New Voyages to Carolina: Reinterpreting North Carolina History, Paperback - Larry E. Tise

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Larry E. TiseEditor: Jeffrey J. CrowNew Voyages to Carolina offers a bold new approach for understanding and telling North ...

Reducere. DescriptionStanding along the coast of today's Outer Banks, it can be hard to envision the barrier island world at Kitty Hawk as it appeared to Wil...

Reducere. DescriptionThe New Guide to North Carolina Beaches is an invaluable resource for every coastal traveler in the Tar Heel State. This descriptive gui...

Reducere. For readers of all levels of interest and expertise, this guide provides a clear, informative look at the ecology and biology of the dunes. Botanic...

Reducere. Recounts the long trek of the Scotch-Irish from their adoptive Irish homeland to the mountains of southwestern North Carolina and graphically descr...

Reducere. John Lawson's amazingly detailed yet lively book is easily one of the most valuable of the early histories of the Carolinas, and it is certainly on...

This tenth revised edition of the popular marker guide contains inscriptions on 1, 513 markers erected across the state between 1935 and 2007. The ...

Reducere. Religious freedom is so often presented as a timeless American ideal and an inalienable right, appearing fully formed at the founding of the United...

Reducere. As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and wh...

Reducere. They left Ireland by the boatload to head for America before the Revolution, and settled on the rugged western frontiers of the colonies. The desce...

Reducere. DescriptionOperating in the vast and varied trans-Appalachian west, the Army of Tennessee was crucially important to the military fate of the Confe...

Reducere. DescriptionOf the over four dozen lighthouses that once marked the jagged shoreline of North Carolina, only nine still stand, watching over 300 mil...

Reducere. Amazing Asheville is the all new travel guide to Asheville and the North Carolina mountains.Written by Lan Sluder, a native of Asheville, this guid...

Reducere. Matching up history with the calendar, Ansley Wegner shares with readers a day-by-day chronicle highlighting topics of importance to North Carolina...

Reducere. Presents a detailed introduction to each of the following maps: White 1585 MS, White-DeBry 1590, Mercator-Hondius 1606, Comberford 1657 MS, Ogilby-...

Reducere. Originally published in 1960, this paperback is the most popular title ever published by the Historical Publications Section and has never gone out...

Reducere. During his tenure as Chancellor of North Carolina State University, Larry K. Monteith witnessed the state's transformation from a largely agrarian-...

DescriptionIn Creating a Confederate Kentucky, Anne E. Marshall traces the development of a Confederate identity in Kentucky between 1865 and 1925,...

Reducere. The Army of Northern Virginia's chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House. As the Confederates had pushed wes...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen the world learned that Wilbur and Orville Wright had performed man's first powered, controlled flights at Kitty Hawk on December 17...

From the drama of blockade-running to graphic descriptions of battles on the state's islands and sounds, this book portrays the explosive events th...

Reducere. Oil palms are ubiquitous--grown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with more edible fat than any other plant and play a role i...

The first single-volume reference to the events, institutions, and cultural forces that have defined the state, the Encyclopedia of North Carolina ...

Reducere. Draws upon 17th- and 18th-century sources to trace the history of African Americans, slave and free, in North Carolina through 1800. The documents ...

Reducere. Read your way across North Carolina's Piedmont in the second of a series of regional guides that bring the state's rich literary history to life fo...

Reducere. This is a factual account, written in the pace of fiction, of hundreds of dramatic losses, heroic rescues, and violent adventures at the stormy mee...

The battle of Gettysburg was the largest engagement of the Civil War, and--with more than 51, 000 casualties--also the deadliest. The highest regim...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. The Croatan Indians of Sampson County, NC, written by George Edwin Butler (1868-1941) and composed only a year after Special Indian Agent Orlando M...

Reducere. Early in life, North Carolinian Debbie Moose encountered fish primarily in stick form, but once she experienced her first raw oyster and first frie...

Reducere. Abandoned North Carolina: Mouth of the Holler takes you on an introspective look at North Carolina's past and abandoned architecture with angsty my...

Reducere. Featuring over 600 wildflowers, flowering shrubs, and vines, this user-friendly field guide is the first to focus on the rare, fragile lands and sp...

Reducere. DescriptionDrawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the Am...

Reducere. Examines the history of James City, a black community located near New Bern. Established in 1863 as a camp for destitute former slaves, James City ...

Reducere. Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected. This collection of essays by fifteen schol...

Reducere. In the mountains of western North Carolina, the Civil War was fought on different terms than those found throughout most of the South. Though relat...

Reducere. Despite almost four centuries of black independent self-help enterprises, the agency of African Americans in attempting to forge their own economic...

Reducere. Recounts events leading to the establishment of twenty-nine lifesaving stations along North Carolina's treacherous coastline and the role of their ...

Reducere. North Carolina is a place where history has been enriched by legends and folklore. The 48 colorful Tar Heel tales in this volume include such well-...

Reducere. To understand the long march of events in North Carolina from secession to surrender is to understand the entire Civil War--a personal war waged by...

Reducere. Originally published in 1992, A History of African Americans in North Carolina was the first one-volume survey of black history in the state. It tr...

Reducere. In Native Carolinians, Dr. Theda Perdue, Atlanta Distinguished Professor of Southern Culture at UNC at Chapel Hill, discusses the history, life-sty...

Reducere. Historians have often glorified eighteenth-century Virginia planters' philosophical debates about the meaning of American liberty. But according to...

Reducere. The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, The Waterman's Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, riverme...