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26156
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Historian Tom Buell analyzed library collections of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee’s letters and the government’s official records. After rethinking the Civil War, Buell says our modern perception of Lee’s leadership in the war is based mainly on myth, folklore and nostalgia.
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30565
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Industrialization, as a focus for historians, may reveal patterns of development, industrial evolution, labor supply, raw materials and capital throughout the state. Source material for industrialization studies may be found in the statistical documents of government publications, manuscripts of prominent industrialists, business records, oral histories and material culture.
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25532
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The Peutinger map is the only surviving map made by the Romans of their own world in AD 300 and is kept at the Austrian National Library in Vienna. The map was discovered by Konrad Celtis, a treasure hunter who bequeathed the map to Konrad Peutinger, after whom it is named. According to Richard Talbert, a UNC history professor, the purpose of the map was not geography; rather, it served to brag about the glory of Rome and the empire it had become.
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25816
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Historian Louise McReynolds studies sensationalistic murder cases in Russia. Her analysis of court archives reveal examples of how tradition and pop culture intermingle and produce injustice. Russian judges typically sold tickets to spectators, and many of the trial transcripts were sold as books or made into films.
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26202
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Undergraduate students are studying conflicts and historical eras of the Southern United States. Jamey Carson is examining problems faced by Creek Indians as settlers came to Alabama. Clay Hodges focuses on a more recent question of school integration in Charlotte, North Carolina and one judge’s effort to change the system.
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30793
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Comprised of the history departments from sixteen NC colleges and universities and the NC Division of Archives and History, the Institute of Applied History is designed to examine and teach various applications of history.
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26221
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The changing political climate in the Soviet Union may allow Daniela Spenser, a history doctoral student, access to Soviet archives hitherto off-limits to Western researchers. Her dissertation work will focus on Mexican-Soviet post-revolutionary relations.
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25539
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Jay Smith, a UNC professor of history, has been studying the Beast of the Gévaudan. The French have argued about the identity of the eighteenth-century creature that killed more than a hundred people in the southern countryside. Smith suggests that the creature was a wolf, but hunters perpetuated the idea that it was a mythological creature to explain his failures out of fear of shame.
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4438
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For those interested in tracing the history of their houses, Ruckart provides a step-by-step process. While the author uses examples from New Bern, the process is applicable in any county.
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Journal of the New Bern Historical Society
(NoCar F 264 N5 J66), Vol. 12 Issue 2, Nov 1999,
p22-25, f
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26128
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Eighty years after the USS San Diego exploded and sank in the North Atlantic, historian Russel Van Wyk found the confessions of a German spy named Kurt Jahnke. Jahnke confessed to the Russians that he was responsible for the ship’s explosion, and had led the diversionary activities of German intelligence in the United States from 1914 to 1918.
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