The University Of North Carolina: 2383 books
Hiking and Traveling the Blue Ridge Parkway
The Only Guide You Will Ever Need, Including GPS, Detailed Maps, and More
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
This comprehensive guidebook provides a detailed description of every official trail along the Blue Ridge Parkway. But that's just the beginning: veteran hiker Leonard M. Adkins includes information on every trail that touches the Parkway, including the Appalachian Trail, the Mountains-to-Sea Trail,...
Chicago's New Negroes
Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
As early-twentieth-century Chicago swelled with an influx of at least 250,000 new black urban migrants, the city became a center of consumer capitalism, flourishing with professional sports, beauty shops, film production companies, recording studios, and other black cultural and communal institutions....
Modern Bodies
Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2003
In 1930, dancer and choreographer Martha Graham proclaimed the arrival of "dance as an art of and from America." Dancers such as Doris Humphrey, Ted Shawn, Katherine Dunham, and Helen Tamiris joined Graham in creating a new form of dance, and, like other modernists, they experimented with and argued...
Crescent City Girls
The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
What was it like to grow up black and female in the segregated South? To answer this question, LaKisha Simmons blends social history and cultural studies, recreating children's streets and neighborhoods within Jim Crow New Orleans and offering a rare look into black girls' personal lives. Simmons...
Neither Lady nor Slave
Working Women of the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
Although historians over the past two decades have written extensively on the plantation mistress and the slave woman, they have largely neglected the world of the working woman. Neither Lady nor Slave pushes southern history beyond the plantation to examine the lives and labors of ordinary southern...
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 16: Sports and Recreation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
What southerners do, where they go, and what they expect to accomplish in their spare time, their "leisure," reveals much about their cultural values, class and racial similarities and differences, and historical perspectives. This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers an authoritative...
Staging Depth
Eugene O'neill and the Politics of Psychological Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Until now, Eugene O'Neill's psychological dramas have been analyzed mainly by critics who relied on obvious parallels between O'Neill's life, his family, and his plays. In this theoretically expansive and interdisciplinary book, Joel Pfister reassesses what was at stake ideologically in O'Neill's...
by Timothy Dow Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
All autobiographers are unreliable narrators. Yet what a writer chooses to misrepresent is as telling -- perhaps even more so -- as what really happened. Timothy Adams believes that autobiography is an attempt to reconcile one's life with one's self, and he argues in this book that autobiography should...
Colored Travelers
Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Americans have long regarded the freedom of travel a central tenet of citizenship. Yet, in the United States, freedom of movement has historically been a right reserved for whites. In this book, Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor shows that African Americans fought obstructions to their mobility over 100 years...
by Diane Miller Sommerville
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Challenging notions of race and sexuality presumed to have originated and flourished in the slave South, Diane Miller Sommerville traces the evolution of white southerners' fears of black rape by examining actual cases of black-on-white rape throughout the nineteenth century.
Sommerville demonstrates...
Frances Willard
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Frances Willard (1839-98), national president of the WCTU, headed the first mass organization of American women, and through the work of this group, women were able to move into public life by 1900. Willard inspired this process by her skillful leadership, her broad social vision, and her traditional...
Archives of Desire
The Queer Historical Work of New England Regionalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
In this thought-provoking study of nineteenth-century America, J. Samaine Lockwood offers an important new interpretation of the literary movement known as American regionalism. Lockwood argues that regionalism in New England was part of a widespread woman-dominated effort to rewrite history. Lockwood...
Consumers' Imperium
The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Histories of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era tend to characterize the United States as an expansionist nation bent on Americanizing the world without being transformed itself. In Consumers' Imperium, Kristin Hoganson reveals the other half of the story, demonstrating that the years between the...
by Kimberly M. Welch
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
In the antebellum Natchez district, in the heart of slave country, black people sued white people in all-white courtrooms. They sued to enforce the terms of their contracts, recover unpaid debts, recuperate back wages, and claim damages for assault. They sued in conflicts over property and personal...