The University Of North Carolina: 2383 books
Real NASCAR
White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
In this history of the stock car racing circuit known as NASCAR, Daniel S. Pierce offers a revealing new look at the sport from its postwar beginnings on Daytona Beach and Piedmont dirt tracks through the early 1970s, when the sport spread beyond its southern roots and gained national recognition....
Bring Your "A" Game
A Young Athlete's Guide to Mental Toughness
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Mental training is just as important as physical training when it comes to success in sport. And like physical fitness, mental toughness is something that can be taught and learned. Yet many young athletes have not learned the psychological skills needed to develop their best game. This book was written...
Reparation and Reconciliation
The Rise and Fall of Integrated Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Reparation and Reconciliation is the first book to reveal the nineteenth-century struggle for racial integration on U.S. college campuses. As the Civil War ended, the need to heal the scars of slavery, expand the middle class, and reunite the nation engendered a dramatic interest in higher education...
A Deplorable Scarcity
The Failure of Industrialization in the Slave Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In this major reexamination of the southern industrial economy and its failure to progress during the antebellum period, Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss show that slavery and its consequences were not alone in inhibiting industrialization. They argue, rather, that the planters hesitated to invest in...
Whiting Up
Whiteface Minstrels and Stage Europeans in African American Performance
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
In the early 1890s, black performer Bob Cole turned blackface minstrelsy on its head with his nationally recognized whiteface creation, a character he called Willie Wayside. Just over a century later, hiphop star Busta Rhymes performed a whiteface supercop in his hit music video "Dangerous."...
A Foxfire Christmas
Appalachian Memories and Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
New in paperback
This captivating book of recollections celebrates the holiday traditions of Appalachian families as passed from one generation to the next. Based on Foxfire students' interviews with neighbors and family members, the memories shared here are from a simpler time, when gifts were fewer...
by Mona Van Duyn
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
The twenty-five poems included in this collection present a poet mature in both craft and perception and possessed of a fine capacity for being both lyric and analytic at the same time. There is no posturing, but always a position, both thought and felt.
Originally published in 1964.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Epps has attempted to provide a translation of the Poetics to which all students could have access and thus gain a common terminology for this work. He has endeavored to make it clear enough that the average student with reasonable effort can understand the work without consulting aids.
Aunt Arie
A Foxfire Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Of all the people documented by the Foxfire students since 1966, none has been more appealing to readers than Arie Carpenter. For all those who have read and cherished the Foxfire books, here is a loving portrait of a fondly remembered friend. This book is not just about Aunt Arie; it is Aunt Arie....
Hearthside Cooking
Early American Southern Cuisine Updated for Today's Hearth and Cookstove
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
For cooks who want to experience a link to culinary history, Hearthside Cooking is a treasure trove of early American delights. First published in 1986, it has become a standard guide for museum interpreters and guides, culinary historians, historical re-enactors, campers, scouts, and home cooks interested...
by Harry W. Pfanz
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
The second day's fighting at Gettysburg--the assault of the Army of Northern Virginia against the Army of the Potomac on 2 July 1863--was probably the critical engagement of that decisive battle and, therefore, among the most significant actions of the Civil War.
Harry Pfanz, a former historian...
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 3: History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Providing a chronological and interpretive spine to the twenty-four volumes of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, this volume broadly surveys history in the American South from the Paleoindian period (approximately 8000 B.C.E.) to the present. In 118 essays, contributors cover the turbulent...
Separatism and Subculture
Boston Catholicism, 1900-1920
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Kane explores the role of religious identity in Boston in the years 1900-1920, arguing that Catholicism was a central integrating force among different class and ethnic groups. She traces the effect of changing class status on religious identity and solidarity, and she delineates the social and cultural...
Okra
a Savor the South® cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Passionate okra lovers crave this bright green, heat-loving vegetable, whether fried, grilled, steamed, roasted, boiled, broiled, pickled, raw, whole, sliced, or julienned. With Okra, Virginia Willis provides "the key that unlocks the door of okra desire" to okra addicts and newcomers to the pod alike.
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