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March/April 1999


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Dan Schipman III was the winner of the December 15 Win Free Books drawing. He chose the Woodwright Prize Package. Congratulations! The next drawing will be on March 15. . . . Also, congratulations to Heather Clark for winning our Hurricane History Quiz! Winners are only chosen during hurricane season, so those interested should log onto our hurricane web page and start studying for the next hurricane history quiz in the fall--you may win a hurricane history book by Jay Barnes. . . .Our website address is changing soon, so please bookmark our new address: http://www.uncpress.unc.edu. . . . Congratulations to former president of the University of North Carolina system William Friday for his announced retirement from the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust in Chapel Hill, NC. For more information on Friday, you may want to check out our biography, William Friday: Power, Purpose, and American Higher Education by William A. Link. . . . Congratulations, too, to UNC Press author Philip Morgan who has won two major awards from the American Historical Association--the Wesley-Logan Prize and the Albert J. Beveridge Award--for his book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry .


SHORT TAKES: Spring Books Preview

North Carolina Women: Making History
by Margaret Supplee Smith and Emily Herring Wilson
April 1999

For generations, books on North Carolina history have included the names of only a few women. But in addition to such well-known and legendary figures as Queen Elizabeth I and Virginia Dare, a multitude of other women influenced the making of North Carolina. These women's stories have rarely been told, in part because their contributions tended to occur in the relative privacy of their families and communities.

This lively and comprehensive volume finally accords North Carolina women their long-awaited place in history. Margaret Supplee Smith and Emily Herring Wilson bring together a wealth of materials to demonstrate how North Carolina women lived, from the days of early native settlements to the end of World War II. Filled with names, places, colorful anecdotes, and more than two hundred photographs and documents that bring to life important moments in history, North Carolina Women establishes the critical influence of women in shaping the character and economy of the state and the values of its citizens.

The narratives embedded in women's history, presented chronologically, create an enormous landscape across time--broadly analyzed and meticulously detailed. By considering the particular contours of gender, race, class, religion, and geography, the authors reveal the diversity and complexity of women's lives and experiences. Interspersed throughout the book are biographies of twenty-two North Carolina women, from Cherokee Beloved Woman Nanye'hi and frontierswoman Rebecca Bryan Boone to civil rights scholar and priest Pauli Murray and political activist Gladys Avery Tillett.

$29.95 hardcover


A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Western North Carolina
by Catherine W. Bishir, Micahel T. Southern, and Jennifer F. Martin
April 1999

This portable field guide to the historic architecture of western North Carolina covers 1,200 historic buildings in 25 counties in the foothills and mountains. It introduces readers to the region's rich and diverse architectural heritage--from the log farmstead to the opulent mountain retreat, and from ancient earthen mounds of the Cherokee to twentieth-century hydroelectric dams and the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Featuring more than 370 photographs and 36 maps, the guide is written for travelers and residents alike. It offers concise entries on notable buildings, neighborhoods, and communities, emphasizing buildings that are visible from the road and indicating sites that are open to the public.

A project of the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office of the Division of Archives and History and its western office in Asheville, the book reflects more than twenty-five years of fieldwork and research in the agency's statewide architectural survey and National Register of Historic Places programs. A previous volume covers eastern North Carolina and a future volume will cover the piedmont region.

$34.95 hardcover



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