New Voyages to Carolina

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 University

Karl E. Campbell, Appalachian State University

James C. Cobb, University of Georgia

Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Stephen Feeley, McDaniel College

Jerry Gershenhorn, North Carolina Central University

Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Yale University

Patrick Huber, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Charles F. Irons, Elon University

David Moore, Warren Wilson College

Michael Leroy Oberg, State University of New York, College at Geneseo

Stanley R. Riggs, East Carolina University

Richard D. Starnes, Western Carolina University

Carole Watterson Troxler, Elon University

Bradford J. Wood, Eastern Kentucky University

Karin Zipf, East Carolina University