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Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont
A Guidebook
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Read your way across North Carolina's Piedmont in the second of a series of regional guides that bring the state's rich literary history to life for travelers and residents. Eighteen tours direct readers to sites that more than two hundred Tar Heel authors have explored in their fiction, poetry, plays,...
"No Juan Crow!": Documenting the Immigration Debate in Alabama Today
An article from Southern Cultures 18:3, Fall 2012: The Politics Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The bill gained quick notoriety for outdoing Arizona, Georgia, and all other states in the restrictions and penalties levied on unauthorized immigrants, as well as on the citizens, community members, employers, and health and law enforcement agencies that assist, employ, or regulate them."
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
This collection of diverse pieces--excerpts from novels, essays, poems, historical records, and newspaper and magazine articles--is a warm and interesting summing-up of North Carolina. The tone of the contents varies from the humorous to the grave. They are alternately touching, rollicking, and genuinely...
The Past, Present, and Future of Southern Politics
An article from Southern Cultures 18:3, Fall 2012: The Politics Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The apparent partisan stability of contemporary southern politics belies a complex and dynamic process that makes it doubtful one party can persist as the dominant force in the most diverse region of the United States . . . This truly ain't your daddy's Dixie."
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Pauli Murray and Caroline Ware
Forty Years of Letters in Black and White
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
In 1942 Pauli Murray, a young black woman from North Carolina studying law at Howard University, visited a constitutional law class taught by Caroline Ware, one of the nation's leading historians. A friendship and a correspondence began, lasting until Murray's death in 1985. Ware, a Boston Brahmin...
Southern Cultures: Southern Lives Issue
Summer 2010 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
In this special Southern Lives issue:
* Billy Carter dresses for all occasions.
* Virginia Foster Durr opens her home to recently released inmates.
* Michael McFee tours the Billy Graham Library.
* Septima Poinsette Clark celebrates fellow Civil Rights pioneers.
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"What Sells Me": Bill Clinton, 1974
An article from Southern Cultures 18:3, Fall 2012: The Politics Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
You can't be defensive about it. You don't apologize for it."
This article appears in the Fall 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook.
Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina...
"The Issue Is the Control of Public Schools": The Politics of Desegregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia
An article from Southern Cultures 18:3, Fall 2012: The Politics Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Warren Brown recounts his hurried educational career. Unable to attend school until he was ten years old, Brown completed twelve grades in just seven years."
This article appears in the Fall 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook.
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North Carolina Parade
Stories of History and People
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
This volume contains a parade of exciting events written in a lively, readable style, with the purpose of pleasantly instructing the intermediate-grade student in North Carolina history. The scene offered represents a variety of state geography and historical periods, a diversity of occupations and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
North Carolina's Paul Green (1894-1981) was part of that remarkable generation of writers who first brought southern writing to the attention of the world. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1927, Green was a restless experimenter who pioneered a new form of theater with his "symphonic drama,"...
Covered with Glory
The 26th North Carolina Infantry at the Battle of Gettysburg
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The battle of Gettysburg was the largest engagement of the Civil War, and--with more than 51,000 casualties--also the deadliest. The highest regimental casualty rate at Gettysburg, an estimated 85 percent, was incurred by the 26th North Carolina Infantry. Who were these North Carolinians? Why were...
"The Deepest Reality of Life": Southern Sociology, the WPA, and Food in the New South
An article from Southern Cultures 18:2, Summer 2012: The Special Issue on Food
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
'I know your damned photographer's soul writhes, but to hell with it. Do you think I give a damn about a photographer's soul with Hitler at our doorstep?'"
This article appears in the Summer 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook.
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Every Ounce a Man’s Whiskey?: Bourbon in the White Masculine South
An article from Southern Cultures 18:1, Spring 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The hot bite of the Bourbon sensuously connects the body of the drinker to nation, region, and locale, enjoining his experience with those of imagined, historical bodies, soaking up space and place in the slow burn of what appears an endless southern summertime."
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Southern Cultures
Volume 18: Number 4 – Winter 2012 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
In the Winter 2012 issue of Southern Cultures…
The Great Debate: NASCAR vs. College Football
Undercover: Inside the World of the Debutante
On the Backroads: Country Stores and the Days of Yore
A Look at the Numbers: Race and Region in the American South and Beyond
Autobiography: Cotton Milling...