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The Case of the Wild Onions: The Impact of Ramps on Cherokee Rights
An article from Southern Cultures 18:2, Summer 2012: The Special Issue on Food
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Finally, the defendant was called to testify. The air went from lighthearted post-lunch chatting to dour and intense. Judging from the sudden solemnity, one might have imagined that this trial was for drug trafficking or a violent crime. But it was about something that had much more profound implications:...
On the Temper of the Times: Jack Bass
An article from Southern Cultures 18:3, Fall 2012: The Politics Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Of all the women ever romantically linked to Strom Thurmond, none was as deadly as Sue Logue. The judge who sentenced her to the electric chair for murder called her crime 'the most cold-blooded in the history of the state.'"
This article appears in the Fall 2012 issue of Southern Cultures....
Grandfather Mountain
The History and Guide to an Appalachian Icon
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
With its prominent profile recognizable for miles around and featuring vistas among the most beloved in the Appalachians, North Carolina's Grandfather Mountain is many things to many people: an easily recognized landmark along the Blue Ridge Parkway, a popular tourist destination, a site of annual...
Southern Cultures Volume 15 Omnibus E-book
Includes all four issues of Southern Cultures, Volume 15, including The Food and Music Issues
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This Omnibus E-book brings together all four issues of Southern Cultures Volume 15, published in 2009.
Volume 15 of Southern Cultures explores Lee's Tomb, how Southern evangelicals kept sin from sacred spaces, the power of memorials, W.E.B. Du Bois's unusual connection to the United Daughters...
Schooling the New South
Pedagogy, Self, and Society in North Carolina, 1880-1920
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Schooling the New South deftly combines social and political history, gender studies, and African American history into a story of educational reform. James Leloudis recreates North Carolina's classrooms as they existed at the turn of the century and explores the wide-ranging social and psychological...
Southern Cultures: The Help Special Issue
Volume 20: Number 1 – Spring 2014 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Southern Cultures: The Help Special Issue
Volume 20: Number 1 – Spring 2014
Table of Contents
Front Porch,
by Harry L. Watson
"Lauded for her endless gifts and selfless generosity, Mammy is summoned from the kitchen to refute the critics of southern race relations; cruelly circumscribed...
A History of the Book in America
Volume 2: An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Volume Two of A History of the Book in America documents the development of a distinctive culture of print in the new American republic.
Between 1790 and 1840 printing and publishing expanded, and literate publics provided a ready market for novels, almanacs, newspapers, tracts, and periodicals....
by Sue Harden
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
From the first colonization at Roanoke Island, the bizarre and inexplicable have shrouded the Tar Heel State. From history and legend, John Harden records ominous events that have shaped or colored state history.
The Practice and Politics of Fiat Finance
North Carolina in the Confederation, 1783-1789
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
This is an intensive examination of the financial and political considerations that shaped North Carolina's public financial policy during the confederation. The study emphasizes the relationship between domestic and state-funded financial policies and explores the influence that both those areas...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
This new collection of short stories centers exclusively on North Carolina and contains fifteen stories by fifteen authors. Along with the new generation of North Carolina writers, stories by such well-known writers as Thomas Wolfe, William Polk, and James Boyd are also included.
Originally...
Southern Cultures
Volume 18: Number 1 – Spring 2012 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
In the Spring 2012 issue of Southern Cultures…
Blood rains. Snow falls. Bourbon makes the man. Irish Americans redefine black and white. Camp Wah-Kon-Dah glows in the embers of old memories. The great teacher Arthur Raper opens minds, hearts, and doors. And the creative spaces of geniuses...
"For the Scrutiny of Science and the Light of Revelation": American Blood Falls
An article from Southern Cultures 18:1, Spring 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Showers of blood, however dreadful, were not news. Pliny, Cicero, Livy, and Plutarch mentioned rains of blood and flesh. Zeus makes it rain blood, 'as a portent of slaughter,' in Homer's Iliad."
This article appears in the Spring 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also...
To Right These Wrongs
The North Carolina Fund and the Battle to End Poverty and Inequality in 1960s America
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
When Governor Terry Sanford established the North Carolina Fund in 1963, he saw it as a way to provide a better life for the "tens of thousands whose family income is so low that daily subsistence is always in doubt." Illustrated with evocative photographs by Billy Barnes, To Right These...
by Duane Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
Meyer addresses himself principally to two questions. Why did many thousands of Scottish Highlanders emigrate to America in the eighteenth century, and why did the majority of them rally to the defense of the Crown. . . . Offers the most complete and intelligent analysis of them that has so far appeared.--William...