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Jewel in the Crown: Bonnie Cone and the Founding of Unc Charlotte by William Thomas Jeffers 9781469664088
$29.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469664088Author William Thomas JeffersFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint The University of North Carolina PressPublisher The University of North... -
Autobiography of John G. Fee, Berea, Kentucky by John G. Fee 9781469651552
RRP: $62.90$60.48Published in 1891, Autobiography of John G. Fee, Berea, Kentucky describes various incidents that epitomize Fee's experience as an abolitionist in the South, beginning with his religious conversion in early childhood. The text details his beliefs, his... -
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 22: Science and Medicine by Charles Reagan Wilson 9780807837207
RRP: $62.90$60.42Science and medicine have been critical to southern history and the formation of southern culture. For three centuries, scientists in the South have documented the lush natural world around them and set a lasting tradition of inquiry. The medical history... -
A Man of Bad Reputation: The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction by Drew A. Swanson 9781469674711
RRP: $52.40$46.41Five years after the Civil War, North Carolina Republican state senator John W. Stephens was found murdered inside the Caswell County Courthouse. Stephens fought for the rights of freedpeople, and his killing by the Ku Klux Klan ultimately led to... -
The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South by Michael Ayers Trotti 9781469670416
RRP: $69.20$63.11Before 1850, all legal executions in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands; the last legal public execution was in 1936. This study focuses on the shift from public executions to ones behind barriers, situating that... -
The Biography of a River Town: Memphis, Its Heroic Age by Gerald M. Capers Jr 9781469644387
RRP: $98.60$91.69The author tells the story of Memphis before 1900 as an approach to the study of a complex region where, in antebellum days, West met South, agriculture was linked with commerce, and, during the Civil War, economic interest clashed with sectional loyalty... -
Strike Injunctions in the New South by Duane McCracken 9781469641515
RRP: $98.60$91.69This is a collection of case studies of the effects of injunctions in southern towns which is based on court records and interviews with local officials and contestants involved in the cases. The author has examined the facts and has taken special care... -
Stories of the South: Race and the Reconstruction of Southern Identity, 1865-1915 by K. Stephen Prince 9781469627281
RRP: $69.20$64.58In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the character of the South, and even its persistence as a distinct region, was an open question. During Reconstruction, the North assumed significant power to redefine the South, imagining a region rebuilt and... -
Atlanta, Cradle of the New South: Race and Remembering in the Civil War's Aftermath by William A. Link 9781469626550
RRP: $69.20$64.11After conquering Atlanta in the summer of 1864 and occupying it for two months, Union forces laid waste to the city in November. William T. Sherman's invasion was a pivotal moment in the history of the South and Atlanta's rebuilding over the following... -
Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston by Amrita Chakrabarti Myers 9781469619040
RRP: $79.70$73.31For black women in antebellum Charleston, freedom was not a static legal category but a fragile and contingent experience. In this deeply researched social history, Amrita Chakrabarti Myers analyzes the ways in which black women in Charleston acquired,... -
The Story of North Carolina by Alex Mathews Arnett 9781469611990
RRP: $126.00$113.95This book begins with a social and economic picture of our ancestors in Europe and ends with a discussion of the recovery measures of Roosevelt in 1933. The authors demonstrate the influence of social and political forces on the growth of democracy, and... -
Library Resources of the University of North Carolina by Charles E. Rush 9781469641522
RRP: $98.60$91.69This volume contains an account of the history of the library from its earliest acquisitions by gift during the first session of the university in 1795 to its holdings of some half-million volumes by 1945; details of its system of cooperation with... -
Dixie Highway: Road Building and the Making of the Modern South, 1900-1930 by Tammy Ingram 9781469629827
RRP: $62.90$59.75At the turn of the twentieth century, good highways eluded most Americans and nearly all southerners. In their place, a jumble of dirt roads covered the region like a bed of briars. Introduced in 1915, the Dixie Highway changed all that by merging... -
