NC Museum of History Docent Book Club


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Book cover for "Confederates in the attic"
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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Book cover for "The fall of the house of Dixie"
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Book cover for "How the South won the Civil War"
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Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
"While in the short term--militarily--the North won the Civil War, in the long term--ideologically--victory went to the South. The continual expansion of the Western frontier allowed a Southern oligarchic ideology to find a new home and take root. Even with the abolition of slavery and the equalizing power of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, and the ostensible equalizing of economic opportunity afforded by Western expansion, anti-democratic practices...
Book cover for "South to America"
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Average Rating:
2.4 stars
Description:
"An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South--and a revelatory argument for why you must understand the South in order to understand America"--
Book cover for "Upon her shoulders"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"This book documents the autobiographical stories and poems of Southeastern American Indian women whose hard work and daily fight to keep their communities well and safe is all too often disregarded by mainstream publications and the general public. ... Aimed at general readers and especially American Indian women themselves, [it] celebrates the voices of those in native communities in the US Southeast, a region rarely covered in other publications....