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Pickles and Preserves
a Savor the South® cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Andrea Weigl defines the year by her canning sessions. In the winter, she makes bright yellow Jerusalem Artichoke Relish from her backyard crop. In the spring, she conjures up sweet red Strawberry Preserves. In the summer, it's savory Yellow Squash Pickles and peaches, pickled, brandied, or as a thick...
Upbuilding Black Durham
Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
In the 1910s, both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional race progress. Migration, urbanization, and industrialization had turned black Durham from a post-Civil War liberation community into the "capital of the black middle...
Way Up North in Louisville
African American Migration in the Urban South, 1930-1970
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Luther Adams demonstrates that in the wake of World War II, when roughly half the black population left the South seeking greater opportunity and freedom in the North and West, the same desire often anchored African Americans to the South. Way Up North in Louisville explores the forces that led blacks...
Beyond the Founders
New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
In pursuit of a more sophisticated and inclusive American history, the contributors to Beyond the Founders propose new directions for the study of the political history of the republic before the Civil War. In ways formal and informal, symbolic and tactile, this political world encompassed blacks,...
The End of Consensus
Diversity, Neighborhoods, and the Politics of Public School Assignments
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
One of the nation's fastest growing metropolitan areas, Wake County, North Carolina, added more than a quarter million new residents during the first decade of this century, an increase of almost 45 percent. At the same time, partisanship increasingly dominated local politics, including school board...
by Demetrius L. Eudell
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
This comparative study examines the emancipation process in the British Caribbean, particularly Jamaica, during the 1830s and in the United States, particularly South Carolina, during the 1860s. Analyzing the intellectual and ideological foundations of postslavery Anglo-America, Demetrius Eudell explores...
The United States and Latin America in the 1990s
Beyond the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
A comprehensive examination of both unresolved tensions in inter-American relations and the specific problems facing U.S. and Latin American policymakers in the 1990s.--American Political Science Review
"These well-integrated essays analyze the key issues in contemporary inter-American...
Somerset Homecoming
Recovering a Lost Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In 1860, Somerset Place was one of the most successful plantations in North Carolina--and its owner one of the largest slaveholders in the state. More than 300 slaves worked the plantation's fields at the height of its prosperity; but nearly 125 years later, the only remembrance of their lives at...
Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South
Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
With more than 50,000 enrolled members, North Carolina's Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River. Malinda Maynor Lowery, a Lumbee herself, describes how, between Reconstruction and the 1950s, the Lumbee crafted and maintained a distinct identity in an era...
Into the Sound Country
A Carolinian's Coastal Plain
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Into the Sound Country is a story of rediscovery--of two North Carolinians returning to seek their roots in the state's eastern provinces. It is an affectionate, impressionistic, and personal portrait of the coastal plain by two natives of the region, writer Bland Simpson and photographer Ann Cary...
Unruly Women
The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
In this richly detailed and imaginatively researched study, Victoria Bynum investigates "unruly" women in central North Carolina before and during the Civil War. Analyzing the complex and interrelated impact of gender, race, class, and region on the lives of black and white women, she shows how their...
Hoppin' John's Lowcountry Cooking
Recipes and Ruminations from Charleston and the Carolina Coastal Plain
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
At oyster roasts and fancy cotillions, in fish camps and cutting-edge restaurants, the people of South Carolina gather to enjoy one of America's most distinctive cuisines--the delicious, inventive fare of the Lowcountry. In his classic Hoppin' John's Lowcountry Cooking, John Martin Taylor brings us...
One Blood
The Death and Resurrection of Charles R. Drew
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
One Blood traces both the life of the famous black surgeon and blood plasma pioneer Dr. Charles Drew and the well-known legend about his death. On April 1, 1950, Drew died after an auto accident in rural North Carolina. Within hours, rumors spread: the man who helped create the first American Red...
Like Night and Day
Unionization in a Southern Mill Town
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Daniel Clark demonstrates the dramatic impact unionization made on the lives of textile workers in Henderson, North Carolina, in the decade after World War II. Focusing on the Harriet and Henderson Cotton Mills, he shows that workers valued the Textile Workers Union of America for more than the higher...