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Carolina in Crisis
Cherokees, Colonists, and Slaves in the American Southeast, 1756-1763
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2015
In this engaging history, Daniel J. Tortora explores how the Anglo-Cherokee War reshaped the political and cultural landscape of the colonial South. Tortora chronicles the series of clashes that erupted from 1758 to 1761 between Cherokees, settlers, and British troops. The conflict, no insignificant...
by Richard Schweid
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Journalist Richard Schweid first learned the strange facts of the freshwater eel's life from a fisherman in a small Spanish town just south of Valencia. "The eeler who explained the animal's life cycle to me did so as he served up an eel he had just taken from a trap, killed, cleaned, and cooked...
The Party at Jack's
A Novella
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
In the summer of 1937, Thomas Wolfe was in the North Carolina mountains revising a piece about a party and subsequent fire at the Park Avenue penthouse apartment of the fictional Esther and Frederick Jack. He wrote to his agent, Elizabeth Nowell, 'I think it is now a single thing, as much a single...
Empirical Futures
Anthropologists and Historians Engage the Work of Sidney W. Mintz
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Since the 1950s, anthropologist Sidney W. Mintz has been at the forefront of efforts to integrate the disciplines of anthropology and history. Author of Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History and other groundbreaking works, he was one of the first scholars to anticipate and critique...
The Secret World of Red Wolves
The Fight to Save North America's Other Wolf
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Red wolves are shy, elusive, and misunderstood predators. Until the 1800s, they were common in the longleaf pine savannas and deciduous forests of the southeastern United States. However, habitat degradation, persecution, and interbreeding with the coyote nearly annihilated them. Today, reintroduced...
The Yankee Plague
Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
During the winter of 1864, more than 3,000 Federal prisoners of war escaped from Confederate prison camps into South Carolina and North Carolina, often with the aid of local slaves. Their flight created, in the words of contemporary observers, a "Yankee plague," heralding a grim end to the Confederate...
NC 12
Gateway to the Outer Banks
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Connecting communities from Corolla in the north to Ocracoke Island in the south, scenic North Carolina Highway 12 binds together the fragile barrier islands that make up the Outer Banks. Throughout its lifetime, however, NC 12 has faced many challenges—from recurring storms and shifting sands to...
Southern Cultures
Volume 20: Number 2 – Summer 2014 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Southern Cultures Volume 20: Number 1 – Summer 2014
Table of Contents
Front Porch
by Jocelyn R. Neal
"One of the challenges—and, simultaneously, deep pleasures—of studying the South is that the disciplinary walls of the academy neither contain nor constrain the work."
Rewriting...
The Charlotte Observer
Its Time and Place, 1869-1986
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
The history of an important newspaper is almost by definition a political, economic, and social history of the region it serves as well as the human drama of the people whose visions, talents, and labors shaped it over the years. Jack Claiborne combines these elements in The Charlotte Observer, a...
The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare
A Journey into Captivity from Sierra Leone to South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
From 1754 to 1755, the slave ship Hare completed a journey from Newport, Rhode Island, to Sierra Leone and back to the United States—a journey that transformed more than seventy Africans into commodities, condemning some to death and the rest to a life of bondage in North America. In this engaging...
One of Lee's Best Men
The Civil War Letters of General William Dorsey Pender
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
On the day that Lincoln was inaugurated in 1861, twenty-seven-year-old William Dorsey Pender, en route to the provisional Confederate capital in Montgomery, Alabama, hurriedly scribbled a note to his wife, Fanny. So began a prolific correspondence between a rising Confederate officer and his cherished...
Making a Slave State
Political Development in Early South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
How is the state produced? In what ways did enslaved African Americans shape modern governing practices? Ryan A. Quintana provocatively answers these questions by focusing on the everyday production of South Carolina's state space—its roads and canals, borders and boundaries, public buildings and...
Greater than Equal
African American Struggles for Schools and Citizenship in North Carolina, 1919-1965
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
During the half century preceding widespread school integration, black North Carolinians engaged in a dramatic struggle for equal educational opportunity as segregated schooling flourished. Drawing on archival records and oral histories, Sarah Thuesen gives voice to students, parents, teachers, school...
Liberia, South Carolina
An African American Appalachian Community
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
In 2007, while researching mountain culture in upstate South Carolina, anthropologist John M. Coggeshall stumbled upon the small community of Liberia in the Blue Ridge foothills. There he met Mable Owens Clarke and her family, the remaining members of a small African American community still living...