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21466
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A look at the efforts to improve collegiate education of white women at the turn of the 20th century as an example of the disparate impact of Southern progressivism upon education. In their desire to pattern the educational institutions of the New South, developed between 1890 and 1920, along the traditional racial, gender, and class divisions and roles of the Old South, Progressive reformers illustrated the paradoxical character of Southern social reform of this period.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 70 Issue 3, July 1993,
p302-325, il, por, f
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21467
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Prior to the Civil War, North Carolinians united in their disgust towards the poor and poor relief. They often associated poverty with illness and petty crime and the local and state governments did little to help combat it. During the Civil War, thousands of small North Carolina fell into poverty which forced the state and its citizens to reexamine its view of the subject. Local county governments took unheard of actions to solve the problem but ultimately failed. By the end of the Civil War, North Carolinians suffered from hunger and poverty on a scale unheard of to that point in North Carolina history.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 61 Issue 4, Oct 1984,
p462-480 , il, por, f
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21468
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During World War II, Camp Sutton in Union County was a US Army engineer training base and prisoner-of-war camp. Camp Sutton housed over 1,000 German soldiers captured in France, Italy, and North Africa. One Camp Sutton prisoner, Matthias Buschheuer, relates his experiences which were common amongst his German comrades. Buschheuer's pleasant experiences at Camp Sutton created strong bonds with many North Carolinians that became lifelong friendships.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 61 Issue 4, Oct 1984,
p481-509 , il, por, map, f
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21469
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This article examines the role that promotional literature and pamphlets fostered and inspired by the Roanoke settlement played in attracting settlers and in the eventual settlement of the Albemarle region via an analysis of these materials as well as colonial documents that reveal the extent of claims in the region prior to the Carolina Charter of 1663.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 70 Issue 4, Oct 1993,
p365-400, il, por, map, f
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21470
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The second 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.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 70 Issue 4, Oct 1993,
p401-429, il, por, map, f
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21471
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A reprint of letters written on behalf of a group of 106 emancipated former slaves who had settled in a colony in Liberia begun by the American Colonization Society -- a group formed to facilitate the colonization of former slaves in Africa. The McKay settlers became free after a lengthy court case over the will of their former master, James Iver McKay of Bladen County. Traveling aboard the packet ship MARY CAROLINE STEVENS, the group left Norfolk on May 28, 1857. The letters, penned for the settlers by an intermediary, contain their requests for supplies and money, and demonstrate the difficulties that contributed, along with the American Civil War, to the eventual failure of the enterprise and the Society.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 70 Issue 4, Oct 1993,
p430-465, il, por, map, f
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21472
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This article examines the 30 years prior to the American Revolution for patterns regarding runaway slaves attempts and their success. Historical records indicated several interesting trends including the smaller number of escape attempts when compared to surrounding colonies, the increase in attempts when African-born slaves were involved, and the increased success rate when American-born slaves attempted escape.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 63 Issue 1, Jan 1986,
p1-39 , il, map, f
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21473
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An examination of the practice of looting and plundering stranded vessels, called \"wrecking,\" via the investigation of three incents between 1698 and 1750 on the Outer Banks, to provide insight into the behavior of the colonists who exploited the accidents as well as the attitudes and capacities of the governing authorities charged with upholding royal laws, maintaining order, and punishing lawbreakers.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 72 Issue 1, Jan 1995,
p1-29, il, por, map, f
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21479
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This article examines the architecturally distinguished Cupola House of Edenton and the steps taken to preserve the house. Built by Richard Sanderson in the 1720s, the house was a blend of Jacobean and early Georgian styles. After the house came into the possession of Dr. Samuel Dickinson in 1777, it remained in his family until 1918. In 1918, then owner Tillie Bond sold the first floor woodwork to the Brooklynn Museum to the community's outrage. A grass roots movement was organized by local residents to purchase the house and preserve it as a historic site.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 63 Issue 1, Jan 1986,
p40-73 , il, por, f
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21480
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This article examines the origins of East Carolina University (ECU) in Greenville, North Carolina, in the framework of the Progressive reforms of the early 20th century. Founded as East Carolina Teachers Training School, ECU sprung from a state wide debate on how to train teachers for an expanding number of schools. Opposed by Piedmont and western interests who did not want another eastern school, the college was approved after a series of bond issues in 1907 and began classes shortly after.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 63 Issue 1, Jan 1986,
p74-103 , il, por, f
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21481
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During the first years of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln believed he could quickly end the war, restore the Union, and reorganize Southern governments. Between 1861 and 1863, Lincoln believed he could restrain Republican antislavery sentiment and rely on Southern Unionism to end the war. While inadequately studied by current historians, Lincoln's controversial and failed reconstruction plan for North Carolina in 1862-1863 demonstrated that he no longer believed a quick restoration of order in the South was likely.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 63 Issue 2, Apr 1986,
p149-168 , il, por, f
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21482
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During the Civil War, North Carolina publishing company Sterling, Campbell, and Albright took advantage of the isolation from Northern companies to publish pro-Southern textbooks and propaganda. At the urging of Southern educators, the company published textbooks that emphasized and exalted Southern history, cultural institutions, and cultural values. This ended after the war as Southern publishing could not compete with Northern competition.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 63 Issue 2, Apr 1986,
p169-198 , il, por, f
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21483
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This article looks at religious life in the North Carolina interior and suggests how religion influenced the North Carolina Regulator Movement, a loosely organized protest movement of settlers in the North Carolina backcountry during the 1760s and early 1770s that began as a peaceful expression of the settlers' discontent over political and economic conditions and developed into a series of increasingly violent mob actions that ended with a pitched battle between the Regulators and militia led by the colonial governor.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 72 Issue 1, Jan 1995,
p30-53, il, map, f
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21484
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A look at the unique circumstances surrounding Confederate conscription in North Carolina during the Civil War. Because North Carolina provided over one-fourth of all conscripts in the Confederate Army and had so many Union sympathizers and a strong peace movement, serious conflict occurred. The most common action in response to conscription was to fight it in court. Because there was no Confederate Supreme Court, cases were sent to North Carolina's judiciary, which was intent on preserving the state's sovereignty, and where the chief justice was sympathetic toward conscripts.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 72 Issue 1, Jan 1995,
p54-75, il, por, f
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21485
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The four-day siege and capture of the federal post at Plymouth, North Carolina, on 20 April 1864, spawned stories afterward of the murder of captured \"Buffaloes\" (white North Carolina Unionists) and blacks. Because of the disputed, contradictory, and inconclusive nature of the evidence, historians' views of events have differed. A review of a more comprehensive collection of evidence suggests that, despite arguments to the contrary, there was a massacre that took the lives of approximately fifty of the nearly 4,500 military and civilian persons in Plymouth on 20 April.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 72 Issue 2, April 1995,
p125-197, il, por, map, f
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