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Jefferson, Madison, and the Making of the Constitution
by Jeff Broadwater
Pub Date 10 Jun 2019
Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, and James Madison, "Father of the Constitution," were two of the most important Founders of the United States as well as the closest of political allies. Yet historians have often seen a tension between the idealistic rhetoric of the Declaration and the more pedestrian language of the...
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Jefferson, Madison, and the Making of the Constitution
Jeff Broadwater
Jefferson, Madison, and the Making of the Constitution
by Jeff Broadwater
Pub Date 10 Jun 2019
Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, and James Madison, "Father of the Constitution," were two of the most important Founders of the United States as well as the closest of political allies. Yet historians have often seen a tension between the idealistic rhetoric of the Declaration and the more pedestrian language of the...
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Pub Date 20 May 2019
Operating in the vast and varied trans-Appalachian west, the Army of Tennessee was crucially important to the military fate of the Confederacy. But under the principal leadership of generals such as Braxton Bragg, Joseph E. Johnston, and John Bell Hood, it won few major battles, and many regard its inability to halt steady Union advances into the...
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Conquered
Larry J. Daniel
Pub Date 20 May 2019
Operating in the vast and varied trans-Appalachian west, the Army of Tennessee was crucially important to the military fate of the Confederacy. But under the principal leadership of generals such as Braxton Bragg, Joseph E. Johnston, and John Bell Hood, it won few major battles, and many regard its inability to halt steady Union advances into the...
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Every True Pleasure
LGBTQ Tales of North Carolina
by Edited by Wilton Barnhardt
Pub Date 11 Mar 2019
Some of North Carolina’s finest fiction and nonfiction writers come together in Every True Pleasure, including David Sedaris, Kelly Link, Allan Gurganus, Randall Kenan, and more. Within the volume—featuring writers who identify as gay, trans, bisexual, and straight—are stories and essays that view the full spectrum of contemporary life though an LGBTQ lens...
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Every True Pleasure
Edited by Wilton Barnhardt
Every True Pleasure
LGBTQ Tales of North Carolina
by Edited by Wilton Barnhardt
Pub Date 11 Mar 2019
Some of North Carolina’s finest fiction and nonfiction writers come together in Every True Pleasure, including David Sedaris, Kelly Link, Allan Gurganus, Randall Kenan, and more. Within the volume—featuring writers who identify as gay, trans, bisexual, and straight—are stories and essays that view the full spectrum of contemporary life though an LGBTQ lens...
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The Last Battleground
The Civil War Comes to North Carolina
by Philip Gerard
Pub Date 18 Mar 2019
To understand the long march of events in North Carolina from secession to surrender is to understand the entire Civil War--a personal war waged by Confederates and Unionists, free blacks and the enslaved, farm women and plantation belles, Cherokees and mountaineers, conscripts and volunteers, gentleman officers and poor privates. In the state's complex...
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The Last Battleground
Philip Gerard
The Last Battleground
The Civil War Comes to North Carolina
by Philip Gerard
Pub Date 18 Mar 2019
To understand the long march of events in North Carolina from secession to surrender is to understand the entire Civil War--a personal war waged by Confederates and Unionists, free blacks and the enslaved, farm women and plantation belles, Cherokees and mountaineers, conscripts and volunteers, gentleman officers and poor privates. In the state's complex...
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A Delicious Country
Rediscovering the Carolinas along the Route of John Lawson's 1700 Expedition
by Scott Huler
Pub Date 04 Mar 2019
In 1700, a young man named John Lawson left London and landed in Charleston, South Carolina, hoping to make a name for himself. For reasons unknown, he soon undertook a two-month journey through the still-mysterious Carolina backcountry. His travels yielded A New Voyage to Carolina in 1709, one of the most significant early American travel narratives, rich...
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A Delicious Country
Scott Huler
A Delicious Country
Rediscovering the Carolinas along the Route of John Lawson's 1700 Expedition
by Scott Huler
Pub Date 04 Mar 2019
In 1700, a young man named John Lawson left London and landed in Charleston, South Carolina, hoping to make a name for himself. For reasons unknown, he soon undertook a two-month journey through the still-mysterious Carolina backcountry. His travels yielded A New Voyage to Carolina in 1709, one of the most significant early American travel narratives, rich...
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Mothers and Strangers
Essays on Motherhood from the New South
by Edited by Samia Serageldin and Lee Smith
Pub Date 01 Apr 2019
In this anthology of creative nonfiction, twenty-eight writers set out to discover what they know, and don’t know, about the person they call Mother. Celebrated writers Samia Serageldin and Lee Smith have curated a diverse and insightful collection that challenges stereotypes about mothers and expands our notions of motherhood in the South. The mothers in...
