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A History of the Oratorio

Vol. 4: The Oratorio in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

by Howard E. Smither
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

With this volume, Howard Smither completes his monumental History of the Oratorio. Volumes 1 and 2, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1977, treated the oratorio in the Baroque era, while Volume 3, published in 1987, explored the genre in the Classical era. Here, Smither surveys...
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Crafting Lives

African American Artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, 1770-1900

by Catherine W. Bishir
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

From the colonial period onward, black artisans in southern cities--thousands of free and enslaved carpenters, coopers, dressmakers, blacksmiths, saddlers, shoemakers, bricklayers, shipwrights, cabinetmakers, tailors, and others--played vital roles in their communities. Yet only a very few black craftspeople...
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Prison and Plantation

Crime, Justice, and Authority in Massachusetts and South Carolina, 1767-1878

by Michael S. Hindus
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017

This broad, comparative study examines the social, economic, and legal contexts of crime and authority in two vastly different states over a one hundred year period. Massachusetts--an urban, industrial, and heterogeneous northern state--chose the penitentiary in its attempt to minimize the role of...
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The Counterrevolution of Slavery

Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina

by Manisha Sinha
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003

In this comprehensive analysis of politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina, Manisha Sinha offers a provocative new look at the roots of southern separatism and the causes of the Civil War. Challenging works that portray secession as a fight for white liberty, she argues instead that it was...
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by Sam J. Ervin
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014

Originally published in 1984, Senator Ervin's delightful collection of stories and anecdotes winds its way from his native Morganton through Chapel Hill and Harvard, the military, the North Carolina Supreme Court, the United States Senate, and Watergate. It represents a lifetime of wit and wisdom--told in the late Senator Ervin's inimitable style.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) and Herman Melville (1819-1891) addressed in their writings a range of issues that continue to resonate in American culture: the reach and limits of democracy; the nature of freedom; the roles of race, gender, and sexuality; and the place of the United States in the...
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The Education of the Heart

The Correspondence of Rachel Mordecai Lazarus and Maria Edgeworth

by Edgar E. MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012

In 1815 a young North Carolina schoolteacher who was Jewish wrote to the celebrated Maria Edgeworth to ask why British novelists wrote in such a prejudiced manner about Jews. Maria was so moved by the letter that she set to work on a novel to make amends, and <3>Harrington<1> was published...
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Carolina in Crisis

Cherokees, Colonists, and Slaves in the American Southeast, 1756-1763

by Daniel J. Tortora
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2015

In this engaging history, Daniel J. Tortora explores how the Anglo-Cherokee War reshaped the political and cultural landscape of the colonial South. Tortora chronicles the series of clashes that erupted from 1758 to 1761 between Cherokees, settlers, and British troops. The conflict, no insignificant...
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Come Go Home with Me

Stories By Sheila Kay Adams

by Sheila Kay Adams
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000

Sheila Adams has been performing Appalachian ballads and telling stories for over twenty years. A native of Madison County, North Carolina, she was introduced to the tale-telling tradition by her great-aunt 'Granny,' well-known balladeer Dellie Chandler Norton. This collection of Adams's stories provides...
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Businessman in the Statehouse

Six Years as Governor of North Carolina

by Luther H. Hodges
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018

This is the story of Governor Hodges's years in the statehouse, told in his own words. It is lively, forceful, and honest--like the man himself. It is particularly relevant to the concept that states' rights should be regarded as a challenge to make state government honest, responsible, and forward...
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Behind the White Picket Fence

Power and Privilege in a Multiethnic Neighborhood

by Sarah Mayorga-Gallo
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014

The link between residential segregation and racial inequality is well established, so it would seem that greater equality would prevail in integrated neighborhoods. But as Sarah Mayorga-Gallo argues, multiethnic and mixed-income neighborhoods still harbor the signs of continued, systemic racial inequalities....
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When the Fences Come Down

Twenty-First-Century Lessons from Metropolitan School Desegregation

by Genevieve Siegel-Hawley
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016

How we provide equal educational opportunity to an increasingly diverse, highly urbanized student population is one of the central concerns facing our nation. As Genevieve Siegel-Hawley argues in this thought-provoking book, within our metropolitan areas we are currently allowing a labyrinthine system...
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by Bland Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017

As compelling as fiction, The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey tells the dramatic story of the disappearance of nineteen-year-old Nell Cropsey from her riverside home in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, in November 1901. Bloodhounds, detectives, divers, and even a psychic were brought in to search...
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The Secret World of Red Wolves

The Fight to Save North America's Other Wolf

by T. DeLene Beeland
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013

Red wolves are shy, elusive, and misunderstood predators. Until the 1800s, they were common in the longleaf pine savannas and deciduous forests of the southeastern United States. However, habitat degradation, persecution, and interbreeding with the coyote nearly annihilated them. Today, reintroduced...
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