Odds & Ends
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
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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
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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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