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The Secret Lives of Fishermen
More Outdoor Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
The Secret Lives of Fishermen is Jim Dean's second book of essays celebrating wild places, rural traditions, and the pleasures and often humorous frustrations of fishing, hunting, hiking, and camping--or, as Dean might put it, "messing around" outdoors. It combines essays originally published...
Poquosin
A Study of Rural Landscape and Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Jack Temple Kirby charts the history of the low country between the James River in Virginia and Albemarle Sound in North Carolina. The Algonquian word for this country, which means 'swamp-on-a-hill,' was transliterated as 'poquosin' by seventeenth-century English settlers. Interweaving social, political,...
by Patrick Rael
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Martin Delany--these figures stand out in the annals of black protest for their vital antislavery efforts. But what of the rest of their generation, the thousands of other free blacks in the North? Patrick Rael explores the tradition of protest and sense of racial...
by Conrad Cherry, Betty A. DeBerg, Amanda Porterfield
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
The first intensive, close-up investigation of the practice and teaching of religion at American colleges and universities, Religion on Campus is an indispensable resource for all who want to understand what religion really means to today's undergraduates.
To explore firsthand how college students...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Designed to serve as an introduction to American religion, this volume is distinctive in its approach: instead of following a traditional narrative, the book is arranged thematically. Eleven chapters by top scholars present, in carefully organized and accessible fashion, topics and perspectives fundamental...
Heading South to Teach
The World of Susan Nye Hutchison, 1815-1845
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Susan Nye Hutchison (1790-1867) was one of many teachers to venture south across the Mason-Dixon Line in the Second Great Awakening. From 1815 to 1841, she kept journals about her career, family life, and encounters with slavery. Drawing on these journals and hundreds of other documents, Kim Tolley...
States of Emergency
The Object of American Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
The contributors to this volume argue that for too long, inclusiveness has substituted for methodology in American studies scholarship. The ten original essays collected here call for a robust comparativism that is attuned theoretically to questions of both space and time.
States of Emergency...
Gertrude Weil
Jewish Progressive in the New South
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
It is so obvious that to treat people equally is the right thing to do," wrote Gertrude Weil (1879–1971). In the first-ever biography of Weil, Leonard Rogoff tells the story of a modest southern Jewish woman who, while famously private, fought publicly and passionately for the progressive causes...
Living at the Water's Edge
A Heritage Guide to the Outer Banks Byway
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
The Outer Banks National Scenic Byway received its designation in 2009, an act that stands as a testament to the historical and cultural importance of the communities linked along the North Carolina coast from Whalebone Junction across to Hatteras and Ocracoke Island and down to the small villages...
The Jiangyin Mission Station
An American Missionary Community in China, 1895-1951
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Lawrence Kessler uses the Jiangyin mission station in the Shanghai region of China to explore Chinese-American cultural interaction in the first half of the twentieth century. He concludes that the Protestant missionary movement was welcomed by the Chinese not because of the religious message it spread...
Research to Revenue
A Practical Guide to University Start-Ups
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
University start-ups are unique in the world of business and entrepreneurship, translating research conducted at and owned by universities into market-ready products--a complex process that requires a combination of scientific, technical, legal, business, and financial skills to be successful. Start-ups...
Corazón de Dixie
Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
When Latino migration to the U.S. South became increasingly visible in the 1990s, observers and advocates grasped for ways to analyze "new" racial dramas in the absence of historical reference points. However, as this book is the first to comprehensively document, Mexicans and Mexican Americans have...
by Nell Wise Wechter
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Back in print A longtime favorite of several generations of Tar Heels, Taffy of Torpedo Junction is the thrilling adventure story of thirteen-year-old Taffy Willis, who, with the help of her pony and dog, exposes a ring of Nazi spies operating from a secluded house on Hatteras Island, North Carolina,...
Atlantic Bonds
A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
A decade before the American Civil War, James Churchwill Vaughan (1828–1893) set out to fulfill his formerly enslaved father's dying wish that he should leave America to start a new life in Africa. Over the next forty years, Vaughan was taken captive, fought in African wars, built and rebuilt a...