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Crafting Lives
African American Artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, 1770-1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
From the colonial period onward, black artisans in southern cities--thousands of free and enslaved carpenters, coopers, dressmakers, blacksmiths, saddlers, shoemakers, bricklayers, shipwrights, cabinetmakers, tailors, and others--played vital roles in their communities. Yet only a very few black craftspeople...
Reconstruction's Ragged Edge
The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
In this illuminating study, Steven E. Nash chronicles the history of Reconstruction as it unfolded in the mountains of western North Carolina. Nash presents a complex story of the region's grappling with the war's aftermath, examining the persistent wartime loyalties that informed bitter power struggles...
The Counterrevolution of Slavery
Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
In this comprehensive analysis of politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina, Manisha Sinha offers a provocative new look at the roots of southern separatism and the causes of the Civil War. Challenging works that portray secession as a fight for white liberty, she argues instead that it was...
Black Soldiers in Blue
African American Troops in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Inspired and informed by the latest research in African American, military, and social history, the fourteen original essays in this book tell the stories of the African American soldiers who fought for the Union cause.
An introductory essay surveys the history of the U.S. Colored Troops (USCT)...
Domesticating Slavery
The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
In this carefully crafted work, Jeffrey Young illuminates southern slaveholders' strange and tragic path toward a defiantly sectional mentality. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence and integrating political, religious, economic, and literary sources, he chronicles the growth of a slaveowning...
Judge Thomas Ruffin and the Shadows of Southern History
An article from Southern Cultures 17:3, The Memory Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Judge Thomas Ruffin and the Shadows of Southern History
by Sally Greene
North Carolina's State Capitol still houses a statue to one of southern history's most notorious pro-slave-owner judges. Why?
"Ruffin was ideologically sympathetic to the Confederate cause and remained so to...
Bittersweet Legacy
The Black and White 'Better Classes' in Charlotte, 1850-1910
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Bittersweet Legacy is the dramatic story of the relationship between two generations of black and white southerners in Charlotte, North Carolina, from 1850 to 1910. Janette Greenwood describes the interactions between black and white business and professional people--the 'better classes,' as they...
Where These Memories Grow
History, Memory, and Southern Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Southerners are known for their strong sense of history. But the kinds of memories southerners have valued--and the ways in which they have preserved, transmitted, and revitalized those memories--have been as varied as the region's inhabitants themselves.
This collection presents fresh and...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2017
While public debates over America's current foreign policy often treat American empire as a new phenomenon, this lively collection of essays offers a pointed reminder that visions of national and imperial greatness were a cornerstone of the new country when it was founded. In fact, notions of empire...
Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville
Essays in Relation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) and Herman Melville (1819-1891) addressed in their writings a range of issues that continue to resonate in American culture: the reach and limits of democracy; the nature of freedom; the roles of race, gender, and sexuality; and the place of the United States in the...
Americanism
New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
What is Americanism? The contributors to this volume recognize Americanism in all its complexity--as an ideology, an articulation of the nation's rightful place in the world, a set of traditions, a political language, and a cultural style imbued with political meaning. In response to the pervasive...
The Best of Enemies, Movie Edition
Race and Redemption in the New South
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
C. P. Ellis grew up in the poor white section of Durham, North Carolina, and as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, a single mother from the poor black part of town, quit her job as a household domestic to join the civil rights fight. During the 1960s, as the country struggled with the...
Ducktown Smoke
The Fight over One of the South's Greatest Environmental Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
It is hard to make a desert in a place that receives sixty inches of rain each year. But after decades of copper mining, all that remained of the old hardwood forests in the Ducktown Mining District of the Southern Appalachian Mountains was a fifty-square mile barren expanse of heavily gullied red...
A Nation of Religions
The Politics of Pluralism in Multireligious America
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
The United States has long been described as a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of religions in which Muslims and Methodists, Buddhists and Baptists live and work side by side. This book explores that nation of religions, focusing on how four recently arrived religious communities--Muslims,...