University of North Carolina Press New Voyages to Carolina: Reinterpreting North Carolina History

New Voyages to Carolina offers a bold new approach for understanding and telling North Carolina's history. Recognizing the need for such a fresh approach and reflecting a generation of recent scholarship, eighteen distinguished authors have sculpted a broad, inclusive narrative of the state's evolution over more than four centuries. The volume provides new lenses and provocative possibilities for reimagining the state's past. Transcending traditional markers of wars and elections, the contributors map out a new chronology encompassing geological realities; the unappreciated presence of Indians, blacks, and women; religious and cultural influences; and abiding preferences for industrial development within the limits of "progressive" politics. While challenging traditional story lines, the authors frame a candid tale of the state's development. Contributors: Dorothea V. Ames, East Carolina UniversityKarl E. Campbell, Appalachian State UniversityJames C. Cobb, University of GeorgiaPeter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillStephen Feeley, McDaniel CollegeJerry Gershenhorn, North Carolina Central UniversityGlenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Yale UniversityPatrick Huber, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyCharles F. Irons, Elon UniversityDavid Moore, Warren Wilson CollegeMichael Leroy Oberg, State University of New York, College at GeneseoStanley R. Riggs, East Carolina UniversityRichard D. Starnes, Western Carolina UniversityCarole Watterson Troxler, Elon UniversityBradford J. Wood, Eastern Kentucky UniversityKarin Zipf, East Carolina University Review A study of a New South state that truly matters in an age of major economic and political change. . . . New Voyages to Carolina makes engaging reading for North Carolinians but especially for those who lived through some of this history. . . . Tise and Crow . . . deliberately sought out research that 'pose new questions about African Americans, Indians, women, the impact of North Carolina's unusual environment, and its powerful legacies--cultural, economic, and political.'--Journal of African American HistoryFrom prehistory to the present, the essays are laden with such issues as exploration and founding, religion, land use, geography, African American women, Native history, education and integration (or the lack of it), the uniqueness of hillbilly music, progressivism, tourism and its benefits, marketing in a global economy, a realistic perspective on development, equity, and what alterations are necessary for the state to prosper in the 21st century.--Choice About the Author Larry E. Tise is former director of North Carolina's Division of Archives and History, distinguished history professor at East Carolina University, and private-practice historian.Jeffrey J. Crow is former director of North Carolina's Division of Archives and History and deputy secretary of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources.