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Down Home
Jewish Life in North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
A sweeping chronicle of Jewish life in the Tar Heel State from colonial times to the present, this beautifully illustrated volume incorporates oral histories, original historical documents, and profiles of fascinating individuals. The first comprehensive social history of its kind, Down Home demonstrates...
Fishing North Carolina's Outer Banks
The Complete Guide to Catching More Fish from Surf, Pier, Sound, and Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
In this hands-on, how-to guide to fishing North Carolina's Outer Banks, expert fisherman Stan Ulanski combines his enthusiasm, his experience, and his scientific expertise to show anglers how to catch more fish.
Focusing on the essential but often misunderstood links between recreational fishing...
The Black Bard of North Carolina
George Moses Horton and His Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
For his humanistic religious verse, his poignant and deeply personal antislavery poems, and, above all, his lifelong enthusiasm for liberty, nature, and the art of poetry, George Moses Horton merits a place of distinction among nineteenth-century African American poets. Enslaved from birth until the...
Light and Air
The Photography of Bayard Wootten
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
A trailblazer for women photographers in the South, North Carolina's Bayard Wootten (1875-1959) overcame economic hardship, gender discrimination, and the obscurity of a small-town upbringing to become the state's most significant early female photographer. This advocate of equality for women combined...
The Bohemian South
Creating Countercultures, from Poe to Punk
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
From the southern influence on nineteenth-century New York to the musical legacy of late-twentieth-century Athens, Georgia, to the cutting-edge cuisines of twenty-first-century Asheville, North Carolina, the bohemian South has long contested traditional views of the region. Yet, even as the fruits...
"Boomtown Rabbits": The Rabbit Market in Chatham County, North Carolina, 1880-1920
An article from Southern Cultures 18:2, Summer 2012: The Special Issue on Food
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Although the same cottontails flourished across the region, Chatham County turned its rabbits into something like a regional brand, recognized throughout the South and along the eastern seaboard. By the end of the nineteenth century, Siler City had become the de facto rabbit capital of the southeast."
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Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Art historians have long been accustomed to thinking about art and artists in terms of national traditions. This volume takes a different approach, suggesting instead that a history of art based on national divisions often obscures the processes of cultural appropriation and global exchange that shaped...
North Carolina in the Connected Age
Challenges and Opportunities in a Globalizing Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
At a time when North Carolina's population is exploding and its economy is shifting profoundly, one of the state's leading economists applies the tools of his trade to chronicle these changes and to inform North Carolinians in easy-to-understand terms what to expect in the future.
Today we...
How to Read a North Carolina Beach
Bubble Holes, Barking Sands, and Rippled Runnels
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Take a walk on the beach with three coastal experts who reveal the secrets and the science of the North Carolina shoreline. What makes sea foam? What are those tiny sand volcanoes along the waterline? You'll find the answers to these questions and dozens more in this comprehensive field guide to the...
Discovering North Carolina
A Tar Heel Reader
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This splendid anthology offers an engaging journey through four centuries of North Carolina life. It draws on a wealth of sources--histories, biographies, diaries, novels, short stories, newspapers, and magazines--to show how North Carolina's rich history and remarkable literary achievements cut across...
School Resegregation
Must the South Turn Back?
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Confronting a reality that many policy makers would prefer to ignore, contributors to this volume offer the latest information on the trend toward the racial and socioeconomic resegregation of southern schools. In the region that has achieved more widespread public school integration than any other...
Zeb Vance
North Carolina's Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
In this comprehensive biography of the man who led North Carolina through the Civil War and, as a U.S. senator from 1878 to 1894, served as the state's leading spokesman, Gordon McKinney presents Zebulon Baird Vance (1830-94) as a far more complex figure than has been previously recognized.
Vance...
Holy Smoke
The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
North Carolina is home to the longest continuous barbecue tradition on the North American mainland. Now available for the first time in paperback, Holy Smoke is a passionate exploration of the lore, recipes, traditions, and people who have helped shape North Carolina's signature slow-food dish. A...
North Carolina Lighthouses
The Stories Behind the Beacons from Cape Fear to Currituck Beach
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
Of the over four dozen lighthouses that once marked the jagged shoreline of North Carolina, only nine still stand, watching over 300 miles of coast. These beacons are cherished monuments of North Carolina history. In addition to warning ships to safer waters, they now draw thousands of visitors each...