The University Of North Carolina: 2383 books
Pursuits of Happiness
The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
In this book, Jack Greene reinterprets the meaning of American social development. Synthesizing literature of the previous two decades on the process of social development and the formation of American culture, he challenges the central assumptions that have traditionally been used to analyze colonial...
The Intellectual Construction of America
Exceptionalism and Identity From 1492 to 1800
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Jack Greene explores the changing definitions of America from the time of Europe's first contact with the New World through the establishment of the American republic. Challenging historians who have argued that colonial American societies differed little from those of early modern Europe, he shows...
by Edward C. L. Adams
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
This volume brings back into print a remarkable record of black life in the 1920s, chronicled by Edward C.L. Adams, a white physician from the area around the Congaree River in central South Carolina. It reproduces Adams's major works, Congaree Sketches (1927) and Nigger to Nigger (1928), two collections...
Charleston in Black and White
Race and Power in the South after the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Once one of the wealthiest cities in America, Charleston, South Carolina, established a society built on the racial hierarchies of slavery and segregation. By the 1970s, the legal structures behind these racial divisions had broken down and the wealth built upon them faded. Like many southern cities,...
The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero
Native Resistance and the Literatures of America, from Moctezuma to Tecumseh
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
The leaders of anticolonial wars of resistance--Metacom, Pontiac, Tecumseh, and Cuauhtemoc--spread fear across the frontiers of North America. Yet once defeated, these men became iconic martyrs for postcolonial national identity in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. By the early 1800s a craze...
Peaches
a Savor the South® cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Whether you swear by peaches from Georgia or from South Carolina, there's no doubt that the fruit is sacred to southerners. From the moment the first mouthwatering Elberta variety was grafted in the 1870s, the peach has been an icon of summertime and a powerful symbol of the South's bounty. Peaches...
And I Will Dwell in Their Midst
Orthodox Jews in Suburbia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Suburbia may not seem like much of a place to pioneer, but for young, religiously committed Jewish families, it's open territory." This sentiment--expressed in the early 1970s by an Orthodox Jew in suburban Toronto--captures the essence of the suburban Orthodox Jewish experience of the late twentieth...
The F Street Mess
How Southern Senators Rewrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Pushing back against the idea that the Slave Power conspiracy was merely an ideological construction, Alice Elizabeth Malavasic argues that some southern politicians in the 1850s did indeed hold an inordinate amount of power in the antebellum Congress and used it to foster the interests of slavery....
Declarations of Dependence
The Long Reconstruction of Popular Politics in the South, 1861-1908
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
In this highly original study, Gregory Downs argues that the most American of wars, the Civil War, created a seemingly un-American popular politics, rooted not in independence but in voluntary claims of dependence. Through an examination of the pleas and petitions of ordinary North Carolinians, Declarations...
Stories of the South
Race and the Reconstruction of Southern Identity, 1865-1915
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the character of the South, and even its persistence as a distinct region, was an open question. During Reconstruction, the North assumed significant power to redefine the South, imagining a region rebuilt and modeled on northern society. The white South...
Lincoln and the Decision for War
The Northern Response to Secession
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
When Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 prompted several Southern states to secede, the North was sharply divided over how to respond. In this groundbreaking and highly praised book, McClintock follows the decision-making process from bitter partisan rancor to consensus. From small towns to big cities...
Journal of the Civil War Era
Summer 2014 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The Journal of the Civil War Era
Volume 4, Number 2
June 2014
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Tom Watson Brown Book Award
John Fabian Witt
Civil War Historians and the Laws of War
Articles
Chandra Manning
Working for Citizenship in Civil War Contraband Camps
Michael F....
A Golden Haze of Memory
The Making of Historic Charleston
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
Charleston, South Carolina, today enjoys a reputation as a destination city for cultural and heritage tourism. In A Golden Haze of Memory, Stephanie E. Yuhl looks back to the crucial period between 1920 and 1940, when local leaders developed Charleston's trademark image as "America's Most Historic...
The Gift of the Face
Portraiture and Time in Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian is the most ambitious photographic and ethnographic record of Native American cultures ever produced. Published between 1907 and 1930 as a series of twenty volumes and portfolios, the work contains more than two thousand photographs intended to document...