William A Link: 9 books
William Friday
Power, Purpose, and American Higher Education
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...
Atlanta, Cradle of the New South
Race and Remembering in the Civil War's Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
After conquering Atlanta in the summer of 1864 and occupying it for two months, Union forces laid waste to the city in November. William T. Sherman's invasion was a pivotal moment in the history of the South and Atlanta's rebuilding over the following fifty years came to represent the contested meaning...
A Hard Country and a Lonely Place
Schooling, Society, and Reform in Rural Virginia, 1870-1920
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
William Link's account of the transformation of Virginia's country schools between 1870 and 1920 fills important gaps in the history of education and the social history of the South. His theme is the impact of localism and community on the processes of public education -- first as a motive force in...
Roots of Secession
Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
Offering a provocative new look at the politics of secession in antebellum Virginia, William Link places African Americans at the center of events and argues that their acts of defiance and rebellion had powerful political repercussions throughout the turbulent period leading up to the Civil War.
An...
by William A. Link
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Focusing on the cultural conflicts between social reformers and southern communities, William Link presents an important reinterpretation of the origins and impact of progressivism in the South. He shows that a fundamental clash of values divided reformers and rural southerners, ultimately blocking...
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My Family in American History
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2012
Arthur Link (1920-1998) was one of the great historians of his generation, a prolific author with a wide following inside and outside the profession. For many years the foremost authority on Woodrow Wilson, he wrote a five-volume biography of the president and edited a sixty-nine volume edition of...
North Carolina
Change and Tradition in a Southern State
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
North Carolina 2nd edition is a single volume, fascinating history of the state that covers political, economic, cultural and social dimensions of the Tar Heel state’s past. This new edition includes new material and an updated history to the present day.
The most up-to-date history of the...
The U.S. South and Europe
Transatlantic Relations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The U.S. South is a distinctive political and cultural force -- not only in the eyes of Americans, but also in the estimation of many Europeans. The region played a distinctive role as a major agricultural center and the source of much of the wealth in early America, but it has also served as a catalyst...
North Carolina Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
North Carolina has had more than its share of accomplished, influential women—women who have expanded their sphere of influence or broken through barriers that had long defined and circumscribed their lives, women such as Elizabeth Maxwell Steele, the widow and tavern owner who supported the American...