The University Of North Carolina: 2383 books
The Jiangyin Mission Station
An American Missionary Community in China, 1895-1951
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Lawrence Kessler uses the Jiangyin mission station in the Shanghai region of China to explore Chinese-American cultural interaction in the first half of the twentieth century. He concludes that the Protestant missionary movement was welcomed by the Chinese not because of the religious message it spread...
Research to Revenue
A Practical Guide to University Start-Ups
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
University start-ups are unique in the world of business and entrepreneurship, translating research conducted at and owned by universities into market-ready products--a complex process that requires a combination of scientific, technical, legal, business, and financial skills to be successful. Start-ups...
Corazón de Dixie
Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
When Latino migration to the U.S. South became increasingly visible in the 1990s, observers and advocates grasped for ways to analyze "new" racial dramas in the absence of historical reference points. However, as this book is the first to comprehensively document, Mexicans and Mexican Americans have...
The Price of Liberty
African Americans and the Making of Liberia
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
In nineteenth-century America, the belief that blacks and whites could not live in social harmony and political equality in the same country led to a movement to relocate African Americans to Liberia, a West African colony established by the United States government and the American Colonization Society...
Atlantic Bonds
A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
A decade before the American Civil War, James Churchwill Vaughan (1828–1893) set out to fulfill his formerly enslaved father's dying wish that he should leave America to start a new life in Africa. Over the next forty years, Vaughan was taken captive, fought in African wars, built and rebuilt a...
Highland Heritage
Scottish Americans in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Each year, tens of thousands of people flock to Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina, and to more than two hundred other locations across the country to attend Scottish Highland Games and Gatherings. There, kilt-wearing participants compete in athletics, Highland dancing, and bagpiping, while others...
The Lumbee Indians
An American Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Jamestown, the Lost Colony of Roanoke, and Plymouth Rock are central to America's mythic origin stories. Then, we are told, the main characters--the "friendly" Native Americans who met the settlers--disappeared. But the history of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina demands that we tell a different...
Blackbeard's Sunken Prize
The 300-Year Voyage of Queen Anne's Revenge
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
In 1717, the notorious pirate Blackbeard captured a French slaving vessel off the coast of Martinique and made it his flagship, renaming it Queen Anne's Revenge. Over the next six months, the heavily armed ship and its crew captured all manner of riches from merchant ships sailing the Caribbean to...
Wingless Eagle
U.S. Army Aviation through World War I
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
At the start of the twentieth century the United States led the world in advances in aviation, with the first successful engine-powered flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and Dayton, Ohio, beginning in 1903. Fifteen years later, however, American airmen flew European-designed aircraft because...
Reading, Writing, and Race
The Desegregation of the Charlotte Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Using Charlotte, North Carolina, as a case study of the dynamics of racial change in the 'moderate' South, Davison Douglas analyzes the desegregation of the city's public schools from the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision through the early 1970s, when the city embarked upon...
by Martin Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
Abbott's book deals with the Freedmen's Bureau, the agency that faced the main challenge of defining the meaning of freedom for four million slaves after the Civil War. He records the difficulties that resulted from the urgency of the needs the bureau sought to remedy and the issue of whether the...
Southeastern Geographer
Spring 2014 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Southeastern Geographer
VOLUME 54, NUMBER 1 : SPRING 2014
Table of Contents
Introduction to Southeastern Geographer, Volume 54, Number 1
David M. Cochran and Carl A. Reese
Part I: Papers
The Great Lakes-to-Florida Highway: A Politics of Road Space in 1920s West Virginia and Virginia
Jessey...
Southeastern Geographer
Winter 2012 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Table of Contents for Volume 52, Number 4 (Winter 2012)
Special Issue: Placing Memory and Heritage in the Geography Classroom
Guest Editor: Chris W. Post
Cover Art
The Mule Pull at the Mississippi Pecan Festival
Joseph S. Miller
Introduction: Placing Memory and Heritage in the
Geography...
North of the Color Line
Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the end of Reconstruction in the United States. Through the experiences of black railway workers and their union, the Order of Sleeping Car Porters,...