The University Of North Carolina Magazine Vol 48

Author : University Of North Carolina
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0484139320

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The University of North Carolina Magazine, Vol. 48 by University Of North Carolina Pdf

Excerpt from The University of North Carolina Magazine, Vol. 48: October, 1917 To the Allen family, to the Princess Patricia's Cana dian Light Infantry, and to the University of North Caro lina, January 10, 1893, is a very important date, for then it was that Captain J. Stuart Allen, the present head of the Military Department of the University, was born, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Thomas Wolfe
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1570037345

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The Magical Campus by Thomas Wolfe Pdf

Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and Aldo P. Magi, The Magical Campus collects for the first time Thomas Wolfe's earliest published work--including poems, plays, short fiction, news articles, and essays--both signed and unsigned, assembled in chronological order.

Author : Stephanie McCurry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199879410

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Masters of Small Worlds by Stephanie McCurry Pdf

In this innovative study of the South Carolina Low Country, author Stephanie McCurry explores the place of the yeomanry in plantation society--the complex web of domestic and public relations within which they were enmeshed, and the contradictory politics of slave society by which that class of small farmers extracted the privileges of masterhood from the region's powerful planters. Insisting on the centrality of women as historical actors and gender as a category of analysis, this work shows how the fateful political choices made by the low-country yeomanry were rooted in the politics of the household, particularly in the customary relations of power male heads of independent households assumed over their dependents, whether slaves or free women and children. Such masterly prerogatives, practiced in the domestic sphere and redeemed in the public, explain the yeomanry's deep commitment to slavery and, ultimately, their ardent embrace of secession. By placing the yeomanry in the center of the drama, McCurry offers a significant reinterpretation of this volatile society on the road to Civil War. Through careful and creative use of a wide variety of archival sources, she brings vividly to life the small worlds of yeoman households, and the larger world of the South Carolina Low Country, the plantation South, and nineteenth-century America.

Author : Kathleen A. Staples,Madelyn C. Shaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216062165

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Clothing through American History by Kathleen A. Staples,Madelyn C. Shaw Pdf

This study of clothing during British colonial America examines items worn by the well-to-do as well as the working poor, the enslaved, and Native Americans, reconstructing their wardrobes across social, economic, racial, and geographic boundaries. Clothing through American History: The British Colonial Era presents, in six chapters, a description of all aspects of dress in British colonial America, including the social and historical background of British America, and covering men's, women's, and children's garments. The book shows how dress reflected and evolved with life in British colonial America as primitive settlements gave way to the growth of towns, cities, and manufacturing of the pre-Industrial Revolution. Readers will discover that just as in the present day, what people wore in colonial times represented an immediate, visual form of communication that often conveyed information about the real or intended social, economic, legal, ethnic, and religious status of the wearer. The authors have gleaned invaluable information from a wide breadth of primary source materials for all of the colonies: court documents and colonial legislation; diaries, personal journals, and business ledgers; wills and probate inventories; newspaper advertisements; paintings, prints, and drawings; and surviving authentic clothing worn in the colonies.

Author : Charles Wythe Cooke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1270 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Geology
ISBN : IND:30000138339910

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Geology of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina by Charles Wythe Cooke Pdf

Author : Sheridan R. Barringer
Publisher : Savas Beatie
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611212631

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Fighting for General Lee by Sheridan R. Barringer Pdf

