Record #:

22699

Author(s):

Adams, Lars C.

Abstract:

The brief Chowan River War which raged on the Virginia-North Carolina border from 1676-1677 had direct connections to both Bacon's Rebellion and Culpepper's rebellion. Despite the factionalism rampant among the English settlers, the power of the Chowanoke Indians in the area was broken.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 90 Issue 2, April 2013, p149-172, il, por, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Native Americans--North Carolina

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 #:

21535

Author(s):

Wright, Anette C.

Abstract:

This article examines the life and experience of Cornelia Phillips Spencer, a well-educated, Southern white woman who lived on the margin of plantation society as the daughter of a University professor who owned two slaves prior to the Civil War. Spencer was recognized and respected as a knowledgeable political voice and wrote regularly on contemporary women's issues in newspaper columns. She was in a position to use her position and pen to influence social change; however, her writing reveals a woman working to shape and solidify cultural and social conservatism and a reinforcement of antebellum values, gender roles, and societal views, as well as a nostalgia and affection for the pre-war Southern social constructs.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 74 Issue 3, July 1997, p260-283, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Spencer, Cornelia Phillips, 1825-1908

Record #:

21210

Author(s):

Gass, W. Conrad

Abstract:

On Tuesday, 11 November 1851, lawyer William Waightstill Avery shot and killed businessman and politician Samuel Flemming in the Burke County courthouse at Morganton. Three weeks earlier Flemming had beaten an unarmed and unsuspecting Avery on the main street of Marion as a result of their several years of political, legal, and personal disputes. Avery felt he had to kill Flemming to retain his standing according to the Southern gentleman's code of honor, and when tried immediately after the killing, Avery was acquitted by a jury who was determined to uphold the code regardless of the casualty involved.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 56 Issue 3, July 1979, p278-297, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Avery, William Waightstill, 1816-1864; Flemming, Samuel, d. 1851

Record #:

22702

Author(s):

Hall, Matthew R.

Abstract:

Although typically described as remote and isolated from national trends in developments in politics, economics, and social trends, there were places within the post-bellum South that were connected and influenced by larger centers of news and power. For example, Weldon, North Carolina became not only an important regional center for industry and commerce, but also a place to taken in broader cultural and economic trends of the late-nineteenth century, often spurred by the success of railroads.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 90 Issue 3, July 2013, p259-287, il, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Wilmington and Weldon Railroad

Record #:

21397

Author(s):

Rankin, Richard

Abstract:

A reprint of the surviving documents of the Ninepenny Whist Club, a private social organization founded by 13 men in Wilmington in 1801 to eat, drink, and be merry. The documents that survive from the group consist of election results (from a group presidential election, a constitution, resolutions, several addresses and responses, and the transcript of a mock trial - all providing a glimpse of club life and on social life in Wilmington in the early 19th century.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 68 Issue 1, Jan 1991, p38-57, il, por, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Ninepenny Whist Club (Wilmington); Wilmington--History--Social Clubs

Record #:

21533

Author(s):

Starnes, Richard D.

Abstract:

This article examines the Appalachian Southern identity during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Contrary to 20th century historians' ideas of Civil War-era Appalachia as the pre-modern, unionist, and anti-slavery society, an analysis of a 1911 Waynesville, North Carolina, reception for the widow of Confederate hero Thomas J. \"Stonewall\" Jackson demonstrates that Appalachian communities not only supported the Confederacy but retained a strong identification with the myth of the \"Lost Cause\" into the 1910s. In the 1890s and 1910s reunions of Confederate veterans and celebrations of their military service were central to the public life of Haywood County, North Carolina.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 74 Issue 3, July 1997, p237-259, il, por, map Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Haywood County--History; Southern identity

Record #:

21356

Author(s):

Sims, Anastasia

Abstract:

An examination of the North Carolina branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) which, like the national organization, sought to combat alcohol, prostitution, promiscuity, and any other threats to morality and the moral way of life.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 64 Issue 4, Oct 1987, p394-415, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

Record #:

21175

Author(s):

Bromberg, Alan B.

Abstract:

This article looks at North Carolina Governer Zebulon B. Vance's opposition to the Farmers' Alliance planned subtreasury in 1890, which put his Senate seat at risk and caused conflict within North Carolina Democratic Party politics. The Democrats were split on the issue - the farmers favored the subtreasury plan, conservatives opposed it as government intervention.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 56 Issue 1, Jan 1979, p19-40, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894

Record #:

21829

Author(s):

Bradley, Mark L.

Abstract:

This article examines the debate over whether to emancipate and arm Southern slaves to fight for the Confederacy during the Civil War. The perspective of Governor Zebulon B. Vance is given particular attention, along with the attitudes of North Carolinians towards slaves during the war, and to emancipated blacks after the war.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 80 Issue 2, Apr 2003, p153-187, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894

Record #:

21216

Author(s):

Jeffrey, Thomas E.

Abstract:

A look at Congressman Thomas Lanier Clingman's role in the transition of support away from the Whig party in the mid-1850s in North Carolina.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 56 Issue 4, Oct 1979, p366-395, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Clingman, T.L. (Thomas Lanier), 1812-1897

Record #:

21212

Author(s):

Troxler, Carole Watterson

Abstract:

A look at the life of David Fanning, infamous and successful guerrilla leader during the Revolutionary War, and part of the loyalist diaspora that helped settle New Brunswick and Nova Scotia among other places.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 56 Issue 4, Oct 1979, p343-365, il, por, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Fanning, David, 1756?-1825

Record #:

21832

Author(s):

Strobel, Christoph

Abstract:

This article looks at the role that violence against blacks in the American South in the late 19th century and in South Africa in the early 20th century had in maintaining white supremacy in both regions. Particular attention is given to the Red Shirts, vigilantes in eastern North Carolina, and their acts of political terror during the 1898 election, as well as the use of violence by white Afrikaners in South Africa during the 1914 rebellion against official military and foreign policies of the government.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 80 Issue 4, Oct 2003, p430-452, il, por, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Red Shirt Campaign; Segregation--Violence; Segregation--South Africa

Record #:

21830

Author(s):

Krause, Bonnie J.

Abstract:

This article looks at the life and career of Lucy Saunders Herring, an African American educator in North Carolina from 1916 to 1968. In addition to her classroom work, Herring organized health clinics and other community programs, raised funds for black schools in North Carolina, and was the supervisor of the Jeanes Fund, a philanthropic gift used for Southern black rural schools.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 80 Issue 2, Apr 2003, p188-212, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Herring, Lucy Saunders, 1900-1995

Record #:

21833

Author(s):

Stewart, Bruce E.

Abstract:

A look at the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in western North Carolina and their objection the activities of federal revenue agents with regard to taxation of whiskey and the destruction of illegal \"moonshine\" stills. The KKK was able to secure considerable local support on this issue during the late 19th century as they targeted federal government agents at work in the region.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 80 Issue 4, Oct 2003, p453-474, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Ku Klux Klan