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by Albert E. Radford, Harry E. Ahles, C. Ritchie Bell
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
This illustrated manual describes and discusses the unusually rich and varied flora of the Carolinas, from the semi-tropical coast of South Carolina to the northern forests of the high North Carolina mountains.
The manual treats in detail and in a concise format more than 3, 200 species of...
by John Lawson
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2000
John Lawson's amazingly detailed yet lively book is easily one of the most valuable of the early histories of the Carolinas, and it is certainly one of the best travel accounts of the early eighteenth-century colonies. An inclusive account of the manners and customs of the Indian tribes of that day,...
A Delicious Country
Rediscovering the Carolinas along the Route of John Lawson's 1700 Expedition
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
In 1700, a young man named John Lawson left London and landed in Charleston, South Carolina, hoping to make a name for himself. For reasons unknown, he soon undertook a two-month journey through the still-mysterious Carolina backcountry. His travels yielded A New Voyage to Carolina in 1709, one of...
Carolina Israelite
How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
This first comprehensive biography of Jewish American writer and humorist Harry Golden (1903-1981)--author of the 1958 national best-seller Only in America--illuminates a remarkable life intertwined with the rise of the civil rights movement, Jewish popular culture, and the sometimes precarious position...
The Day Is Past and Gone: Family Photographs from Eastern North Carolina
An article from Southern Cultures 17:2, The Photography Issue
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Part essay, part memory—this piece finds the perfect form to explore the pictures that might rely most for meaning on the stories that accompany them: family photos. This article appears in the Summer 2011 issue of Southern Cultures: The Photography Issue."'It is in fact hard to get the camera...
Preachers, Pedagogues, and Politicians
The Evolution Controversy in North Carolina, 1920-1927
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This is the story of the evolution controversy set off by the Scopes trial. It deals with the problems in North Carolina educational institutions and such outstanding men as Poteat, Chase, Odum, and Morrison who sought reform.
Originally published in 1966.
A UNC Press Enduring Edition...
Reluctant Confederates
Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Daniel Crofts examines Unionists in three pivotal southern states--Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee--and shows why the outbreak of the war enabled the Confederacy to gain the allegiance of these essential, if ambivalent, governments.
"Crofts's study focuses on Virginia, North Carolina,...
The Nature of the Outer Banks
Environmental Processes, Field Sites, and Development Issues, Corolla to Ocracoke
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
North Carolina's Outer Banks are in constant motion, responding to weather, waves, and the rising sea level. Beaches erode, sometimes taking homes or sections of highway with them into the surf; sand dunes migrate with the wind; and storms open new inlets and dump sand in channels and sounds. A classic...
Carolina Basketball
A Century of Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Boasting six national championships and scores of Hall of Fame coaches and players, Carolina Basketball has come a long way from the first season--when the campus newspaper published a notice asking an unknown culprit to return the team's basketball. These pages are packed with little-known stories...
Lessons from the Sand
Family-Friendly Science Activities You Can Do on a Carolina Beach
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Ever wonder where sand comes from? Or why shells are colored differently? Or how to estimate the size of a wave? Featuring more than forty fun hands-on activities for families with children, Lessons from the Sandreveals the science behind the amazing natural wonders found on the beaches of North Carolina...
Carolina Cradle
Settlement of the Northwest Carolina Frontier, 1747-1762
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
This account of the settlement of one segment of the North Carolina frontier -- the land between the Yadkin and Catawba rivers -- examines the process by which the piedmont South was populated. Through its ingenious use of hundreds of sources and documents, Robert Ramsey traces the movement of the...
Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains
An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
Each year, thousands of tourists visit Mount Mitchell, the most prominent feature of North Carolina's Black Mountain range and the highest peak in the eastern United States. From Native Americans and early explorers to land speculators and conservationists, people have long been drawn to this rugged...
Roanoke Island
The Beginnings of English America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Well before the Jamestown settlers first sighted the Chesapeake Bay or the Mayflower reached the coast of Massachusetts, the first English colony in America was established on Roanoke Island. David Stick tells the story of that fascinating period in North Carolina's past, from the first expedition...
Circa 1903
North Carolina's Outer Banks at the Dawn of Flight
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
Standing along the coast of today's Outer Banks, it can be hard to envision the barrier island world at Kitty Hawk as it appeared to Wilbur and Orville Wright when they first arrived in 1900 to begin their famous experiments leading to the world's first powered flight three years later. Around 1903,...