Record #:

21566

Author(s):

Knapp, Richard F.

Abstract:

Between 1878 and 1890, the W. Duke, Sons and Company became the de facto controller of cigarette manufacturing in the United States. Through the leadership of James Buchanan Duke, the company aggressively utilized sales promotions and attractive advertising, while also controlling the cigarette rolling machines, first patented in the late 1870s and 1880s. In 1890, Duke also convinced his four major competitors to join him in forming the American Tobacco Company, which was subsequently labeled 'tobacco trust.'

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 69 Issue 3, July 1992, p257-281 , il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Duke, James Buchanan, 1856-1925

Record #:

21567

Author(s):

Holleman, Carl Partin; Holleman, Warren Lee

Abstract:

The Reverend Patrick W. Dowd was one of the leading figures amongst Baptists in North Carolina, but is practically ignored or presented in a negative light in Baptist histories. His treatment is blamed on his involvement in sexual misconduct and sermon plagiarism controversies in 1852. Upon closer examinations, those charges against Reverend Dowd, had less to do with ethics and more to do with theological differences and religious power struggles amongst North Carolina Baptists at the time.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 69 Issue 3, July 1992, p282-300 , il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Baptists--History

Record #:

21568

Author(s):

Noe, Kenneth W.

Abstract:

This article re-examines and alters Henry T. Shanks's thesis in 'Disloyalty to the Confederacy in Southwestern Virginia, 1861-1865,' in the 1944 issue of the North Carolina Historical Review. In his article, Shanks relies exclusively on Confederate War Department findings regarding whether a majority of the region's residents openly opposed the Confederate States of America. Confederate agents used flawed investigative practices and overestimated the extent of disloyalty, especially membership in the Heroes of America. In post-war southwestern Virginia and in disagreement of Confederate reports and predictions, no Republican Party developed in the region and the Southern Claims Commission showed little evidence of rampant membership in the Heroes of America.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 69 Issue 3, July 1992, p301-322 , il, por, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865