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Dogs That Point, Fish That Bite
Outdoor Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Jim Dean, longtime editor of Wildlife in North Carolina, offers his personal observations on the pleasures and frustrations of hunting, fishing, camping, and other outdoor pursuits. Dogs That Point, Fish That Bite draws together fifty of the best columns that Dean has written for the magazine over...
The Secret Lives of Fishermen
More Outdoor Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
The Secret Lives of Fishermen is Jim Dean's second book of essays celebrating wild places, rural traditions, and the pleasures and often humorous frustrations of fishing, hunting, hiking, and camping--or, as Dean might put it, "messing around" outdoors. It combines essays originally published...
Poquosin
A Study of Rural Landscape and Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Jack Temple Kirby charts the history of the low country between the James River in Virginia and Albemarle Sound in North Carolina. The Algonquian word for this country, which means 'swamp-on-a-hill,' was transliterated as 'poquosin' by seventeenth-century English settlers. Interweaving social, political,...
by Patrick Rael
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Martin Delany--these figures stand out in the annals of black protest for their vital antislavery efforts. But what of the rest of their generation, the thousands of other free blacks in the North? Patrick Rael explores the tradition of protest and sense of racial...
When Sherman Marched North from the Sea
Resistance on the Confederate Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2006
Home front and battle front merged in 1865 when General William T. Sherman occupied Savannah and then marched his armies north through the Carolinas. Although much has been written about the military aspects of Sherman's March, Jacqueline Campbell reveals a more complex story. Integrating evidence...
by Conrad Cherry, Betty A. DeBerg, Amanda Porterfield
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
The first intensive, close-up investigation of the practice and teaching of religion at American colleges and universities, Religion on Campus is an indispensable resource for all who want to understand what religion really means to today's undergraduates.
To explore firsthand how college students...
The Bravest of the Brave
The Correspondence of Stephen Dodson Ramseur
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Born in Lincolnton, North Carolina, in 1837, Stephen Dodson Ramseur rose meteorically through the military ranks. Graduating from West Point in 1860, he joined the Confederate army as a captain. By the time of his death near the end of the war at the Battle of Cedar Creek, he had attained the rank...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Designed to serve as an introduction to American religion, this volume is distinctive in its approach: instead of following a traditional narrative, the book is arranged thematically. Eleven chapters by top scholars present, in carefully organized and accessible fashion, topics and perspectives fundamental...
Heading South to Teach
The World of Susan Nye Hutchison, 1815-1845
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Susan Nye Hutchison (1790-1867) was one of many teachers to venture south across the Mason-Dixon Line in the Second Great Awakening. From 1815 to 1841, she kept journals about her career, family life, and encounters with slavery. Drawing on these journals and hundreds of other documents, Kim Tolley...
A Family of Women
The Carolina Petigrus in Peace and War
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The often-stereotyped belles and matrons of the nineteenth-century South emerge as diverse personalities in this compelling account of three generations of women from a South Carolina family whose fate rose and fell with the fortunes of the state. Through vivid, interwoven life stories, the book offers...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Prozac and its chemical cousins, Paxil, Celexa, and Zoloft, are some of the most profitable and most widely used drugs in America. Their use in the treatment of a multitude of disorders--from generalized anxiety disorder and premenstrual syndrome to eating disorders and sexual compulsions--has provoked...
States of Emergency
The Object of American Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
The contributors to this volume argue that for too long, inclusiveness has substituted for methodology in American studies scholarship. The ten original essays collected here call for a robust comparativism that is attuned theoretically to questions of both space and time.
States of Emergency...
Gertrude Weil
Jewish Progressive in the New South
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
It is so obvious that to treat people equally is the right thing to do," wrote Gertrude Weil (1879–1971). In the first-ever biography of Weil, Leonard Rogoff tells the story of a modest southern Jewish woman who, while famously private, fought publicly and passionately for the progressive causes...
Living at the Water's Edge
A Heritage Guide to the Outer Banks Byway
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
The Outer Banks National Scenic Byway received its designation in 2009, an act that stands as a testament to the historical and cultural importance of the communities linked along the North Carolina coast from Whalebone Junction across to Hatteras and Ocracoke Island and down to the small villages...