A remarkable biography of a Confederate brigadier general’s experiences during—and after—the Civil War: “Well-written and deeply researched” (Eric J. Wittenberg, author of Out Flew the Sabers). Rufus Barringer fought on horseback through most of the Civil War with General Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, and rose to lead the North Carolina Cavalry Brigade in some of the war’s most difficult combats. This book details his entire history for the first time. Barringer raised a company early in the war and fought with the 1st North Carolina Cavalry from the Virginia peninsula through Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. He was severely wounded at Brandy Station, and as a result missed the remainder of the Gettysburg Campaign, returning to his regiment in mid-October, 1863. Within three months he was a lieutenant colonel, and by June 1864 a brigadier general in command of the North Carolina Brigade, which fought the rest of the war with Lee and was nearly destroyed during the retreat from Richmond in 1865. The captured Barringer met President Lincoln at City Point; endured prison; and after the war did everything he could to convince North Carolinians to accept Reconstruction and heal the wounds of war. Drawing upon a wide array of newspapers, diaries, letters, and previously unpublished family documents and photographs, as well as other firsthand accounts, this is an in-depth, colorful, and balanced portrait of an overlooked Southern cavalry commander. It is easy today to paint all who wore Confederate gray with a broad brush because they fought on the side to preserve slavery—but this biography reveals a man who wielded the sword and then promptly sheathed it to follow a bolder vision, proving to be a champion of newly freed slaves—a Southern gentleman decades ahead of his time.

Author : John Hrastar
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476688855

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Free Land, Free Country by John Hrastar Pdf

From the earliest days of the British colonies in America, land was freely given to those willing to come and settle. Oftentimes, it was the only inducement that brought colonists to the New World. At first, colonists considered free land a privilege, but it soon came to be seen as a right. When that right was later withheld by Great Britain, the colonists rebelled. Exploring how economic hierarchies led to vast inequality in England, this book details the realization that America would provide opportunities for economic mobility. As colonists learned how to manage the land in the New World, they also learned how to govern themselves. This book emphasizes how the control of free land in America laid the groundwork for revolution. Although covered broadly in other histories, this is the first work dedicated to exploring land ownership as a unique and direct cause of the American Revolution.

Author : Sarah Brandes Madry
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780595300570

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Well Worth a Shindy by Sarah Brandes Madry Pdf

Well Worth a Shindy tells the story of the Old Well, beloved symbol of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the United States' first public university. The Old Well is a Greco-Roman garden temple built in 1897 over an old water well on the campus. The facts concerning the Old Well's beginnings serve to introduce an historical study of the round temple from Mycenaean tholos tombs and treasuries to eighteenth-century English garden follies. The reasons that the Old Well was built, according to its commissioner, Edwin Alderman, the sixth president of the University of North Carolina, are repetitious of those that directed such as Alexander the Great, Augustus Caesar, and Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain to build round temples to be symbols of their territorial and dynastic desires. The mythological, philosophical, and artistic conventions that Alderman and the designer of the Old Well, Eugene Lewis Harris, used to construct the temple were not new but were ancient guides filtered through Medieval and Renaissance prisms. A catalog of over 100 round structures in 14 countries is provided.

Author : Charles R. Knight
Publisher : Savas Beatie
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611215038

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From Arlington to Appomattox by Charles R. Knight Pdf

“Brilliant . . . really gives one a sense of what it took to both lead and run an army in the Civil War. . . . Superb.” —Chris Kolakowski, author of The Virginia Campaigns: March–August 1862 In From Arlington to Appomattox, Charles Knight does for Robert E. Lee and students of the Civil War what E. B. Long’s Civil War Day by Day did for our understanding of the conflict as a whole. This is not another Lee biography, but it is every bit as valuable as one. We know Lee rode out to meet the survivors of Pickett’s Charge and accept blame for the defeat, that he tried to lead the Texas Brigade in a counterattack to save the day at the Wilderness, and took a tearful ride from Wilmer McLean’s house at Appomattox. But where was Lee and what was he doing when the spotlight of history failed to illuminate him? Focusing on what he was doing day by day offers an entirely different appreciation for Lee. Readers will come away with a fresh sense of his struggles, both personal and professional, and discover many things about Lee for the first time through his own correspondence and papers. From Arlington to Appomattox is a tremendous contribution to the literature of the Civil War. “Knight’s study will become the standard reference work on Lee’s daily wartime experiences.” —R. E. L. Krick, author of Staff Officers in Gray “A staggering work of scholarship.” —Jeffry D. Wert, author of A Glorious Army: Robert E. Lee’s Triumph, 1862–1863 "A pleasure to read.” —Michael C. Hardy, author of General Lee’s Immortals “Keeps the reader engaged.” —Journal of America's Military Past