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Mothers and Strangers
Edited by Samia Serageldin and Lee Smith
Mothers and Strangers
Essays on Motherhood from the New South
by Edited by Samia Serageldin and Lee Smith
Pub Date 01 Apr 2019
In this anthology of creative nonfiction, twenty-eight writers set out to discover what they know, and don’t know, about the person they call Mother. Celebrated writers Samia Serageldin and Lee Smith have curated a diverse and insightful collection that challenges stereotypes about mothers and expands our notions of motherhood in the South. The mothers in...
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Civil War Places
Seeing the Conflict through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians
by Edited by Gary W. Gallagher and J. Matthew Gallman
Pub Date 25 Mar 2019
Photographs by Will Gallagher.
Much has been written about place and Civil War memory, but how do we personally remember and commemorate this part of our collective past? How do battlefields and other historic places help us understand our own history? What kinds of places are worth remembering and why? In this collection of essays, some of the most esteemed...
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Civil War Places
Edited by Gary W. Gallagher and J. Matthew Gallman
Civil War Places
Seeing the Conflict through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians
by Edited by Gary W. Gallagher and J. Matthew Gallman
Pub Date 25 Mar 2019
Photographs by Will Gallagher.
Much has been written about place and Civil War memory, but how do we personally remember and commemorate this part of our collective past? How do battlefields and other historic places help us understand our own history? What kinds of places are worth remembering and why? In this collection of essays, some of the most esteemed...
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Pub Date 25 Feb 2019
Foreword by Russell Lord; Introduction by William Ferris.
The tintype is rooted in more than 150 years of photographic method. In this collection of extraordinary portraits, Timothy Duffy brings new vitality to this old form, capturing powerful images of musicians who represent the roots of American music. These American blues, jazz, and folk artists are...
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Blue Muse
Timothy Duffy
Pub Date 25 Feb 2019
Foreword by Russell Lord; Introduction by William Ferris.
The tintype is rooted in more than 150 years of photographic method. In this collection of extraordinary portraits, Timothy Duffy brings new vitality to this old form, capturing powerful images of musicians who represent the roots of American music. These American blues, jazz, and folk artists are...
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Bruce Moffett Cooks
A New England Chef in a New South Kitchen
by Bruce Moffett
Pub Date 11 Mar 2019
Written with Keia Mastrianni. Photographs by Stefanie Haviv.
A native New Englander, chef Bruce Moffett fell in love with the South. Founding chef of three Charlotte restaurants—Barrington’s, Good Food on Montford, and Stagioni—Moffett is known for creating dishes inspired by both New England and southern culinary traditions. With the simple, compelling aim...
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Bruce Moffett Cooks
Bruce Moffett
Bruce Moffett Cooks
A New England Chef in a New South Kitchen
by Bruce Moffett
Pub Date 11 Mar 2019
Written with Keia Mastrianni. Photographs by Stefanie Haviv.
A native New Englander, chef Bruce Moffett fell in love with the South. Founding chef of three Charlotte restaurants—Barrington’s, Good Food on Montford, and Stagioni—Moffett is known for creating dishes inspired by both New England and southern culinary traditions. With the simple, compelling aim...
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A Saint of Our Own
How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American
by Kathleen Sprows Cummings
Pub Date 08 Apr 2019
What drove U.S. Catholics in their arduous quest, full of twists and turns over more than a century, to win an American saint? The absence of American names in the canon of the saints had left many of the faithful feeling spiritually unmoored. But while canonization may be fundamentally about holiness, it is never only about holiness, reveals Kathleen...
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A Saint of Our Own
Kathleen Sprows Cummings
A Saint of Our Own
How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American
by Kathleen Sprows Cummings
Pub Date 08 Apr 2019
What drove U.S. Catholics in their arduous quest, full of twists and turns over more than a century, to win an American saint? The absence of American names in the canon of the saints had left many of the faithful feeling spiritually unmoored. But while canonization may be fundamentally about holiness, it is never only about holiness, reveals Kathleen...
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Stone Free
Jimi Hendrix in London, September 1966-June 1967
by Jas Obrecht
Pub Date 12 Nov 2018
A compelling portrait of rock's greatest guitarist at the moment of his ascendance, Stone Free is the first book to focus exclusively on the happiest and most productive period of Jimi Hendrix's life. As it begins in the fall of 1966, he's an under-sung, under-accomplished sideman struggling to survive in New York City. Nine months later, he's the toast of...
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Stone Free
Jas Obrecht

