusiasm for liberty, nature, and the art of poetry, George Moses Horton merits a place of distinction among nineteenth-century African American poets. Enslaved from birth until the...
Nell Wise Wechter’s Stories of the North Carolina Coast for Kids, Omnibus E-book
Includes Taffy of Torpedo Junction and Teach's Light
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Available for the first time as an Omnibus Ebook, this collection brings together two of Nell Wise Wechter's beloved stories of young people on the North Carolina Coast. These wonderful stories will entertain and enlighten readers of all ages.Included in this Omnibus Ebook:A longtime favorite of several...