The University Of North Carolina: 2383 books
Winning Our Freedoms Together
African Americans and Apartheid, 1945–1960
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
In this transnational account of black protest, Nicholas Grant examines how African Americans engaged with, supported, and were inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement. Bringing black activism into conversation with the foreign policy of both the U.S. and South African governments, this...
Wandering Souls
Protestant Migrations in America, 1630-1865
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Popular literature and frontier studies stress that Americans moved west to farm or to seek a new beginning. Scott Rohrer argues that Protestant migrants in early America relocated in search of salvation, Christian community, reform, or all three.
In Wandering Souls, Rohrer examines the migration...
by John Williams, J. Kenneth Morland
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
A social-developmental psychologist and a social anthropologist describe what is known--and what needs to be investigated--concerning the development of race and color concepts in young children. The authors summarize the results of their fifteen-year research and integrate their findings with those...
Chinese Cubans
A Transnational History
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
In the mid-nineteenth century, Cuba's infamous "coolie" trade brought well over 100,000 Chinese indentured laborers to its shores. Though subjected to abominable conditions, they were followed during subsequent decades by smaller numbers of merchants, craftsmen, and free migrants searching for better...
An African Republic
Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
The nineteenth-century American Colonization Society (ACS) project of persuading all American free blacks to emigrate to the ACS colony of Liberia could never be accomplished. Few free blacks volunteered, and greater numbers would have overwhelmed the meager resources of the ACS. Given that reality,...
Heroism and the Black Intellectual
Ralph Ellison, Politics, and Afro-American Intellectual Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Before and after writing Invisible Man, novelist and essayist Ralph Ellison fought to secure a place as a black intellectual in a white-dominated society. In this sophisticated analysis of Ellison's cultural politics, Jerry Watts examines the ways in which black artists and thinkers attempt to establish...
by Laura Kalman
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
For more than one hundred years, Harvard's use of the case method of appellate opinions dominated legal education. Deploring the attempt to reduce law to an autonomous system of rules and principles, the realists at Yale developed a functional approach to the discipline--one that stressed the factual...
by Earl J. Hess
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Sweeping away many of the myths that have long surrounded Pickett's Charge, Earl Hess offers the definitive history of the most famous military action of the Civil War. He transforms exhaustive research into a moving narrative account of the assault from both Union and Confederate perspectives, analyzing its planning, execution, aftermath, and legacy.
Set Fair for Roanoke
Voyages and Colonies, 1584-1606
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Quinn's study brings together the results of his nearly fifty years of research on the voyages outfitted by Sir Walter Raleigh and the efforts to colonize Roanoke Island. It is a fascinating book, rich in details of the colonists' experiences in the New World. Quinn "solves" the mystery...
Revising Life
Sylvia Plath's Ariel Poems
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
'Provides a compelling argument for Plath's revision of the painful parts of her life--the failed marriage, her anxiety for success, and her ambivalence towards her mother. . . . The reader will feel the tension in the poetry and the life.'Choice '[Examines] Plath's twin goals of becoming a famous...
Journal of the Civil War Era
Fall 2014 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The Journal of the Civil War Era
Volume 4, Number 3, September 2014
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editor's Note, William Blair
Articles
Felicity Turner
Rights and the Ambiguities of Law: Infanticide in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. South
Paul Quigley
Civil War Conscription and the International Boundaries...
Black Neighbors
Race and the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Movement, 1890-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Professing a policy of cultural and social integration, the American settlement house movement made early progress in helping immigrants adjust to life in American cities. However, when African Americans migrating from the rural South in the early twentieth century began to replace white immigrants...
Almighty God Created the Races
Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
In this fascinating cultural history of interracial marriage and its legal regulation in the United States, Fay Botham argues that religion--specifically, Protestant and Catholic beliefs about marriage and race--had a significant effect on legal decisions concerning miscegenation and marriage in the...
by Lesley J. Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The man who gave his name to the greatest failed frontal attack in American military history, George E. Pickett is among the most famous Confederate generals of the Civil War. But even today he remains imperfectly understood, a figure shrouded in Lost Cause mythology. In this carefully researched...