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Part of the ""The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture"", this volume addresses the cultural, social, and intellectual terrain of myth, manners, and historical memory in the American South. It evaluates how a distinct southern identity has been created, and performed through memories that blur the line between fact and fiction.

Providing a chronological and interpretive spine to the twenty-four volumes of ""The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture"", this volume surveys history in the American South since the Paleoindian period. It contains 118 essays that cover the turbulent past of the region that has witnessed frequent racial conflict.

Discusses the contestable issue of where the cultural South is located, both on maps and in the minds of Americans. The author's introductory essay explores the evolution of geographic patterns of life within the region - agricultural practices, urban patterns, residential buildings, religious preferences, foodways, and language.

Examines how various people in the British colonies understood and represented the natural world around them from the late sixteenth century through the eighteenth. The author uncovers early descriptions of American natural phenomena as well as clues to how people in the colonies construed their own identities through the natural world.

The rapid rise in popularity of maps and geography handbooks in the eighteenth century ushered in a new geographic literacy among non elite Americans. This illustrated book argues that geographic literacy as it was played out in popular literary genres significantly influenced the formation of identity in America from the 1680s to the 1820s.

Moving testaments to the struggle for freedom.

Presents a range of North Carolina's architectural heritage, from colonial times to the beginning of World War II. This portable edition analyzes construction and design techniques, and also locates the structures in their cultural, political, and historical contexts.

This portrait of Jews in the South takes readers inside the nexus of southern and Jewish histories, from the earliest immigrants to the present day. This edition includes a gallery of more than two dozen family and historical photographs as well as a new introduction by the author.

This collection of mystery short stories showcases some of North Carolina's writing talent from the past and the present - some famous, some less well known. They solve crimes, locate treasures, and uncover deceit in a range of tales that reflects the breadth of the genre.

This volume examines the specific effects of globalizing forces on the southern US. Essays address such topics as relations between global and local communities; immigration; power and confrontation between rural and urban worlds; race, ethnicity, and organizing for social justice; and the assimilation of foreign-born professionals.

This volume selects major moments and key players from the seventh century to the twenty-first that have defined Muslim networks as the building blocks for Islamic identity and social cohesion. The essays provide a long view of Muslim networks, correcting both scholarly omission and political sloganeering.

Examining the works of Lucille Clifton, Gayl Jones, Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, and Alice Walker, this book highlights ways in which these African American authors construct family genealogies, filling in the gaps with dreams, rituals, music, or images that forge a connection to family lost through slavery.

Troller recounts his two years in Theresienstadt from early 1942 until September 1944, when he was deported to Auschwitz after the Nazis discovered he was smuggling out drawings that revealed the horrors of Hitler's ""model"" ghetto.

Inspired and informed by the latest research in African American, military, and social history, the fourteen original essays in this book tell the stories of the African American soldiers who fought for the Union cause, Collectively, these essays probe the broad military, political, and social significance of black soldiers' armed service.

In a bicentennial history of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, William D. Snider leads us from the chartering and siting of a charming campus and village in 1795 through the struggles, innovations, and expansions that have carried the school to national and international prominence.

This collection of essays examines religion in the American South across three centuries - from the beginning of the 18th century to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The study complicated ""southern religion"" geographically, chronologically, and thematically and challenges the interpretive hegemony of the "Bible belt".

Designed to serve as an introduction to American religion, this volume - instead of following a traditional narrative - is arranged thematically. Eleven chapters by top scholars present, in carefully organized and accessible fashion, topics and perspectives fundamental to the understanding of religion in America.

In pursuit of more sophisticated and inclusive American history, the contributors propose new directions for the study of the political history of the republic before 1830. This political world encompassed blacks, women, entrepreneurs, and Native Americans. The early history of the United States was not just the product of the ""founding fathers"".

In tribute to what Vince Staten calls ""the slowest of the slow foods,"" contributors discuss the politics, sociology, and virtual religion of barbecue in the South, where communities are defined by what wood they burn, what sauce they make, and what they serve with barbecue.

These essays provide the groundwork for a philosophical discussion of the ethical and cultural dimensions of the popularity of SSRI antidepressants. They do not question that these drugs can alleviate suffering. What they do question is the popularity of these drugs and that popularity's relationship to American culture and ideas of selfhood.

The Antifederalists come alive in this state-by-state analysis of politics during the Confederation and the debates over the enlargement of congressional powers prior to the formation of the Constitution. Main presents a perceptive account of the factors that influenced some of the delegates to change their minds.

The idea that sugar, plantations, slavery, and capitalism were all present at the birth of the Atlantic world has long dominated scholarly thinking. Nine essays by a multinational group of scholars re-evaluate this so-called ""sugar revolution,"" presenting a revisionist examination of the origins of society and economy in the Atlantic world.

The Lumbee Indians are the ninth largest tribe in the USA. This work explores the complexities of Lumbee tribal identity, focusing on the tribe's socioeconomic and political history from the 1960s to the 1980s and discussing relations between the Lumbee and Tuscarora people of Robeson County.

The Wright brothers soared into history during a 12-second flight on 17th December 1903. Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the first flight, these essays chart the role that aviation played in 20th-century history and capture the spirit of adventure that characterized the history of flight.

A collection of 15 essays exploring the impact of the organized Left and Leftist theory on American literature and culture from the 1920s to the end of the century. Individual essays address the Left in relation to the work of such key figures as Ralph Ellison, T.S. Eliot and Chester Himes.

Interweaving culinary history with a native's knowledge of the cooking secrets of the rural South, Bill Neal celebrates the glories of southern baking with 300 recipes for breads, biscuits, cakes, pies, cookies and sweets that have been the pride of southern cooks for generations.

A guide to the trails of Virginia. This third edition gives directions to and descriptions of more than 1400 trails, noting nearby points of interest, botanical and zoological features, and characteristics of the region's terrain. Maps and photographs supplement the descriptions.

This collection brings together historical work on race and national identity in Latin America and the Caribbean and places this scholarship in the context of interdisciplinary and transnational discussions regarding race and nation in the Americas.

Demonstrates how US foreign policy has been embedded in social, economic and cultural factors of domestic and foreign origin. It argues that the campaign to realize full civil rights for racial and ethnic minorities in the US is best understood in the context of competitive international relations.