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Southern Cultures: Southern Lives Issue
Summer 2010 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
In this special Southern Lives issue:
* Billy Carter dresses for all occasions.
* Virginia Foster Durr opens her home to recently released inmates.
* Michael McFee tours the Billy Graham Library.
* Septima Poinsette Clark celebrates fellow Civil Rights pioneers.
*...
"What Sells Me": Bill Clinton, 1974
An article from Southern Cultures 18:3, Fall 2012: The Politics Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
You can't be defensive about it. You don't apologize for it."
This article appears in the Fall 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook.
Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina...
Crossroads of the Natural World
Exploring North Carolina with Tom Earnhardt
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
In this richly illustrated love letter to the wild places and natural wonders of North Carolina, Tom Earnhardt, writer and host of UNC-TV's Exploring North Carolina and lifelong conservationist, seamlessly ties deep geological time and forgotten species from our distant past to the unparalleled biodiversity...
Wild North Carolina
Discovering the Wonders of Our State's Natural Communities
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Celebrating the beauty, diversity, and significance of the state's natural landscapes, Wild North Carolina provides an engaging, beautifully illustrated introduction to North Carolina's interconnected webs of plant and animal life. From dunes and marshes to high mountain crags, through forests, swamps,...
North Carolina's Barrier Islands
Wonders of Sand, Sea, and Sky
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
In this stunning book, nature photographer and ecologist David Blevins offers an inspiring visual journey to North Carolina's barrier islands as you have never seen them before. These islands are unique and ever-changing places with epic origins, surprising plants and animals, and an uncertain future....
North Carolina Parade
Stories of History and People
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
This volume contains a parade of exciting events written in a lively, readable style, with the purpose of pleasantly instructing the intermediate-grade student in North Carolina history. The scene offered represents a variety of state geography and historical periods, a diversity of occupations and...
The Practice and Politics of Fiat Finance
North Carolina in the Confederation, 1783-1789
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
This is an intensive examination of the financial and political considerations that shaped North Carolina's public financial policy during the confederation. The study emphasizes the relationship between domestic and state-funded financial policies and explores the influence that both those areas...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
The first African American to publish a book in the South, the author of the first female slave narrative in the United States, the father of black nationalism in America--these and other founders of African American literature have a surprising connection to one another: they all hailed from the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
This new collection of short stories centers exclusively on North Carolina and contains fifteen stories by fifteen authors. Along with the new generation of North Carolina writers, stories by such well-known writers as Thomas Wolfe, William Polk, and James Boyd are also included.
Originally...
Every True Pleasure
LGBTQ Tales of North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Some of North Carolina's finest fiction and nonfiction writers come together in Every True Pleasure, including David Sedaris, Kelly Link, Allan Gurganus, Randall Kenan, and more. Within the volume—featuring writers who identify as gay, trans, bisexual, and straight—are stories and essays that...
Two Captains from Carolina
Moses Grandy, John Newland Maffitt, and the Coming of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
In Two Captains from Carolina, Bland Simpson twines together the lives of two accomplished nineteenth-century mariners from North Carolina--one African American, one Irish American. Though Moses Grandy (ca. 1791- ca. 1850) and John Newland Maffitt Jr. (1819-1886) never met, their stories bring to...
by Beth Tartan
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Acknowledged as the classic work on North Carolina cuisine, North Carolina and Old Salem Cookery was first published in 1955. This new edition, marking the book's first appearance in paperback, has been revised and updated by the author and includes several dozen new dishes.
The book is already...
Race as Region, Region as Race: How Black and White Southerners Understand Their Regional Identities
Race as Region, Region as Race: How Black and White Southerners Understand Their Regional Identities
An article from Southern Cultures 18:4, Winter 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
'You've never been black, have you? No, if you'd been black, you wouldn't ask no silly-ass question like that.'"
This article appears in the Winter 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook.
Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer,...
by William S. Powell
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
This successor to the classic Lefler-Newsome North Carolina: The History of a Southern State, published in 1954, presents a fresh survey history that includes the contemporary scene. Drawing upon recent scholarship, the advice of specialists, and his own knowledge, Powell has created a splendid narrative...