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Game Changers

Dean Smith, Charlie Scott, and the Era That Transformed a Southern College Town

by Art Chansky
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016

Among many legendary episodes from the life and career of men's basketball coach Dean Smith, few loom as large as his recruitment of Charlie Scott, the first African American scholarship athlete at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Drawn together by college basketball in a time of momentous...
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NASCAR vs. Football: Which Sport Is More Important to the South?

An article from Southern Cultures 18:4, Winter 2012

by Daniel S. Pierce
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012

The outlandish stories of the antics of early stock car racers immediately attracted me. Lloyd Seay and Roy Hall hauling liquor from Dawsonville to Atlanta one night and winning races the next day in the same car; Fonty Flock winning the Southern 500 wearing Bermuda shorts and argyle socks; his brother...
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by Wade Clark Roof
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012

It was not until 1946 when my grandmother received a copy of the revised birth certificate in the mail from my father and blurted out to me 'That ain't your name,' that I really became aware of the problems. She quickly added, 'Your mother, she never got it right neither.'" This article...
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"No Juan Crow!": Documenting the Immigration Debate in Alabama Today

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

by Jennifer E. Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

The bill gained quick notoriety for outdoing Arizona, Georgia, and all other states in the restrictions and penalties levied on unauthorized immigrants, as well as on the citizens, community members, employers, and health and law enforcement agencies that assist, employ, or regulate them." This...
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The Past, Present, and Future of Southern Politics

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

by Seth C. McKee
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

The apparent partisan stability of contemporary southern politics belies a complex and dynamic process that makes it doubtful one party can persist as the dominant force in the most diverse region of the United States . . . This truly ain't your daddy's Dixie." This article appears in...
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The Case of the Wild Onions: The Impact of Ramps on Cherokee Rights

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

by Courtney Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012

Finally, the defendant was called to testify. The air went from lighthearted post-lunch chatting to dour and intense. Judging from the sudden solemnity, one might have imagined that this trial was for drug trafficking or a violent crime. But it was about something that had much more profound implications:...
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Nature's Champion

B. W. Wells, Tar Heel Ecologist

by James R. Troyer
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014

Through the pioneering efforts of ecologist B. W. Wells (1884-1978), thousands of North Carolinians learned to appreciate and protect the state's diverse plant life long before ecology and conservation became popular causes. A keen observer of the natural landscape, Wells provided the first...
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Many Excellent People

Power and Privilege in North Carolina, 1850-1900

by Paul D. Escott
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012

Many Excellent People examines the nature of North Carolina's social system, particularly race and class relations, power, and inequality, during the last half of the nineteenth century. Paul Escott portrays North Carolina's major social groups, focusing on the elite, the ordinary white farmers or...
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On the Temper of the Times: Jack Bass

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

by J. Ferrel Guillory
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

Of all the women ever romantically linked to Strom Thurmond, none was as deadly as Sue Logue. The judge who sentenced her to the electric chair for murder called her crime 'the most cold-blooded in the history of the state.'" This article appears in the Fall 2012 issue of Southern Cultures....
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William Friday

Power, Purpose, and American Higher Education

by William A. Link
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013

Few North Carolinians have been as well known or as widely respected as William Friday (1920-2012). The former president of the University of North Carolina remained prominent in public affairs in the state and elsewhere throughout his life and ranked as one of the most important American university...
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by Dwana Waugh
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

Warren Brown recounts his hurried educational career. Unable to attend school until he was ten years old, Brown completed twelve grades in just seven years." This article appears in the Fall 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook. Southern...
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Time before History

The Archaeology of North Carolina

by H. Trawick Ward, R. P. Stephen Davis
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018

North Carolina's written history begins in the sixteenth century with the voyages of Sir Walter Raleigh and the founding of the ill-fated Lost Colony on Roanoke Island. But there is a deeper, unwritten past that predates the state's recorded history. The region we now know as North Carolina was settled...
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Religion in the American South

Protestants and Others in History and Culture

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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005

This collection of essays examines religion in the American South across three centuries--from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The first collection published on the subject in fifteen years, Religion in the American South builds upon a new generation...
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Southern Cultures Volume 15 Omnibus E-book

Includes all four issues of Southern Cultures, Volume 15, including The Food and Music Issues

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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

This Omnibus E-book brings together all four issues of Southern Cultures Volume 15, published in 2009. Volume 15 of Southern Cultures explores Lee's Tomb, how Southern evangelicals kept sin from sacred spaces, the power of memorials, W.E.B. Du Bois's unusual connection to the United Daughters...
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