Discovering North Carolina: A Tar Heel Reader

Discovering North Carolina: A Tar Heel Reader

by JackClaiborne (Author), WilliamSPrice (Author), WilliamPrice (Editor)

Synopsis

This splendid anthology offers an engaging journey through four centuries of North Carolina life. It draws on a wealth of sources--histories, biographies, diaries, novels, short stories, newspapers, and magazines--to show how North Carolina's rich history and remarkable literary achievements cut across economic and racial lines in often surprising ways. There are selections by or about some of the state's best-known sons and daughters, from Daniel Boone and Andrew Jackson to Ava Gardner, Doris Betts, and Tom Wicker; and topics covered include politics, sports, business, family life, education, race, religion, and war. |Desmangles analyzes the mythology and rituals of Vodou, the folk religion of Haiti and a by-product of the contact between Roman Catholicism and African and Amerindian traditional religions. Focusing on the inclusion of West African and European elements

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 390
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 31 Dec 1993

ISBN 10: 0807844349
ISBN 13: 9780807844342

Media Reviews
Deserves a spot in the library of any curious Tar Heel.

Greensboro News and Record


I plan to treasure Discovering North Carolina. Whoever thought history could be so much fun ?

Lee Smith, author of Fair and Tender Ladies


I plan to treasure Discovering North Carolina. Whoever thought history could be so much fun ?

Lee Smith, author of Fair and Tender Ladies


I plan to treasure Discovering North Carolina, Whoever thought history could be so much fun ?

Lee Smith, author of Fair and Tender Ladies


I plan to treasure Discovering North Carolina . Whoever thought history could be so much fun ?

Lee Smith, author of Fair and Tender Ladies


The most interesting book about North Carolina I've ever read--and one of the most interesting books about anything .

Charles Kuralt

Author Bio
Jack Claiborne, longtime associate editor of The Charlotte Observer, is now vice president of Park Communications, Inc.
|William Price is Kenan Professor of History at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina.