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  • Jesse Helms

    Modern Conservatism and the Politics of Opposition

    by William A. Link ...
    Jesse Helms (1921–2008) dominated the political landscape of North Carolina during the last half of the twentieth century. Though Helms’s thirty years in the US Senate are most remembered for what he opposed rather than what he achieved, he was a central figure in modern conservativism.In this concise interpretive biography, William A. Link centers Helms in the political realignment of the late ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Frank Porter Graham

    Southern Liberal, Citizen of the World

    by William A. Link ...
    Frank Porter Graham (1886–1972) was one of the most consequential white southerners of the twentieth century. Born in Fayetteville and raised in Charlotte, Graham became an active and popular student leader at the University of North Carolina. After earning a graduate degree from Columbia University and serving as a marine during World War I, he taught history at UNC, and in 1930, he became the ... Read more

    Was $28.99 USD Now $18.99 USD

  • Roots of Secession

    Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia

    by William A. Link ...
    Series series Civil War America
    Offering a provocative new look at the politics of secession in antebellum Virginia, William Link places African Americans at the center of events and argues that their acts of defiance and rebellion had powerful political repercussions throughout the turbulent period leading up to the Civil War.An upper South state with nearly half a million slaves — more than any other state in the nation — and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, 1880-1930

    by William A. Link ...
    Focusing on the cultural conflicts between social reformers and southern communities, William Link presents an important reinterpretation of the origins and impact of progressivism in the South. He shows that a fundamental clash of values divided reformers and rural southerners, ultimately blocking the reforms. His book, based on extensive archival research, adds a new dimension to the study of ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Creating and Consuming the American South

    Edited by Martyn Bone, Brian Ward, William A. Link ...
    This book explores how an eclectic selection of narratives and images of the American South have been created and consumed. The thirteen essays move beyond both traditional accounts of southern identity as either declining or enduring, and more recent postmodernist accounts of the South as imagined or invented. Instead, the contributors emphasize how narratives and images of "the South" have real ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Links

    My Family in American History

    by William A. Link ...
    Arthur Link (1920-1998) was one of the great historians of his generation, a prolific author with a wide following inside and outside the profession. For many years the foremost authority on Woodrow Wilson, he wrote a five-volume biography of the president and edited a sixty-nine volume edition of Wilson’s papers.Margaret Link (1918-1996), his wife and fellow North Carolinian, was the emotional ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • North Carolina Women

    Their Lives and Times, Volume 1

    by Angela Robbins, Corey Stewart, Cynthia A. Kierner, Elizabeth Lundeen, James Alsop, Jim Downs, John C. Inscoe, Margaret Smith, Robert Hunt Ferguson, Sarah Wilkerson Freeman, Sarah H. Hill, Sheila R. Phipps, Suzanne Cooper Guasco, Terrell Armistead Crow, Vivian M. May, William A. Link, Jon F. Sensbach ...
    North Carolina has had more than its share of accomplished, influential women—women who have expanded their sphere of influence or broken through barriers that had long defined and circumscribed their lives, women such as Elizabeth Maxwell Steele, the widow and tavern owner who supported the American Revolution; Harriet Jacobs, runaway slave, abolitionist, and author of Incidents in the Life of a ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • North Carolina

    Change and Tradition in a Southern State

    by William A. Link ...
    Did You Know?This book is available as a Wiley E-Text.The Wiley E-Text is a complete digital version of the text that makes time spent studying more efficient.Course materials can be accessed on a desktop, laptop, or mobile device—so that learning can take place anytime, anywhere.A more affordable alternative to traditional print, the Wiley E-Text creates a flexible user experience:... ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • A Hard Country and a Lonely Place

    Schooling, Society, and Reform in Rural Virginia, 1870-1920

    by William A. Link ...
    William Link’s account of the transformation of Virginia’s country schools between 1870 and 1920 fills important gaps in the history of education and the social history of the South. His theme is the impact of localism and community on the processes of public education — first as a motive force in the spread of schooling, then as a powerful factor that collided with the goals of urban reformers ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Atlanta, Cradle of the New South

    Race and Remembering in the Civil War's Aftermath

    by William A. Link ...
    Series series Civil War America
    After conquering Atlanta in the summer of 1864 and occupying it for two months, Union forces laid waste to the city in November. William T. Sherman’s invasion was a pivotal moment in the history of the South and Atlanta’s rebuilding over the following fifty years came to represent the contested meaning of the Civil War itself. The war’s aftermath brought contentious transition from Old South to ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • William Friday

    Power, Purpose, and American Higher Education

    by William A. Link ...
    Few North Carolinians have been as well known or as widely respected as William Friday (1920–2012). The former president of the University of North Carolina remained prominent in public affairs in the state and elsewhere throughout his life and ranked as one of the most important American university presidents of the post–World War II era. In the second edition of this comprehensive biography, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Rethinking American Emancipation

    Legacies of Slavery and the Quest for Black Freedom

    Edited by William A. Link, James J. Broomall ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies on the American South
    On January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation, an event that soon became a bold statement of presidential power, a dramatic shift in the rationale for fighting the Civil War, and a promise of future freedom for four million enslaved Americans. But the document marked only a beginning; freedom's future was anything but certain. Thereafter, the significance of both the ... Read more

    $31.19 USD