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21169
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From its home port of Edenton, North Carolina the brig 'Fair American' was to make war on British shipping during the American Revolution as a privateer. During its maiden voyage, it was taken by a British frigate and its crew imprisoned at Forten Gaol near Gosport, England. While in Forten Gaol, the crew of 'Fair American' participated in one of the largest prisoner escapes of the American Revolution. About 60 sailors escaped the prison in a tunnel dug into a nearby house, while most were recaptured within days, the captain and lieutenant of 'Fair American' made it back to Boston and back into military service for the war.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 45 Issue 4, Oct 1968,
p349-356, f
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21170
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This article looks at the history, construction, and character of the mile-long row of oceanfront beach cottages built in Nags Head in the years between the Civil War and World War II.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 54 Issue 4, Oct 1977,
p367-392, il, por, map
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21171
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This article examines the war between fundamentalism and modernism that swept the nation in the first part of the 20th century as it was manifested in a conflict between Kentucky evangelist Mordecai F. Haim and editor of the weekly newspaper, the 'Independent,' W.O. Saunders, which took place in Elizabeth City in the autumn of 1924. Haim led the forces of fundamentalist Christianity in a mission to rid the country of the 'pantheistic agnosticism' of the modernists, while Saunders defended the forces of secular idealism and American animosity towards protestant authority.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 54 Issue 4, Oct 1977,
p395-408, il, por, f
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21172
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During the Presidential election of 1856, North Carolina Republican Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick was the focus of a political witch hunt by North Carolina Democratic leadership, particularly newspaper editors. A professor of agricultural chemistry at the University of North Carolina, Hendricks supported Republican John C. Fremont in his bid for the Presidency which in North Carolina was tantamount to abolitionism. Hedrick publically opposed slavery itself and its use in the territories but defended its practice in the South. Unacceptable to Democratic leadership in North Carolina, Hedrick was dismissed from his academic position for political agitation.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 45 Issue 4, Oct 1968,
p357-383, f
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21173
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During the summer of 1918, the German submarine U-117 stalked the coast of the United States, sinking military and commercial shipping alike. On August 15th, the U-117 torpedoed the British tanker 'Mirlo' off of Cape Hatteras. The nearby Chicamacomico Coast Guard livesaving station responded to rescue the wayward British sailors.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 45 Issue 4, Oct 1968,
p384-398, il, por, f
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21174
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This article examines the scholarly history of North Carolina Cherokee figure of \"Tsali\" (known as Charley to non-Cherokee of his day,) a heroic figure who, according to Cherokee stories, sacrificed his life so that his people could remain in their North Carolina homeland. Information on the removal of the North Carolina Cherokee from the state led by Major General Winfield Scott in included.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 56 Issue 1, Jan 1979,
p1-18, il, por, map
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21175
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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.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 56 Issue 1, Jan 1979,
p19-40, por
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21176
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A look at the use of the \"Southern Strategy,\" a political plan for securing a strong base support of Southern white voters. Although used in the 1960s and 70s by the Republican Party, it was the Democrats who employed it during President Kennedy's campaign for President between 1956 and 1960 to appeal for southern support despite the party's usual abandonment of the traditional white South.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 56 Issue 1, Jan 1979,
p41-63, il
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21177
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This article looks at challenges to the widely held historical idea that the efficiency of the Southern war effort was seriously handicapped by the opposition of powerful governors who put the own states' interests above those of the South as a whole. Particular attention is given to disputing this theory in North Carolina history.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 56 Issue 2, April 1979,
p133-149, il, por
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21178
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During the colonial period, eastern North Carolina possessed an inadequate and underdeveloped system of roads. To better road conditions, the colony tried appointing road commissioners, building bridges at public expense and putting up signposts and mile markers. Though they tried to improve the road network, the failure to enforce laws, the physical obstacles of the state's geography and shortages in the labor pool kept road conditions poor.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 45 Issue 4, Oct 1968,
p399-417, map, f
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21179
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This is a very general look at the period of Native American habitation of North Carolina with references to John Lawson's recorded observations of his encounters with Indian peoples.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 56 Issue 2, April 1979,
p158-161, il
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21180
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This article examines the personal and professional life of Griffith John McRee, a southern historian who chronicled the Antebellum Period in North Carolina and the rest of the South.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 47 Issue 1, Jan 1970,
p1-23, il, por, map, f
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21192
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This article examines a failed attempt by Union forces to capture Fort Fisher which protected Wilmington, one of the last Confederate open ports. In December 1861, Union General Benjamin F. Butler attempted to explode a powder ship on a sandbar in front on the fort. After the explosion, Butler sent infantry divisions to storm the fort, who failed in their attempt.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 47 Issue 1, Jan 1970,
p24-39, il, por, f
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21193
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This article examines the 1928 editorials of 'Cleveland Press' editor W.J. Cash during the Al Smith-Herbert Hoover presidential campaign. In his editorials, Cash criticized the anti-Catholic sentiment in Shelby, North Carolina. In doing so, Cash angered the Ku Klux Klan and was targeted by them through KKK literature.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 47 Issue 1, Jan 1970,
p40-50, por, f
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21194
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This article reprints the 1817 journal of Samuel Huntington Perkins, a tutor at Lake Landing Plantation in Hyde County.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 47 Issue 1, Jan 1970,
p51-85, il, map, f
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