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Traverses oft-noted but little understood events in the political and social establishment of the Carolina colony. Lindley Butler provides the first comprehensive history of the proprietary era in North Carolina since the nineteenth century, offering a substantial and accessible reappraisal of this key historical period.

In this deep dive into the Jamaican music world filled with the voices of creators, producers, and consumers, Larisa Kingston Mann - DJ, media law expert, and ethnographer - identifies how a culture of collaboration lies at the heart of Jamaican creative practices and legal personhood.

Reconstructs the history of the Hospital de San Hipolito in Mexico City from its origins in 1567 to its transformation in the eighteenth century, when it began to admit a growing number of patients transferred from the Inquisition and secular criminal courts.

Making a vital contribution to our understanding of North American borderlands history through an examination of the northernmost stretches of the US-Canada border, Andrea Geiger highlights the role that the North Pacific borderlands played in the construction of race and citizenship on both sides of the border from 1867 to the end of World War II.

As life expectancy increases, people need accurate, scientifically grounded information so that they can take full responsibility for their own latter years. In The Art and Science of Aging Well, Mark E. Williams discusses the remarkable advances that medical science has made in the field of aging and the steps that people may take to enhance their lives as they age.

An open access journal published by Winston-Salem State University with support from the National Association of Medical Minority Educators. Articles in this volume include 'Are Demographic Factors Associated with Diabetes Risk Perception and Preventive Behavior?' and 'Improving Rehabilitation Counselors' Knowledge of Co-Occurring Disorders'.

To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people in psychiatric hospitals, and many mental health facilities closed down. Yet, as Anne Parsons reveals, the asylum did not die during deinstitutionalization. Instead, it returned in the modern prison industrial complex.

In this fresh and fascinating chronicle of Christianity in the contemporary American south, historian and minister James Hudnut-Beumler draws on extensive interviews and his own personal journeys throughout the region over the past decade to present a comprehensive portrait of the south's long-dominant religion.

Takes readers along on a journey through the past and present of Appalachia's show caves, highlighting the characters who have owned and operated them, the ways the attractions have developed and changed over the years, and the odd intrigue that still leads people to buy their ticket and head underground.

Between 2009 and 2013, Matthew Frye Jacobson set out with a camera to explore and document what was discernible to the "historian's eye" during this tumultuous period. This book presents 100 images alongside Jacobson's recollections of their moments of creation and his understanding of how they link past, present, and future.

In the early twentieth century, the brutality of southern prisons became a national scandal. Drawing from three decades of legal documents compiled by prisoners, Robert Chase narrates the struggle to change prison from within. This book highlights untold but important truths about the histories of labor, civil rights, and politics in the US.

On September 21, 1976, a car bomb killed Orlando Letelier, the former Chilean ambassador to the US, along with his colleague Ronni Moffitt. The murder shocked the world, especially because of its setting - Sheridan Circle, in the heart of Washington. This book offers the definitive history of one of the Cold War's most consequential assassinations.

This groundbreaking history of African Americans and golf explores the role of race, class, and public space in golf course development, the stories of individual black golfers during the age of segregation, the legal battle to integrate public golf courses, and the little-known history of the United Golfers Association (UGA) - a black golf tour that operated from 1925 to 1975.

This is the amazing untold story of the Los Angeles sanctuary movement's champion, Father Luis Olivares (1934-1993), a Catholic priest and a charismatic, faith-driven leader for social justice. Based on previously unexplored archives and over ninety oral histories, this compelling biography traces the life of a complex and constantly evolving individual.

Through multiple perspectives from both sides of the border, the collected essays in These Ragged Edges argue that rapidly changing conditions along the US-Mexico border through the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries have powerfully shaped the ebb and flow of conflict within the region.

Written by a team of multidisciplinary experts and drawing on ongoing research at the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab at Brandeis University, this volume identifies three central competencies - individual, organizational, and meaning-making - that all chaplains must have, and it provides the resources for building those skills.

Written by a team of multidisciplinary experts and drawing on ongoing research at the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab at Brandeis University, this volume identifies three central competencies - individual, organizational, and meaning-making - that all chaplains must have, and it provides the resources for building those skills.

The NCAA men's basketball tournament is one of the iconic events in American sports. In this fast-paced, in-depth account, J. Samuel Walker and Randy Roberts identify the 1973-74 season as pivotal in the making of this now legendary postseason tournament. Walker and Roberts provide a richly detailed chronicle of the games that made the season so memorable.

Based on research in ancient literature, inscriptions, and archaeological remains from the fifth to the first century BCE, this book demonstrates that in addition to observances of marriage, fertility, and childbirth, there were more religious opportunities available to Roman women than are commonly considered.

Tells North Carolina's 400-year-old Jewish story. This book demonstrates that the story of North Carolina Jews is attuned to the national story of immigrant acculturation but has a southern twist. It argues that Carolina Jews were among those at the forefront of a changing South.

Relicts of a Beautiful Sea: Survival, Extinction, and Conservation in a Desert World