Tag: 19th Century

Why North Carolinians Are Tar Heels

Why North Carolinians Are Tar Heels

Bruce E. Baker, illustrations by JP Trostle

“[T]his more complex tale of the origins of ‘Tar Heel’ shows that it is rooted in hard work by poor people, work that dirtied the bodies of both enslaved Africans and poor whites in the Piney Woods.”
Shelby Foote, Memphis, and the Civil War in American Memory

Shelby Foote, Memphis, and the Civil War in American Memory

Timothy S. Huebner
Why No One Is Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Feature Film

Why No One Is Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Feature Film

Godfrey Cheshire
Remembering Appomattox

Remembering Appomattox

Edward L. Ayers
Appalachia in the Making: The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century edited by Mary Beth Pudup, Dwight B. Billings, and Altina L. Waller (Review)

Appalachia in the Making: The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century edited by Mary Beth Pudup, Dwight B. Billings, and Altina L. Waller (Review)

David E. Whisnant
Masters and Lords: Mid-Nineteenth-Century U.S. Planters and Prussian Junkers by Shearer Davis Bowman (Review)

Masters and Lords: Mid-Nineteenth-Century U.S. Planters and Prussian Junkers by Shearer Davis Bowman (Review)

Walter Hickel