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Shifting Loyalties
The Union Occupation of Eastern North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
In the spring of 1862, Union forces marched into neighboring Carteret and Craven Counties in southeastern North Carolina, marking the beginning of an occupation that would continue for the rest of the war. Focusing on a wartime community with divided allegiances, Judkin Browning offers new insights...
Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains
An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
Each year, thousands of tourists visit Mount Mitchell, the most prominent feature of North Carolina's Black Mountain range and the highest peak in the eastern United States. From Native Americans and early explorers to land speculators and conservationists, people have long been drawn to this rugged...
by Manly Wade Wellman
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This is the story of a region at once representative and unique in the history of Southern culture, which was from its earliest colonial beginnings a focus of strength, intellect, and proud individuality.
Warren County, North Carolina, heart of the Roanoke Region, early built for grace and...
Print News and Raise Hell
The Daily Tar Heel and the Evolution of a Modern University
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
For over 125 years, the Daily Tar Heel has chronicled life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at times pushed and prodded the university community on issues of local, state, and national significance. Thousands of students have served on its staff, many of whom have gone on to...
Roanoke Island
The Beginnings of English America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Well before the Jamestown settlers first sighted the Chesapeake Bay or the Mayflower reached the coast of Massachusetts, the first English colony in America was established on Roanoke Island. David Stick tells the story of that fascinating period in North Carolina's past, from the first expedition...
Southeastern Geographer
Economic Geography in the South, Spring 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Southeastern Geographer is published by UNC Press for the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers (www.sedaag.org). The quarterly journal publishes the academic work of geographers and other social and physical scientists, and features peer-reviewed articles and essays that...
Circa 1903
North Carolina's Outer Banks at the Dawn of Flight
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
Standing along the coast of today's Outer Banks, it can be hard to envision the barrier island world at Kitty Hawk as it appeared to Wilbur and Orville Wright when they first arrived in 1900 to begin their famous experiments leading to the world's first powered flight three years later. Around 1903,...
Moments of Despair
Suicide, Divorce, and Debt in Civil War Era North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
During the Civil War era, black and white North Carolinians were forced to fundamentally reinterpret the morality of suicide, divorce, and debt as these experiences became pressing issues throughout the region and nation. In Moments of Despair, David Silkenat explores these shifting sentiments.
Antebellum...
The Day Is Past and Gone: Family Photographs from Eastern North Carolina
An article from Southern Cultures 17:2, The Photography Issue
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Part essay, part memory—this piece finds the perfect form to explore the pictures that might rely most for meaning on the stories that accompany them: family photos. This article appears in the Summer 2011 issue of Southern Cultures: The Photography Issue."'It is in fact hard to get the camera...
The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
Sentinel of the Shoals
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Since 1871 the Cape Hatteras lighthouse has been a welcome sight for sailors entering the treacherous region off North Carolina's Outer Banks known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic. At 208 feet high, it is the tallest lighthouse in the country and one of the state's most famous landmarks. Through...
A History of the Oratorio
Vol. 4: The Oratorio in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
With this volume, Howard Smither completes his monumental History of the Oratorio. Volumes 1 and 2, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1977, treated the oratorio in the Baroque era, while Volume 3, published in 1987, explored the genre in the Classical era. Here, Smither surveys...
The Fire of Freedom
Abraham Galloway and the Slaves' Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
Abraham H. Galloway (1837-1870) was a fiery young slave rebel, radical abolitionist, and Union spy who rose out of bondage to become one of the most significant and stirring black leaders in the South during the Civil War. Throughout his brief, mercurial life, Galloway fought against slavery and injustice....
Lee’s Army Has Not Lost Any of Its Prestige
A UNC Press Civil War Short, Excerpted from The Third Day at Gettysburg and Beyond, edited by Gary W. Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In this Civil War Short, Gary W. Gallagher surveys Confederate sentiment in the summer of 1863 and argues that many southerners did not view the battle of Gettysburg as a resounding defeat. Gallagher makes the compelling case that, although southern casualties were tremendous, Confederates across...
Lee's Tar Heels
The Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
The Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade was one of North Carolina's best-known and most successful units during the Civil War. Formed in 1862, the brigade spent nearly a year protecting supply lines before being thrust into its first major combat at Gettysburg. There, James Johnston Pettigrew's men...