The University Of North Carolina: 2383 books
A Refugee from His Race
Albion W. Tourgée and His Fight against White Supremacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
During one of the darkest periods of U.S. history, when white supremacy was entrenching itself throughout the nation, the white writer-jurist-activist Albion W. Tourgee (1838-1905) forged an extraordinary alliance with African Americans. Acclaimed by blacks as "one of the best friends of the...
The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess
Race, Culture, and America’s Most Famous Opera
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Created by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward and sung by generations of black performers, Porgy and Bess has been both embraced and reviled since its debut in 1935. In this comprehensive account, Ellen Noonan examines the opera's long history of invention and reinvention as a barometer of twentieth-century...
Confederate Minds
The Struggle for Intellectual Independence in the Civil War South
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2010
During the Civil War, some Confederates sought to prove the distinctiveness of the southern people and to legitimate their desire for a separate national existence through the creation of a uniquely southern literature and culture. Michael Bernath follows the activities of a group of southern writers,...
Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens, Enhanced Ebook
Domestic Workers in the South,1865-1960
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
As African American women left the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs they performed, feeding generations of white families and, in the process, profoundly shaping southern foodways and culture. In Cooking in Other...
Well-Read Lives
How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
In a compelling approach structured as theme and variations, Barbara Sicherman offers insightful profiles of a number of accomplished women born in America's Gilded Age who lost--and found--themselves in books, and worked out a new life purpose around them.
Some women, like Edith and Alice...
Stormy Weather
Middle-Class African American Marriages between the Two World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
The so-called New Negroes of the period between World Wars I and II embodied a new sense of racial pride and upward mobility for the race. Many of them thought that relationships between spouses could be a crucial factor in realizing this dream. But there was little agreement about how spousal relationships...
Eroding Military Influence in Brazil
Politicians Against Soldiers
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Wendy Hunter explores civil-military relations in Brazil following the transition to civilian leadership in 1985. She documents a marked, and surprising, decline in the political power of the armed forces, even as they have remained involved in national policy making. To account for the success of...
Lee's Last Retreat
The Flight to Appomattox
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
Few events in Civil War history have generated such deliberate mythmaking as the retreat that ended at Appomattox. William Marvel offers the first history of the Appomattox campaign written primarily from contemporary source material, with a skeptical eye toward memoirs published well after the events...
Shenandoah 1862
Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
One of the most intriguing and storied episodes of the Civil War, the 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign has heretofore been related only from the Confederate point of view. Moving seamlessly between tactical details and analysis of strategic significance, Peter Cozzens presents a balanced, comprehensive...
In the Shadow of Auschwitz
The Polish Government-in-exile and the Jews, 1939-1942
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
The announcement in December 1942 by the Polish government-in-exile that the Germans were attempting to exterminate all Jews in Poland came after much information had reached the West through other sources. The Polish government's action and inaction in releasing the information was the result of...
Witness for Freedom
African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2000
Encompassing a broad range of African American voices, from Frederick Douglass to anonymous fugitive slaves, this collection collects eighty-nine exceptional documents that represent the best of the five-volume Black Abolitionist Papers. In these compelling texts African Americans tell their own stories...
Lincoln’s Proclamation
Emancipation Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
The Emancipation Proclamation, widely remembered as the heroic act that ended slavery, in fact freed slaves only in states in the rebellious South. True emancipation was accomplished over a longer period and by several means. Essays by eight distinguished contributors consider aspects of the president's...
by Gary W. Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2002
Was Robert E. Lee a gifted soldier whose only weaknesses lay in the depth of his loyalty to his troops, affection for his lieutenants, and dedication to the cause of the Confederacy? Or was he an ineffective leader and poor tactician whose reputation was drastically inflated by early biographers and...
Wade Hampton
Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
One of the South's most illustrious military leaders, Wade Hampton III was for a time the commander of all Lee's cavalry and at the end of the war was the highest-ranking Confederate cavalry officer. Yet for all Hampton's military victories, he also suffered devastating losses in his family and personal...