The University Of North Carolina Press: 2381 books
North Carolina's Hurricane History
Fourth Edition, Updated with a Decade of New Storms from Isabel to Sandy
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
North Carolina's Hurricane History charts the more than fifty great storms that have battered the Tar Heel State from the colonial era through Irene in 2011 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012, two of the costliest hurricanes on record. Drawing on news reports, National Weather Service records, and eyewitness...
Southern Cultures
Winter 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
In the Winter 2010 issue of Southern Cultures:
Hal Crowther takes on H.L. Mencken (and Rush Limbaugh, too);
Southerners battle hornets, rattlesnakes, and bears—so they can pick blackberries;
Cowboy Troy crosses country music with hip-hop and says his belt buckle is bling;
The...
Turned Inside Out: Black, White, and Irish in the South
An article from Southern Cultures 18:1, Spring 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
As a place where Black and Green were in perpetual contact, the Atlantic South furnishes an ideal case study in how these peoples moved with, against, and around one another."
This article appears in the Spring 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook.
Southern...
Southern Cultures: Remembering the Civil War Issue
Volume 19: Number 3 – Fall 2013 Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Our Fall 2013 special issue commemorates the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War. Featuring essays on the birth of photojournalism at the Battle of Antietam, the struggle over history and memory in the pages of Confederate Veteran Magazine, a historian's-eye-view of Charleston's Secession Ball, poetry...
The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics
The Personalities, Elections, and Events That Shaped Modern North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
How can a state be represented by Jesse Helms and John Edwards at the same time? Journalist Rob Christensen answers that question and navigates a century of political history in North Carolina, one of the most politically vibrant and competitive southern states, where neither conservatives nor liberals,...
The North Carolina Gazetteer, 2nd Ed
A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places and Their History
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
The North Carolina Gazetteer first appeared to wide acclaim in 1968 and has remained an essential reference for anyone with a serious interest in the Tar Heel State, from historians to journalists, from creative writers to urban planners, from backpackers to armchair travelers.
This revised...
Chocolate Pie
Poetry from Southern Cultures 18:2, Summer 2012: The Special Issue on Food
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Chocolate Pie
Poetry by Michael Chitwood
"The woman who made it
hadn't been to church
in years . . ."
This article appears in the Summer 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook.
Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer,...
Southern Cultures: 2011 Music Issue, Enhanced Ebook
Winter 2011 Issue, includes Music tracks
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The Music Issue enhanced eBook include all the tracks on our special CD and:
The tell-all letter from a teenage girl who kissed—and kissed—Elvis Presley
How corruption and greed made the Jacksonville music scene
Gretchen Wilson, country music's "Redneck Woman"
The...
by Sarah Bryan, Beverly Patterson, Michelle Lanier
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Thelonius Monk, Billy Taylor, and Maceo Parker--famous jazz artists who have shared the unique sounds of North Carolina with the world--are but a few of the dynamic African American artists from eastern North Carolina featured in The African American Music Trails of Eastern North Carolina. This first-of-its-kind...
by John H. Haley
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Charles N. Hunter, one of North Carolina's outstanding black reformers, was born a slave in Raleigh around 1851, and he lived there until his death in 1931. As public school teacher, journalist, and historian, Hunter devoted his long life to improving opportunities for blacks.
A political activist,...
by John G. Barrett
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Eleven battles and seventy-three skirmishes were fought in North Carolina during the Civil War. Although the number of men involved in many of these engagements was comparatively small, the campaigns and battles themselves were crucial in the grand strategy of the conflict and involved some of the...
North Carolina Politics
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
This descriptive and analytic study provides a concise but comprehensive introduction to the structure and nature of politics in North Carolina. The book examines several major subjects with a focus on the 1940-66 period, delineating intra- and inter-party competition during that crucial period of...
Louis Austin and the Carolina Times
A Life in the Long Black Freedom Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Louis Austin (1898–1971) came of age at the nadir of the Jim Crow era and became a transformative leader of the long black freedom struggle in North Carolina. From 1927 to 1971, he published and edited the Carolina Times, the preeminent black newspaper in the state. He used the power of the press...
by Paul Luebke
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Offering an insightful analysis of North Carolina political trends and personalities, Paul Luebke moves beyond the usual labels of Republican and Democrat, conservative and liberal. In Tar Heel Politics 2000, he argues that North Carolina's real political battle is between two factions of the state's...