Articles in regional publications that pertain to a wide range of North Carolina-related topics.
Search Results
1245 results
for "North Carolina Historical Review"
Record #:
20041
Author(s):
Abstract:
Moravian elders established the Salem Boarding School which would later become Salem College, an all women liberal arts school. Financing for the school came from the congregation which was repaid with interest. The author looks at this school as a comparison for early education in the state and to emphasize the Moravian's unique emphasis on education, especially for women.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 27 Issue 1, Jan 1950,
p32-45, f
Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
20042
Author(s):
Abstract:
This article looks at issues surrounding the matter of debtor relief in Reconstruction North Carolina with a focus on the legal management of Reconstruction economic conditions and the generation of economic opportunity for the debt-riddled and insolvent population.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 18 Issue 3, July 1941,
p215-235, f
Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
20043
Author(s):
Abstract:
This is a biographical essay about Scottish native Flora Macdonald (MacDonald) who, while living in North Carolina, was noted for her association with a group of Scottish Highlanders living in the state devoted to the homeland, its traditions, and wearing Highland dress.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 18 Issue 3, July 1941,
p326-258, f
Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
20044
Author(s):
Abstract:
This article looks at the social phenomenon of popular societies beginning in the Carolinas with the establishment of seven groups in 1794. Some historical background on societies is provided, as well as profiles of the original five South Carolina and two North Carolina organizations.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 18 Issue 3, July 1941,
p259-277, f
Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
20045
Author(s):
Abstract:
This is a reprint of letters from North Carolinians to John Sherman, a Congressman and Senator from Ohio who later served as Secretary of the Treasury under Rutherford B. Hays and Secretary of State under William McKinley, and was the author of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. The letters included in this installment were written between January 19, 1865 and March 14, 1867 and were from David Heaton, Ben Higgins, William B. Reid, J. Lewis, David F. Caldwell, William Woods Holden, L.E. Jones, and William E. Hill. Some biographical information on the letters' authors is included in the footnotes.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 18 Issue 3, July 1941,
p278-300, f
Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
20046
Author(s):
Abstract:
This article looks at the gubernatorial career of Zebulon B. Vance during the period of the closing days of the Civil War focusing on his management, involvement, and actions on behalf of the state, North Carolina regiments, and soldiers as the war was coming to a close.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 18 Issue 4, Oct 1941,
p315-338, f
Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
20047
Author(s):
Abstract:
This article on legal and political history of Granville County examines the role of the colonial squire as a dominant figure in provincial and local government.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 18 Issue 4, Oct 1941,
p339-359, f
Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
20048
Author(s):
Abstract:
The concluding installment of a reprint of letters from North Carolinians to John Sherman, an Ohio congressman and senator who later served as Secretary of the Treasury under Rutherford B. Hays and Secretary of State under William McKinley, and was the author of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. The letters included in this installment were written between March 20, 1867 and November 4, 1877 and were from Lafayette Greene, Richard P. Dick, David Heaton, Charles Jerome Malord, John Tyler, Jr., William W. Green, J. W. Payne, Thomas B. Keogh, William Woods Holden, James Madison Leach, and Burr Higgins. Some biographical information on the letters' authors is included in the footnotes.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 18 Issue 4, Oct 1941,
p373-388, f
Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
20049
Author(s):
Abstract:
This is a reprint of letters from North Carolinians to General William Tecumseh Sherman between January 16, 1865 and September 27, 1874. The letters included here are from Cyrus Ballou Comstock, S.L. Femoret, Absalom Baird, J. Wall Wilson, and Rene Edward DeRussy. Some biographical information on the letters' authors is included in the footnotes.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 18 Issue 4, Oct 1941,
p389-392, f
Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
20050
Author(s):
Abstract:
This is a reprint of letters from North Carolinians to Radical Republican Elihu Benjamin Washburne, Secretary of State under Ulysses S. Grant, between October 30, 1867 and April 14, 1871. The letters included here are from John T. Deweese, Charles Snyder and Melford Vernooy. Some biographical information on the authors of the letters is included in the footnotes.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 18 Issue 4, Oct 1941,
p393-397, f
Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
20056
Author(s):
Abstract:
A continuation articles covering reprinted letters written to Johnson during Reconstruction by North Carolina citizens. The letters covered were written between May and August 1865.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 27 Issue 3, July 1950,
p336-363, f
Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
20058
Author(s):
Abstract:
A continuation of the articles written to Johnson during Reconstruction by North Carolina citizens. The letters reprinted cover August 1865-November 1865.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 27 Issue 4, Oct 1950,
p462-490, f
Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
20061
Author(s):
Abstract:
This is the first segment of a two-part article examining the life of civilian and non-combatant refugees east of the Mississippi river during the Civil War. Attention is given to the difference in circumstances between persons of differing class, gender, and state.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 20 Issue 1, Jan 1943,
p1-21, f
Periodical Website
Full Text:
Record #:
20062
Author(s):
Abstract:
This article examines the history of the Fort Raleigh site, the Roanoke Colony, also known as the \"Lost Colony\" and the establishment of the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site and Museum in 1940. Two glossy-print reprints of original John White maps are included in the article.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 20 Issue 1, Jan 1943,
p22-42, il, f
Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
20063
Author(s):
Abstract:
This is a reprint of trade and vessel records from the Massachusetts archives noting occurrences of trade with the Carolinas between 1686 and 1709. The introduction provides background information on the records and the circumstance of their establishment as well as period trade information.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 20 Issue 1, Jan 1943,
p43-53, f
Periodical Website
Full Text: