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The proceedings from the 1983 Appalachian Studies Conference includes contributions by Melinda B. Wagner, Allen Batteau and Archie Green; William Philliber; Susan Emley Keefe; Loyal Jones; Richard Drake; John H. Mongle; Michael Henson; Nancy Carol Joyner; Sally Ward Maggard; Phillip A. Grant, Jr.; Phillip J. Obermiller and Robert Oldendick; John L. Bell, Jr.; Russell D. Parker; and George B. Bay.

In 1973, Cherokee students at the Qualla Boundary started a student organization with the intention of improving the educational prospects among Native Americans. The students interviewed Cherokee elders to gain an accurate history and assessment of the tribe. Published in 1981, The Cherokee Perspective is a compilation of the articles written in these courses.

Fred Chappell, Jeff Daniel Marion, Jim Wayne Miller, and Robert Morgan are primarily folk artists who write poetry about people doing common, everyday tasks. All natives to the Appalachian region, these poets come from an agrarian community that they had to leave behind to enter the world of academia. Looking For Native Ground compares Chappell, Marion, Miller, and Morgan.

An almanac of stories on the microcosm of the Appalachian region during a period of transition, this book was published in 1975. Written to showcase the stories and folklore passed on in the mountains, the tales chosen are typical of the nineteenth century.

The very ancient Eastern forest of North America is characterized by an extraordinary variety of plants, animals, and human communities. Barry M. Buxton provides a detailed history of the area. In order to study the ecology of the forest, he includes a narrative of the people behind the forest and how they have impacted and changed the landscape.

Published in 1983, Recollections of the Catawba Valley is a selection of family stories, local history, and mountain folklore chosen by Alexander Mull and Gordon Boger who were longtime citizens of the valley. Some of the stories in this volume were originally published in The News Herald of Morganton, as both authors were longtime contributors to the paper.

No region has undergone more dramatic changes than Western North Carolina. Published in 1973, Western North Carolina Since the Civil War takes a look at the mountain people and their uniquely structured economic, political, social, and cultural systems. This study traces the mountain peoples' lives from isolation to economic booms all while maintaining their traditions and heritage.

Written in Robert Leeper's student days at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and later at Columbia University, The Brindle Mule is a book of stories and poems emphasizing a childhood spent in the mountain country of Western North Carolina. Published in 1983, this book is a testament to the local lore of the Western Mountain region of North Carolina.

Published in 1978, this book tells the story of William Gannaway Brownlow, a Methodist minister, Whig politician, author of a Civil War bestseller, and anti-Confederate who documented the trials and tribulations of pro-Union mountaineers in east Tennessee. Steve Humphrey tells the story of this man who could be relentless with his enemies and generous with his friends.

A dictionary of "folk speech." In this work Paul Fink has provided a glossary of terms that are often considered the language of the less educated people of the mountains of Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee. They are sometimes archaic, sometimes quaint, and almost always idiomatic.

A fictional account of an actual family whose Scotch-Irish ancestors emigrated to western North Carolina in the early nineteenth century, Only When They're Little is an authentic tale of Kate Pickens Day's family life near Asheville, North Carolina. Published in 1985, this book combats the stereotype of the impoverished mountain people by presenting a new narrative.

Published in 1982, The Barter Theatre Story: Love Made Visible tells the colourful history of a remarkable American cultural institution. Opened by native Virginian Robert Porterfield in 1933, the Barter Theatre offered the people of Abingdon, Virginia, and the surrounding area entertainment and a much-needed escape from their Depression-era working lives.

The first novelist from North Carolina to become an influential voice in American literature, Thomas Wolfe was an imaginative and persuasive fictional writer. Published in 1999, Thomas Wolfe: A Writer's Life explores Wolfe's life and career spanning from 1900 until his early death in 1938.

Published in 1985, the Blue Ridge Parkway: Agent of Transition is a compilation of papers presented at the conference. Intended to be a celebration of the Parkway, the conference was a way for people to come together and examine the road's impact on the region and its people.

