During the quarter of a century before the thirteen colonies became a nation, the northwest quadrant of North Carolina had just begun to attract permanent settl
North Carolina has had more than its share of accomplished, influential women—women who have expanded their sphere of influence or broken through barriers tha
Though deeply entrenched in antebellum life, the artisans who lived and worked in Petersburg, Virginia, in the 1800s -- including carpenters, blacksmiths, coach
Ten years before the start of the American Revolution, backcountry settlers in the North Carolina Piedmont launched their own defiant bid for economic independe
Never before has a book of southern history so successfully integrated the experiences of white and non-white women. Discrediting the myth of the Southern belle