Stone Free
Jimi Hendrix in London, September 1966-June 1967
by Jas Obrecht
Pub Date 12 Nov 2018
A compelling portrait of rock's greatest guitarist at the moment of his ascendance, Stone Free is the first book to focus exclusively on the happiest and most productive period of Jimi Hendrix's life. As it begins in the fall of 1966, he's an under-sung, under-accomplished sideman struggling to survive in New York City. Nine months later, he's the toast of...
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City of a Million Dreams
A History of New Orleans at Year 300
by Jason Berry
Pub Date 12 Nov 2018
In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. Mayor Mitch Landrieu led the ceremony, attended by living legends of jazz, music aficionados, politicians, and everyday people. The scene captured the history and culture of the city in microcosm—a city legendary...
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City of a Million Dreams
Jason Berry

City of a Million Dreams
A History of New Orleans at Year 300
by Jason Berry
Pub Date 12 Nov 2018
In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. Mayor Mitch Landrieu led the ceremony, attended by living legends of jazz, music aficionados, politicians, and everyday people. The scene captured the history and culture of the city in microcosm—a city legendary...
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The New Vegetarian South
105 Inspired Dishes for Everyone
by Jennifer Brulé
Pub Date 17 Sep 2018
In this enlightening cookbook, chef Jennifer Brulé brings southern-style food together with plant-based approaches to eating. Her down-to-earth style and 105 recipes will immediately appeal to vegetarians, vegans, and meat-eaters alike. These dishes are also a boon for those who simply love southern food and want to learn more about options for flexitarian...
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The New Vegetarian South
Jennifer Brulé

The New Vegetarian South
105 Inspired Dishes for Everyone
by Jennifer Brulé
Pub Date 17 Sep 2018
In this enlightening cookbook, chef Jennifer Brulé brings southern-style food together with plant-based approaches to eating. Her down-to-earth style and 105 recipes will immediately appeal to vegetarians, vegans, and meat-eaters alike. These dishes are also a boon for those who simply love southern food and want to learn more about options for flexitarian...
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Southern Snacks
77 Recipes for Small Bites with Big Flavors
by Perre Coleman Magness
Pub Date 10 Sep 2018
This cookbook is dedicated to the truth that southerners are just as skilled and generous with the snack as they are with their bounteous, overflowing meals. In seventy-seven recipes that range from classic to contemporary, Perre Coleman Magness embraces the southern approach to snacking, including all the small bites you’ll need for any event, whether a...
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Southern Snacks
Perre Coleman Magness

