Record #:

16139

Author(s):

Smiley, David L.

Abstract:

State workers suffered immensely during the Great Depression whether agricultural or industrial laborers. President Roosevelt's New Deal aided the state's cotton and tobacco farmers by introducing the Agricultural Adjustment Acts. New Deal programs created opportunities through construction of new schools, hospitals, airports, found jobs for women in canneries and sewing shops, and put young men to work maintaining state parks.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 24 Issue 3, Spring 1985, p4-6

Subject(s):

New Deal, 1933-1939--North Carolina--History

Record #:

16853

Author(s):

Smiley, David L.

Abstract:

The Historical Records Survey, part of the Works Progress Administration, hired unemployed clerks, stenographers, and teachers to catalog and protect public records in an effort to aid historians, archivists, and curators. The program ran for five years between 1935 and 1940 and operated out of Raleigh. One hundred and ten workers were given the task of focusing on information from the clerk of court and register of deeds from the state's 100 counties.

Source:

Carolina Comments (NoCar F 251 C38), Vol. 32 Issue 2, Mar 1984, p45-49, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Works Progress Administration

Record #:

20344

Author(s):

Smiley, David L.

Abstract:

In the past, the Baptists of North Carolina have been accused of hostility toward education. Despite the plight of the largely low income, rural, farming groups, Baptists groups actually expressed an acceptance of education as power, producing some of the earliest public schools and universities in the state.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 35 Issue 3, Jul 1958, p316-327, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Baptists--North Carolina--Education

Record #:

20969

Author(s):

Smiley, David L.

Abstract:

This article looks at the adaptation of legal defenses used to justify opposition to Acts of Parliament in the Revolutionary period and those used by Southern states to justify secession in 1860. Particular attention is given to the idea that Southern secessionists saw themselves as following in the footsteps of the founding fathers in seeking severance from their corrupt government and examining the actual similarities and differences between the two movements and their central arguments.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 44 Issue 3, July 1967, p256-269, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Secession--History