Books from UNC Press Books
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Surrogate Suburbs: Black Upward Mobility and Neighborhood Change in Cleveland, 1900–1980
By Todd M. MichneyOn pre–New Deal African American homeownership, see Woofter, Negro Problems, 137–51; and Charles S. Johnson, prep., Negro Housing: Report of the Committee ...
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The Memoirs of Lt. Henry Timberlake: The Story of a Soldier, Adventurer, and Emissary to the Cherokees, 1756-1765
By Henry TimberlakeThis is the first modern scholarly edition of what is considered the most detailed ethnographic account of Cherokee life in the late 18th century.
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Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South
By Karen L. CoxThere, Charles became the rector of St. James Church in Port Gibson, a small town about halfway between Natchez and Vicksburg. Why he left after serving Christ Church for nearly three decades is a mystery, though his marriage to a ...
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Convulsed States: Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Remaking of Early America
By Jonathan Todd HancockJonathan Plummer, a traveling poet, preacher, and publisher in New England, directly blamed the earthquakes and an outbreak of spotted fever in New Hampshire on the reading of Paine's tract The Age of Reason. “These, as the book of the ...
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Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West
By Susan Lee JohnsonDenver: Will H. Richards, 1915. Bresser's Cross- Index Directory of Greater Denver, 1965–66. Denver: Walter Bresser and Sons, 1965. Chicago Telephone Directory. Chicago: Illinois Bell Telephone Company, 1941–47.
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Agrarian Capitalism in Theory and Practice
By Susan MannIn International Perspectives in Rural Sociology , edited by H. Newby , pp . 3-30 . ... London : G. Bell and Sons . ... Owens , Leslie H. 1976 This Species of Property : Slave Life and Culture in the Old South .
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Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta
By Karen FergusonRouse, Lugenia Burns Hope, 73; Hallie Brooks interview, Box 35, LA. Harold Ickes to Eleanor Roosevelt, 20 October 1936, Reel II, Hope Papers; Mrs. John Hope to Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 25 September 1936, Reel II, Hope Papers; ...
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To Master the Boundless Sea: The U.S. Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire
By Jason W. SmithCartography and literature, text and map, word and image were inextricably linked in this expanding American maritime world.17 Among the most important of this genre is David Porter's Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean, ...
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Living at the Water's Edge: A Heritage Guide to the Outer Banks Byway
By Barbara Garrity-Blake, Karen Willis AmspacherCleveland will have to use an aeroplane or walk to the Light House wharf” (Beaufort News, January 7, 1926). Captain Cleveland was Cleveland Davis of Harkers Island. The Light House wharf was at Cape Lookout.
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Longing for the Bomb: Oak Ridge and Atomic Nostalgia
By Lindsey A. FreemanLonging for the Bomb traces the unusual story of the first atomic city and the emergence of American nuclear culture.
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River of Death--The Chickamauga Campaign: Volume 1: The Fall of Chattanooga
By William Glenn RobertsonWeekly Courier, 20 May 1863; Brown, Life of Walker, 1–163; Davis, “Georgia Firebrand,” 1–8; Warner, Generals in Gray, 323–24; Davis and Hoffman, Confederate General, 6:98–99; Eicher and Eicher, High Commands, 551; Boatner, ...
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If it Takes All Summer: The Battle of Spotsylvania
By William D. MatterGibson suggested that the messenger give these instructions to Colonel Hoffman , who was the ranking officer of the brigade , but the courier insisted that there just was not enough time for such niceties of protocol .
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With Malice toward Some: Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era
By William A. BlairBlue, Frederick J. Salmon P. Chase: A Life in Politics. ... Cook, Robert J. Civil War Senator: William Pitt Fessenden and the Fight to Save the American Republic. ... Cooper, William J., Jr. Jefferson Davis, American.
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Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South
By Robert R. KorstadZieger, CIO, 286–87 (all quotes); Rosswurm, CIO's Left-Led Unions, 1–2. 11. WSJ, November 12, 1949. 12. Hickey, “Radio Broadcast,” ODP. 13. Ibid.; WSJ, November 12, 1949. See Zieger,CIO, 254–55, for the record of left-led unions ...
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Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World
By Robert R. Korstad, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, James L. Leloudisworkers and Civil Rights, 1936–1974,” in Zieger, Southern Labor in Transition, pp. 113–45; Alan Draper, “The New Southern Labor History Revisited: The Success of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union in Birmingham, 1934–1938,” ...
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We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners' Rights in Postwar America
By Robert T. ChaseZieger, Life and Labor, 2. On the postwar South and its transitional labor system and economy, see Zieger, Southern Labor in Transition; Cobb, Industrialization and Southern Society; Fite, Cotton Fields No More; Wright, Old South, ...
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Fragile Democracy: The Struggle over Race and Voting Rights in North Carolina
By Robert R. Korstad, James L. LeloudisZieger, Robert. The CIO: 1935–1955. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Zogry, Kenneth Joel. “The House That Dr. Pope Built: Race, Politics, Memory, and the Early Struggle for Civil Rights in North Carolina.
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The Golden Age of Pinehurst: The Story of the Rebirth of
By Lee PaceYear Champion 1902 Alex Ross 1903 Donald Ross 1904 Alex Ross 1905 Donald Ross 1906 Donald Ross 1907 Alex Ross 1908 Alex Ross 1909 Fred McLeod 1910 Alex Ross 1911 Gil Nichols 1912 Tom McNamara 1913 Tom McNamara 1914 Gil Nichols 1915 Alex ...
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After the Trail of Tears: The Cherokees' Struggle for Sovereignty, 1839-1880
By William G. McLoughlinThe Cherokees' Struggle for Sovereignty, 1839-1880 William G. McLoughlin ... Muskogee Pittsburgh and & Okmulgee § s Gulf Railroad & § *s & *g§ 'cy rty § g ño and Gulf Railroad * '# ty & CREEK NATION Eufaula #2 e Wetumka £anadian River ...
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The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave: Related by Herself
By Mary PrinceDocSouth Books uses the latest digital technologies to make these works available in paperback and e-book formats. Each book contains a short summary and is otherwise unaltered from the original publication.