This is an examination of one of the many humanitarian movements that have sought to influence the public to improve conditions regarded as contrary to Christian and democratic doctrines. It is an ...więcej »
Beginning with Ponce de Leon and ending with Washington and Jefferson, this narrative history for young people covers three centuries of the most interesting and dramatic period in our history. In ...więcej »
Printing was introduced into North Carolina in 1749 when James Davis set up a press at New Bern. Davis served North Carolina as its official typographer for many years, printing both official docum...więcej »
The author contends that the separation of powers in American government is not primarily based on the political theories of Montesquieu but on the actual experience of the colonists with the abuse...więcej »
Approximately 9 million soldiers fell into enemy hands from 1914 to 1918, but historians have only recently begun to recognize the prisoner of war's significance to the history of the Great War. Ex...więcej »
In The Claims of Kinfolk, Dylan Penningroth uncovers an extensive informal economy of property ownership among slaves and sheds new light on African American family and community life from t...więcej »
Each year, tens of thousands of people flock to Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina, and to more than two hundred other locations across the country to attend Scottish Highland Games and Gathering...więcej »
This volume is an excellent description of the more important forces that have made Denmark one of the most highly civilized and enlightened nations of the world--a nation in which the problems of ...więcej »
From the civil rights and Black Power era of the 1960s through antiapartheid activism in the 1980s and beyond, black women have used their clothing, hair, and style not simply as a fashion statemen...więcej »
Defining liberty as balance between freedom and security, the author speculates on the possibilities of the preservation of liberty and the Union. This is dependent on the subordination of commerci...więcej »
This book analyzes in detail the argument that Aeschylus was a great poet whose views on religious and political thought were naive and primitive. The author cites relevant evidence to discount thi...więcej »
In 1982, Harvard-trained ethnobotanist Wade Davis traveled into the Haitian countryside to research reports of zombies--the infamous living dead of Haitian folklore. A report by a team of physician...więcej »
In a work of striking breadth and clarity, Paul Conkin offers an even-handed and in-depth look at the major American-made forms of Christianity--a diverse group of religious traditions, each of whi...więcej »
Collected in this volume are the most distinguished addresses of Smith--scientist, inventor, educator, religious leader, and humanist. He presents his philosophy of education and raises and attempt...więcej »
This volume is a brief study of the general development of political philosophy from the ancient Greeks to the present--Greek city-state, Roman Empire, Roman church, absolute monarchy, democracy, n...więcej »
In a major revision of accepted wisdom, this book, originally published by UNC Press in 1991, demonstrates that American social Christianity played an important role in racial reform during the per...więcej »
Using newly available material from both sides of the Iron Curtain, William Glenn Gray explores West Germany's efforts to prevent international acceptance of East Germany as a legitimate state foll...więcej »
Are you considered a "dingbatter," or outsider, when you visit the Outer Banks?
Have you ever noticed a picture in your house hanging a little "sigogglin," or crooked?
Do you enjoy spending...więcej »
The Mexican-American War (1846-48) found Americans on new terrain. A republic founded on the principle of armed defense of freedom was now going to war on behalf of Manifest Destiny, seeking to con...więcej »
In this interdisciplinary collection of essays, Joel W. Martin and Mark A. Nicholas gather emerging and leading voices in the study of Native American religion to reconsider the complex and often m...więcej »