The University Of North Carolina: 2383 books
by Hugh F. Rankin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this classic account of the Revolutionary War experiences of the North Carolina Continentals, Hugh F. Rankin traces the events leading to war in North Carolina and follows all the campaigns and battles in which the North Carolina Continentals took part--Brandywine, Germantown, Charleston, Savannah,...
Nature's Champion
B. W. Wells, Tar Heel Ecologist
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Through the pioneering efforts of ecologist B. W. Wells (1884-1978), thousands of North Carolinians learned to appreciate and protect the state's diverse plant life long before ecology and conservation became popular causes.
A keen observer of the natural landscape, Wells provided the first...
Many Excellent People
Power and Privilege in North Carolina, 1850-1900
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
Many Excellent People examines the nature of North Carolina's social system, particularly race and class relations, power, and inequality, during the last half of the nineteenth century. Paul Escott portrays North Carolina's major social groups, focusing on the elite, the ordinary white farmers or...
William Friday
Power, Purpose, and American Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Few North Carolinians have been as well known or as widely respected as William Friday (1920-2012). The former president of the University of North Carolina remained prominent in public affairs in the state and elsewhere throughout his life and ranked as one of the most important American university...
Crossroads of the Natural World
Exploring North Carolina with Tom Earnhardt
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
In this richly illustrated love letter to the wild places and natural wonders of North Carolina, Tom Earnhardt, writer and host of UNC-TV's Exploring North Carolina and lifelong conservationist, seamlessly ties deep geological time and forgotten species from our distant past to the unparalleled biodiversity...
Time before History
The Archaeology of North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
North Carolina's written history begins in the sixteenth century with the voyages of Sir Walter Raleigh and the founding of the ill-fated Lost Colony on Roanoke Island. But there is a deeper, unwritten past that predates the state's recorded history. The region we now know as North Carolina was settled...
Religion in the American South
Protestants and Others in History and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
This collection of essays examines religion in the American South across three centuries--from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The first collection published on the subject in fifteen years, Religion in the American South builds upon a new generation...
A Tree Accurst
Bobby McMillon and Stories of Frankie Silver
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
On a wintry night in 1831, a man named Charlie Silver was murdered with an axe and his body burned in a cabin in the mountains of North Carolina. His young wife, Frankie Silver, was tried and hanged for the crime. In later years people claimed that a tree growing near the ruins of the old cabin was...
Every True Pleasure
LGBTQ Tales of North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Some of North Carolina's finest fiction and nonfiction writers come together in Every True Pleasure, including David Sedaris, Kelly Link, Allan Gurganus, Randall Kenan, and more. Within the volume—featuring writers who identify as gay, trans, bisexual, and straight—are stories and essays that...
North Carolina's Hurricane History
Fourth Edition, Updated with a Decade of New Storms from Isabel to Sandy
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
North Carolina's Hurricane History charts the more than fifty great storms that have battered the Tar Heel State from the colonial era through Irene in 2011 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012, two of the costliest hurricanes on record. Drawing on news reports, National Weather Service records, and eyewitness...
Southern Cultures
Winter 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
In the Winter 2010 issue of Southern Cultures:
Hal Crowther takes on H.L. Mencken (and Rush Limbaugh, too);
Southerners battle hornets, rattlesnakes, and bears—so they can pick blackberries;
Cowboy Troy crosses country music with hip-hop and says his belt buckle is bling;
The...
North Carolina’s Roadside Eateries
A Traveler’s Guide to Local Restaurants, Diners, and Barbecue Joints
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Want to eat like the locals? D. G. Martin has spent years traveling the major roadways of North Carolina, on the lookout for community, local history, and, of course, a good home-cooked meal. Here D. G. is your personal tour guide to more than 100 notable local roadway haunts that serve not only as...
Telling Histories
Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
The field of black women's history gained recognition as a legitimate field of study only late in the twentieth century. Collecting stories that are both deeply personal and powerfully political, Telling Histories compiles seventeen personal narratives by leading black women historians at various...
Hiking North Carolina's National Forests
50 Can't-Miss Trail Adventures in the Pisgah, Nantahala, Uwharrie, and Croatan National Forests
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
North Carolina's 1.2 million acres of national forestland are some of our state's most distinctive and botanically diverse areas. Veteran nature writer Johnny Molloy welcomes you to enjoy these beautiful and often surprising wild areas, guiding you safely there and back again. Molloy renders the sometimes...