Record #:

21444

Author(s):

Elliott, Robert N., Jr.

Abstract:

This article examines the beginnings of newspapers in the American colonies starting with papers in Boston in the late 17th century and continuing to the Baltimore province in Maryland, to Charleston, and then to Williamsburg in Virginia. The latter became the first newspaper to be read in North Carolina due to the two colonies' commercial and cultural ties. Further information on the spread of printing to North Carolina and the development of papers there as well as information on period printing and printing offices are included.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 42 Issue 1, Jan 1965, p1-20 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Davis, James, 1721-1785; Printing--North Carolina--History; NORTH CAROLINA GAZETTE (Newspaper)

Record #:

21447

Author(s):

Cecelski, David

Abstract:

This article examines of the ecological and cultural contexts for understanding the man-made seasonal camps used by mullet fishermen as well as exploring the architectural and material traits that were both specifically suited to the coastal environment as well as being drawn from African American building traditions to meet the special needs of the mullet fishery.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 70 Issue 1, Jan 1993, p1-13, il, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Mullet fishing; Mullet camps--Outer Banks; Architecture--African American

Record #:

21448

Author(s):

Culclasure, Scott P.

Abstract:

A look at the character and psychology of antebellum white laborer Edward Isham and the circumstances that surrounded the brutal murder of yeoman farmer James Cornelius by Isham, as well as Isham's resulting trial. Interpretation of the events is used to extrapolate general ideas about poor and powerless white southerners in the antebellum period.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 70 Issue 1, Jan 1993, p14-39, il, por, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Antebellum period, 1820-1961--Social conditions; Antebellum period, 1820-1961--Crime

Record #:

21449

Author(s):

Yandle, Paul

Abstract:

This article looks at the short life and career of prominent African American Joseph Charles Price, a contemporary of Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington and who's untimely death, followed shortly by Douglass', left Washington as the United States' most prominent black leader. Comparisons are made between Price and Washington's leadership styles as race leaders to determine whether Price would have stood in contrast to Washington's accomodationist tactics. A look at how Price built Livingstone College is included to draw a more complete picture of the nature of black leadership and the course of race relations between Reconstruction and the beginning of the 20th century.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 70 Issue 1, Jan 1993, p40-56, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Price, Joseph Charles, 1854-1893; Race relations--Reconstruction (1856-1877), Post; Livingstone College

Record #:

21455

Author(s):

Mitchell, Thornton W.

Abstract:

A look at the establishment in 1742 of the Granville District, an area of North Carolina that was created from the consolidation of Lord John Carteret's (later Earl Granville) land claims totaling to 1/8th of the royal Carolina grant. Information on the establishment of the Granville District just south of the Virginia-North Carolina border, on its administration by various land agents, its settlement, its eventual confiscation by the state of North Carolina during the American Revolution, and the heirs' attempts to recover it are included.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 70 Issue 2, April 1993, p103-129, il, por, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Carteret, John, 1690-1763; Granville District

Record #:

21456

Author(s):

Trelease, Allen W.

Abstract:

Before the 1870s there was a preference in the United States that the federal and state governments would subsidize private corporations but did not attempt to control them. This was the case when North Carolina held a three-quarters interest in the North Carolina Railroad (NCRR). The NCRR was built to help enable trade and travel to and within the Piedmont region of North Carolina. Chartered in 1849, the NCRR was the center of some controversy as to the style and amount of state control until it was leased out by the state in 1871.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 61 Issue 2, Apr 1984, p174-204 , il, por, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Railroads--History

Record #:

21457

Author(s):

Yandle, Paul

Abstract:

The second in a series of articles looking at the short life and career of prominent African American Joseph Charles Price, a contemporary of Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington who's untimely death, followed shortly by Douglass', left Washington as the United States' most prominent black leader. Comparisons between Price and Washington's leadership styles as race leaders to determine whether Price would have stood in contrast to Washington's accomodationist tactics. Also included is a look at how Price built Livingstone College to draw a more complete picture of the nature of black leadership and the course of race relations between Reconstruction and the beginning of the 20th century.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 70 Issue 2, April 1993, p130-152, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Price, Joseph Charles, 1854-1893; Race relations--Reconstruction (1856-1877), Post; Livingstone College

Record #:

21458

Author(s):

Frizzell, George E.

