Scots and Scotch Irish: Frontier Life in North Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky, Paperback - Larry J. Hoefling

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. Dispelling much of what he terms the 'mythology' of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He discusses t...

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

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

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. 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. 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. Designed primarily for field study, this book introduces the variety of species living in our diverse coastal setting, from sand dunes to salt mars...

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

Reducere. Most histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusively pitted North against South, free labor against...

Reducere. You'll find tales of things that live in shadows and only come when they're called... the trouble is, you don't always know when you've called them...

Heinrich Wittenwiler's Ring, written in a Swiss dialect and presented in English translation for the first time in this 1956 volume, is a comic-did...

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...

The Young Leonardo: Art and Life in Fifteenth-Century Florence - Larry J. Feinberg

That churches are one of the most important cornerstones of black political organization is a commonplace. In this history of African American Prot...

Reducere. The author takes the Viennese family of Viktor Baur through the turbulent years of World War I, the difficulties of feeding the family when money w...

Reducere. Country music in the Carolinas and the southern Appalachian Mountains owes a tremendous debt to freedom-loving Scotch-Irish pioneers who settled th...

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. With abundant photographs, more than 160 in color, Native North America illustrates tribal life, sacred arenas, spiritual traditions, and artifacts...

Reducere. According to some estimates as many as 100, 000 Scotsmen were re-settled by the British government in the Irish Plantation of Ulster during the 17t...

Reducere. Ed Farlow seems to have been present at every important historic event in the West. If he wasn't, he knew someone who was. In this historic memoir ...

Reducere. As William T. Sherman's Union troops began their campaign for Atlanta in the spring of 1864, they encountered Confederate forces employing field fo...

Reducere. This unique hiking guide to the southern Appalachian mountains leads readers to explore the rich forest ecosystems and other natural communities vi...

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. Contributor(s): Author: J. Michael CleverleyBorn a Soldier is a tour of the mid-20th century's conflicts with the remarkable Larry Thorne. Capturin...

Reducere. In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Was...

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. 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...

In this classic and compelling account, Robert Norrell traces the course of the civil rights movement in Tuskegee, Alabama, capturing both the uniq...

This is the first critical history of Christian Reconstruction and its founder and champion, theologian and activist Rousas John Rushdoony (1916-20...

Reducere. Shortly after graduating from the University of Glasgow in 1934, Elizabeth "Bessie" Williamson began working as a temporary secretary at the Laphro...

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. Discusses various Native American tribes, including the Cherokee, Catawba, and Tuscarora, that inhabited colonial North Carolina. Separate chapters...

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. America is at war with itself over the right to vote, or, more precisely, over the question of who gets to exercise that right and under what circu...

Reducere. The second volume in the True Tales for Young Readers series, this short biography of the civil rights leader is intended for middle school and hig...

Edmonds gives a detailed and accurate record of the political careers of prominent North Carolina blacks who held federal, state, county, and munic...

Reducere. The phrase dude food likely brings to mind a range of images: burgers stacked impossibly high with an assortment of toppings that were themselves o...

DescriptionParamahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), a Hindu missionary to the United States, wrote one of the world's most highly acclaimed spiritual cla...

Reducere. Country music in the Carolinas and the southern Appalachian Mountains owes a tremendous debt to freedom-loving Scotch-Irish pioneers who settled th...

In the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Bolivia's National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) embarked on a program of internal colonization known a...

Reducere. DescriptionThe first documented discovery of gold in the United States was in 1799 at John Reed's farm in Cabarrus County. This book traces the his...

Reducere. Ulster, in the north of the Kingdom of Ireland underwent resettlement in 1609. Defeated by the British Army in the Nine Years War, Gaelic chieftain...

Reducere. Offering a comprehensive overview of Puerto Rico's history and evolution since the installation of U.S. rule, Cesar Ayala and Rafael Bernabe connec...

Between the invention of photography in 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, portraiture became one of the most popular and common art forms...

Reducere. One of the most influential leaders in the civil rights movement, Robert Parris Moses was essential in making Mississippi a central battleground st...

Reducere. Early twentieth-century African American men in northern urban centers like New York faced economic isolation, segregation, a biased criminal justi...

Reducere. Classic North Carolina stoneware pots--with their rich textures, monochromatic glazes, and minimal decoration--belong to one of America's most reve...