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The Month of Their Ripening
North Carolina Heritage Foods through the Year
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
Telling the stories of twelve North Carolina heritage foods, each matched to the month of its peak readiness for eating, Georgann Eubanks takes readers on a flavorful journey across the state. She begins in January with the most ephemeral of southern ingredients—snow—to witness Tar Heels making...
Along Freedom Road
Hyde County, North Carolina, and the Fate of Black Schools in the South
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
David Cecelski chronicles one of the most sustained and successful protests of the civil rights movement--the 1968-69 school boycott in Hyde County, North Carolina. For an entire year, the county's black citizens refused to send their children to school in protest of a desegregation plan that required...
North Carolina Slave Narratives
The Lives of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy, and Thomas H. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2006
The autobiographies of former slaves contributed powerfully to the abolitionist movement in the United States, fanning national--even international--indignation against the evils of slavery. The four texts gathered here are all from North Carolina slaves and are among the most memorable and influential...
A Death Retold
Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
In February 2003, an undocumented immigrant teen from Mexico lay dying in a prominent American hospital due to a stunning medical oversight--she had received a heart-lung transplantation of the wrong blood type. In the following weeks, Jesica Santillan's tragedy became a portal into the complexities...
by William M. Palmer, Alvin L. Braswell
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Based on more than twenty years of research in the field and in museum collections, Reptiles of North Carolina is the definitive work on the 71 reptile species found in the state. It is an indispensable resource for herpetologists, zoologists, ecologists, and wildlife managers, and it will be enjoyed...
One Fantastic Ride
The Inside Story of Carolina Basketball's 2009 Championship Season
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
One Fantastic Ride is a behind-the-scenes portrait of the unforgettable journey to the University of North Carolina's 2009 basketball national championship, the program's fifth NCAA Tournament title. Adam Lucas, Steve Kirschner, and Matt Bowers were with the Tar Heels every step of the way, interviewing...
by B. W. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
For seventy years, The Natural Gardens of North Carolina has been a must-read volume for anyone interested in wildflowers, native plants, ecology, or conservation in the state. This handsome revised edition features new line drawings and color photographs, an appendix that updates the botanical nomenclature,...
The Last Battleground
The Civil War Comes to North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
To understand the long march of events in North Carolina from secession to surrender is to understand the entire Civil War--a personal war waged by Confederates and Unionists, free blacks and the enslaved, farm women and plantation belles, Cherokees and mountaineers, conscripts and volunteers, gentleman...
The Farmhouse Chef
Recipes and Stories from My Carolina Farm
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Jamie DeMent opens a bright kitchen window onto the newest kind of North Carolina farming life. On fifty-five acres of beautiful Piedmont farmland in Hillsborough, North Carolina, DeMent and her family raise sustainably nurtured and sought-after heirloom varieties of produce and livestock. Every day...
by Albert E. Radford, Harry E. Ahles, C. Ritchie Bell
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
This illustrated manual describes and discusses the unusually rich and varied flora of the Carolinas, from the semi-tropical coast of South Carolina to the northern forests of the high North Carolina mountains.
The manual treats in detail and in a concise format more than 3, 200 species of...
Helms and Hunt
The North Carolina Senate Race, 1984
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
In 1984 Jesse Helms, television-commentator-turned-politician and high priest of the New Right in the U.S. Senate, and James Hunt Jr., North Carolina's first two-term governor in the twentieth century, clashed in a $22 million campaign that was the most costly race for a U.S. Senate seat in American...
Southeastern Geographer
Summer 2012 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Table of Contents for Volume 52, Number 2 (Summer 2012)
Cover Art: Southern Maryland Tobacco Barn
Richard A. Russo
Introduction
David M. Cochran, Jr. and Carl A. Reese
Part I: Papers
''Where Can I Build My Student Housing?'': The Politics of Studentification in Athens-Clarke...
by John Lawson
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2000
John Lawson's amazingly detailed yet lively book is easily one of the most valuable of the early histories of the Carolinas, and it is certainly one of the best travel accounts of the early eighteenth-century colonies. An inclusive account of the manners and customs of the Indian tribes of that day,...
A Delicious Country
Rediscovering the Carolinas along the Route of John Lawson's 1700 Expedition
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
In 1700, a young man named John Lawson left London and landed in Charleston, South Carolina, hoping to make a name for himself. For reasons unknown, he soon undertook a two-month journey through the still-mysterious Carolina backcountry. His travels yielded A New Voyage to Carolina in 1709, one of...