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by Kari Frederickson
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
In 1948, a group of conservative white southerners formed the States' Rights Democratic Party, soon nicknamed the "Dixiecrats," and chose Strom Thurmond as their presidential candidate. Thrown on the defensive by federal civil rights initiatives and unprecedented grassroots political activity by African...
The Imagined Civil War
Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
In this groundbreaking work of cultural history, Alice Fahs explores a little-known and fascinating side of the Civil War--the outpouring of popular literature inspired by the conflict. From 1861 to 1865, authors and publishers in both the North and the South produced a remarkable variety of war-related...
Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation
Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
The Civil War placed the U.S. Constitution under unprecedented--and, to this day, still unmatched--strain. In Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Mark Neely examines for the first time in one book the U.S. Constitution and its often overlooked cousin, the Confederate...
Science, Race, and Religion in the American South
John Bachman and the Charleston Circle of Naturalists, 1815-1895
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2003
In the decades before the Civil War, Charleston, South Carolina, enjoyed recognition as the center of scientific activity in the South. By 1850, only three other cities in the United States--Philadelphia, Boston, and New York--exceeded Charleston in natural history studies, and the city boasted an...
by Marylynn Salmon
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
In this first comprehensive study of women's property rights in early America, Marylynn Salmon discusses the effect of formal rules of law on women's lives. By focusing on such areas such as conveyancing, contracts, divorce, separate estates, and widows' provisions, Salmon presents a full picture...
'Man Over Money'
The Southern Populist Critique of American Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
At the close of the Civil War, it was clear that the military conflict that began in South Carolina and was fought largely east of the Mississippi River had changed the politics, policy, and daily life of the entire nation. In an expansive reimagining of post–Civil War America, the essays in this...
Pursuits of Happiness
The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
In this book, Jack Greene reinterprets the meaning of American social development. Synthesizing literature of the previous two decades on the process of social development and the formation of American culture, he challenges the central assumptions that have traditionally been used to analyze colonial...
Reparation and Reconciliation
The Rise and Fall of Integrated Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Reparation and Reconciliation is the first book to reveal the nineteenth-century struggle for racial integration on U.S. college campuses. As the Civil War ended, the need to heal the scars of slavery, expand the middle class, and reunite the nation engendered a dramatic interest in higher education...
The Intellectual Construction of America
Exceptionalism and Identity From 1492 to 1800
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Jack Greene explores the changing definitions of America from the time of Europe's first contact with the New World through the establishment of the American republic. Challenging historians who have argued that colonial American societies differed little from those of early modern Europe, he shows...
by Edward C. L. Adams
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
This volume brings back into print a remarkable record of black life in the 1920s, chronicled by Edward C.L. Adams, a white physician from the area around the Congaree River in central South Carolina. It reproduces Adams's major works, Congaree Sketches (1927) and Nigger to Nigger (1928), two collections...
by Mona Van Duyn
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
The twenty-five poems included in this collection present a poet mature in both craft and perception and possessed of a fine capacity for being both lyric and analytic at the same time. There is no posturing, but always a position, both thought and felt.
Originally published in 1964.
A...
Charleston in Black and White
Race and Power in the South after the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Once one of the wealthiest cities in America, Charleston, South Carolina, established a society built on the racial hierarchies of slavery and segregation. By the 1970s, the legal structures behind these racial divisions had broken down and the wealth built upon them faded. Like many southern cities,...
The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero
Native Resistance and the Literatures of America, from Moctezuma to Tecumseh
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
The leaders of anticolonial wars of resistance--Metacom, Pontiac, Tecumseh, and Cuauhtemoc--spread fear across the frontiers of North America. Yet once defeated, these men became iconic martyrs for postcolonial national identity in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. By the early 1800s a craze...