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Lethal State

A History of the Death Penalty in North Carolina

by Seth Kotch
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019

For years, American states have tinkered with the machinery of death, seeking to align capital punishment with evolving social standards and public will. Against this backdrop, North Carolina had long stood out as a prolific executioner with harsh mandatory sentencing statutes. But as the state sought...
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North Carolina beyond the Connected Age

The Tar Heel State in 2050

by Michael L. Walden
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017

For years, North Carolina has been one of the nation's fastest-growing states, bringing tremendous change to the state's people, industries, jobs, places, environment, and government. Much of this change resulted from the information and technology revolution, which connected the state more fully...
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Southern Snow

An article from Southern Cultures 18:1, Spring 2012

by Nancy Hatch Woodward
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012

There's a silence in a snowy dawn that forces you to look anew at what has been transformed from the customary landscape of your day-to-day life. Dogwoods glisten in their silver finery; bowing fir limbs form a secret cathedral." This article appears in the Spring 2012 issue of Southern...
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Sweet Carolina

Favorite Desserts and Candies from the Old North State

by Foy Allen Edelman
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009

Crisscrossing her home state of North Carolina over the course of six tasty years, Foy Allen Edelman visited families in their own kitchens and communities and discovered a treasure trove of delicacies. Sweet Carolina offers the recipes for more than 220 of these confections, along with their cooks'...
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Stores

Poetry from Southern Cultures 18:4, Winter 2012

by William Harmon
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012

. . . there's Humphrey pumping drugs all out & sundae soda cracker pop . . ." This article appears in the Winter 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook. Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University...
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by Hannah Gill
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018

Now thoroughly updated and revised—with a new chapter on the Dreamer movement and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA)—this book offers North Carolinians a better understanding of their Latino neighbors, illuminating rather than enflaming debates on immigration. In the midst...
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by Hugh F. Rankin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

In this classic account of the Revolutionary War experiences of the North Carolina Continentals, Hugh F. Rankin traces the events leading to war in North Carolina and follows all the campaigns and battles in which the North Carolina Continentals took part--Brandywine, Germantown, Charleston, Savannah,...
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Secret Sharing: Debutantes Coming Out in the American South

An article from Southern Cultures 18:4, Winter 2012

by Cynthia Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012

'There's no choosing. It isn't choice. Are you the daughter of somebody who was somebody who was somebody? And if you are, and you're not a heroin addict, you are there.'" This article appears in the Winter 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook. Southern...
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Bobby Rush: "Blues Singer--Plus"

An article from Southern Cultures 17:4, The Music Issue

by William Ferris
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011

I try to get the people in my hand, for them to love me, and once I get them in my hand, I can then tell them what I've come to tell them. And I come to tell them about the blues. It's just like a preacher." The consummate Chiltin' Circuit performer talks women, finding his crossover audience,...
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"She Ought to Have Taken Those Cakes": Southern Women and Rural Food Supplies

An article from Southern Cultures 18:2, Summer 2012: The Special Issue on Food

by Rebecca Sharpless
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012

In April 1930, five hundred potential customers showed up at the opening of Staunton's curb market, and in 1936, the market's most successful vendor, Nettie Shull, made more than $2,000 by selling potato chips, fried apple pies, potato salad, and dressed poultry." This article appears...
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The South in the Shadow of Nazism

An article from Southern Cultures 18:3, Fall 2012: The Politics Issue

by Stephen J. Whitfield
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

In the immediate postwar period, as though sensing that the revulsion from Nazism might be carried too far, senators from the South defied the American Creed. They opposed the campaign to sign the Genocide Convention, for example, which the United Nations had adopted in 1948." This article...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010

The Special Roots Music Issue features: B.B. King on Bukka White's legacy; The Top Ten Folk Singers of All Time; Bob Dylan backstage in '63 and other rare photographic gems; Swamp bluesman Jimmy Anderson's first published interview in the U.S.; Lynyrd Skynyrd vs....
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Journal of the Civil War Era

Summer 2011 Issue

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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011

The University of North Carolina Press and the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at the Pennsylvania State University are pleased to Publish *The Journal of the Civil War Era. William Blair, of the Pennsylvania State University, serves as founding editor. Table of Contents for this...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000

This collection of primary source material chronicles the Civil War experiences of North Carolinians from the secession crisis to the Confederate surrender at Bennett Place. In contrast to other works on the Civil War, this book focuses not on military events but on the larger issue of the societal...
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