To Right These Wrongs: The North Carolina Fund and the Battle to End Poverty and Inequality in 1960s America by James L. Leloudis 9781469628509
RRP: $83.90$80.43When Governor Terry Sanford established the North Carolina Fund in 1963, he saw it as a way to provide a better life for the ""tens of thousands whose family income is so low that daily subsistence is always in doubt."" Illustrated... -
Lynched: The Victims of Southern Mob Violence by Amy Kate Bailey 9781469620879
RRP: $79.70$73.31On July 9, 1883, twenty men stormed the jail in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, kidnapped Henderson Lee, a black man charged with larceny, and hanged him. Events like this occurred thousands of times across the American South in the late nineteenth and... -
Family Bonds: Free Blacks and Re-enslavement Law in Antebellum Virginia by Ted Maris-Wolf 9781469620077
RRP: $98.60$91.88Between 1854 and 1864, more than a hundred free African Americans in Virginia proposed to enslave themselves and, in some cases, their children. Ted Maris-Wolf explains this phenomenon as a response to state legislation that forced free African Americans... -
Brown's Battleground: Students, Segregationists, and the Struggle for Justice in Prince Edward County, Virginia by Jill Ogline Titus 9781469619071
RRP: $69.20$64.51When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, Prince Edward County, Virginia, home to one of the five cases combined by the Court under Brown, abolished its public school system rather than integrate. Jill... -
Moments of Despair: Suicide, Divorce, and Debt in Civil War Era North Carolina by David Silkenat 9781469615325
RRP: $94.40$89.29During the Civil War era, black and white North Carolinians were forced to fundamentally reinterpret the morality of suicide, divorce, and debt as these experiences became pressing issues throughout the region and nation. In Moments of Despair, David... -
Psychology and Selfhood in the Segregated South by Anne C. Rose 9781469615080
RRP: $94.40$87.21In the American South at the turn of the twentieth century, the legal segregation of the races and psychological sciences focused on selfhood emerged simultaneously. The two developments presented conflicting views of human nature. American psychiatry... -
A Social History of the Sea Islands: with Special Reference to St. Helena Island, South Carolina by Guion Griffis Johnson 9781469613628
RRP: $98.60$90.72The author has drawn on newly discovered manuscripts and the United States Treasury archives to present for the first time a complete picture of the Sea Islands during the Federal occupation throughout the Civil War. The book contains interesting... -
The Plight of Cigarette Tobacco by T.J. Woofter Jr. 9781469613598
RRP: $79.70$73.84This is a study of conditions that are extremely unfavorable to the farmer in marketing America's sixth most important crop and of the economic forces that have created these conditions. After a description of tobacco culture, Woofter presents an... -
Manual for Southern Regions by Lee M. Brooks 9781469612416
RRP: $98.60$91.69This book is designed as an aid to the study of Southern Regions of the United States by Howard W. Odum. It will help any person or group in a factual and penetrating study of the entire South, especially as that region stands in comparison with the rest... -
Forty Acres and Steel Mules by Herman Clarence Nixon 9781469612409
RRP: $79.70$73.84Writing with the intimate knowledge of a man who has carried on research among people on an Alabama upland plantation over a period of two decades, Nixon speaks with authority of the problems of the soil. He has seen oxen replaced by tractors and knows... -
Report of the Commission on Country Life by The Commission on Country Life 9781469612263
RRP: $79.70$73.84The Commission on Country Life was appointed by President Thyeodore roosevelt on 10 August 1908; on 23 January 1909 its report was presented to the president. The purpose of the commission was to determine the status of country life in the United States,... -
All These People: The Nation's Human Resources in the South by Rupert B. Vance 9781469612089
RRP: $126.00$113.95This volume explores questions concerning the nature, use, and welfare of the human resources found in the South and also considers their relationship to the rest of the nation. The author presents the factual basis on which they must be answered... -
The Indicted South: Public Criticism, Southern Inferiority, and the Politics of Whiteness by Angie Maxwell 9781469611648
RRP: $83.90$80.33By the 1920s, the sectional reconciliation that had seemed achievable after Reconstruction was foundering, and the South was increasingly perceived and portrayed as impoverished, uneducated, and backward. In this interdisciplinary study, Angie Maxwell... -
Trade and Travel around the Southern Appalachians before 1830 by Randle Bond Truett 9781469609195
