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May-July 1998


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Two UNC Press authors have appeared on The History Channel in recent months. June Namias, author of White Captives: Gender and Ethnicity on the American Frontier, recently filmed an interview for the program "Frontier Captives," airing in June 1998. And Steven C. Bullock, author of Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, appeared this spring in a program about Freemasons. . . . Bullock's recent talk sponsored by the Harvard Club and the New-York Historical Society drew a crowd of more than 500. . . . Speaking of the New-York Historical Society, the group recently hosted a publication party for Patricia U. Bonomi, author of The Lord Cornbury Scandal. C-Span cameras witnessed the festivities. . . . Louis A. Perez, Jr., author of the forthcoming The War of 1898: The United States in History and Historiography, has been a frequent speaker and interviewee as we mark the 100th anniversary of what has been called the Spanish-American War. Perez hopes that his work will result in a change in the way we refer to that war, in which Cuba sought independence from Spain. . . . Visitors to Gettysburg on July 3 (the 135th anniversary of Pickett's Charge) will be able to meet hundreds of authors of books about the Civil War. UNC Press will have a table at the event--stop by and say hello!


SHORT TAKES: Coastal Ecology and Plant Life
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Seacoast Life: An Ecological Guide to Natural Seashore Communities in North Carolina

by Judith M Spitsbergen

This compact book was created for those who want a better understanding of the plants and animals that thrive along the mid-Atlantic coast. Anyone who enjoys exploring the seacoast--from teachers and students to weekend beach-walkers--will delight in learning about comb jellies, pipe fish, ghost crabs, and much more of the diverse variety of species that inhabit this region.
Guide to Ocean Dune Plants Common to North Carolina

by E. Jean Wilson Kraus, edited by Sarah Friday

Another backpack-sized book, this guide introduces the ocean dune environment and plant habitats that survive the harsh conditions there. Botanically accurate drawings help to identify more than fifty trees, shrubs, vines, herbs, and grasses that can be found on the dunes.



GOOD NEWS! Excerpts from Recent Reviews

The Lord Cornbury Scandal: The Politics of Reputation in British America
by Patricia U. Bonomi

"A model of historical investigation. . . . Bonomi's book is more than an exoneration of Cornbury. It is a case study of what she aptly calls the politics of reputation."--New York Review of Books
Lee's Miserables: Life in the Army of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness to Appomattox
by J. Tracy Power

"A vivid history of the final year of the Civil War as experienced by Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, drawing heavily on documentary sources. . . . A first-rate, profoundly realistic addition to the enormous Civil War library, powerfully bringing home the experience of combat and defeat."--Kirkus Reviews
Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry
by Philip D. Morgan

"Authoritative and detailed. . . . Morgan's synthesis draws upon a wealth of social, political, legal, economic, literary, religious and anthropological sources to illuminate through a variety of prisms what he calls 'the core contradiction of slavery- -treating persons as things.'"--Los Angeles Times Book Review
Richard S. Ewell: A Soldier's Life
by Donald C. Pfanz

"A shrewd, highly readable, and exhaustively researched account that restores Ewell's reputation as a skilled commander and one who stubbornly gave his all for the Lost Cause."--Kirkus Reviews


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