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Boy Colonel of the Confederacy

The Life and Times of Henry King Burgwyn, Jr.

by Archie K. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000

Henry King Burgwyn, Jr. (1841-63), one of the youngest colonels in the Confederate Army, died at the age of twenty-one while leading the twenty-sixth North Carolina regiment into action at the battle of Gettysburg. In this sensitive biography, originally published by UNC Press in 1985, Archie Davis...
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Gulf Stream Chronicles

A Naturalist Explores Life in an Ocean River

by David S. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015

Off the shore of Hatteras Island, where the inner edge of the Gulf Stream flows northward over the outer continental shelf, the marine life is unlike that of any other area in the Atlantic. Here the powerful ocean river helps foster an extraordinarily rich diversity of life, including Sargassum mats...
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The Great Dismal

A Carolinian's Swamp Memoir

by Bland Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000

Just below the Tidewater area of Virginia, straddling the North Carolina-Virginia line, lies the Great Dismal Swamp, one of America's most mysterious wilderness areas. The swamp has long drawn adventurers, runaways, and romantics, and while many have tried to conquer it, none has succeeded. In this...
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Thomas Day

Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color

by Patricia Phillips Marshall, Jo Ramsay Leimenstoll
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2010

Thomas Day (1801-61), a free man of color from Milton, North Carolina, became the most successful cabinetmaker in North Carolina--white or black--during a time when most blacks were enslaved and free blacks were restricted in their movements and activities. His surviving furniture and architectural...
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Print News and Raise Hell

The Daily Tar Heel and the Evolution of a Modern University

by Kenneth Joel Zogry
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018

For over 125 years, the Daily Tar Heel has chronicled life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at times pushed and prodded the university community on issues of local, state, and national significance. Thousands of students have served on its staff, many of whom have gone on to...
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The Wilmington Ten

Violence, Injustice, and the Rise of Black Politics in the 1970s

by Kenneth Robert Janken
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015

In February 1971, racial tension surrounding school desegregation in Wilmington, North Carolina, culminated in four days of violence and skirmishes between white vigilantes and black residents. The turmoil resulted in two deaths, six injuries, more than $500,000 in damage, and the firebombing of a...
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Intellectual Manhood

University, Self, and Society in the Antebellum South

by Timothy J. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015

In this in-depth and detailed history, Timothy J. Williams reveals that antebellum southern higher education did more than train future secessionists and proslavery ideologues. It also fostered a growing world of intellectualism flexible enough to marry the era's middle-class value system to the honor-bound...
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Long, Obstinate, and Bloody

The Battle of Guilford Courthouse

by Lawrence E. Babits, Joshua B. Howard
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2009

On March 15, 1781, the armies of Nathanael Greene and Lord Charles Cornwallis fought one of the bloodiest and most intense engagements of the American Revolution at Guilford Courthouse in piedmont North Carolina. In Long, Obstinate, and Bloody, the first book-length examination of the Guilford Courthouse...
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Southeastern Geographer

Economic Geography in the South, Spring 2011

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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011

Southeastern Geographer is published by UNC Press for the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers (www.sedaag.org). The quarterly journal publishes the academic work of geographers and other social and physical scientists, and features peer-reviewed articles and essays that...
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The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina

Pioneers for Women's Rights and Abolition

by Gerda Lerner
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2009

A landmark work of women's history originally published in 1967, Gerda Lerner's best-selling biography of Sarah and Angelina Grimke explores the lives and ideas of the only southern women to become antislavery agents in the North and pioneers for women's rights. This revised and expanded edition includes...
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The Waterman's Song

Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina

by David S. Cecelski
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012

The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, The Waterman's Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, rivermen, sailors, ferrymen, and other laborers who, from the colonial era through Reconstruction, plied the vast inland waters of North Carolina from the Outer...
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The Battle of Vicksburg

A UNC Press Civil War Short, Excerpted from Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi

by Michael B. Ballard
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012

The Vicksburg campaign was among the longest of the Civil War, lasting from 26 May 1862 to 4 July 1863. This Civil War Short provides a compelling narrative of the final six weeks of the campaign, excerpted from Michael Ballard's Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi, which blends strategy...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005

The Civil War retains a powerful hold on the American imagination, with each generation since 1865 reassessing its meaning and importance in American life. This volume collects twelve essays by leading Civil War scholars who demonstrate how the meanings of the Civil War have changed over time. The...
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A History of the Book in America

Volume 1: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World

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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009

The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World carries the interrelated stories of publishing, writing, and reading from the beginning of the colonial period in America up to 1790. Three major themes run through the volume: the persisting connections between the book trade in the Old World and the New, evidenced...
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