Books from University of North Carolina Press
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Surrogate Suburbs: Black Upward Mobility and Neighborhood Change in Cleveland 1900-1980
By Todd Michney"Second ghetto" or surrogate suburb?: black mobility in the twentieth-century outer city -- The roots of upward mobility: outlying black settlement before 1940 -- Expanding black settlement in the 1940s: Glenville and Mount Pleasant -- ...
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The Papers of General Nathanael Greene: 11 May 1779-31 October 1779
By Nathanael GreeneFrom George Washington Sir Head Quarters Middlebrook [ N.J. ] 19th May 1779 I inclose you a letter from Major General Sullivan ( of the 18th instant ) with the several papers to which he refers . The difficulties that have arisen ...
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Gettysburg--Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill
Gettysburg--Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill
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The Papers of General Nathanael Greene: 1 October 1782-21 May 1783
By Nathanael GreeneEncloses a letter from Mr. Andrew Johnston ( not found ) concerning goods that Johnston furnished to the Third Regiment of Light Dragoons " last spring . " 1 Johnston was " of very great service , " but Call , who would do anything ...
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Engines of Diplomacy: Indian Trading Factories and the Negotiation of American Empire
By David Andrew NicholsCover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations, Maps, and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 A Trade upon Public Ground -- 2 Local Agendas and National Goals -- 3 Like So Many Armies -- 4 ...
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Bertie County: A Brief History
By Alan D. WatsonFormed in 1722, Bertie County is one of North Carolina's oldest counties.
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Onslow County: A Brief History
By Alan D. WatsonArranged chronologically, this book traces coastal Onslow's social, economic, and political history from the county's creation in 1731 to the 1990s.
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North Carolina Legends
By Richard WalserThe 48 colorful Tar Heel tales in this volume include such well-known stories as "Virginia Dare and the White Doe" and "Old Dan Tucker" and such lesser known yarns as "The Portrait of Theodosia Burr" and "Bladenboro's Vamire Beast.
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Belligerent Muse: Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War
By Stephen CushmanBelligerent Muse: Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War
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Barbecue
By John Shelton ReedThis book will put southerners in touch with their heritage and let those who aren't southerners pretend that they are.
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A Place for Meaning: Art, Faith, and Museum Culture : Learning from the Five Faiths Project at the Ackland Art...
By Ackland Art Museum, Amanda Millay Hughes, Carolyn H. WoodThe text includes more than 80 full color illustrations, essays, and presentations by scholars and museum professionals, as well as practical advice for educators and others interested in teaching and learning about world religions.
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The Life and Times of General Andrew Pickens: Revolutionary War Hero, American Founder
By Rod AndrewIn this book, Rod Andrew Jr. offers the first comprehensive biography of Pickens, a hero at the pivotal Battle of Cowpens, in over a generation.
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Evolution
By Michael J. Simon, Susan Stokes RobertsThis volume offers a wonderful, in-depth look at the development of an enormously influential American potter. The contributors are: Glen R. Brown Emily Galusha Warren MacKenzie Mark Pharis Susan Stokes Roberts Mark Shapiro Michael Simon
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To Right These Wrongs: The North Carolina Fund and the Battle to End Poverty and Inequality in 1960s America
By Robert R. Korstad, James L. Leloudis" Illustrated with evocative photographs by Billy Barnes, To Right These Wrongs offers a lively account of this pioneering effort in America's War on Poverty.
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A Luminous Brotherhood: Afro-Creole Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
By Emily Suzanne ClarkIn this first comprehensive history of the Cercle, Emily Suzanne Clark illuminates how highly diverse religious practices wind in significant ways through American life, culture, and history.
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Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
By James BrooksAlways attentive to the corrosive effects of the "slave trade" on Indian and colonial societies, the book also explores slavery's centrality in intercultural trade, alliances, and "communities of interest" among groups often antagonistic to ...
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After Wilson: The Struggle for the Democratic Party, 1920-1934
By Douglas B. CraigCraig examines the bitter disputes that shook the Democratic Party in the 1920s and early 1930s and stressed ideological conflicts between conservative and progressive Democrats over economic and social policy....
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Land Reform in China and North Vietnam: Consolidating the Revolution at the Village Level
By Edwin E. MoïseThis first book to consider land reform in both countries show that reform, as the Communists have conducted it, can be justified in China and North Vietnam for both economic...
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The Southeast in Early Maps
By William Patterson Cumming, Louis De VorseyFirst published in 1958, The Southeast in Early Maps is William Cumming's classic study of the mapping of the Southeast before the American Revolution. By analyzing printed and manuscript maps...
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Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
By William R. Ferris, Charles Reagan WilsonThe American South is a geographical entity, a historical fact, a place in the imagination, and the homeland of an array of Americans who consider themselves southerners. The region is...