Record #:

21324

Author(s):

Parramore, Thomas C.

Abstract:

A look at the events surrounding the 1711 Tuscarora Iroquois Indians attack of white settlements in North Carolina that sent Christopher Gale to South Carolina to solicit aid, and the subsequent South Carolina funded relief expedition led by Colonel John (later \"Tuscarora Jack\") Barnwell that resulted in a conflict at the Tuscarora village of Torhunta, the liberation of the white settlement of Bath Town, and an attempted to capture Tuscarora chief Hancock at Catechna Creek.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 64 Issue 2, April 1987, p115-138, il, por, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Tuscarora Indians, Eastern--Wars, 1711-1713

Record #:

21329

Author(s):

Inscoe, John C.

Abstract:

A comparison of the public response in North Carolina to 'The Clansman' (1905), a play by Thomas Dixon, Jr., with the response to D. W. Griffith's film version, 'The Birth of a Nation' (1915). Particular attention is given to the portrayal of African Americans in both pieces, as well as to the public response.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 64 Issue 2, April 1987, p139-161, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Dixon, Thomas F. Jr., 1864-1946

Record #:

21333

Author(s):

Mitchell, Memory F.

Abstract:

A look at the history of Raleigh's Rex Hospital which opened in 1894 in a period when most medical care took place in the home and the few hospitals in existence were seen as places to die. Information on the first fifty years of the hospital, its staff, and its funding is included here.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 64 Issue 2, April 1987, p162-198, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Rex Hospital (Raleigh)--History