Before 1850, all legal executions in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands; the last legal public execution was in 1936.
At dawn on September 22, 1711, more than 500 Tuscarora, Core, Neuse, Pamlico, Weetock, Machapunga, and Bear River Indian warriors swept down on the unsuspecting European settlers living along the Neuse and Pamlico Rivers of North Carolina.
Many Excellent People examines the nature of North Carolinas social system, particularly race and class relations, power, and inequality, during the last half of the nineteenth century.
In the Fall 2012 issue of Southern CulturesGuest Editor Ferrel Guillorys special election-year Politics issue features:Five Big Things You Need to Know About the South for this ElectionThe Past, Present, and Future of Southern PoliticsJack Bass on Citizens United, Strom Thurmond, the Southern Strategy, and Jackie OControl of Public Schools and the Politics of DesegregationThe South in the Shadow of NazismDocumenting the Political Immigrant Debate TodayBill Clinton on .
In the Spring 2012 issue of Southern CulturesGuest editor Marcie Cohen Ferris brings together some of the best new writing on Southern food for the Summer 2012 issue of Southern Cultures , which features an interview with TREME writer Lolis Elie and Ferriss own retrospective on Southern sociology, the WPA, and Food in the New South.
Viola Franziska Mller examines runaways who camouflaged themselves among the free Black populations in Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, and Richmond.
In 1928 New York native Muriel Earley Sheppard moved with her mining engineer husband to the Toe River Valleyan isolated pocket in North Carolina between the Blue Ridge and Iron Mountains.
During the half century after 1650 that saw the gradual imposition of a slave society in Englands North American colonies, poor white settlers in the Chesapeake sought a republic of equals.
Most histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusively pitted North against South, free labor against slave labor, and black against white.
This beautiful and informative volume illustrates the vitality and importance of North Carolina's contemporary art scene, showcasing the creation, collection, and celebration of art in all its richness and diversity.
Using a variety of original sourcesofficial papers, travel documents, diaries, and newspapersDuane Meyer presents an impressively complete reconstruction of the settlement of the Highlanders in North Carolina.
The often-stereotyped belles and matrons of the nineteenth-century South emerge as diverse personalities in this compelling account of three generations of women from a South Carolina family whose fate rose and fell with the fortunes of the state.
Covering everything from the Old Well to the Speaker Ban and more,UNC A to Zis a concise, easy-to-read introduction to the nations first public university, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Born in an explosive boom and built through distinct economic networks, San Francisco has a cosmopolitan character that often masks the challenges migrants faced to create community in the city by the bay.
One day in 1917, while cooking dinner at home in Manhattan, Margaret Reilly (18841937) felt a sharp pain over her heart and claimed to see a crucifix emerging in blood on her skin.
Standing along the coast of todays Outer Banks, it can be hard to envision the barrier island world at Kitty Hawk as it appeared to Wilbur and Orville Wright when they first arrived in 1900 to begin their famous experiments leading to the worlds first powered flight three years later.
Connecting communities from Corolla in the north to Ocracoke Island in the south, scenic North Carolina Highway 12 binds together the fragile barrier islands that make up the Outer Banks.
Habits of Industry provides a richly descriptive social, historical, and cultural account of the Carolina Piedmont the area between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Coastal Plain over the course of 150 years.
This powerful book tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, a Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
In the first book-length history of Puerto Rican civil rights in New York City, Sonia Lee traces the rise and fall of an uneasy coalition between Puerto Rican and African American activists from the 1950s through the 1970s.
Although Appomattox Court House is one of the most symbolically charged places in America, it was an ordinary tobacco-growing village both before and after an accident of fate brought the armies of Lee and Grant together there.
Built by local entrepreneurs during Dixies Cotton Mill in Dalton, Georgia, acted as a magnet for thousands of newly impoverished white farm families who moved to the factory and its company-owned village from the surrounding countryside.
In this highly original study, Gregory Downs argues that the most American of wars, the Civil War, created a seemingly un-American popular politics, rooted not in independence but in voluntary claims of dependence.
The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, The Watermans Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, rivermen, sailors, ferrymen, and other laborers who, from the colonial era through Reconstruction, plied the vast inland waters of North Carolina from the Outer Banks to the upper reaches of tidewater rivers.
At the turn of the nineteenth century, James Vann, a Cherokee chief and entrepreneur, established Diamond Hill in Georgia, the most famous plantation in the southeastern Cherokee Nation.
This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture examines how mass media have shaped popular perceptions of the South and how the South has shaped the history of mass media.
In this new interpretation of antebellum slavery, Anthony Kaye offers a vivid portrait of slaves transforming adjoining plantations into slave neighborhoods.
California during the gold rush was a place of disputed claims, shoot-outs, gambling halls, and prostitution; a place populated by that rough and rebellious figure, the forty-niner; in short, a place that seems utterly unconnected to middle-class culture.
