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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
This volume of distinguished stories and poems brings together a number of writers who have either taught or studied at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro during the past thirty years. The fiction includes work by Fred Chappell, Caroline Gordon, Hiram Haydn, Peter Taylor, and Allen Tate....
The Lives of Chang and Eng
Siam's Twins in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Connected at the chest by a band of flesh, Chang and Eng Bunker toured the United States and the world from the 1820s to the 1870s, placing themselves and their extraordinary bodies on exhibit as "freaks of nature" and "Oriental curiosities." More famously known as the Siamese...
Armistead and Garnett
A UNC Press Civil War Short, Excerpted from The Third Day at Gettysburg and Beyond, edited by Gary W. Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Virginians Lewis A. Armistead and Richard B. Garnett, two Confederate officers killed during Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, lived remarkably parallel lives. In this Civil War Short, Robert K. Krick follows the two men from their early military careers fighting against American Indians and Mormons...
Journal of the Civil War Era
Fall 2011 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 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.
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Josephus Daniels
His Life and Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
As a longtime leader of the Democratic Party and key member of Woodrow Wilson's cabinet, Josephus Daniels was one of the most influential progressive politicians in the country, and as secretary of the navy during the First World War, he became one of the most important men in the world. Before that,...
Buncombe Bob
The Life and Times of Robert Rice Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2003
Robert Rice Reynolds (1884-1963), U.S. senator from North Carolina from 1933 to 1945, was one of the most eccentric politicians in American history. His travels, his five marriages, his public faux pas, and his flamboyant campaigns provided years of amusement for his constituents. This political biography...
Gulf Stream Chronicles
A Naturalist Explores Life in an Ocean River
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Off the shore of Hatteras Island, where the inner edge of the Gulf Stream flows northward over the outer continental shelf, the marine life is unlike that of any other area in the Atlantic. Here the powerful ocean river helps foster an extraordinarily rich diversity of life, including Sargassum mats...
The Great Dismal
A Carolinian's Swamp Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Just below the Tidewater area of Virginia, straddling the North Carolina-Virginia line, lies the Great Dismal Swamp, one of America's most mysterious wilderness areas. The swamp has long drawn adventurers, runaways, and romantics, and while many have tried to conquer it, none has succeeded. In this...
Thomas Day
Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2010
Thomas Day (1801-61), a free man of color from Milton, North Carolina, became the most successful cabinetmaker in North Carolina--white or black--during a time when most blacks were enslaved and free blacks were restricted in their movements and activities. His surviving furniture and architectural...
The Wilmington Ten
Violence, Injustice, and the Rise of Black Politics in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
In February 1971, racial tension surrounding school desegregation in Wilmington, North Carolina, culminated in four days of violence and skirmishes between white vigilantes and black residents. The turmoil resulted in two deaths, six injuries, more than $500,000 in damage, and the firebombing of a...
Intellectual Manhood
University, Self, and Society in the Antebellum South
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
In this in-depth and detailed history, Timothy J. Williams reveals that antebellum southern higher education did more than train future secessionists and proslavery ideologues. It also fostered a growing world of intellectualism flexible enough to marry the era's middle-class value system to the honor-bound...
Long, Obstinate, and Bloody
The Battle of Guilford Courthouse
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2009
On March 15, 1781, the armies of Nathanael Greene and Lord Charles Cornwallis fought one of the bloodiest and most intense engagements of the American Revolution at Guilford Courthouse in piedmont North Carolina. In Long, Obstinate, and Bloody, the first book-length examination of the Guilford Courthouse...
Life along the Inner Coast
A Naturalist's Guide to the Sounds, Inlets, Rivers, and Intracoastal Waterway from Norfolk to Key West
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
For decades, marine scientists Robert and Alice Jane Lippson have traveled the rivers, backwaters, sounds, bays, lagoons, and inlets stretching from the Chesapeake Bay to the Florida Keys aboard their trawler, Odyssey. The culmination of their leisurely journeys, Life along the Inner Coast is a guide...
Southeastern Geographer
Fall 2011 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Table of Contents for Fall 2011:
Assessing Spatial Hydrological Data Integration to Characterize Geographic Trends in Small Reservoirs in the Apalachicola- Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin
Amber Ignatius and Jon Anthony Stallins
Spatial Patterns of Ecological Integrity in South Carolina...