Record #:

20143

Author(s):

Hilldrup, R.L.

Abstract:

This article is about the necessity of salt to civilian and military life during the American Revolution. Uses of salt as a food preservative, curing of hides, in horse feed, and as seasoning is detailed here along with the history of salt trade during this period as well as colonial management of salt shortages due to the war.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 22 Issue 4, Oct 1945, p393-417, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Salt--North Carolina--History

Record #:

20145

Author(s):

Monaghan, Jay

Abstract:

This article looks at the links between North Carolina and Illinois with particular attention to notable citizens of Illinois who originally came from North Carolina including Henry Atkinson, Alfred W. Arrington, as well as Joseph Gurney Cannon and his family.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 22 Issue 4, Oct 1945, p418-459, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Cannon, Joseph Gurney, 1836-1926; Atkinson, Henry, 1782-1842; Arrington, Alfred W., 1810-1867

Record #:

20146

Author(s):

Dill, Alonzo Thomas, Jr.

Abstract:

This article looks at the history of New Bern and Craven County between 1700 and 1800, focusing on Swiss and German colonists, the Palatines, the settlement of New Bern, and the development of infrastructure such as roads and ferries in the county.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 22 Issue 4, Oct 1945, p460-489, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

New Bern--History

Record #:

20148

Author(s):

Padgett, James A.

Abstract:

This is the third installment of a reprint of letters written between November 8, 1865 and January 9, 1866 by US Army engineer and arsenal commander Alfred Mordecai while employed in Mexico as an engineer for the Imperial Mexican Railway.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 22 Issue 4, Oct 1945, p350-377, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Mordecai, Alfred, 1804-1887

Record #:

20149

Author(s):

Aydlett, A. Laurence

Abstract:

This article looks at the history of provision for the poor and underprivileged citizens of the sate beginning with the state constitutional convention of 1868, the establishment of the Board of Public Charities in 1868 and a history of its development and programs including its expansion to the Board of Charities and Public Welfare in 1917 and concluding with legislation passed in 1945. A reprint of the 1868 \"Report of the Committee on Punishment, Penal Institutions and Public Charities\" is included.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 24 Issue 1, Jan 1947, p1-33, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina Board of Charities and Public Welfare

Record #:

20150

Author(s):

Knight, Edgar W.

Abstract:

This article looks at lawyer, bibliographer and historian Henry Harrisse's perspectives on collegiate education through an examination of his writings via letters, articles, and essays on the subject, some of which are reprinted here in full. Some biographical information on Harrisse is also provided.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 24 Issue 1, Jan 1947, p58-111, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Education, Higher

Record #:

20158

Author(s):

Todd, Williw Grier

Abstract:

This article examines the separation of Baptists in the US on the issue of slavery during the antebellum period and the formation of separate Southern and Northern Baptist conventions. Attention is given to various meetings and conventions, debates, organizational disputes, and adjustments in doctrine within the church during this period.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 24 Issue 2, April 1947, p135-159, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Baptists--Slavery; Southern Baptist Convention--History; Northern Baptist Convention--History

Record #:

20159

Author(s):

Spraggins, Tinsley Lee

Abstract:

This article looks at the utilization of the African-American population, both enslaved and free-men, in the civilian workforce and as auxiliary soldiers via a focus on the Department of Virginia and North Carolina. Through this focus, attention is given to the area of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina, the work done by African-Americans for the Confederacy, factors that aided slaves in escaping from their masters, the numerical strength of the Department during this period, and the potential value of Department laborers to the Union as laborers. Tables, charts, and a fold-out map are included.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 24 Issue 2, April 1947, p160-197, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Department of Virginia and North Carolina

Record #:

20163

Author(s):

Tilley, Nannie May

Abstract:

This is a reprint of a paper presented at the forty-sixth annual session of the State Literary and Historical Association in Raleigh, December 6, 1946. This paper focuses on the problems within large tobacco companies including strife between groups involved in the process including leaf dealers, tobacco farmers, and warehouse managers that erupted into publicized agitations involving advertising campaigns and marked competition between major tobacco companies. A history of tobacco growing, farming,and cutting is included in the introduction.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 24 Issue 2, April 1947, p207-223, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

American Tobacco Co. (Durham)

Record #:

20167

Author(s):

Mims, Edwin

Abstract:

This is a reprint of a paper presented at the forty-sixth annual session of the State Literary and Historical Association in Raleigh, December 6, 1946. This paper looks at the intellectual history of the state via a summary of the establishment of educational institutions, of intellectuals and men of letters, critics, and of notable residents and accomplishments.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 24 Issue 2, April 1947, p235-257 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--Intellectualism

Record #:

20184

Author(s):

Cathey, C.O.

Abstract:

Agricultural practices underwent revolutionary changes in the US during the antebellum period. However, in North Carolina many farmers were attached to customary ways and reluctant to change. There were some, however, who undertook to profit by agricultural reform. Sidney Weller of Halifax County became the head of agricultural reform in North Carolina, promoting the success he achieved in restoring his acres through new techniques and products.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 31 Issue 1, Jan 1954, p1-17 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Agriculture--North Carolina--History

Record #:

20185

Author(s):

Taylor, Joseph H.

Abstract:

After the end of the American Civil War, African Americans began a great migration out of North Carolina.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 31 Issue 1, Jan 1954, p18-35, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

African Americans--North Carolina--Migration

Record #:

20186

Author(s):

Weslager, C.A.

Abstract:

Until recently, the fishing community of Ocracoke Island had little direct contact with the outside world. The present population speaks a language unlike anything else heard in Virginia or the Carolinas, maintaining early English influence in idioms and place names.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 31 Issue 1, Jan 1954, p41-49, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Ocracoke Island--Social life and customs; Idioms

Record #:

20187

Author(s):

Rice, Phillip M.

Abstract:

In the period following the American Revolution, commercial rivalry between states resulted in attempts to establish cooperation between state governments. Once such project was the Roanoke Waterway, one of the first efforts by states to institute cooperative undertakings in internal improvements.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 31 Issue 1, Jan 1954, p50-74, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Roanoke River (Va. and N.C.)--History

Record #:

20188

Author(s):

Johnston, Hugh Buckner

Abstract:

This collection of letters of Ruffin Barnes of Wilson County, North Carolina throws light on the movement of Company C, Forty-Third North Carolina Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 31 Issue 1, Jan 1954, p75-99 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

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