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Hoover, Blacks, and Lily-Whites
A Study of Southern Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
For more than fifty years, Hoover has been viewed as a lily-white racist who attempted to revitalize Republicanism in the South by driving blacks from positions of leadership at all party levels. Lisio demonstrates that this view is both inaccurate and incomplete, that Hoover hoped to promote racial...
Civil War Canon
Sites of Confederate Memory in South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
In this expansive history of South Carolina's commemoration of the Civil War era, Thomas J. Brown uses the lens of place to examine the ways that landmarks of Confederate memory have helped white southerners negotiate their shifting political, social, and economic positions. By looking at prominent...
Sorting Out the New South City
Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
One of the largest and fastest-growing cities in the South, Charlotte, North Carolina, came of age in the New South decades of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, transforming itself from a rural courthouse village to the trading and financial hub of America's premier textile manufacturing...
Color and Character
West Charlotte High and the American Struggle over Educational Equality
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
At a time when race and inequality dominate national debates, the story of West Charlotte High School illuminates the possibilities and challenges of using racial and economic desegregation to foster educational equality. West Charlotte opened in 1938 as a segregated school that embodied the aspirations...
Colors of Confinement
Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
In 1942, Bill Manbo (1908-1992) and his family were forced from their Hollywood home into the Japanese American internment camp at Heart Mountain in Wyoming. While there, Manbo documented both the bleakness and beauty of his surroundings, using Kodachrome film, a technology then just seven years old,...
Julius Chambers
A Life in the Legal Struggle for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Born in the hamlet of Mount Gilead, North Carolina, Julius Chambers (1936–2013) escaped the fetters of the Jim Crow South to emerge in the 1960s and 1970s as the nation's leading African American civil rights attorney. Following passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Chambers worked to advance...
The Lost Colony
A Symphonic Drama of American History
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
In 1937, The Lost Colony, Paul Green's dramatic retelling of the founding and mysterious disappearance of the Roanoke Island colony, opened to standing-room-only audiences and rave reviews. Since then, the beloved outdoor drama has played to more than 3 million people, and it is still going strong....
The Workboats of Core Sound
Stories and Photographs of a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Along the wide waters of eastern North Carolina, the people of many scattered villages separated by creeks, marshes, and rivers depend on shallow-water boats, both for their livelihoods as fishermen and to maintain connections with one another and with the rest of the world. As Lawrence S. Earley...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Master and servant acts, the cornerstone of English employment law for more than four hundred years, gave largely unsupervised, inferior magistrates wide discretion over employment relations, including the power to whip, fine, and imprison men, women, and children for breach of private contracts with...
Journal of the Civil War Era
Spring 2012 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The Journal of the Civil War Era
Volume 2, Number 1
March 2012
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Forum
The Future of Civil War Era Studies
Stephen Berry, Michael T. Bernath, Seth Rockman, Barton A. Myers, Anne Marshall, Lisa M. Brady, Judith Giesberg, & Jim Downs
Articles
Jacqueline...
A City and Its Universities
Public Policy in Chicago, 1892-1919
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
By focusing on Chicago's first generation of activist professors, Diner shows how modern public policy evolved. Chicago's early academic professionals, believing that they alone could solve the problems of a complex urban society, united to press for reforms in education, criminal justice, social...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Was Western civilization founded by ancient Egyptians and Phoenicians? Can the ancient Egyptians usefully be called black? Did the ancient Greeks borrow religion, science, and philosophy from the Egyptians and Phoenicians? Have scholars ignored the Afroasiatic roots of Western civilization as a result...
Stephen Dodson Ramseur
Lee's Gallant General
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Stephen Dodson Ramseur, born in Lincolnton, North Carolina, in 1837, compiled an enviable record as a brigadier in the Army of Northern Virginia. Commissioned major general the day after his twenty-seventh birthday, he was the youngest West Pointer to achieve that rank in the Confederate army. He...
by Stanley L. Bentley
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
This authoritative guide showcases the unmatched beauty and diversity of the native orchids of the southern Appalachian mountains. Based on Stanley Bentley's many years of nature study, it covers the 52 species--including one discovered by Bentley and named after him--found in a region encompassing...