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James G. Leyburn (Author)
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2011-12-01
Univ of North Carolina Pr
Dispelling much of what he terms the 'mythology' of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He discusses their life in
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Paul Foos (Author)
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2002-09-11
Univ of North Carolina Pr
Through an examination of rank-and-file soldiers, Paul Foos sheds new light on the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) and its effect on attitudes toward other rac
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Lawrence E. Babits (Author)
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2000-12-01
Univ of North Carolina Pr
The battle of Cowpens was a crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War in the South and stands as perhaps the finest American tactical demonstration of the
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Alejandro De La Fuente (Author)
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2000-12-04
Univ of North Carolina Pr
After thirty years of anticolonial struggle against Spain and four years of military occupation by the United States, Cuba formally became an independent republ
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James D Anderson (Author)
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2011-12-01
Univ of North Carolina Pr
James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing black schooling within a
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Mildred Council (Author)
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1999-10-01
Univ of North Carolina Pr
You can hold this book the way you hold a child's hand. And you can let this book show you a whole new world, the way a child will reveal the secrets of a secre
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Mark A. Noll (Author)
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2006-04-24
Univ of North Carolina Pr
The Civil War was a major turning point in American religious thought, argues Mark A. Noll. Although Christian believers agreed with one another that the Bible
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Heather Andrea Williams (Author)
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2007-02-26
Univ of North Carolina Pr
In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans' relationship to lite
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Belinda J. Davis (Author)
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2000-04-05
Univ of North Carolina Pr
Challenging assumptions about the separation of high politics and everyday life, Belinda Davis uncovers the important influence of the broad civilian populace&#
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John Alexander Williams (Author)
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2001-12-04
Univ of North Carolina Pr
In this comprehensive history of the Appalachian region, Williams weaves social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history together to present a r
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Christian G. Appy (Author)
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2011-12-01
Univ of North Carolina Pr
No one can understand the complete tragedy of the American experience in Vietnam without reading this book. Nothing so underscores the ambivalence and confusion
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Cedric J. Robinson (Author)
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2000-01-05
Univ of North Carolina Pr
In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand black people's history of resistance solely through the
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Kathleen Flake (Author)
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2003-12-03
Univ of North Carolina Pr
Between 1901 and 1907, a broad coalition of Protestant churches sought to expel newly elected Reed Smoot from the Senate, arguing that as an apostle in the Chur
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Peter G. Filene (Author) and Ken Bain (Foreword By)
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2005-02-16
Univ of North Carolina Pr
Gathering concepts and techniques borrowed from outstanding college professors, <i>The Joy of Teaching</i> provides helpful guidance for new instructors develop
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George Alexander Kennedy (Author)
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1999-02-01
Univ of North Carolina Pr
Since its original publication by UNC Press in 1980, this book has provided thousands of students with a concise introduction and guide to the history of the cl
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Aram Goudsouzian (Author)
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2003-12-03
Univ of North Carolina Pr
In the first full biography of actor Sidney Poitier, Aram Goudsouzian analyzes the life and career of a Hollywood legend, from his childhood in the Bahamas to h
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Wade Davis (Author)
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2011-12-01
Univ of North Carolina Pr
In 1982, Harvard-trained ethnobotanist Wade Davis traveled into the Haitian countryside to research reports of zombies—the infamous living dead of Haitian folkl
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Carl W. Ernst (Author)
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2004-08-18
Univ of North Carolina Pr
Avoiding the traps of sensational political expose and specialized scholarly Orientalism, Carl Ernst introduces readers to the profound spiritual resources of I
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Paula Kramer (Author)
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2006-04-17
Univ of North Carolina Pr
In 1899 the United States, having announced its arrival as a world power during the Spanish-Cuban-American War, inaugurated a brutal war of imperial conquest ag
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Jeff Broadwater (Author)
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2006-09-01
Univ of North Carolina Pr
George Mason (1725-92) is often omitted from the small circle of founding fathers celebrated today, but in his service to America he was, in the words of Thomas
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Douglas Little (Author)
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2004-02-18
Univ of North Carolina Pr
Douglas Little exposes the persistence of "orientalist" stereotypes in American popular culture and examines United States policy toward the Middle East from ma
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Joseph A. Conforti (Author)
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2000-12-08
Univ of North Carolina Pr
Say "New England" and you likely conjure up an image in the mind of your listener: the snowy woods or stone wall of a Robert Frost poem, perhaps, or that quinte
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Gallagher, Gary W. (Author)
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2006-07-05
Univ of North Carolina Pr
In the spring of 1864, in the vast Virginia scrub forest known as the Wilderness, Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee first met in battle. The Wilderness campaig
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James N. Gregory (Author)
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2007-01-17
Univ of North Carolina Pr
Between 1900 and the 1970s, twenty million southerners migrated north and west. Weaving together for the first time the histories of these black and white migra
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