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 #:

21217

Author(s):

Steelman, Joseph F.

Abstract:

This article looks at the need and advocacy for constitutional reform in North Carolina. Despite progressive legislation in much of the country, the North Carolina legislature resisted government reform until the 1910s. Through the efforts of activist historians Joseph G. de Roulhac Hamilton and Enoch W. Sikes, as well as a number of progressive-minded people such as Josephus Daniels, legislators began addressing reform by 1910 and proposing constitutional amendments by 1913.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 56 Issue 4, Oct 1979, p396-418, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948

Record #:

21218

Author(s):

Watson, Alan D.

Abstract:

This article examines the ideology of subordination that has allowed the role of women in North Carolina history to be overlooked, as well as the roles and achievements of women in the colonial settlement period.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 58 Issue 1, Jan 1981, p1-22, il, por, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Women

Record #:

21219

Author(s):

Brown, Stephen W.

Abstract:

An account of a speech given by congressman Joseph Pearson of North Carolina on June 13, 1809 accusing President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of State James Madison of improper conduct regarding the 1805-1806 expedition of Francisco de Miranda to liberate his native country of Venezuela from Spanish rule. These charges, which had long since been disproved, caused Virginia congressman John George Jackson to engage in a heated defense that lead to duel between the men nearly six months after the speech.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 58 Issue 1, Jan 1981, p23-43, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Dueling--North Carolina; Pearson, Joseph, 1776-1834; Jackson, John George, 1777-1825

Record #:

21220

Author(s):

Butts, Donald C.

Abstract:

An examination of the controversy over slave taxation, a popular idea among slaveholders in that the taxation of their slaves as persons would provide a tax exemption for the bulk of their wealth. This issue came to a head in the gubernatorial election of 1860, where the divide between slave-holding whites, who dominated the state government, and non-slave-holding whites, who made up most of the population, was most acutely felt.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 58 Issue 1, Jan 1981, p44-66, il, por, map Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Slavery--Taxation

Record #:

21221

Author(s):

Haisner, Beverly

Abstract:

An examination of the plan and design for a hexagonal dwelling patented by Harriet Morrison Irwin, the first woman to patent an architectural design.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 58 Issue 2, April 1981, p105-124, il, por, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Architects, Women; Irwin, Harriet Morrison, 1828-1897; Architecture--Hexagonal

Record #:

21222

Author(s):

Simpson, Marcus B.; Simpson, Sallie W.

Abstract:

While it is well known that much of Dr. John Brickell's text from his \"Natural History of North Carolina\" was plagiarized from John Lawson's \"A New Voyage to Carolina,\" as well as the writings of the Reverend John Clayton of Tidewater, Thomas Hariot's \"A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia,\" has been identified as a third source. Passages from Brickell's text and Hariot's source material are transcribed side-by-side to demonstrate Brickell's plagiarism.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 58 Issue 2, April 1981, p155-162, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Lawson, John, 1674-1712

Record #:

21223

Author(s):

Crow, Jeffrey J.

Abstract:

An examination of the two week occupation and plundering of Beaufort by British troops that began on April 5, 1782, a full six months after Lord Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown, to identify why the battle took place, what the purpose of the invasion was, and why coastal North Carolina was targeted so late in the Revolutionary War. Particular attention is given to the career of the mastermind of the attack, North Carolina loyalist John Cruden, the commissioner of sequestered estates for Lord Cornwallis, and his motives for attachment to the British cause.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 58 Issue 3, July 1981, p215-233, il, por, map Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--American Revolutionary War, 1775-1783--Beaufort; Cruden, John, Jr., ?-1786

Record #:

21224

Author(s):

Reid, Richard

Abstract:

This article examines the problem of desertion among Confederate troops, specifically those from North Carolina, during the civil war. Reid attempts to update the figures published in the united States provost marshal general's final report in 1866, as well as to determine when men left, what major factors were producing desertion, the type of man who would cross to the federal line or desert, and what age and experience level were the men who left.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 58 Issue 3, July 1981, p234-262, il, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Desertion

Record #:

21225

Author(s):

Miller, Robert D.

Abstract:

A look at the life and career of Washington lawyer and politician Samuel Field Phillips, and his role in Reconstruction in North Carolina and his commitment to racial equality.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 58 Issue 3, July 1981, p263-280, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Reconstruction (1865-1877)--North Carolina; Phillips, Samuel Field, 1824-1903

Record #:

21226

Author(s):

Menius, Arthur C., III

Abstract:

This article utilizes a small collection of family papers to reconstruct the life of James Bennitt, an antebellum yeoman farmer. His home was the site of the meeting between Union General William T. Sherman and Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston to arrange for the surrender of Johnston's troops, one of the largest surrenders of the Civil War.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 58 Issue 4, Oct 1981, p305-326, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Bennitt, James, 1806-1878

Record #:

21227

Author(s):

Scarboro, David D.; Auman, William T.

Abstract:

An examination of the origin and role of the Civil War secret organization The Heroes of America (also called Red Strings) composed of Southern Unionists dedicated to overthrowing the Confederacy as well as being involved in wartime and reconstruction politics. It originated and derived most of its support from the central piedmont North Carolina, in the so-called \"Quaker Belt,\" and had perhaps 10,000 members in the state, drawn primarily from the white lower classes.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 58 Issue 4, Oct 1981, p327-363, il, por, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Heroes of America (Red Strings)

Record #:

21228

Author(s):

Stephenson, William E.

Abstract:

A look at the efforts of Sallie Southall Cotten to help bring North Carolina to the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 (also known as the Chicago World's Fair,) including her work for her state's representation in the national exposition, the knowledge she gained from her work, and the way her work with the exposition transformed her from country wife and mother to public figure and eventual major representative figure of North Carolina women.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 58 Issue 4, Oct 1981, p364-383, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Cotten, Sallie Southall, 1846-1929

Record #:

21229

Author(s):

Surratt, Jerry L.

Abstract:

An examination of the founding of the Moravian towns of Salem and Bethabara and the development of their businesses and economic systems. A particular focus is placed on the life and career of Gottlieb Schober, a Moravian who personified the successful community small businessman.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 60 Issue 1, Jan 1983, p1-23, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Moravians--Business; Schober, Gottlieb, 1756-1838

Record #:

21230

Author(s):

Stokes, Durward T.

Abstract:

This article examines the multi-faceted career of Adam Boyd. During his life, Boyd was a minister, official of the court, member of the Committee of Safety, chaplain in the Continental Army, member of the North Carolina Society for the Cincinnati, and founder of the 'Cape Fear Mercury' one of North Carolina's earliest newspaper.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 49 Issue 1, Jan 1972, p1-21, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775