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21393
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During the latter 19th century, America's educational needs evolved to require more applied and advanced courses to meet the demands of a more business and technology oriented society. Many major universities, including the University of North Carolina struggled through this period of reform and redefinition. Due to several federal Reconstruction Acts, which caused a reorganization of the state education system, the trustees closed the school from 1871 to 1875. In 1875, a new board and President Kemp P. Battle (1831-1919) reorganized the school into six colleges and reopened to students.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 57 Issue 4, Oct 1980,
p427-455 , il, por, f
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21396
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A look at the active role played by The Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1936 election in North Carolina. The WPA directed patronage and relief moneys to benefit candidates it supported in the Democratic primary for the US Senate seat, the Democratic gubernatorial primary, and the regular elections in the 9th congressional district, and support was contended for by several factions within the party.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 68 Issue 1, Jan 1991,
p17-37, il, por, f
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21397
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A reprint of the surviving documents of the Ninepenny Whist Club, a private social organization founded by 13 men in Wilmington in 1801 to eat, drink, and be merry. The documents that survive from the group consist of election results (from a group presidential election, a constitution, resolutions, several addresses and responses, and the transcript of a mock trial - all providing a glimpse of club life and on social life in Wilmington in the early 19th century.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 68 Issue 1, Jan 1991,
p38-57, il, por, map, f
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21398
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During 1980 and 1981, eight significant writers in North Carolina passed away. The list of the dearly departed include historian Hugh T. Lefler, newspapermen Harry Golden and Jonathan Daniels, literary critic Hugh Holman, poet laureate of North Carolina James L. Person, and literary writers Thad Stem, Paul Green, and Guy Owen. These giants of the written word have left their marks upon the literary landscape of North Carolina.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 59 Issue 2, Apr 1982,
p139-146 , por, f
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21400
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Between 1629 and 1640, English and French Huguenot refugees in England planned and endeavored to colonize Carolana, which consists of modern-day North Carolina and South Carolina. The English and French groups cooperated as well as competed with each other during the entire effort. The groups tried settling the area for profit from New World goods and for religious freedom as Huguenots. The colonization attempt failed as bad timing, insufficient funds, and poor management doomed the expeditions.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 59 Issue 1, Jan 1982,
p1-23 , il, por, f
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21401
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During the rise of Democrats over Whigs between 1848 and 1850, the possibility that free suffrage might have been repealed, has been deemed by historians to not have been a significant factor. It is has been understood that David S. Reid, Democratic gubernatorial candidate, and William W. Holden, editor on the 'North Carolina Standard,' were able to lure Whigs who opposed free suffrage to the Democratic cause. In actuality, reform issues divided eastern and western Whigs who differed on the free suffrage issue. Holden also used his newspaper to slant Whig perception toward free suffrage in the 1848 and 1850 elections.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 59 Issue 1, Jan 1982,
p24-48 , il, por, map, f
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21402
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One of the best known but least demonstrative white North Carolinian with abolitionist sentimentalities was Hinton Rowan Helper. The anti-slavery movement in North Carolina has often been generalized by well-known but still racist, anti-slavery proponents who felt that all blacks were inferior to whites. The anti-slavery movement in North Carolina began with the gradual emancipationists during the 1780s-1820s which was then supplanted by the American Colonization Society and North Carolina Manumission Society during the 1820s and 1830s. No single group was dominant in the state after that period.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 59 Issue 1, Jan 1982,
p49-66 , por, f
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21403
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The first of three articles published under the heading \"A Forum: The Virginia-North Carolina Slave Conspiracy of 1802.\" This article examines the 1802 plot by slave rivermen to rebel against white slaveholders, positing that the conspiracy originated in Halifax County, Virginia, and spread to other Virginia and North Carolina counties.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 68 Issue 2, April 1991,
p87-110, il, map
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21404
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The second of three articles published under the heading \"A Forum: The Virginia-North Carolina Slave Conspiracy of 1802.\" This article disputes Douglas Egerton's thesis from his article, \"'Fly Across the River': The Easter Slave Conspiracy of 1802\", the first article of the series, stating that  the conspiracy did not originate in Halifax County, Virginia, and spread to other Virginia and North Carolina counties, rather, that the 1802 slave conspiracy consisted of a series of unrelated disturbances.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 68 Issue 2, April 1991,
p111-121, il
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21405
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The third of three articles published under the heading \"A Forum: The Virginia-North Carolina Slave Conspiracy of 1802.\" Here, Egerton rebuts Parramore's arguments made in his article \"Aborted Takeoff: A Critique of 'Fly Across the River',\" the Second article of the series.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 68 Issue 2, April 1991,
p122-124, f
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21411
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In 1853, the first North Carolina State Fair was held in Raleigh so the North Carolina Agricultural Society could provide information to state farmers. The event quickly became an established social institution for state residents and farmers. During the event, military displays, public addresses, parades, political rallies, sporting events, annual meetings, specialty group functions, and social events all took place at the fair and attracted large crowds.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 59 Issue 3, July 1982,
p213-229 , il, por, f
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21412
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The issue of free silver coinage deeply affected the politics of North Carolina between 1892 and 1896. North Carolina Democrats opposed 1892 presidential nominee Grover Cleveland's 'gold bug' stand and when elected, he was blamed for the panic of 1893 and various other fiscal issues. In 1894, North Carolina Populists began supporting Republicans causing the defeat of many Democratic politicians. While both state Democrats and Populists supported the presidential bid of William Jennings Bryan, they ran separate governor candidates, which led to a Republican victory.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 59 Issue 3, July 1982,
p230-251 , por, f
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21413
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Between 1917 and 1936, North Carolina promoted the widespread use and installation of electricity in rural areas for North Carolina residents. Two of the most ardent supporters of this movement were Eugene C. Branson, professor of Rural Social Economics at the University of North Carolina and Clarence H. Poe, editor of the 'Progressive Farmer.' North Carolina was the first state to implement its own program to promote electrification and stimulated the Roosevelt administration into creating the Rural Electrification Administration in 1935.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 59 Issue 2, Apr 1982,
p109-124 , il, por, f
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21414
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During World War II, blacks in America had high hopes regarding the 'Double V': victory over the Axis powers and victory over racial discrimination at home; this was articulated in a 1942 'Pittsburgh Courier' article. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had a less progressive version of 'Double V,' military victory worldwide and political victory in the United States. FDR appointed white southern liberal newspapers man Jonathan W. Daniels as presidential administrative assistant between 1943 and 1945 to accomplish just that. Daniels assisted in executing the policy and in the process, made some progress in decreasing racial discrimination against black Americans.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 59 Issue 3, July 1982,
p252-270 , por, f
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21421
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The Tuscarora Indians have often been viewed by scholars as only being significant to North Carolina during the Tuscarora War between 1711 and 1713. This is not the case as the Tuscarora dominated the region for over a century, first amongst the Indian groups of the region and then when dealing with European colonists. From the late 1500s to their defeat in 1713, the Tuscarora attempted to maintain control over their territory and trading rights in much of eastern North Carolina. Their presence demarcated the extent of English settlement in North Carolina from 1654 to 1712 and may have influenced several internal conflicts among the colonists.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 59 Issue 4, Oct 1982,
p307-326 , il, por, map, f
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