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Color and Character
West Charlotte High and the American Struggle over Educational Equality
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
At a time when race and inequality dominate national debates, the story of West Charlotte High School illuminates the possibilities and challenges of using racial and economic desegregation to foster educational equality. West Charlotte opened in 1938 as a segregated school that embodied the aspirations...
Julius Chambers
A Life in the Legal Struggle for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Born in the hamlet of Mount Gilead, North Carolina, Julius Chambers (1936–2013) escaped the fetters of the Jim Crow South to emerge in the 1960s and 1970s as the nation's leading African American civil rights attorney. Following passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Chambers worked to advance...
The Lost Colony
A Symphonic Drama of American History
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
In 1937, The Lost Colony, Paul Green's dramatic retelling of the founding and mysterious disappearance of the Roanoke Island colony, opened to standing-room-only audiences and rave reviews. Since then, the beloved outdoor drama has played to more than 3 million people, and it is still going strong....
The Workboats of Core Sound
Stories and Photographs of a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Along the wide waters of eastern North Carolina, the people of many scattered villages separated by creeks, marshes, and rivers depend on shallow-water boats, both for their livelihoods as fishermen and to maintain connections with one another and with the rest of the world. As Lawrence S. Earley...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Master and servant acts, the cornerstone of English employment law for more than four hundred years, gave largely unsupervised, inferior magistrates wide discretion over employment relations, including the power to whip, fine, and imprison men, women, and children for breach of private contracts with...
by Reginald C. Stuart
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
This sweeping study surveys nearly a century of diverse American views on the relationship between the United States and the Canadian provinces, filling out a neglected chapter in the history of aggressive U.S. expansionism. Until the mid-nineteenth century, many believed that Canada would ultimately...
Journal of the Civil War Era
Spring 2012 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The Journal of the Civil War Era
Volume 2, Number 1
March 2012
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Forum
The Future of Civil War Era Studies
Stephen Berry, Michael T. Bernath, Seth Rockman, Barton A. Myers, Anne Marshall, Lisa M. Brady, Judith Giesberg, & Jim Downs
Articles
Jacqueline...
Southern Cultures: Southern Waters Issue
Volume 20: Number 3 – Fall 2014 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
In the Fall 2014 issue of Southern Cultures…
From mullet fishing on Brown's Island to shrimping on the Gulf Coast, from recreation on the Great Lakes of the South to coastal tourism in the Sunbelt and tramping in the swampy lowlands of eastern NC, we take a look at tourism's vital role in...
Land Reform in China and North Vietnam
Consolidating the Revolution at the Village Level
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This first book to consider land reform in both countries show that reform, as the Communists have conducted it, can be justified in China and North Vietnam for both economic reasons and ideological imperatives. Moise argues that the violence associated with land reform was as much a function of the...
Town Creek Indian Mound
A Native American Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
The temple mound and mortuary at Town Creek, in Montgomery County, is one of the few surviving earthen mounds built by prehistoric Native Americans in North Carolina. It has been recognized as an important archaeological site for almost sixty years and, as a state historic site, has become a popular...
by Karl E. Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2007
Many Americans remember Senator Sam Ervin (1896-1985) as the affable, Bible-quoting, old country lawyer who chaired the Senate Watergate hearings in 1973. Ervin's stories from down home in North Carolina, his reciting literary passages ranging from Shakespeare to Aesop's fables, and his earnest lectures...
Signs of Cherokee Culture
Sequoyah's Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Based on extensive fieldwork in the community of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in western North Carolina, this book uses a semiotic approach to investigate the historic and contemporary role of the Sequoyan syllabary--the written system for representing the sounds of the Cherokee language--in...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Was Western civilization founded by ancient Egyptians and Phoenicians? Can the ancient Egyptians usefully be called black? Did the ancient Greeks borrow religion, science, and philosophy from the Egyptians and Phoenicians? Have scholars ignored the Afroasiatic roots of Western civilization as a result...
by Stanley L. Bentley
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
This authoritative guide showcases the unmatched beauty and diversity of the native orchids of the southern Appalachian mountains. Based on Stanley Bentley's many years of nature study, it covers the 52 species--including one discovered by Bentley and named after him--found in a region encompassing...