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for "North Carolina Historical Review"
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21058
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An examination of the establishment, organization, and role of the North Carolina Council of Defense during World War I. This state branch of the national organization was established to investigate and advise the government on the problems associated with economic mobilization, to coordinate the preparedness of the different states, and to set the pattern of civilian response to wartime administrative decrees.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 50 Issue 1, Jan 1973,
p1-31, il, por
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21059
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This comparative study of the non-ecclesiastical activities of an English and a North Carolina parish tries to determine what activities English parish officials brought to the New World in the 17th- and early 18th-centuries, and if the activities were modified by circumstances specific to colonial America.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 50 Issue 1, Jan 1973,
p32-51, il
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21060
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This biographical essay looks at the life and career of physician Dr. John Carr Monk whose conversion from the Methodist Church to Catholicism not only inspired his becoming a Catholic missionary, but also caused his town of Newton Grove to become the most solidly rural Catholic community in North Carolina.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 50 Issue 1, Jan 1973,
p52-72, il, por
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21061
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This is a reprint of eight letters written by George Washington Whitman, younger brother of Walt Whitman, during the Civil War. The letters describe battles of Roanoke Island and New Bern in February and March of 1862.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 50 Issue 1, Jan 1973,
p73-92, il, por, f
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21062
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A look at the African American community in Raleigh during the last decade of the 19th century. Details on politics, education, economics, taxes, community groups, social activities, neighborhoods and housing, and community leaders are included.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 50 Issue 2, April 1973,
p121-140, il, por, f
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21063
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An examination of historical and modern records on animals, birds, and other forms of moving life that are native to North Carolina and whose presence predates European exploration.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 50 Issue 2, April 1973,
p155-168, il
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21078
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An examination of the writing of Thomas Wolfe from the perspective of the article's author, an English professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 50 Issue 2, April 1973,
p169-189, por, f
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21079
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A study of the society and economy in colonial Edgecombe County from 1730 to 1775 brought about by a then current interest in historical demography, developments in historical geography in Colonial North Carolina launched by H. Roy Merrens, and the large repository of county records which, at the time of the article's writing, had not been mined of their potential. The article relies heavily on inventories of estates in conjunction with other county data.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 50 Issue 3, July 1973,
p231-255, por
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21080
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An analysis of Major General Horatio Gates' unsuccessful engagement outside of Camden, South Carolina during the Revolutionary War; his attempt to gain control of the Carolinas and pose a threat to Virginia.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 50 Issue 3, July 1973,
p256-272, il, por, map, f
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21081
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A look at how Lindsay Warren of North Carolina led a water bloc which almost prevented federal control of inland shipping and the development of a national transportation policy.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 50 Issue 3, July 1973,
p273-288, por, map
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21082
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This biographical essay looks at the life and career of Southern architect Frank Pierce Milburn, whose career included the design of at least 250 major structures, in addition to numerous structures of a domestic scale, during the last years of the 19th century and the first 25 years of the 20th century.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 50 Issue 3, July 1973,
p289-303, il, por
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21090
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This is a reprint of five letters written by Jesse Holmes, the Fool Killer, a creation of Charles Napoleon Bonaparte Evans, editor of the \"Milton Chronicle\" from 1841 to 1883. The letters, and the character of Homes and his associate Rascal Whaler, were used by Evans as a vehicle to express his opinions on people, social events, political developments, morals, customs, and any project or cause he wished to promote or defend.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 50 Issue 3, July 1973,
p304-321, il
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21091
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This biographical essay looks at the life and career of clergyman Nathaniel Blount, the longest-lived Anglican clergyman to survive the American Revolution.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 50 Issue 4, Oct 1973,
p351-364, il
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21092
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Wealthy planters from the St. James Goose Creek Parish, 20 miles north of Charleston, established a permanent settlement in the Lower Cape Fear in the 1720s and introduced rice as a new agricultural staple in North Carolina.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 50 Issue 4, Oct 1973,
p365-393, il, map
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21093
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This article looks at the tricky legal backlash that resulted from a complex bequest left in the last will and testament of North Carolina industrialist James B. Duke.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 50 Issue 4, Oct 1973,
p394-415, il, por
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