The University Of North Carolina: 2383 books
by Richard Schweid
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Journalist Richard Schweid first learned the strange facts of the freshwater eel's life from a fisherman in a small Spanish town just south of Valencia. "The eeler who explained the animal's life cycle to me did so as he served up an eel he had just taken from a trap, killed, cleaned, and cooked...
How to Read a Florida Gulf Coast Beach
A Guide to Shadow Dunes, Ghost Forests, and Other Telltale Clues from an Ever-Changing Coast
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Come explore the geology of Florida's Gulf Coast beaches, from a bird's-eye view down to a crab's-eye view. You'll journey from Panhandle sugar-sand beaches to southwestern shell beaches, taking a fresh look at the ever-changing landscape. With Tonya Clayton as your guide, you'll learn how to recognize...
The Party at Jack's
A Novella
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
In the summer of 1937, Thomas Wolfe was in the North Carolina mountains revising a piece about a party and subsequent fire at the Park Avenue penthouse apartment of the fictional Esther and Frederick Jack. He wrote to his agent, Elizabeth Nowell, 'I think it is now a single thing, as much a single...
Empirical Futures
Anthropologists and Historians Engage the Work of Sidney W. Mintz
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Since the 1950s, anthropologist Sidney W. Mintz has been at the forefront of efforts to integrate the disciplines of anthropology and history. Author of Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History and other groundbreaking works, he was one of the first scholars to anticipate and critique...
The Mortal Wounding of Stonewall Jackson
A UNC Press Civil War Short, Excerpted from Chancellorsville: The Battle and Its Aftermath, edited by Gary W. Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The stunning Confederate victory at Chancellorsville came at an enormous cost: an estimated 13,000 Confederate casualties. The most prominent, of course, was Stonewall Jackson, who was wounded by friendly fire and died several days later, on 10 May 1863. This Civil War Short presents Robert K. Krick's...
Confederate Women and Yankee Men
A UNC Press Civil War Short, Excerpted from Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Gilpin Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged...
The Yankee Plague
Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
During the winter of 1864, more than 3,000 Federal prisoners of war escaped from Confederate prison camps into South Carolina and North Carolina, often with the aid of local slaves. Their flight created, in the words of contemporary observers, a "Yankee plague," heralding a grim end to the Confederate...
NC 12
Gateway to the Outer Banks
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Connecting communities from Corolla in the north to Ocracoke Island in the south, scenic North Carolina Highway 12 binds together the fragile barrier islands that make up the Outer Banks. Throughout its lifetime, however, NC 12 has faced many challenges—from recurring storms and shifting sands to...
Southern Cultures
Volume 20: Number 2 – Summer 2014 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Southern Cultures Volume 20: Number 1 – Summer 2014
Table of Contents
Front Porch
by Jocelyn R. Neal
"One of the challenges—and, simultaneously, deep pleasures—of studying the South is that the disciplinary walls of the academy neither contain nor constrain the work."
Rewriting...
Wildflowers and Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont
A Naturalist's Guide to the Carolinas, Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
This richly illustrated field guide serves as an introduction to the wildflowers and plant communities of the southern Appalachians and the rolling hills of the adjoining piedmont. Rather than organizing plants, including trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, by flower color or family characteristics,...
Armistead and Garnett
A UNC Press Civil War Short, Excerpted from The Third Day at Gettysburg and Beyond, edited by Gary W. Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Virginians Lewis A. Armistead and Richard B. Garnett, two Confederate officers killed during Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, lived remarkably parallel lives. In this Civil War Short, Robert K. Krick follows the two men from their early military careers fighting against American Indians and Mormons...
The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare
A Journey into Captivity from Sierra Leone to South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
From 1754 to 1755, the slave ship Hare completed a journey from Newport, Rhode Island, to Sierra Leone and back to the United States—a journey that transformed more than seventy Africans into commodities, condemning some to death and the rest to a life of bondage in North America. In this engaging...
Making a Slave State
Political Development in Early South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
How is the state produced? In what ways did enslaved African Americans shape modern governing practices? Ryan A. Quintana provocatively answers these questions by focusing on the everyday production of South Carolina's state space—its roads and canals, borders and boundaries, public buildings and...
Greater than Equal
African American Struggles for Schools and Citizenship in North Carolina, 1919-1965
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
During the half century preceding widespread school integration, black North Carolinians engaged in a dramatic struggle for equal educational opportunity as segregated schooling flourished. Drawing on archival records and oral histories, Sarah Thuesen gives voice to students, parents, teachers, school...