RRP: $104.90$96.16Truett has undertaken a study of the earliest history of America using as his foundation the Indian trails and traces and the trading paths of the early settlers. It is a sympathetic portrayal of the people who traveled these roads, of the inns and... -
Culture in the South by W. T. Couch 9781469608488
RRP: $178.50$160.34This composite picture of the present-day South is a far cry from the traditional South of sentimental novels. The symposium, including chapters by thirty-one economists, sociologists, educators, artists, and writers, is the most comprehensive,... -
Shipbuilding in North Carolina, 1688-1918 by William N. Still Jr. 9780865264946
RRP: $89.25$78.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865264946Author William N. Still Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint North Carolina Office of Archives & HistoryPublisher North Carolina Office... -
Gift from the Hills: Miss Lucy Morgan's Story of Her Unique Penland School by Lucy Morgan 9780807897317
RRP: $104.90$96.60Miss Lucy went to the North Carolina mountains in 1920 as an apprentice teacher, but she soon discovered that the kind of teaching that she wanted to do was not in the fields in which she was trained. What interested her most was already there among the... -
Universal Education in the South: Vol. 2, The Southern Education Movement by Charles Williams Dabney 9780807896457
RRP: $178.50$165.40This study is a detailed history of men and movements in southern education and is based largely upon first-hand information. In Volume I, the author tells the story of the long struggle for public schools. Volume II tells of the origin and development... -
Universal Education in the South: Vol. 1, From the Beginning to 1900 by Charles Williams Dabney 9780807896440
RRP: $178.50$164.91This study is a detailed history of men and movements in southern education and is based largely upon first-hand information. In Volume I, the author tells the story of the long struggle for public schools. Volume II tells of the origin and development... -
The Tragedy of Lynching by Arthur F. Raper 9780807897584
RRP: $126.00$116.76This book deals with the quest for a preventive to lynching which can be undertaken only after one has an understanding of what it is that is to be prevented. This necessary analysis of lynching--its background, circumstances, and meaning--introduces... -
A Two-Party South? by Alexander Heard 9780807896815
RRP: $126.00$113.23The author of this challenging book does not discount the ties that hold the South to a one-party system; yet he presents convincing evidence that the region and its politics have been changing and that the trend is toward two-party politics. The most... -
These Are Our Lives by Federal Writers' Project 9780807896624
RRP: $126.00$116.34Thirty-seven life histories of real people selected from among whites and blacks in three basic fields of work in the South--farm laborers and owners, factory and mill workers, people engaged in service occupations--and those on relief. A UNC Press... -
Theater in the Ante Bellum South by James H. Dormon 9780807896518
RRP: $104.90$96.43This study describes the development of theater, amateur and professional, in the South during the forty-five-year period preceding the Civil War. Dormon establishes the nature of southern theatrical activity as reflected in programing, production, and... -
Renaissance in the South: A Critical History of the Literature, 1920-1960 by John M. Bradbury 9780807896280
RRP: $104.90$94.98In this history of the Southern Renaissance, Bradbury is concerned with the whole range of fiction, poetry, and drama in the fertile period since the twenties. He has evaluated the works, outlined the patterns, and related both to the traditions of the... -
Southern Savory by Bernice Kelly Harris 9780807878705
RRP: $104.90$95.17In this volume of memories of life in North Carolina during the first half of the twentieth century, Harris has, as is typical of her writing, portrayed the drama of the everyday, the mystery of common-place people, and the triumph of the human spirit... -
Cultural Life in Nashville: On the Eve of the Civil War by Francis Garvin Davenport 9780807878378
RRP: $104.90$94.88Beginning with a study of the frontier mind, Davenport traces the cultural development of the city in the rise of schools, colleges, churches, and medical science; he gives special attention to the amusements of the day--drama, opera, concerts, and... -
Wouldn't Take Nothin' For My Journey Now by Jock Lauterer 9780807874103
RRP: $83.90$77.24In the isolated North Carolina mountains, old-timers relive their lives in bits and pieces. They tell of a time when working together as a family was fun, when pleasures were simple, and when a handshake made a deal. Lauterer introduces thirty-five...