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Highland Heritage
Scottish Americans in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Each year, tens of thousands of people flock to Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina, and to more than two hundred other locations across the country to attend Scottish Highland Games and Gatherings. There, kilt-wearing participants compete in athletics, Highland dancing, and bagpiping, while others...
The Lumbee Indians
An American Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Jamestown, the Lost Colony of Roanoke, and Plymouth Rock are central to America's mythic origin stories. Then, we are told, the main characters--the "friendly" Native Americans who met the settlers--disappeared. But the history of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina demands that we tell a different...
Blackbeard's Sunken Prize
The 300-Year Voyage of Queen Anne's Revenge
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
In 1717, the notorious pirate Blackbeard captured a French slaving vessel off the coast of Martinique and made it his flagship, renaming it Queen Anne's Revenge. Over the next six months, the heavily armed ship and its crew captured all manner of riches from merchant ships sailing the Caribbean to...
Wingless Eagle
U.S. Army Aviation through World War I
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
At the start of the twentieth century the United States led the world in advances in aviation, with the first successful engine-powered flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and Dayton, Ohio, beginning in 1903. Fifteen years later, however, American airmen flew European-designed aircraft because...
Southeastern Geographer
Winter 2012 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Table of Contents for Volume 52, Number 4 (Winter 2012)
Special Issue: Placing Memory and Heritage in the Geography Classroom
Guest Editor: Chris W. Post
Cover Art
The Mule Pull at the Mississippi Pecan Festival
Joseph S. Miller
Introduction: Placing Memory and Heritage in the
Geography...
The Ashley Cooper Plan
The Founding of Carolina and the Origins of Southern Political Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
In this highly original work, Thomas D. Wilson offers surprising new insights into the origins of the political storms we witness today. Wilson connects the Ashley Cooper Plan--a seventeenth-century model for a well-ordered society imagined by Anthony Ashley Cooper (1st Earl of Shaftesbury) and his...
The Marines of Montford Point
America's First Black Marines
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
With an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps--the last all-white branch of the U.S. military--was forced to begin recruiting and enlisting African Americans. The first black recruits received basic training at the segregated Camp Montford Point,...
The Long Shadow of the Civil War
Southern Dissent and Its Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
In The Long Shadow of the Civil War, Victoria Bynum relates uncommon narratives about common Southern folks who fought not with the Confederacy, but against it. Focusing on regions in three Southern states--North Carolina, Mississippi, and Texas--Bynum introduces Unionist supporters, guerrilla soldiers,...
North of the Color Line
Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the end of Reconstruction in the United States. Through the experiences of black railway workers and their union, the Order of Sleeping Car Porters,...
by Jonathan Daniel Wells
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
With a fresh take on social dynamics in the antebellum South, Jonathan Daniel Wells contests the popular idea that the Old South was a region of essentially two classes (planters and slaves) until after the Civil War. He argues that, in fact, the region had a burgeoning white middle class--including...
The Short Life of Free Georgia
Class and Slavery in the Colonial South
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
For twenty years in the eighteenth century, Georgia--the last British colony in what became the United States--enjoyed a brief period of free labor, where workers were not enslaved and were paid. The Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia created a "Georgia experiment" of...
The Provincials
A Personal History of Jews in the South
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
In this classic portrait of Jews in the South, Eli N. Evans takes readers inside the nexus of southern and Jewish histories, from the earliest immigrants to the present day. Evoking the rhythms and heartbeat of Jewish life in the Bible belt, Evans weaves together chapters of recollections from his...
From Toussaint to Tupac
The Black International since the Age of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Transcending geographic and cultural lines, From Toussaint to Tupac is an ambitious collection of essays exploring black internationalism and its implications for a black consciousness. At its core, black internationalism is a struggle against oppression, whether manifested in slavery, colonialism,...
Blue and Gray Diplomacy
A History of Union and Confederate Foreign Relations
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In this examination of Union and Confederate foreign relations during the Civil War from both European and American perspectives, Howard Jones demonstrates that the consequences of the conflict between North and South reached far beyond American soil.
Jones explores a number of themes, including...