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Southern Cultures: 2011 Music Issue, Enhanced Ebook
Winter 2011 Issue, includes Music tracks
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The Music Issue enhanced eBook include all the tracks on our special CD and:
The tell-all letter from a teenage girl who kissed—and kissed—Elvis Presley
How corruption and greed made the Jacksonville music scene
Gretchen Wilson, country music's "Redneck Woman"
The...
by James L. Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
Exploring the life and leadership of Populist Marion Butler (1863-1938), James Hunt offers new insight into the challenges of American reform politics.
The son of North Carolina farmers and a graduate of the University of North Carolina, Butler displayed an early proclivity for agrarian reform....
Tar Heel Dead
Tales of Mystery and Mayhem from North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
From O. Henry to Lilian Jackson Braun, North Carolina has nurtured some of the world's best-known mystery writers. This unique collection of mystery short stories showcases some of North Carolina's best writing talent from the past and the present--some famous, some less well known. Some of the mysteries...
Secret Sharing: Debutantes Coming Out in the American South
An article from Southern Cultures 18:4, Winter 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
'There's no choosing. It isn't choice. Are you the daughter of somebody who was somebody who was somebody? And if you are, and you're not a heroin addict, you are there.'"
This article appears in the Winter 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook.
Southern...
Bobby Rush: "Blues Singer--Plus"
An article from Southern Cultures 17:4, The Music Issue
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
I try to get the people in my hand, for them to love me, and once I get them in my hand, I can then tell them what I've come to tell them. And I come to tell them about the blues. It's just like a preacher."
The consummate Chiltin' Circuit performer talks women, finding his crossover audience,...
"She Ought to Have Taken Those Cakes": Southern Women and Rural Food Supplies
An article from Southern Cultures 18:2, Summer 2012: The Special Issue on Food
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In April 1930, five hundred potential customers showed up at the opening of Staunton's curb market, and in 1936, the market's most successful vendor, Nettie Shull, made more than $2,000 by selling potato chips, fried apple pies, potato salad, and dressed poultry."
This article appears...
The South in the Shadow of Nazism
An article from Southern Cultures 18:3, Fall 2012: The Politics Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In the immediate postwar period, as though sensing that the revulsion from Nazism might be carried too far, senators from the South defied the American Creed. They opposed the campaign to sign the Genocide Convention, for example, which the United Nations had adopted in 1948."
This article...
Journal of the Civil War Era
Summer 2011 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The University of North Carolina Press and the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at the Pennsylvania State University are pleased to Publish *The Journal of the Civil War Era. William Blair, of the Pennsylvania State University, serves as founding editor.
Table of Contents for this...
Freedom for Themselves
North Carolina's Black Soldiers in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
More than 5,000 North Carolina slaves escaped from their white owners to serve in the Union army during the Civil War. In Freedom for Themselves Richard Reid explores the stories of black soldiers from four regiments raised in North Carolina. Constructing a multidimensional portrait of the soldiers...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
This collection of primary source material chronicles the Civil War experiences of North Carolinians from the secession crisis to the Confederate surrender at Bennett Place. In contrast to other works on the Civil War, this book focuses not on military events but on the larger issue of the societal...
The Tuscarora War
Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
At dawn on September 22, 1711, more than 500 Tuscarora, Core, Neuse, Pamlico, Weetock, Machapunga, and Bear River Indian warriors swept down on the unsuspecting European settlers living along the Neuse and Pamlico Rivers of North Carolina. Over the following days, they destroyed hundreds of farms,...
Game Changers
Dean Smith, Charlie Scott, and the Era That Transformed a Southern College Town
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Among many legendary episodes from the life and career of men's basketball coach Dean Smith, few loom as large as his recruitment of Charlie Scott, the first African American scholarship athlete at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Drawn together by college basketball in a time of momentous...
NASCAR vs. Football: Which Sport Is More Important to the South?
An article from Southern Cultures 18:4, Winter 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
The outlandish stories of the antics of early stock car racers immediately attracted me. Lloyd Seay and Roy Hall hauling liquor from Dawsonville to Atlanta one night and winning races the next day in the same car; Fonty Flock winning the Southern 500 wearing Bermuda shorts and argyle socks; his brother...
"That Ain't Your Name": An Engaged Identity and Other Gifts from a Dysfunctional Southern Family
An article from Southern Cultures 18:4, Winter 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
It was not until 1946 when my grandmother received a copy of the revised birth certificate in the mail from my father and blurted out to me 'That ain't your name,' that I really became aware of the problems. She quickly added, 'Your mother, she never got it right neither.'"
This article...