Record #:

21422

Author(s):

Merrens, Roy H.; Paschal, Herbert R.

Abstract:

In 1769, map-maker John Abraham Collet provided a short description of Anson County, North Carolina to promote the interior of the state. Collet wrote quite positively about the area on everything from agriculture to roads, even if the information was at sometimes inaccurate.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 59 Issue 4, Oct 1982, p271-278 , il, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--Maps

Record #:

21423

Author(s):

York, Maurice C.

Abstract:

Before 1886, the libraries of the University of North Carolina were inferior to the private libraries of two students' groups, the Dialectic Society and the Philanthropic Society. Similar at the time to many American universities as they modernized their curriculum, the university and the student societies worked together. Between 1886 and 1906, the two societies worked with the university to merge all their collections together under the banner of the university library. The societies also contributed funds to purchase books and periodicals, helped administer the collections, and provided endowment funds.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 59 Issue 4, Oct 1982, p327-353 , il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

University of North Carolina--Library--History

Record #:

21424

Author(s):

Harris, William C.

Abstract:

Throughout his career in public service, William Woods Holden was a very controversial figure. During his tenure as governor of North Carolina, Holden angered the opposition by his response and actions against the violence of the Ku Klux Klan, the violation of political rights in the Piedmont region, and by several reckless political situations. In 1870, the General Assembly impeached Holden and convicted him of violating the civil liberties of certain citizens. This ruling barred him from ever holding public office again and he spent the rest of his life unsuccessfully attempting to repeal his disbarment and impeachment.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 59 Issue 4, Oct 1982, p354-372 , il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Holden, William Woods, 1818-1892

Record #:

21430

Author(s):

Ireland, Robert E.

Abstract:

An examination of the use of convict labor for road building during the years between 1890 and 1917 as a measure of penal reform. Using North Carolina chain gangs as a case study, the article seeks to establish the basis for the penal reform, to determine whether the use of chain gangs for road building was an attempt to rationalize the existing penal system, or if it was related to other progressive activities, and what eventually lead to the failure of the program.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 68 Issue 2, April 1991, p125-157, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Roads--Design and construction--Convict labor; Chain gangs (Convict labor)

Record #:

21431

Author(s):

Glass, Brent D.

Abstract:

The Gold Hill mining district of south-central North Carolina was an important gold producing area during 1842-1853. By the early 1850s Gold Hill established itself as a rewarding mining region but its development was hindered by a lack of specialized knowledge in deep mining methods, the reluctance of residents to turn over agricultural lands to gold prospectors, shortage of skilled miners, lack of investment capital, and an excess of competition between mining companies.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 61 Issue 1, Jan 1984, p1-35 , il, por, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Gold mines and mining--History

Record #:

21432

Author(s):

Lewis, Johanna Miller

Abstract:

An examination of women artisans in Rowan County, which in the late 18th century encompassed the entire northwestern quadrant of the modern state. While the actual number of women artisans will never be known because the business activities of some married women were run by their husbands, but the count of women artisans evidenced in county records grew in the last half of the 18th century with spinning and weaving being the most popular craft.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 68 Issue 3, July 1991, p214-236, il, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Woman artisans; Rowan County--Women artisans

Record #:

21433

Author(s):

Thorp, Daniel B.

Abstract:

In 1755, Moravian Church leader Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf designed a town to be built in Forsyth County, North Carolina. The town was based on von Zinzendorf's belief that the new city be inward looking, a religious refuge, church and community centered, healthful and open to outside trade and communication. His plan for the town of Unitas, now Salem, was founded on the ideas of Roman architect Pollio Vitruvius and found little acceptance at the New Moravian headquarters in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. After von Zinzendorf's passing in 1760, the Moravian leader in America, August Spangenberg developed a new grid plan to better fit the current Moravian needs and philosophy.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 61 Issue 1, Jan 1984, p36-58 , il, por, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Salem--History

Record #:

21434

Author(s):

Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth

Abstract:

Sarah Dudley Pettey was an eminent African-American feminist in New Bern in the 1890s who belonged to the generation of black women born in freedom. As a member of the aspiring middle class, Pettey predicted white recognition of black accomplishments and that class consciousness would extend across racial lines based on the expanding black middle class. When the Democrats launched a white supremacy campaign in 1898 seeking to destroy black aspirations and limit economic possibilities, they both institutionalized the prevailing racial trends and profoundly recorded society. Many African American women, including Pettey became feminists seeking reform, but encountered both racial and patriarchal suppression.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 68 Issue 3, July 1991, p261-285, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Pettey, Sarah Dudley, 1869-1906; White Supremacy Campaign, 1898

Record #:

21435

Author(s):

Auman, William T.

