The University Of North Carolina: 2383 books
by David Stick
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
The Outer Banks have long been of interest to geologists, historians, linguists, sportsmen, and beachcombers. This long series of low, narrow, sandy islands stretches along the North Carolina coast for more than 175 miles.
Here on Roanoke Island in the 1580s, the first English colony in the...
Shifting Loyalties
The Union Occupation of Eastern North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
In the spring of 1862, Union forces marched into neighboring Carteret and Craven Counties in southeastern North Carolina, marking the beginning of an occupation that would continue for the rest of the war. Focusing on a wartime community with divided allegiances, Judkin Browning offers new insights...
A Very Mutinous People
The Struggle for North Carolina, 1660-1713
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Historians have often glorified eighteenth-century Virginia planters' philosophical debates about the meaning of American liberty. But according to Noeleen McIlvenna, the true exemplars of egalitarian political values had fled Virginia's plantation society late in the seventeenth century to create...
'Poor Carolina'
Politics and Society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729-1776
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Ekrich examines the reasons for eighteenth-century North Carolina's political factionalism, social violence, and governmental paralysis. Especially disruptive were the opening of new areas of settlement and the influx of migrant groups with high material hopes, particularly since the colony's economy...
Along Freedom Road
Hyde County, North Carolina, and the Fate of Black Schools in the South
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
David Cecelski chronicles one of the most sustained and successful protests of the civil rights movement--the 1968-69 school boycott in Hyde County, North Carolina. For an entire year, the county's black citizens refused to send their children to school in protest of a desegregation plan that required...
by Manly Wade Wellman
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This is the story of a region at once representative and unique in the history of Southern culture, which was from its earliest colonial beginnings a focus of strength, intellect, and proud individuality.
Warren County, North Carolina, heart of the Roanoke Region, early built for grace and...
Southern Cultures: The Politics Issue
Volume 18: Number 3 – Fall 2012 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In the Fall 2012 issue of Southern Cultures…
Guest Editor Ferrel Guillory's special election-year Politics issue features:
Five Big Things You Need to Know About the South for this Election
The Past, Present, and Future of Southern Politics
Jack Bass on Citizens United, Strom Thurmond,...
North Carolina Slave Narratives
The Lives of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy, and Thomas H. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2006
The autobiographies of former slaves contributed powerfully to the abolitionist movement in the United States, fanning national--even international--indignation against the evils of slavery. The four texts gathered here are all from North Carolina slaves and are among the most memorable and influential...
"Country Music is Wherever the Soul of a Country Music Fan Is": Opryland U.S.A. and the Importance of Home in Country Music
An article from Southern Cultures 17:4, The Music Issue
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Nixon's visit (only five months before his resignation) was seen by national journalists and politicos to be a trip to one of the few places where he would still receive a warm reception, and it was quite warm indeed. Nixon took the stage, played two songs on the piano, and bantered with Roy Acuff."
When...
A Death Retold
Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
In February 2003, an undocumented immigrant teen from Mexico lay dying in a prominent American hospital due to a stunning medical oversight--she had received a heart-lung transplantation of the wrong blood type. In the following weeks, Jesica Santillan's tragedy became a portal into the complexities...
by William M. Palmer, Alvin L. Braswell
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Based on more than twenty years of research in the field and in museum collections, Reptiles of North Carolina is the definitive work on the 71 reptile species found in the state. It is an indispensable resource for herpetologists, zoologists, ecologists, and wildlife managers, and it will be enjoyed...
One Fantastic Ride
The Inside Story of Carolina Basketball's 2009 Championship Season
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
One Fantastic Ride is a behind-the-scenes portrait of the unforgettable journey to the University of North Carolina's 2009 basketball national championship, the program's fifth NCAA Tournament title. Adam Lucas, Steve Kirschner, and Matt Bowers were with the Tar Heels every step of the way, interviewing...
The Last Battleground
The Civil War Comes to North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
To understand the long march of events in North Carolina from secession to surrender is to understand the entire Civil War--a personal war waged by Confederates and Unionists, free blacks and the enslaved, farm women and plantation belles, Cherokees and mountaineers, conscripts and volunteers, gentleman...
The Farmhouse Chef
Recipes and Stories from My Carolina Farm
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Jamie DeMent opens a bright kitchen window onto the newest kind of North Carolina farming life. On fifty-five acres of beautiful Piedmont farmland in Hillsborough, North Carolina, DeMent and her family raise sustainably nurtured and sought-after heirloom varieties of produce and livestock. Every day...