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21531
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During the early 20th century, the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission undertook a campaign in rural North Carolina to educate the populace on the dangers of hookworm. This article examines that campaign and compares the campaign's objectives to its actual accomplishments. The campaign's attempt to change unsanitary conditions butted heads with rural traditions of independence and autonomy.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 67 Issue 1, Jan 1990,
p1-27 , il, por, f
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21532
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This article examines the personal letters between Calvin Henderson Wiley, North Carolina's first superintendent of public schools and politician John Wilson Cuningham. These letters tell scholars how public events in North Carolina were perceived through the eyes of these two prominent citizens.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 67 Issue 1, Jan 1990,
p28-58 , il, por, f
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21533
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This article examines the Appalachian Southern identity during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Contrary to 20th century historians' ideas of Civil War-era Appalachia as the pre-modern, unionist, and anti-slavery society, an analysis of a 1911 Waynesville, North Carolina, reception for the widow of Confederate hero Thomas J. \"Stonewall\" Jackson demonstrates that Appalachian communities not only supported the Confederacy but retained a strong identification with the myth of the \"Lost Cause\" into the 1910s. In the 1890s and 1910s reunions of Confederate veterans and celebrations of their military service were central to the public life of Haywood County, North Carolina.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 74 Issue 3, July 1997,
p237-259, il, por, map
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21534
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This article examines the diary of Peter W. Hairston, a wealthy planter in North Carolina before the Civil War and Volunteer Aide to Confederate general Jubal A. Early. During the period of the diary, 7 November to 4 December 1863, Early and Hairston were a part of two major operations in Virginia. These operations were the Rappahannock Bridge and Mine Run campaigns. The diary illuminates the fading Confederate cause in 1863 and challenges to state and national authority in North Carolina.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 67 Issue 1, Jan 1990,
p59-86 , por, map, f
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21535
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This article examines the life and experience of Cornelia Phillips Spencer, a well-educated, Southern white woman who lived on the margin of plantation society as the daughter of a University professor who owned two slaves prior to the Civil War. Spencer was recognized and respected as a knowledgeable political voice and wrote regularly on contemporary women's issues in newspaper columns. She was in a position to use her position and pen to influence social change; however, her writing reveals a woman working to shape and solidify cultural and social conservatism and a reinforcement of antebellum values, gender roles, and societal views, as well as a nostalgia and affection for the pre-war Southern social constructs.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 74 Issue 3, July 1997,
p260-283, il, por, f
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21536
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A look at the lives and careers of scholars and married couple Guion Griffis and Guy Johnson, whose careers studying the history and culture of their native South demonstrate that male and female intellectuals of the early 20th century lived very different southern experiences. Guy's professional positions heightened his visibility and a more prominent place within the historiography of Southern liberalism, while Guion's distance from those same circles made her the more perceptive observer and passionate critic of the multiple barriers to change in the South. When viewed in combination, the stories of both scholars reveal the linked challenges of race and gender within southern liberalism.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 74 Issue 3, July 1997,
p284-324, il, por
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21537
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This article compares letters and diaries of four wealthy women of elite society in Caldwell County, Ella Harper, Till Abernathy, Laura Norwood, and Mary Fries Patterson, to determine how the combination of a common geographical location mostly spared of direct contact with military invasion and civil unrest, wealth, and a support network based on prewar affiliations among females of their social class enabled these women to cope more effectively with wartime hardships than other women of the Piedmont and mountains of North Carolina.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 74 Issue 4, Oct 1997,
p363-388, il, por, map, f
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21538
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An examination of the post-Civil War political activities of North Carolina Congressman and Senator, Thomas Lanier Clingman, which provides a look into the issues, power struggles, and personalities of North Carolina politics during the first two decades after the Civil War. Particular attention is given to Clingman's involvement in the \"railroad ring\" fraud orchestrated by George W. Swepson and Milton S. Littlefield, in which Swepson invested $843,633 dollars of state appropriated bond sales proceeds meant for use in expansion of state railroads into three Florida railroads for personal profits, aided by Littlefield's bribery and manipulation of legislators. Clingman's role as Swepson's attorney put him in the thick of the controversy and prevented a resurgence of his political career.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 74 Issue 4, Oct 1997,
p389-431, il, por, map, f
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21539
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An examination of the Williamston Freedom Movement, that began with a 32 consecutive-day period in the summer of 1963 and continued into the following year. African Americans held nightly meetings, formulated sweeping demands, and participated in dozens of marches and sit-ins that included a school boycott of segregated education and an economic boycott of white-owned business in Williamston.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 76 Issue 1, Jan 1999,
p1-42, il, por, map, f
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21540
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During the Revolutionary War, commanders of the Continental Army faced many difficulties in the southern states due the numerous self-contradictory restrictions coming from the Continental Congress and local civil authorities. While military commanders were under direct orders from Congress, they were at the mercy of state governments for troops, supplies, and weaponry. Southern political divisions constantly challenged the authority of Congress, making a strong defense of the southern colonies very difficult.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 67 Issue 2, Apr 1990,
p133-158 , por, map, f
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21542
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After his death in 1865, James Cathcart Johnston defied the usual practice of leaving his worldly possessions to his family and instead gave them to three close friends in his will. An heir contested the will which led to a sensational 1867 trial in Chowan County Superior Court that involved former governors, congressmen, a cabinet officer and a superior court judge.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 67 Issue 2, Apr 1990,
p193-221 , il, por, f
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21543
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This article looks at the life of Bladen County resident John Legett, as a loyalist in exile in Nova Scotia between 1783 and 1812. During the Revolutionary War, Legett led one of the few loyalist brigades in the South. After the war, some loyalists were given free land grants in Nova Scotia by the British government. Legett and his followers were given County Harbour in Nova Scotia, where Legett persevered over the many hardships that occurred to him in an effort to build a new life and properly discharge his duties as magistrate.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 67 Issue 3, July 1990,
p285-314 , il, por, map, f
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21544
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This article looks at famous North Carolina politicians who opposed suffrage for women in 1920. These politicians were led the campaign to alienate black voters 20 years prior. The most prominent of these politicians were Alfred M. Waddell, George Rountree, and Furnifold M. Simmons. While the campaign to stop women's suffrage was a diverse one and included many women, Waddell, Rountree, and Simmons were the political force behind the efforts to deny women the vote.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 67 Issue 3, July 1990,
p315-333 , il, por
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21548
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A continuation from a prior entry, this article continues to examine the legal battle over the will of North Carolinian James Cathcart Johnston. After his death in 1865, Johnston left his estate to three of his closest friends, not to his family. A family member contested the will in what became a sensational and prominent legal contest. The main issue of the will contested was whether or not Johnston was mentally fit to compose a will which left out his family members. After testimony from several doctors, the will was upheld and the estate was left in the control of his friends.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 67 Issue 3, July 1990,
p334-359 , il, por, f
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21549
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In 1933 at the University of North Carolina medical school, there was a quota on the number of Jewish students that were to be accepted into the program. Medical school dean Isaac Hall Manning kept Jewish students to about 10 percent of the overall program based on the argument that those students would not be accepted elsewhere after the program and the school's reputation would suffer. University president Frank Porter Graham argued against Manning's quota system on moral grounds until Manning resigned.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 67 Issue 4, Oct 1990,
p385-410 , il, por, f
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