Over three million people chased the American dream to the Appalachian mountains between the 1940s and 1970s, in search of a better life. Struggling with questions of identity, rootlessness, and cultural negation these people were given the name of "urban Appalachians". Published in 1987, this book addresses some of the pressing questions regarding urban Appalachians and their story of migration.

First published in 1988, this children's scrapbook is based on an oral history project conducted by Pauline Cheek. Cheek based her fictional characters on her own adventures and those of her three children, Edith, Edwin, and Elizabeth. The scrapbook narrates the culture and heritage of the Southern Highlands and has been a great addition to classrooms since its publication.

A collection of poems by Jim Wayne Miller which draw on his life experiences growing up and living in Appalachia. Miller was awarded the Thomas Wolfe Award for the book in 1980.

The North Carolina Mountains was a whole new Appalachian world opening before the eyes of Barbara Hallowell and her husband, Tom, when they decided to leave hot Sarasota, Florida, summers for the cool of the mountains in 1980. Cabin: A Mountain Adventure chronicles the Hallowell family's time in the Western North Carolina Mountains and the effect that it had on their lives.

Written in 1986, Bettie Sellers's book of poems speaks for ordinary women whose lives have been confronted with unfortunate circumstances. Writing in a narrative and lyrical style, Sellers brings life to new stories and songs based on the downtrodden women she has encountered.

Published in 1974, these symposia proceedings examine the management of trout habitat in mountain streams. Conservation organisations, researchers, and land managers, discussed trout habitat management programs and policies. They also identified management problems and explored future needs.

Consists of a group of addresses, delivered in 1929 and 1930, dealing with industrial issues of national importance and with fundamental management principles. Henry P. Kendall tells what the Kendall organisation has done to guarantee the continuity of its business and the regular employment and improvement of the living conditions of its labor. Originally published in 1930.

This is a history of the first hundred years of Saint Mary's School for Young Ladies, opened in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1842. It is an excellent record of the changing fashions in dress, thinking, and customs, and portrays the Saint Mary's girl from the days of bustles to those of sweaters and skirts. The book also contains stories of the Civil War and reconstruction period.Originally published in 1942.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

This previously unknown play is printed with an introduction and notes by Bowers, who has made a strong case for the Randolph authorship. The play is of unique interest because of the light that it throws on certain Randolph problems and because of the editor's exposition of the transcriber's methods of correction and revision as revealed in the manuscript itself. Originally published in 1942.

From varying fields of interest, not always with complete unanimity, twelve members of the faculty of the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro make their thoughtful contributions on the subject of democracy as a way of life and comment on its successes or failures in the region, the nation, and the world. Originally published in 1942.

This study is concerned with the administration of public social services, under the Social Security Act of 1935, and with the need for suitable training for this work by the schools of social work. It makes practical recommendations that emphasize a sane and disciplined administration of social services in a democracy. Originally published in 1942.

The contributors to this volume were friends and colleagues of James Alexander Robertson, and their names form a notable roster of scholars in Hispanic-American history. Their studies cover a wide range of topics from colonial times to the present. There is a concluding chapter on present conditions in the light of a historical analysis. Originally published in 1942.

Few poems in English have a more mysterious charm than Rosetti's ""The Blessed Damozel"". Born in the imagination of a youth of eighteen, cherished and laboured over for more than thirty years, it is a poem of remote and fragile beauty. This is a complete collation of the variant readings, with introduction and notes. Originally published in 1937.

These studies present the achievements and hopes of the Institute for Research in Social Science in its efforts to upgrade the resources and culture of the South. They emphasize the extraordinary wealth and variety of the South's resources and urge the need for developing the science, the skilled research, and the educational leadership that would convert the natural wealth into capital wealth for the enrichment of the region and the nation.Originally published in 1945.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

The authors conceive of the humanities not as fields of study so much as modes of study, believing that every course in a university can appropriately embody the humanistic ideal and can thus inculcate attitudes and habits of approach characteristic of informed and mature persons. This series of essays traces the development of humanistic studies and attitudes at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Originally published in 1945.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.