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Surveying the past, present and future of historic preservation in America, this text features 15 essays by some of the most eminent voices in the field, essays which highlight the principle ideas and events that have shaped and continue to shape the movement.

Central North Carolina boasts a rich and varied architectural landscape. This volume covers more than 2000 sites in 34 counties, offering a look at the Piedmont's historic architecture from cabins and stone houses to mill villages and main streets that depict its industrial and agricultural growth.

At the close of the 18th century, the poet and clergyman Timothy Dwight waged a literary and intellectual war against the forces of ""infidelity"". This text re-examines this episode by focusing on ""The Triumph of Fidelity"" (1788), the verse satire that launched Dwight's campaign.

This work identifies 11 major natural gardens on the North American continent. It gives an account of the vegetation and habitats of each community and then identifies and describes the wildflowers found there.

A collection of 33 ghost stories and legends, offering a haunted tour of coastal North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. It includes the tale of the restless spirit who troubles visitors to the Currituck Beach Lighthouse and the ghost of the Union soldier killed at Charleston's Fort Sumter.

William Faulkner invented his famous American fictional place, Yoknapatawpha, by basing it upon Lafayette County, Mississippi, his own home place. This book charts four centuries of the area, drawing upon the stories where Faulkner ""sublimated the actual into the apocryphal"".

An anthology of 25 short stories from writers in North Carolina, all published within the last 15 years of the 20th century. The stories range widely in setting, character, tone and even form, from short stories to novellas.

An illustrated guide to 125 wildflowers grasses, trees and other plants of the Atlantic coast of the USA from Massachusetts to central Florida. Organized by plant family and including sections on planning a field trip and a list of 177 selected areas to visit.

Presents perspectives on how American southerners across two centuries have interpreted their past. Thirteen contributors explore the workings of historical memory among groups as diverse as white artisans in early-19th-century Georgia and African American authors in the late 19th century.

An exploration of the natural history and romantic past of the Outer Banks, the fragile islands that stretch down the North Carolina coast. From the excavation of what is believed to be Blackbeard's ship to threat of oil drilling, the book reveals the natural wonders and controversies.

This volume looks at the life of Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury, royal governor of New York and New Jersey from 1702 and 1708, whose range of alleged transgressions ranged from raiding the public treasury to scandalizing his subjects.

Between 1932 and 1972 approximately 600 African American men in Alabama served unwittingly as guinea pigs in the Tuskegee syphilis study. This volume gathers articles, contemporary newspaper accounts, selections from reports and letters, and other reconsiderations of the study.

North Carolina boasts a diverse and beautiful natural environment. From the mountains to the coast, it is home to various publically accessible sites that showcase the area's ecology, biology, geology and natural history. This book presents 38 ""eco-tours"" for residents and visitors alike.

This collection of letters from a rising Confederate officer to his wife provide an insight into the mind of a wartime commander. He describes the rigours of military life in this period, his career aspirations and his own candid opinions on such important figures of the time as Robert E. Lee.

This study reveals how African-American activists, public officials, intellectuals and artists sought to use radio to influence a national debate about racial equality in the 1940s. These broadcasts challenged the nation to reconcile its egalitarian ideals with its unjust treatment of minorities.

This biography of Charlotte Hawkins Brown tells how she arrived in Guilford County in 1901, black, single and 18 years old, to begin a job as a teacher at a small school for African Americans and how, when the school was closed, she founded the Palmer Memorial Institute for African Americans.

Using existing architectural evidence as well as photographs, letters and newspapers, Lisa Tolbert shows how residents of four county seats in antebellum Middle Tennessee rebuilt and reorganized their towns in response to changing social and economic circumstances.

Cecil Eby has edited the diaries of David Hunter Strother, to produce this work about Strother's three years in the Union army. As a Virginian opposed to secession, Strother joined as a civilian topographer, and was soon commissioned, eventually rising to the rank of brigadier general.

An account tracing the course of the civil rights movement in Tuskegee, Alabama, seeking to capture both the town's unique experience and the elements it shared with other communities. It covers the founding of the Institute in 1881 up to the successes and disappointments delivered in the 1960s.

From the first known record of a meeting between Europeans and Native Americans to present day accounts of life on the Outer Banks, this anthology provides an understanding of why the residents of the Outer Banks would rather live there than anywhere else.

Revealing a paradox at the heart of America's ""Bible Belt"", this text examines how the conservative religious traditions so strongly associated with the South evolved out of an evangelical Protestantism that began with very different social and political attitudes.

This is a cultural history of the Northern Plains during the Great Depression. It examines the efforts of the North and South Dakotans to come to terms with the enormous social change wrought by New Deal bureaucracy and the rise of the modern state.

During World War II, more than 12,000 male conscientious objectors entered Civilian Public Service. However, this study focuses on the 2000 women who joined this church-supported programme - most of whom were part of Mennonite, Amish, Brethren, or Quaker families with deeply held anti-war beliefs.

This book of recollections celebrates the holiday traditions of Appalachian families passed from one generation to the next. It includes instructions for creating many of the ornaments, toys, and recipes that make up so many family traditions.

Often compared unfavourably with colonial New England, the early Chesapeake has been portrayed as irreligious, unstable, and violent. This study challenges this view and looks across the Atlantic to assess the enduring influence of English attitudes, values, and behaviour on the early Chesapeake.

This guide to the historic architecture of Eastern North Carolina, is organized by counties, which are grouped geographically. It highlights key architectural features and trends, and relates buildings to the local and regional histories they represent.

Along with his accounts of such factual matters as North American flora and fauna, Thomas Jefferson expounds his views on slavery, education, religious freedom, representative government and the separation of church and the state in this classic - the only full-length book he ever wrote.

Encompassing habitats as diverse as alpine forests and subtropical swamps, the Mid-Atlantic region of the USA has a richly diverse fish fauna. This book provides information on how to identify some 260 species of freshwater fish, from the largemouth bass to the rosyside dace.

This study investigates changing patterns of women's participation in early American courts across a broad range of legal actions - including proceedings related to debt, divorce, illicit sex, rape and slander. It argues that women had more opportunity to be heard during the Puritan era.

In this cultural biography, Paul Croce investigates the contexts surrounding the early intellectual development of American philosopher William James (1842-1910). Croce places the young James at the centre of key scientific and religious debates in American intellectual life between the 1820s and 1870s.