The University Of North Carolina: 2383 books
A Different Day
African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900-1970
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Examining African Americans' struggles for freedom and justice in rural Louisiana during the Jim Crow and civil rights eras, Greta de Jong illuminates the connections between the informal strategies of resistance that black people pursued in the early twentieth century and the mass protests that emerged...
by Josephus Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Born during the Civil War, Josephus Daniels has lived a remarkably full life and played a substantial part in one of the most significant periods of our nation's history. This volume of the autobiography of Wilson's secretary of the navy covers the period up to the year 1893 and is concerned with...
Himmler's Auxiliaries
The Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle and the German National Minorities of Europe, 1933-1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Lumans studies the relations between Nazi Germany and the German minority populations of other European countries, examining these ties within the context of Hitler's foreign policy and the racial policies of SS Chief Heinrich Himmler. He shows how the Reich's racial and political interests in these...
Hitler and the Forgotten Nazis
A History of Austrian National Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Pauley shows that the Austrian Nazis were not compliant servants to the German Nazi party and that they controlled a fascinating movement troubled by contradictions between perverted idealism and violence. Pauley analyzes the Austrian Nazi party's social composition, leadership problems, slow growth...
Fields of Blood
The Prairie Grove Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
William L. Shea offers a gripping narrative of the events surrounding fighting at Prairie Grove, Arkansas, one of the great unsung battles of the Civil War, which effectively ended Confederate offensive operations west of the Mississippi River. Fields of Blood provides a colorful account of a grueling...
by Thomas W. Cutrer
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
[A] well-written, comprehensively researched biography.--Publishers Weekly
"Will both edify the scholar while captivating and entertaining the general reader. . . . Cutrer's research is impeccable, his prose vigorous, and his life of McCulloch likely to remain the standard for many years.--Civil...
Chained in Silence
Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
In 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available for hire. The resulting convict leasing system ensnared not only men but also African American women, who were forced to labor in camps and factories to make profits for private investors. In this vivid...
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 22: Science and Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Science and medicine have been critical to southern history and the formation of southern culture. For three centuries, scientists in the South have documented the lush natural world around them and set a lasting tradition of inquiry. The medical history of the region, however, has been at times tragic....
Black Marxism
The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European models of history and experience that...
by Cedric J. Robinson, Avery F. Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
An Anthropology of Marxism offers Cedric Robinson's analysis of the history of communalism that has been claimed by Marx and Marxists. Suggesting that the socialist ideal was embedded both in Western and non-Western civilizations and cultures long before the opening of the modern era and did not begin...
Shattering the Glass
The Remarkable History of Women's Basketball
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Reaching back over a century of struggle, liberation, and gutsy play, Shattering the Glass is a sweeping chronicle of women's basketball in the United States. Offering vivid portraits of forgotten heroes and contemporary stars, Pamela Grundy and Susan Shackelford provide a broad perspective on the...
The Jeanes Teacher in the United States, 1908-1933
An Account of Twenty-five Years' Experience in the Supervision of Negro Rural Schools
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Most educators have heard of the Jeanes Teachers and know something of their work as supervisors of black rural schools in the southern states. The present volume--historical, descriptive, and critical--is an account of the Jeanes movement from its inception down to 1933. Here is an excellent answer...
Forging Freedom
Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
For black women in antebellum Charleston, freedom was not a static legal category but a fragile and contingent experience. In this deeply researched social history, Amrita Chakrabarti Myers analyzes the ways in which black women in Charleston acquired, defined, and defended their own vision of freedom.
Drawing...
A Virginia Yankee in the Civil War
The Diaries of David Hunter Strother
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The Civil War diaries of David Hunter Strother, known better to his contemporaries as "Porte Crayon," chronicle his three years of service in the Union army with the same cogency and eye for detail that made him one of the most popular writers and illustrators in America in his time. A Virginian...