Abstract:

During the Civil War in Randolph County and adjacent areas, conflict between pro-Union residents and Confederate supporters occurred on a regular basis. The Randolph County area was populated by pacifists, abolitionists, Quakers, Wesleyans, Moravians, and Dunkards. The anti-Confederate sentiment appealed to army deserters and lower-class residents who were unaffected by the Confederacy's pro-planter and upper class policies. Local leaders John Hilton, Bryan Tyson, and William Owens utilized public appeals and guerrilla warfare to gain supporters and disrupt local affairs. The conflict between the two sides did not end with the Civil War but continued into the Reconstruction era.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 61 Issue 1, Jan 1984, p59-92 , il, por, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

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

Record #:

21436

Author(s):

Dean, Pamela

Abstract:

A look at the idea of the \"New Woman\" for the New South that developed at the North Carolina Normal and Industrial College for white women after its establishment in 1892. The college's mission was to train teachers for public schools with a goal of propagating the values and skills that southerners needed to move from the rural, agricultural world of the Old South to the Urban, entrepreneurial, industrial world of the New South. Through this, a new model of womanhood developed that would not only shape and be shaped by a changed collegiate culture, but one that would also sanction women's invasion of the public sphere.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 68 Issue 3, July 1991, p286-306, il, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina Normal and Industrial College (Greensboro); New South--Women

Record #:

21437

Author(s):

Inscoe, John C.

Abstract:

During the Antebellum Period in western North Carolina, most subsistence farmers lacked the money and need to own slaves for manual farm labor. There were a sizeable number of slaves owned by professional men, shopkeepers, and men in office though. These slaves were not crucial to the economic wealth of western North Carolina but enough white residents had sufficiently invested in the engine of slavery that it was a major consideration in the decision to leave or remain in the Union in early 1861.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 61 Issue 2, Apr 1984, p143-173 , il, por, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Record #:

21440

Author(s):

Nasstrom, Kathryn L.

Abstract:

This article examines the feminist movement of the 1920s, specifically the decline of feminism during the decade, first via the historiography of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and then through the ideas, values, and ideology that informed the range of women's activities in a changing social and political context, with the North Carolina League of Women Voters serving as a case study.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 68 Issue 3, July 1991, p307-319, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina League of Women Voters; Feminism

Record #:

21441

Author(s):

Wilkerson-Freeman, Sarah

Abstract:

An examination of the process through which women gained political influence in the early decades of the 20th century and the problems that arose because of their distinctly female political styles, strategies, and expectations of government.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 68 Issue 3, July 1991, p320-339, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Suffrage--Women; New Deal, 1933-1939--Women

Record #:

21442

Author(s):

Bishir, Catherine W.

Abstract:

A look at the design and construction of the neoclassical style mansion at Hayes plantation near Edenton, which comes from a unique blend of architectural traditions and changing building practices, from established regional traditions, and from emerging national and international trends.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 68 Issue 4, Oct 1991, p373-403, il, por, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Hayes Plantation (Edenton); Edenton--Architecture

Record #:

21443

Author(s):

Escott, Paul D.

Abstract:

An examination of the career of transplanted northerner Clinton A. Cilley whose life ran counter to the generally accepted view of the carpetbaggers as the disliked settlers who were unlikely to succeed in Southern agriculture and who were disliked and held separate by true southerners. Cilley, despite being an unlikely candidate for success or acceptance in the postwar south, demonstrated a willingness to get along with the white majority, an ability to find common ground, and a compatibility in social values that lead him to become a successful and prominent lawyer in western North Carolina.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 68 Issue 4, Oct 1991, p404-426, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Cilley, Clinton A., 1837-1900; Carpetbaggers