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Carolina Catch
Cooking North Carolina Fish and Shellfish from Mountains to Coast
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Early in life, North Carolinian Debbie Moose encountered fish primarily in stick form, but once she experienced her first raw oyster and first fried soft-shell crab, their pure flavors switched her on to shellfish and fish forever. Moose has now written the cookbook that unlocks for everyone the fresh...
The Rise and Fall of the Branchhead Boys
North Carolina’s Scott Family and the Era of Progressive Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Louisiana had the Longs, Virginia had the Byrds, Georgia had the Talmadges, and North Carolina had the Scotts. In this history of North Carolina's most influential political family, Rob Christensen tells the story of the Scotts and how they dominated Tar Heel politics. Three generations of Scotts—W....
Amazing Place
What North Carolina Means to Writers
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Some of us understand place in terms of family and community, landscape, or even the weather. For others, the idea of place becomes more distinct and particular: the sound of someone humming while washing dishes, the musical cadence of a mountain accent, the smell of a tobacco field under the hot...
Literary Trails of Eastern North Carolina
A Guidebook
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
This concluding volume of the Literary Trails of North Carolina trilogy takes readers into an ancient land of pale sand, dense forests, and expansive bays, through towns older than our country and rich in cultural traditions. Here, writers reveal lives long tied to the land and regularly troubled...
by Marvin L. Michael Kay, Lorin Lee Cary
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Michael Kay and Lorin Cary illuminate new aspects of slavery in colonial America by focusing on North Carolina, which has largely been ignored by scholars in favor of the more mature slave systems in the Chesapeake and South Carolina. Kay and Cary demonstrate that North Carolina's fast-growing slave...
Wild North Carolina
Discovering the Wonders of Our State's Natural Communities
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Celebrating the beauty, diversity, and significance of the state's natural landscapes, Wild North Carolina provides an engaging, beautifully illustrated introduction to North Carolina's interconnected webs of plant and animal life. From dunes and marshes to high mountain crags, through forests, swamps,...
North Carolina's Barrier Islands
Wonders of Sand, Sea, and Sky
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
In this stunning book, nature photographer and ecologist David Blevins offers an inspiring visual journey to North Carolina's barrier islands as you have never seen them before. These islands are unique and ever-changing places with epic origins, surprising plants and animals, and an uncertain future....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
The first African American to publish a book in the South, the author of the first female slave narrative in the United States, the father of black nationalism in America--these and other founders of African American literature have a surprising connection to one another: they all hailed from the...
Two Captains from Carolina
Moses Grandy, John Newland Maffitt, and the Coming of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
In Two Captains from Carolina, Bland Simpson twines together the lives of two accomplished nineteenth-century mariners from North Carolina--one African American, one Irish American. Though Moses Grandy (ca. 1791- ca. 1850) and John Newland Maffitt Jr. (1819-1886) never met, their stories bring to...
Nell Wise Wechter’s Stories of the North Carolina Coast for Kids, Omnibus E-book
Includes Taffy of Torpedo Junction and Teach's Light
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Available for the first time as an Omnibus Ebook, this collection brings together two of Nell Wise Wechter's beloved stories of young people on the North Carolina Coast. These wonderful stories will entertain and enlighten readers of all ages.Included in this Omnibus Ebook:A longtime favorite of several...
by Beth Tartan
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Acknowledged as the classic work on North Carolina cuisine, North Carolina and Old Salem Cookery was first published in 1955. This new edition, marking the book's first appearance in paperback, has been revised and updated by the author and includes several dozen new dishes.
The book is already...
Women and the Politics of Sterilization
A UNC Press Short, Excerpted from Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
In 2003, North Carolina became the third U.S. state to apologize and the first to call for compensation to victims of state-ordered sterilizations carried out between 1929 and 1975. The decision was prompted largely by a series of articles in the Winston-Salem Journal. The stories were inspired in...
The Latino Migration Experience in North Carolina
New Roots in the Old North State
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Over recent decades, the Southeast has become a new frontier for Latin American migration to and within the United States, and North Carolina has had one of the fastest growing Latino populations in the nation. Here, Hannah Gill offers North Carolinians from all walks of life a better understanding...
by William S. Powell
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
This successor to the classic Lefler-Newsome North Carolina: The History of a Southern State, published in 1954, presents a fresh survey history that includes the contemporary scene. Drawing upon recent scholarship, the advice of specialists, and his own knowledge, Powell has created a splendid narrative...