Author: Hugh M. Morton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780807828328
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Shares six decades of photographs of North Carolina, focusing on nature, athletics, politics, government, business, and the media.
Hugh Morton's North Carolina
Author: Hugh M. Morton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780807828328
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Shares six decades of photographs of North Carolina, focusing on nature, athletics, politics, government, business, and the media.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780807828328
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Shares six decades of photographs of North Carolina, focusing on nature, athletics, politics, government, business, and the media.
Hugh Morton, North Carolina Photographer
Author: Hugh M. Morton
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807830739
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Readers everywhere will enjoy this new collection from one of North Carolina's most beloved photographers showcasing his signature wildlife and nature shots, along with some of his favorite pictures of people and events. Includes 145 color and 17 black & white photographs.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807830739
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Readers everywhere will enjoy this new collection from one of North Carolina's most beloved photographers showcasing his signature wildlife and nature shots, along with some of his favorite pictures of people and events. Includes 145 color and 17 black & white photographs.
Willtown
Author: Martha A. Zierden
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781880067536
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Willtown was founded in the late 17th century on the banks of the South Edisto River, but the movement of the Willtown Church in the 1760s to another location marked the demise of the town. Hugh C. Lane Jr. encouraged The Charleston Museum in its research in and around the Willtown area, asking the question, "Why did Willtown fail?" "Our serendipitous discovery of James Stobo's rice plantation a mile from Willtown revealed a site remarkable in its pristine preservation, the clarity of its stratigraphic record, the number and types of artifacts recovered, and in the complexity of its architectural detail."--Introduction, p. 1.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781880067536
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Willtown was founded in the late 17th century on the banks of the South Edisto River, but the movement of the Willtown Church in the 1760s to another location marked the demise of the town. Hugh C. Lane Jr. encouraged The Charleston Museum in its research in and around the Willtown area, asking the question, "Why did Willtown fail?" "Our serendipitous discovery of James Stobo's rice plantation a mile from Willtown revealed a site remarkable in its pristine preservation, the clarity of its stratigraphic record, the number and types of artifacts recovered, and in the complexity of its architectural detail."--Introduction, p. 1.
Truth's Ragged Edge
Author: Philip F. Gura
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429951346
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
From the acclaimed cultural historian Philip F. Gura comes Truth's Ragged Edge, a comprehensive and original history of the American novel's first century. Grounded in Gura's extensive consideration of the diverse range of important early novels, not just those that remain widely read today, this book recovers many long-neglected but influential writers—such as the escaped slave Harriet Jacobs, the free black Philadelphian Frank J. Webb, and the irrepressible John Neal—to paint a complete and authoritative portrait of the era. Gura also gives us the key to understanding what sets the early novel apart, arguing that it is distinguished by its roots in "the fundamental religiosity of American life." Our nation's pioneering novelists, it turns out, wrote less in the service of art than of morality. This history begins with a series of firsts: the very first American novel, William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy, published in 1789; the first bestsellers, Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple and Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette, novels that were, like Brown's, cautionary tales of seduction and betrayal; and the first native genre, religious tracts, which were parables intended to instruct the Christian reader. Gura shows that the novel did not leave behind its proselytizing purpose, even as it evolved. We see Catharine Maria Sedgwick in the 1820s conceiving of A New-England Tale as a critique of Puritanism's harsh strictures, as well as novelists pushing secular causes: George Lippard's The Quaker City, from 1844, was a dark warning about growing social inequality. In the next decade certain writers—Hawthorne and Melville most famously—began to depict interiority and doubt, and in doing so nurtured a broader cultural shift, from social concern to individualism, from faith in a distant god to faith in the self. Rich in subplots and detail, Gura's narrative includes enlightening discussions of the technologies that modernized publishing and allowed for the printing of novels on a mass scale, and of the lively cultural journals and literary salons of early nineteenth-century New York and Boston. A book for the reader of history no less than the reader of fiction, Truth's Ragged Edge—the title drawn from a phrase in Melville, about the ambiguity of truth—is an indispensable guide to the fascinating, unexpected origins of the American novel.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429951346
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
From the acclaimed cultural historian Philip F. Gura comes Truth's Ragged Edge, a comprehensive and original history of the American novel's first century. Grounded in Gura's extensive consideration of the diverse range of important early novels, not just those that remain widely read today, this book recovers many long-neglected but influential writers—such as the escaped slave Harriet Jacobs, the free black Philadelphian Frank J. Webb, and the irrepressible John Neal—to paint a complete and authoritative portrait of the era. Gura also gives us the key to understanding what sets the early novel apart, arguing that it is distinguished by its roots in "the fundamental religiosity of American life." Our nation's pioneering novelists, it turns out, wrote less in the service of art than of morality. This history begins with a series of firsts: the very first American novel, William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy, published in 1789; the first bestsellers, Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple and Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette, novels that were, like Brown's, cautionary tales of seduction and betrayal; and the first native genre, religious tracts, which were parables intended to instruct the Christian reader. Gura shows that the novel did not leave behind its proselytizing purpose, even as it evolved. We see Catharine Maria Sedgwick in the 1820s conceiving of A New-England Tale as a critique of Puritanism's harsh strictures, as well as novelists pushing secular causes: George Lippard's The Quaker City, from 1844, was a dark warning about growing social inequality. In the next decade certain writers—Hawthorne and Melville most famously—began to depict interiority and doubt, and in doing so nurtured a broader cultural shift, from social concern to individualism, from faith in a distant god to faith in the self. Rich in subplots and detail, Gura's narrative includes enlightening discussions of the technologies that modernized publishing and allowed for the printing of novels on a mass scale, and of the lively cultural journals and literary salons of early nineteenth-century New York and Boston. A book for the reader of history no less than the reader of fiction, Truth's Ragged Edge—the title drawn from a phrase in Melville, about the ambiguity of truth—is an indispensable guide to the fascinating, unexpected origins of the American novel.
The Descendants of Capt. Thomas Carter of "Barford", Lancaster County, Virginia, 1652-1912
Author: Joseph Lyon Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
A Family Called Fort
Author: Homer T. Fort
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Elias Fort was born before 1646 and died in 1677/1678.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Elias Fort was born before 1646 and died in 1677/1678.
Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia
Author: William Meade
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Hugh Morton's Democratic Photo Album
Author: Hugh Morton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Super-Scenic Motorway
Author: Anne Mitchell Whisnant
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807898422
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
The most visited site in the National Park system, the 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway winds along the ridges of the Appalachian mountains in Virginia and North Carolina. According to most accounts, the Parkway was a New Deal "Godsend for the needy," built without conflict or opposition by landscape architects and planners who traced their vision along a scenic, isolated southern landscape. The historical archives relating to this massive public project, however, tell a different and much more complicated story, which Anne Mitchell Whisnant relates in this revealing history of the beloved roadway.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807898422
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
The most visited site in the National Park system, the 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway winds along the ridges of the Appalachian mountains in Virginia and North Carolina. According to most accounts, the Parkway was a New Deal "Godsend for the needy," built without conflict or opposition by landscape architects and planners who traced their vision along a scenic, isolated southern landscape. The historical archives relating to this massive public project, however, tell a different and much more complicated story, which Anne Mitchell Whisnant relates in this revealing history of the beloved roadway.
Forgotten Books of the American Nursery
Author: Rosalie Vrylina Halsey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A history of books for children from colonial times to the 1850's.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A history of books for children from colonial times to the 1850's.