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The Latino Migration Experience in North Carolina
New Roots in the Old North State
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Over recent decades, the Southeast has become a new frontier for Latin American migration to and within the United States, and North Carolina has had one of the fastest growing Latino populations in the nation. Here, Hannah Gill offers North Carolinians from all walks of life a better understanding...
Holy Smoke
The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
North Carolina is home to the longest continuous barbecue tradition on the North American mainland. Now available for the first time in paperback, Holy Smoke is a passionate exploration of the lore, recipes, traditions, and people who have helped shape North Carolina's signature slow-food dish. A...
Southern Cultures: The Special Issue on Food
Volume 18: Number 2 – Summer 2012 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In the Spring 2012 issue of Southern Cultures…
Guest editor Marcie Cohen Ferris brings together some of the best new writing on Southern food for the Summer 2012 issue of Southern Cultures , which features an interview with TREME writer Lolis Elie and Ferris's own retrospective on Southern...
by John Hope Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
John Hope Franklin has devoted his professional life to the study of African Americans. Originally published in 1943 by UNC Press, The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860 was his first book on the subject. As Franklin shows, freed slaves in the antebellum South did not enjoy the full rights of...
A Field Guide to Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region
North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Featuring over 600 wildflowers, flowering shrubs, and vines, this user-friendly field guide is the first to focus on the rare, fragile lands and species of the Sandhills region of the Carolinas and Georgia. Characterized by longleaf pine forests, rolling hills, abundant blackwater streams, several...
Southern Cultures
Volume 19: Number 4 – Winter 2013 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In the Winter 2013 issue of Southern Cultures:
How did we get here? Lebanese in Mississippi, Puerto Ricans in Orlando, Californians at Black Mountain, Tennesseans in Texas, and a bust of a South Carolinian that ended up in the North Carolina Museum of Art. The Winter 2013 issue tells the stories...
North Carolina Lighthouses
The Stories Behind the Beacons from Cape Fear to Currituck Beach
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
Of the over four dozen lighthouses that once marked the jagged shoreline of North Carolina, only nine still stand, watching over 300 miles of coast. These beacons are cherished monuments of North Carolina history. In addition to warning ships to safer waters, they now draw thousands of visitors each...
Carolina Catch
Cooking North Carolina Fish and Shellfish from Mountains to Coast
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Early in life, North Carolinian Debbie Moose encountered fish primarily in stick form, but once she experienced her first raw oyster and first fried soft-shell crab, their pure flavors switched her on to shellfish and fish forever. Moose has now written the cookbook that unlocks for everyone the fresh...
The Rise and Fall of the Branchhead Boys
North Carolina’s Scott Family and the Era of Progressive Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Louisiana had the Longs, Virginia had the Byrds, Georgia had the Talmadges, and North Carolina had the Scotts. In this history of North Carolina's most influential political family, Rob Christensen tells the story of the Scotts and how they dominated Tar Heel politics. Three generations of Scotts—W....
Amazing Place
What North Carolina Means to Writers
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Some of us understand place in terms of family and community, landscape, or even the weather. For others, the idea of place becomes more distinct and particular: the sound of someone humming while washing dishes, the musical cadence of a mountain accent, the smell of a tobacco field under the hot...
Literary Trails of Eastern North Carolina
A Guidebook
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
This concluding volume of the Literary Trails of North Carolina trilogy takes readers into an ancient land of pale sand, dense forests, and expansive bays, through towns older than our country and rich in cultural traditions. Here, writers reveal lives long tied to the land and regularly troubled...
A History of the Oratorio, 4 volumes, Omnibus E-book
Includes all four volumes of A History of the Oratorio
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
The University of North Carolina Press is proud to announce Howard Smither's ground-breaking four-volume A History of the Oratorio, are now available in one convenient Omnibus E-Book edition. Published as UNC Press Enduring Editions, these volumes bring Smither's landmark scholarship to a new generation...
by Marvin L. Michael Kay, Lorin Lee Cary
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Michael Kay and Lorin Cary illuminate new aspects of slavery in colonial America by focusing on North Carolina, which has largely been ignored by scholars in favor of the more mature slave systems in the Chesapeake and South Carolina. Kay and Cary demonstrate that North Carolina's fast-growing slave...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
This collection of diverse pieces--excerpts from novels, essays, poems, historical records, and newspaper and magazine articles--is a warm and interesting summing-up of North Carolina. The tone of the contents varies from the humorous to the grave. They are alternately touching, rollicking, and genuinely...