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Tradition, Treme, and the New Orleans Renaissance: Lolis Eric Elie interviewed by Sara B. Franklin
An article from Southern Cultures 18:2, Summer 2012: The Special Issue on Food
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
I see the participatory nature of food in New Orleans as being in the dishes. My guess is that none of the fine chefs in town would accept the challenge of putting their gumbo against somebody's mother's gumbo."
This article appears in the Summer 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue...
The KISS Letter: An Encounter with Elvis
An article from Southern Cultures 17:4, The Music Issue
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The last time I kissed him he only had on half a shirt. He has a wonderful chest. I am really crazy about him now+have the funniest feeling in me, all over."
After she saw the King in concert and met him backstage, she wrote this letter to her friends at camp. Here's the original spicy note...
Southeastern Geographer
Summer 2012 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Table of Contents for Volume 52, Number 2 (Summer 2012)
Cover Art: Southern Maryland Tobacco Barn
Richard A. Russo
Introduction
David M. Cochran, Jr. and Carl A. Reese
Part I: Papers
''Where Can I Build My Student Housing?'': The Politics of Studentification in Athens-Clarke...
Breaking Loose Together
The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Ten years before the start of the American Revolution, backcountry settlers in the North Carolina Piedmont launched their own defiant bid for economic independence and political liberty. The Regulator Rebellion of 1766-71 pitted thousands of farmers, many of them religious radicals inspired by the...
Tar Heel History on Foot
Great Walks through 400 Years of North Carolina's Fascinating Past
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This lively collection of 34 of the best history walks in North Carolina highlights the richness and diversity of the state's history, from the time of its first settlement to the present. Veteran guidebook author Lynn Setzer leads readers on short walks in state parks and natural areas, state historic...
A Southern Life
Letters of Paul Green, 1916-1981
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
This exceptional collection provides new insight into the life of North Carolina writer and activist Paul Green (1894-1981), the first southern playwright to attract international acclaim for his socially conscious dramas. Green, who taught philosophy and drama at the University of North Carolina...
Little Rivers and Waterway Tales
A Carolinian's Eastern Streams
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Bland Simpson regales us with new tales of coastal North Carolina's "water-loving land," revealing how its creeks, streams, and rivers shape the region's geography as well as its culture. Drawing on deep family ties and coastal travels, Simpson and wife and collaborator Ann Cary Simpson...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
The Special Roots Music Issue features:
B.B. King on Bukka White's legacy;
The Top Ten Folk Singers of All Time;
Bob Dylan backstage in '63 and other rare photographic gems;
Swamp bluesman Jimmy Anderson's first published interview in the U.S.;
Lynyrd Skynyrd vs....
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...
Beyond Blackface
African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
This collection of thirteen essays, edited by historian W. Fitzhugh Brundage, brings together original work from sixteen scholars in various disciplines, ranging from theater and literature to history and music, to address the complex roles of black performers, entrepreneurs, and consumers in American...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Generally regarded as the most important of the Civil War campaigns conducted in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, that of 1864 lasted more than four months and claimed more than 25,000 casualties. The armies of Philip H. Sheridan and Jubal A. Early contended for immense stakes. Beyond the agricultural...
The Heart of Confederate Appalachia
Western North Carolina in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
In the mountains of western North Carolina, the Civil War was fought on different terms than those found throughout most of the South. Though relatively minor strategically, incursions by both Confederate and Union troops disrupted life and threatened the social stability of many communities. Even...
First Fruits of Freedom
The Migration of Former Slaves and Their Search for Equality in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1862-1900
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
A moving narrative that offers a rare glimpse into the lives of African American men, women, and children on the cusp of freedom, First Fruits of Freedom chronicles one of the first collective migrations of blacks from the South to the North during and after the Civil War.
Janette Thomas Greenwood...
The Making of a Southern Democracy
North Carolina Politics from Kerr Scott to Pat McCrory
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The story of modern politics in North Carolina is very much one of American democracy, with all its grand ambitions, limitations, and pitfalls. So argues Tom Eamon in his probing narrative of the state's political path since the 1940s. He charts the state's political transformation into a modern democratic...