Author : Alan Taylor
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393652437

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Thomas Jefferson's Education by Alan Taylor Pdf

From a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian comes a brilliant, absorbing study of Thomas Jefferson’s campaign to save Virginia through education. By turns entertaining and tragic, this beautifully written history reveals the origins of a great university in the dilemmas of Virginia slavery. It offers an incisive portrait of Thomas Jefferson set against a social fabric of planters in decline, enslaved black families torn apart by sales, and a hair-trigger code of male honor. A man of “deft evasions” who was both courtly and withdrawn, Jefferson sought control of his family and state from his lofty perch at Monticello. Never quite the egalitarian we wish him to be, he advocated emancipation but shrank from implementing it, entrusting that reform to the next generation. Devoted to the education of his granddaughters, he nevertheless accepted their subordination in a masculine culture. During the revolution, he proposed to educate all white children in Virginia, but later in life he narrowed his goal to building an elite university. In 1819 Jefferson’s intensive drive for state support of a new university succeeded. His intention was a university to educate the sons of Virginia’s wealthy planters, lawyers, and merchants, who might then democratize the state and in time rid it of slavery. But the university’s students, having absorbed the traditional vices of the Virginia gentry, preferred to practice and defend them. Opening in 1825, the university nearly collapsed as unruly students abused one another, the enslaved servants, and the faculty. Jefferson’s hopes of developing an enlightened leadership for the state were disappointed, and Virginia hardened its commitment to slavery in the coming years. The university was born with the flaws of a slave society. Instead, it was Jefferson’s beloved granddaughters who carried forward his faith in education by becoming dedicated teachers of a new generation of women.

Author : Johns Hopkins University
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924071544997

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The Johns Hopkins University Circular by Johns Hopkins University Pdf

Includes University catalogues, President's report, Financial report, etc.

Author : E. Bruce Heilman
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781434306746

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An Interruption That Lasted a Lifetime by E. Bruce Heilman Pdf

For millions of Americans, the experiences they had serving in World War II changed their lives forever. For author E. Bruce Heilman, military service played a pivotal role in launching a distinguished career in higher education administration. In his new memoir, An Interruption That Lasted a Lifetime: My First Eighty Years, he describes his Kentucky childhood, his eye-opening years as a Marine and the challenges and rewards of serving as a successful university administrator.

Author : William S. Powell
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807866993

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Dictionary of North Carolina Biography by William S. Powell Pdf

The most comprehensive state project of its kind, the Dictionary provides information on some 4,000 notable North Carolinians whose accomplishments and occasional misdeeds span four centuries. Much of the bibliographic information found in the six volumes has been compiled for the first time. All of the persons included are deceased. They are native North Carolinians, no matter where they made the contributions for which they are noted, or non-natives whose contributions were made in North Carolina.

Author : John George Staack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1480 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Bench-marks
ISBN : IND:30000092264302

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Spirit Leveling in South Carolina, 1896-1938 by John George Staack Pdf

Author : Orville Vernon Burton,J. Brent Morris
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813949871

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Reconstruction beyond 150 by Orville Vernon Burton,J. Brent Morris Pdf

No period of United States history is more important and still less understood than Reconstruction. Now, at the sesquicentennial of the Reconstruction era, Vernon Burton and Brent Morris bring together the best new scholarship on the critical years after the Civil War and before the onset of Jim Crow, synthesizing social, political, economic, and cultural approaches to understanding this crucial period. Reconstruction was the most progressive period in United States history. Although marred by frequent violence and tragedy, it was a revolutionary era that offered hope, opportunity, and against all odds, a new birth of freedom for all Americans. Even though many of the gains of Reconstruction were rolled back and replaced with a repressive social and legal regime for African Americans, the radical spark was never fully extinguished. Its spirit fanned back into flame with the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and its ramifications remain palpable to this day.