The University Of North Carolina: 2383 books
by Freeman Tilden
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2009
Every year millions of Americans visit national parks and monuments, state and municipal parks, battlefields, historic houses, and museums. By means of guided walks and talks, tours, exhibits, and signs, visitors experience these areas through a very special kind of communication technique known as...
From Welfare to Workfare
The Unintended Consequences of Liberal Reform, 1945-1965
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
In 1996, Democratic president Bill Clinton and the Republican-controlled Congress "ended welfare as we know it" and trumpeted "workfare" as a dramatic break from the past. But, in fact, workfare was not new. Jennifer Mittelstadt locates the roots of the 1996 welfare reform many decades in the past,...
There's Always Work at the Post Office
African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
This book brings to life the important but neglected story of African American postal workers and the critical role they played in the U.S. labor and black freedom movements. Historian Philip Rubio, a former postal worker, integrates civil rights, labor, and left movement histories that too often...
Labor Under Fire
A History of the AFL-CIO since 1979
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
From the Reagan years to the present, the labor movement has faced a profoundly hostile climate. As America's largest labor federation, the AFL-CIO was forced to reckon with severe political and economic headwinds. Yet the AFL-CIO survived, consistently fighting for programs that benefited millions...
France Restored
Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Leadership in Europe, 1944-1954
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Historians of the Cold War, argues William Hitchcock, have too
often overlooked the part that European nations played in shaping
the post-World War II international system. In particular,
France, a country beset by economic difficulties and political
instability in the aftermath of the war, has been...
Walker Percy Remembered
A Portrait in the Words of Those Who Knew Him
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
Walker Percy (1916-1990), the reclusive southern author most famous for his 1961 novel The Moviegoer, spent much of his adult life in Covington, Louisiana. In the spirit of traditional southern storytelling, this biography of Percy takes its shape from candid interviews with his family, close friends,...
Community Journalism
Relentlessly Local
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2009
No matter how ambitious they may be, most novice journalists don't get their start at the New York Times. They get their first jobs at smaller local community newspapers that require a different style of reporting than the detached, impersonal approach expected of major international publications....
Citizens in Arms
The Army and Militia in American Society to the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This first study to discuss the important ideological role of the military in the early political life of the nation examines the relationship between revolutionary doctrine and the practical considerations of military planning before and after the American Revolution. Americans wanted and effective...
The Global Dimensions of Irish Identity
Race, Nation, and the Popular Press, 1840-1880
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Though Ireland is a relatively small island on the northeastern fringe of the Atlantic, 70 million people worldwide--including some 45 million in the United States--claim it as their ancestral home. In this wide-ranging, ambitious book, Cian T. McMahon explores the nineteenth-century roots of this...
Journal of the Civil War Era
Winter 2014 Issue -- Coming to Terms with Civil War Military History: A Special Issue
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
The Journal of the Civil War Era
Volume 4, Number 4
December 2014
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Articles
Gary Gallagher & Kathryn Shively Meier
Coming to Terms with Civil War Military History
Peter C. Luebke
"Equal to Any Minstrel Concert I Ever Attended at Home": Union Soldiers...
Stone Free
Jimi Hendrix in London, September 1966–June 1967
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
A compelling portrait of rock's greatest guitarist at the moment of his ascendance, Stone Free is the first book to focus exclusively on the happiest and most productive period of Jimi Hendrix's life. As it begins in the fall of 1966, he's an under-sung, under-accomplished sideman struggling to survive...
Exiles in a Land of Liberty
Mormons in America, 1830-1846
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Using the concept of "classical republicanism" in his analysis, Kenneth Winn argues against the common view that the Mormon religion was an exceptional phenomenon representing a countercultural ideology fundamentally subversive to American society. Rather, he maintains, both the Saints and their enemies...
Brazil
A Century of Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
Brazil, the largest of the Latin American nations, is fast becoming a potent international economic player as well as a regional power. This English translation of an acclaimed Brazilian anthology provides critical overviews of Brazilian life, history, and culture and insight into Brazil's development...
Cuba in the American Imagination
Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
For more than two hundred years, Americans have imagined and described Cuba and its relationship to the United States by conjuring up a variety of striking images--Cuba as a woman, a neighbor, a ripe fruit, a child learning to ride a bicycle. Louis A. Perez Jr. offers a revealing history of these...