Abstract:

When the Cherokee people were removed to the Indian Territory in 1838, a small amount of them were able to remain in North Carolina. These people are now called the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and make up a minority in Jackson and Swain counties. Their presence has created several legal debates over their status within the state over the years. Between 1898 and 1930, they attempted to participate in general elections to the concern of both Republicans and Democrats. Though they obtained American citizenship in 1930, their ability to vote in local elections continued to cause controversy.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 61 Issue 2, Apr 1984, p205-230 , il, por, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Cherokee Indians--North Carolina

Record #:

21459

Author(s):

Janken, Kenneth R.

Abstract:

A look at the history of and controversy surrounding the 1944 publication of \"What the Negro Wants\" by the University of North Carolina Press as an example of racial paternalism and a startling instance of southern liberal hypocrisy in the prehistory of the civil rights movement. The publication was a collection of essays written by fourteen African American leaders calling for an end to segregation and dispensing with the idea of reforming the old system of race relations in favor of establishing a new one.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 70 Issue 2, April 1993, p153-179, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Civil rights movement; What the Negro Wants (Publication)

Record #:

21460

Author(s):

McDaniel, Ruth Currie

Abstract:

Following the Civil War, Albion Winegar Tourgee, a Northern carpetbagger, moved to North Carolina where he made many contributions to his adopted state. Tourgee served in the constitutional convention of 1868, was a stalwart of the Republican Party, fought the rise of the Klu Klux Klan, and took part in the Union League. His courtship and 50 year marriage to Emma Kilborn was a reflection of the status of courtship and marriage in the second half of the 19th century in North Carolina.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 61 Issue 3, July 1984, p285-310 , il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Tourgee, Albion W. (Winegar), 1838-1905

Record #:

21461

Author(s):

Jeffrey, Thomas E.

Abstract:

The first in a series of articles examining the mid-1850s dispute between Congressman Thomas Lanier Clingman and Professor of Sciences at the University of North Carolina, Elisha Mitchell, over who had been the first to identify, ascend, and measure the highest peak in the Black Mountains in Yancey County. The debate took a tragic turn when, in June 1857, Mitchell returned to the Mountains to vindicate his claim and lost his footing and fell to his death.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 70 Issue 3, July 1993, p241-265, il, por, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Mitchell, Elisha, 1793-1857

Record #:

21462

Author(s):

Reid, Richard

Abstract:

A look at the US government's first attempts to recruit Southern blacks for Civil War duty beginning in the spring of 1863 in North Carolina with plans to recruit four regiments. The North Carolina brigade was short-lived as attitudes, goals, and priorities swiftly changed in late 1863 and early 1864 and overshadowed the original progressive ideas. Though blacks chose to serve voluntarily and were grudgingly accepted by a white army, the black state units became pawns in a larger struggle and lost their individuality as they were absorbed into the larger US Colored Troops Division.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 70 Issue 3, July 1993, p266-301, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African American troops

Record #:

21463

Author(s):

Logan, Frenise A.

Abstract:

During the first state legislature to meet in North Carolina after Reconstruction, thirteen black assemblymen served and were informed through words and actions that Democrats would do everything possible to undo the progress that had been achieved during Reconstruction. The legislature passed racially restrictive laws in its 1876-1877 session that encouraged racial discrimination and restricted the rights of black citizens.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 61 Issue 3, July 1984, p311-346 , il, por, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Reconstruction (1865-1877)--North Carolina

Record #:

21464

Author(s):

Simpson, Marcus B.

Abstract:

John Abbot was an American naturalist and biological illustrator of the 18th century through whose work the ornithology and entomology of the southeastern coastal plain were examined in minute detail. First visiting Virginia in 1773, Abbott spent the next decades cataloging and studying the birds and insects of the Southeastern United States. In 1797 he published a book of his findings including wonderful watercolors of his specimens in 'The Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia.'

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 61 Issue 3, July 1984, p347-390 , il, por, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--Birds; North Carolina--Insects; Abbot, John, 1751-ca. 1840

Record #:

21465

Author(s):

Bishir, Catherine W.

Abstract:

Throughout the history of North Carolina, from the initial colonization up to the present day, black artisans and craftsmen play an important role in creating the architecture of the state. Black slaves and freedmen worked in all the construction trades, even in creative and independent roles. Through their contribution to the state's architectural heritage some of the North Carolina's finest old structures were created.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 61 Issue 4, Oct 1984, p423-461 , il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Architecture--North Carolina; Architecture--African American artisans