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Without Precedent
The Life of Susie Marshall Sharp
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
The first woman judge in the state of North Carolina and the first woman in the United States to be elected chief justice of a state supreme court, Susie Marshall Sharp (1907-1996) broke new ground for women in the legal profession. When she retired in 1979, she left a legacy burnished by her tireless...
Gastonia 1929
The Story of the Loray Mill Strike
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Of the wave of labor strikes that swept through the South in 1929, the one at the Loray Mill in Gastonia, North Carolina, is perhaps the best remembered. In Gastonia 1929 John Salmond provides the first detailed account of the complex events surrounding the strike at the largest textile mill in the...
The Religious History of American Women
Reimagining the Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2009
More than a generation after the rise of women's history alongside the feminist movement, it is still difficult, observes Catherine Brekus, to locate women in histories of American religion. Mary Dyer, a Quaker who was hanged for heresy; Lizzie Robinson, a former slave and laundress who sold Bibles...
Southern Cultures: Southern Waters Issue
Volume 20: Number 3 – Fall 2014 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
In the Fall 2014 issue of Southern Cultures…
From mullet fishing on Brown's Island to shrimping on the Gulf Coast, from recreation on the Great Lakes of the South to coastal tourism in the Sunbelt and tramping in the swampy lowlands of eastern NC, we take a look at tourism's vital role in...
by Karl E. Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2007
Many Americans remember Senator Sam Ervin (1896-1985) as the affable, Bible-quoting, old country lawyer who chaired the Senate Watergate hearings in 1973. Ervin's stories from down home in North Carolina, his reciting literary passages ranging from Shakespeare to Aesop's fables, and his earnest lectures...
Signs of Cherokee Culture
Sequoyah's Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Based on extensive fieldwork in the community of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in western North Carolina, this book uses a semiotic approach to investigate the historic and contemporary role of the Sequoyan syllabary--the written system for representing the sounds of the Cherokee language--in...
In My Father's House Are Many Mansions
Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Burton traces the evolution of Edgefield County from the antebellum period through Reconstruction and beyond. From amassed information on every household in this large rural community, he tests the many generalizations about southern black and white families of this period and finds that they were...
Dogs That Point, Fish That Bite
Outdoor Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Jim Dean, longtime editor of Wildlife in North Carolina, offers his personal observations on the pleasures and frustrations of hunting, fishing, camping, and other outdoor pursuits. Dogs That Point, Fish That Bite draws together fifty of the best columns that Dean has written for the magazine over...
When Sherman Marched North from the Sea
Resistance on the Confederate Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2006
Home front and battle front merged in 1865 when General William T. Sherman occupied Savannah and then marched his armies north through the Carolinas. Although much has been written about the military aspects of Sherman's March, Jacqueline Campbell reveals a more complex story. Integrating evidence...
Reinterpreting the Banana Republic
Region and State in Honduras, 1870-1972
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In this new analysis of Honduran social and political development, Dar degreeso Euraque explains why Honduras escaped the pattern of revolution and civil wars suffered by its neighbors Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. Within this comparative framework, he challenges the traditional Banana Republic...
The Bravest of the Brave
The Correspondence of Stephen Dodson Ramseur
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Born in Lincolnton, North Carolina, in 1837, Stephen Dodson Ramseur rose meteorically through the military ranks. Graduating from West Point in 1860, he joined the Confederate army as a captain. By the time of his death near the end of the war at the Battle of Cedar Creek, he had attained the rank...
A Family of Women
The Carolina Petigrus in Peace and War
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The often-stereotyped belles and matrons of the nineteenth-century South emerge as diverse personalities in this compelling account of three generations of women from a South Carolina family whose fate rose and fell with the fortunes of the state. Through vivid, interwoven life stories, the book offers...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Prozac and its chemical cousins, Paxil, Celexa, and Zoloft, are some of the most profitable and most widely used drugs in America. Their use in the treatment of a multitude of disorders--from generalized anxiety disorder and premenstrual syndrome to eating disorders and sexual compulsions--has provoked...
The California Current
A Pacific Ecosystem and Its Fliers, Divers, and Swimmers
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
The California Current--part of the large, swirling North Pacific gyre--flows slowly southward along the west coast of North America, stretching nearly 2,000 miles from southern British Columbia to the tip of Baja California in Mexico. To a casual observer standing on the shore, the vast current betrays...