University of North Carolina Press
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Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia
$29.00 Add to cartIn the first comprehensive exploration of the history and practice of folk medicine in the Appalachian region, Anthony Cavender melds folklore, medical anthropology, and Appalachian history and draws … [more below]
- Author: Cavender, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 08 2003
- ISBN10: 080785493X
- Language: English
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Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue
$32.00 Add to cartAcross America, the pure love and popularity of barbecue cookery have gone through the roof. Prepared in one regional style or another, in the South and beyond, barbecue is one of the nation’s most di
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Miller, Adrian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 27, 2021
- ISBN10: 1469662809
- Language: English
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Everywhere the Undrowned: A Memoir of Survival and Imagination
$21.00 Add to cartThis is what it is to survive. You find what floats and you hold on. Even if it is smaller than you.
Holding on is all fourteen-year-old Stephanie Clare Smith can do when she’s left home alone in New… [more below]
- Series: Great Circle Books
- Author: Smith, Stephanie Clare
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1469678969
- Language: English
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Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe: Complicity and Conscience in America’s World War II Concentration Camps
$30.00 Add to cartIt is 1942, and World War II is raging. In the months since Pearl Harbor, the US has plunged into the war overseas–and on the home front, it has locked up tens of thousands of innocent Japanese Ameri… [more below]
- Author: Muller, Eric L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 1469673975
- Language: English
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Dreamland: America’s Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction
$30.00 Add to cartIn a world of border walls and obstacles to migration, a lottery where winners can gain permanent residency in the United States sounds too good to be true. Just as unlikely is the idea that the Unite… [more below]
- Author: Goodman, Carly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 2, 2023
- ISBN10: 1469673045
- Language: English
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City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300
$26.00 Add to cartIn 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 liv… [more below]
- Author: Berry, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: February 01 2021
- ISBN10: 146966402X
- Language: English
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Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America
$28.00 Add to cartPsyche A. Williams-Forson is one of our leading thinkers about food in America. In Eating While Black, she offers her knowledge and experience to illuminate how anti-Black racism operates in the pract
- Author: Williams-Forson, Psyche A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 16, 2022
- ISBN10: 1469668459
- Language: English
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A Question of Value: Stories from the Life of an Auctioneer
$22.00 Add to cartIn the late 1970s, Robert Brunk discovered the world of auctioneering. Drawn to the unique mountain culture and the history of fine art in and around Asheville, North Carolina, Bob started a business,… [more below]
- Author: Brunk, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1469678098
- Language: English
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Wildflowers and Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont: A Naturalist’s Guide to the Carolinas, Virginia, Tennessee, and
$31.95 Add to cartThis richly illustrated field guide serves as an introduction to the wildflowers and plant communities of the southern Appalachians and the rolling hills of the adjoining piedmont. Rather than organiz… [more below]
- Series: Southern Gateways Guides
- Author: Spira, Timothy P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 540
- Publish Date: May 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0807871729
- Language: English
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The Vice President’s Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
$30.00 Add to cartAward-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796-1833), the enslaved wife of Richard Mentor Johnson, owner of … [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: 10-Oct-23
- ISBN10: 1469675234
- Language: English
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The Young Lords: A Radical History
$42.00 Add to cartAgainst the backdrop of America’s escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of New York radicals unleashed a series of urban guerrilla actions against the city’s racist policies a… [more below]
- Author: Fern?ndez, Johanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1469669323
- Language: English
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From Here to Equality, Second Edition: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
$23.00 Add to cartRacism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatic… [more below]
- Author: Darity, William A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1469671204
- Language: English
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The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Cookery
$27.00 Add to cartFrom springhouse to smokehouse, from hearth to garden, Southern Appalachian foodways are celebrated afresh in this newly revised edition of The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Cookery. First published in … [more below]
- Author: Smith, T. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1469647540
- Language: English
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Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital
$34.95 Add to cartMonumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation’s capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America’s ex… [more below]
- Author: Asch, Chris Myers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: August 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1469654725
- Language: English
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The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women: Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South
$26.00 Add to cartIn 1966 in Rabun County, Georgia, a group of high school English students created theFoxfire magazine, a literary journal that celebrated Appalachian stories, peoples, and culture. The publication was… [more below]
- Author: Ahrens, Kami
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1469670038
- Language: English
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High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
$21.00 Add to cartThe cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle changed music history. Make your own tapes! Trade them with friends! Tape over the ones you don’t like!… [more below]
- Author: Masters, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1469675986
- Language: English
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Interpreting Our Heritage
$24.00 Add to cartEvery year millions of Americans visit national parks and monuments, state and municipal parks, battlefields, historic houses, and museums. By means of guided walks and talks, tours, exhibits, and sig… [more below]
- Author: Tilden, Freeman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 18 2008
- ISBN10: 0807858676
- Language: English
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Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture
$23.00 Add to cartIn the summer of 1978, the B-52’s conquered the New York underground. A year later, the band’s self-titled debut album burst onto the Billboard charts, capturing the imagination of fans and music crit… [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Hale, Grace Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1469664054
- Language: English
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A Field Guide to Mushrooms of the Carolinas
$35.00 Read moreMushrooms in the wild present an enticing challenge: some are delicious, others are deadly, and still others take on almost unbelievable forms. This field guide introduces 650 mushrooms found in the C… [more below]
- Series: Southern Gateways Guides
- Author: Bessette, Alan E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1469638533
- Language: English
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Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army After Appomattox
$23.00 Add to cartThe Army of Northern Virginia’s chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House. As the Confederates had pushed west at a relentless pace for nearly a week, thousands o… [more below]
- Author: Janney, Caroline E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1469674300
- Language: English
