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Southern Cultures: The Special Issue on Food
Volume 18: Number 2 – Summer 2012 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In the Spring 2012 issue of Southern Cultures…
Guest editor Marcie Cohen Ferris brings together some of the best new writing on Southern food for the Summer 2012 issue of Southern Cultures , which features an interview with TREME writer Lolis Elie and Ferris's own retrospective on Southern...
The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics
The Personalities, Elections, and Events That Shaped Modern North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
How can a state be represented by Jesse Helms and John Edwards at the same time? Journalist Rob Christensen answers that question and navigates a century of political history in North Carolina, one of the most politically vibrant and competitive southern states, where neither conservatives nor liberals,...
by John Hope Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
John Hope Franklin has devoted his professional life to the study of African Americans. Originally published in 1943 by UNC Press, The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860 was his first book on the subject. As Franklin shows, freed slaves in the antebellum South did not enjoy the full rights of...
The North Carolina Gazetteer, 2nd Ed
A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places and Their History
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
The North Carolina Gazetteer first appeared to wide acclaim in 1968 and has remained an essential reference for anyone with a serious interest in the Tar Heel State, from historians to journalists, from creative writers to urban planners, from backpackers to armchair travelers.
This revised...
A Field Guide to Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region
North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Featuring over 600 wildflowers, flowering shrubs, and vines, this user-friendly field guide is the first to focus on the rare, fragile lands and species of the Sandhills region of the Carolinas and Georgia. Characterized by longleaf pine forests, rolling hills, abundant blackwater streams, several...
Southern Cultures
Volume 19: Number 4 – Winter 2013 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In the Winter 2013 issue of Southern Cultures:
How did we get here? Lebanese in Mississippi, Puerto Ricans in Orlando, Californians at Black Mountain, Tennesseans in Texas, and a bust of a South Carolinian that ended up in the North Carolina Museum of Art. The Winter 2013 issue tells the stories...
by Sarah Bryan, Beverly Patterson, Michelle Lanier
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Thelonius Monk, Billy Taylor, and Maceo Parker--famous jazz artists who have shared the unique sounds of North Carolina with the world--are but a few of the dynamic African American artists from eastern North Carolina featured in The African American Music Trails of Eastern North Carolina. This first-of-its-kind...
by John H. Haley
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Charles N. Hunter, one of North Carolina's outstanding black reformers, was born a slave in Raleigh around 1851, and he lived there until his death in 1931. As public school teacher, journalist, and historian, Hunter devoted his long life to improving opportunities for blacks.
A political activist,...
by John G. Barrett
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Eleven battles and seventy-three skirmishes were fought in North Carolina during the Civil War. Although the number of men involved in many of these engagements was comparatively small, the campaigns and battles themselves were crucial in the grand strategy of the conflict and involved some of the...
by Paul Luebke
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Offering an insightful analysis of North Carolina political trends and personalities, Paul Luebke moves beyond the usual labels of Republican and Democrat, conservative and liberal. In Tar Heel Politics 2000, he argues that North Carolina's real political battle is between two factions of the state's...
Lethal State
A History of the Death Penalty in North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
For years, American states have tinkered with the machinery of death, seeking to align capital punishment with evolving social standards and public will. Against this backdrop, North Carolina had long stood out as a prolific executioner with harsh mandatory sentencing statutes. But as the state sought...
North Carolina beyond the Connected Age
The Tar Heel State in 2050
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
For years, North Carolina has been one of the nation's fastest-growing states, bringing tremendous change to the state's people, industries, jobs, places, environment, and government. Much of this change resulted from the information and technology revolution, which connected the state more fully...
Sweet Carolina
Favorite Desserts and Candies from the Old North State
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Crisscrossing her home state of North Carolina over the course of six tasty years, Foy Allen Edelman visited families in their own kitchens and communities and discovered a treasure trove of delicacies. Sweet Carolina offers the recipes for more than 220 of these confections, along with their cooks'...
The Latino Migration Experience in North Carolina, Revised and Expanded Second Edition
New Roots in the Old North State
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
Now thoroughly updated and revised—with a new chapter on the Dreamer movement and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA)—this book offers North Carolinians a better understanding of their Latino neighbors, illuminating rather than enflaming debates on immigration. In the midst...