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Pickles and Preserves
a Savor the South® cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Andrea Weigl defines the year by her canning sessions. In the winter, she makes bright yellow Jerusalem Artichoke Relish from her backyard crop. In the spring, she conjures up sweet red Strawberry Preserves. In the summer, it's savory Yellow Squash Pickles and peaches, pickled, brandied, or as a thick...
by Demetrius L. Eudell
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
This comparative study examines the emancipation process in the British Caribbean, particularly Jamaica, during the 1830s and in the United States, particularly South Carolina, during the 1860s. Analyzing the intellectual and ideological foundations of postslavery Anglo-America, Demetrius Eudell explores...
by Paul Green
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
For many years Green traveled up and down his native Cape Fear River Valley in North Carolina, collecting the folklore of the people of the valley--noting down their speech, beliefs, customs, anecdotes, ballads, epitaphs, legends, proverbs, stories, superstitions, games, folk songs, and the like....
A Southern Lawyer
Fifty Years at the Bar
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
This is the story of fifty years of legal battles in North Carolina, as experienced by one of the most successful lawyers in the state. It conveys a story of strong local attachment, unwavering political faith, and long and successful service at the bar.
Originally published in 1950.
A...
One of Lee's Best Men
The Civil War Letters of General William Dorsey Pender
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
On the day that Lincoln was inaugurated in 1861, twenty-seven-year-old William Dorsey Pender, en route to the provisional Confederate capital in Montgomery, Alabama, hurriedly scribbled a note to his wife, Fanny. So began a prolific correspondence between a rising Confederate officer and his cherished...
Hoppin' John's Lowcountry Cooking
Recipes and Ruminations from Charleston and the Carolina Coastal Plain
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
At oyster roasts and fancy cotillions, in fish camps and cutting-edge restaurants, the people of South Carolina gather to enjoy one of America's most distinctive cuisines--the delicious, inventive fare of the Lowcountry. In his classic Hoppin' John's Lowcountry Cooking, John Martin Taylor brings us...
Civil War Canon
Sites of Confederate Memory in South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
In this expansive history of South Carolina's commemoration of the Civil War era, Thomas J. Brown uses the lens of place to examine the ways that landmarks of Confederate memory have helped white southerners negotiate their shifting political, social, and economic positions. By looking at prominent...
Liberia, South Carolina
An African American Appalachian Community
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
In 2007, while researching mountain culture in upstate South Carolina, anthropologist John M. Coggeshall stumbled upon the small community of Liberia in the Blue Ridge foothills. There he met Mable Owens Clarke and her family, the remaining members of a small African American community still living...
Rough Weather Makes Good Timber
Carolinians Recall
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
In the simple unpretentious dignity of everyday speech, elderly Tar Heels share their fascinating and touching stories of North Carolina's past, a time when activities and cares were closely associated with extracting a living from the soil. The oldest person Ginns interviewed was ninety-seven, the...
Snowbird Gravy and Dishpan Pie
Mountain People Recall
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
In their own picturesque speech, an older generation of men and women in North Carolina paint a vivid image of home and family life in the southern Appalachian mountains around the turn of the century. Dozens of contributors share their wisdom and memories in stories of country hospitality, blackgum...
Such As Us
Southern Voices of the Thirties
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
When These Are Our Lives was first published by The University of North Carolina Press in 1939, the late Charles A. Beard hailed it as "literature more powerful than anything I have read in fiction, not excluding Zola's most vehement passages." A very early experiment in the publication...
Stephen Dodson Ramseur
Lee's Gallant General
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Stephen Dodson Ramseur, born in Lincolnton, North Carolina, in 1837, compiled an enviable record as a brigadier in the Army of Northern Virginia. Commissioned major general the day after his twenty-seventh birthday, he was the youngest West Pointer to achieve that rank in the Confederate army. He...
Technology in the Garden
Research Parks and Regional Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
More than half of the 116 research parks now operating in the United States were established during the 1980s, with the aim of boosting regional economic growth. But until now no one has systematically analyzed whether research parks do in fact generate new businesses and jobs. Using their own surveys...
by Nell Wise Wechter
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Back in print A longtime favorite of several generations of Tar Heels, Taffy of Torpedo Junction is the thrilling adventure story of thirteen-year-old Taffy Willis, who, with the help of her pony and dog, exposes a ring of Nazi spies operating from a secluded house on Hatteras Island, North Carolina,...