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The Best of Enemies
The University of North Carolina Press 2007; US$ 23.00In a vivid portrait of a relationship that defied all odds in 1960s North Carolina, Davidson tells how C.P. Ellis (a poor white member of the KKK) and Ann Atwater (a poor black civil rights activist) went from being each other's worst and most hostile enemies to forming an incredible, long-lasting friendship. By placing this very personal story into... more...
Henry Wallace's 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism
The University of North Carolina Press 2013; US$ 60.00In the presidential campaign of 1948, Henry Wallace set out to challenge the conventional wisdom of his time, blaming the United States, instead of the Soviet Union, for the Cold War, denouncing the popular Marshall Plan, and calling for an end to segregation. In addition, he argued that domestic fascism--rather than international communism--posed... more...
Native and National in Brazil
The University of North Carolina Press 2013; US$ 29.95How do the lives of indigenous peoples relate to the romanticized role of "Indians" in Brazilian history, politics, and cultural production? Native and National in Brazil charts this enigmatic relationship from the sixteenth century to the present, focusing on the consolidation of the dominant national imaginary in the postindependence period and... more...
The Secret World of Red Wolves
The University of North Carolina Press 2013; US$ 42.00Red wolves are shy, elusive, and misunderstood predators. Until the 1800s, they were common in the longleaf pine savannas and deciduous forests of the southeastern United States. However, habitat degradation, persecution, and interbreeding with the coyote nearly annihilated them. Today, reintroduced red wolves are found only in peninsular northeastern... more...
Remembering the Civil War
The University of North Carolina Press 2013; US$ 52.50As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and what would be omitted from the historical record. In Remembering the Civil War , Caroline E. Janney examines how the war generation--men and women, black and white, Unionists and Confederates--crafted and... more...
North Carolina's Hurricane History
The University of North Carolina Press 2013; US$ 52.50North Carolina's Hurricane History charts the more than fifty great storms that have battered the Tar Heel state from the colonial era through Irene in 2011 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012, two of the costliest hurricanes on record. Drawing on news reports, National Weather Service records, and eyewitness descriptions, hurricane historian Jay Barnes... more...
Hiking and Traveling the Blue Ridge Parkway
The University of North Carolina Press 2013; US$ 18.00This comprehensive guidebook provides a detailed description of every official trail along the Blue Ridge Parkway. But that's just the beginning: veteran hiker Leonard M. Adkins includes information on every trail that touches the Parkway, including the Appalachian Trail, the Mountains-to-Sea Trail, and other public pathways on national park, state... more...
Unspeakable
The University of North Carolina Press 2007; US$ 33.95Junius Wilson (1908-2001) spent seventy-six years at a state mental hospital in Goldsboro, North Carolina, including six in the criminal ward. He had never been declared insane by a medical professional or found guilty of any criminal charge. But he was deaf and black in the Jim Crow South. Unspeakable is the story of his life. Using legal records,... more...
Senator Sam Ervin, Last of the Founding Fathers
The University of North Carolina Press 2007; US$ 39.95Many Americans remember Senator Sam Ervin (1896-1985) as the affable, Bible-quoting, old country lawyer who chaired the Senate Watergate hearings in 1973. Ervin's stories from down home in North Carolina, his reciting literary passages ranging from Shakespeare to Aesop's fables, and his earnest lectures in defense of civil liberties and constitutional... more...
Critical Americans
The University of North Carolina Press 2007; US$ 28.95In this intellectual history of American liberalism during the second half of the nineteenth century, Leslie Butler examines a group of nationally prominent and internationally oriented writers who sustained an American tradition of self-consciously progressive and cosmopolitan reform. She addresses how these men established a critical perspective... more...