Southern Snacks
77 Recipes for Small Bites with Big Flavors
by Perre Coleman Magness
Pub Date 10 Sep 2018
This cookbook is dedicated to the truth that southerners are just as skilled and generous with the snack as they are with their bounteous, overflowing meals. In seventy-seven recipes that range from classic to contemporary, Perre Coleman Magness embraces the southern approach to snacking, including all the small bites you’ll need for any event, whether a...
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Edna Lewis: At the Table with an American Original
by Sara B. Franklin (Editor)
Pub Date 13 Apr 2018
Edna Lewis (1916-2006) wrote some of America's most resonant, lyrical, and significant cookbooks, including the now classic The Taste of Country Cooking. In this first-ever critical appreciation of Lewis's work, a constellation of food world stars gather to reveal their own encounters with Edna Lewis.
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Edna Lewis: At the Table with an American Original
Sara B. Franklin (Editor)

Edna Lewis: At the Table with an American Original
by Sara B. Franklin (Editor)
Pub Date 13 Apr 2018
Edna Lewis (1916-2006) wrote some of America's most resonant, lyrical, and significant cookbooks, including the now classic The Taste of Country Cooking. In this first-ever critical appreciation of Lewis's work, a constellation of food world stars gather to reveal their own encounters with Edna Lewis.
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Goat Castle
A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South
by Karen L. Cox
Pub Date 09 Oct 2017
In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines nationwide. Two eccentrics, Richard Dana and Octavia Dockery—known in the press as the “Wild Man” and the “Goat Woman”—enlisted an African...
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Goat Castle
Karen L. Cox

Goat Castle
A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South
by Karen L. Cox
Pub Date 09 Oct 2017
In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines nationwide. Two eccentrics, Richard Dana and Octavia Dockery—known in the press as the “Wild Man” and the “Goat Woman”—enlisted an African...
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The President's Kitchen Cabinet
The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas
by Adrian Miller
Pub Date 20 Feb 2017
James Beard award–winning author Adrian Miller vividly tells the stories of the African Americans who worked in the presidential food service as chefs, personal cooks, butlers, stewards, and servers for every First Family since George and Martha Washington. Miller brings together the names and words of more than 150 black men and women who played remarkable...
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The President's Kitchen Cabinet
Adrian Miller

The President's Kitchen Cabinet
The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas
by Adrian Miller
Pub Date 20 Feb 2017
James Beard award–winning author Adrian Miller vividly tells the stories of the African Americans who worked in the presidential food service as chefs, personal cooks, butlers, stewards, and servers for every First Family since George and Martha Washington. Miller brings together the names and words of more than 150 black men and women who played remarkable...
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Florynce “Flo” Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical
The Life of a Black Feminist Radical
by Sherie M. Randolph
Pub Date 05 Oct 2015
Often photographed in a cowboy hat with her middle finger held defiantly in the air, Florynce "Flo" Kennedy (1916–2000) left a vibrant legacy as a leader of the Black Power and feminist movements. In the first biography of Kennedy, Sherie M. Randolph traces the life and political influence of this strikingly bold and controversial radical activist...
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Florynce “Flo” Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical
Sherie M. Randolph

Florynce “Flo” Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical
The Life of a Black Feminist Radical
by Sherie M. Randolph
Pub Date 05 Oct 2015
Often photographed in a cowboy hat with her middle finger held defiantly in the air, Florynce "Flo" Kennedy (1916–2000) left a vibrant legacy as a leader of the Black Power and feminist movements. In the first biography of Kennedy, Sherie M. Randolph traces the life and political influence of this strikingly bold and controversial radical activist...
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University of North Carolina Press

The University of North Carolina Press is the oldest university press in the South and one of the oldest in the country. Founded in 1922, the Press is known for its strong regional publishing program, as well as for its offerings in African American studies, women’s studies, Civil War history, and Southern history. The UNC Press is part of the 16-campus University of North Carolina.
















































