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21571
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A look at the Civil War career of Confederate major general William Dorsey Pender, in an attempt to provide new insight into the Army of Northern Virginia and one of its most important young leaders. Pender's role in several battles as well as relationships with fellow officers, the personal and state politics that complicated his promotion process, and the beliefs, opinions, and experiences of a leader who expressively proclaimed attitudes shared by many other Southerners in his position are examined.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 76 Issue 2, April 1999,
p163-201, il, por, f
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21572
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From the the late 1950s through the 1960s, the university members of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) became leaders in the struggle to integrate collegiate athletics in the South. This article chronicles the evolution of the racial composition of Southern college sports teams from the Jim Crow days of the 1890s-1950s and the total exclusion of African-American athletes, through a period when segregated Southern teams would play integrated teams from Northern colleges, to the period when Southern schools, under the leadership of the ACC and often under pressure from civil rights groups, integrated their teams.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 76 Issue 3, July 1999,
p253-284, il, por, f
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21577
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A look at The Carolina Political Union (CPU), a political study group founded by students at the University of North Carolina in 1936 to sponsor appearances on campus by political speakers. The university supported CPU, even when speakers chosen were controversial or too liberal - or sometimes even too conservative - unimpeded by the university's progressive and liberal tradition. Within its first five years, the group hosted nearly fifty speakers representing a wide range of the political spectrum, from the head of the Ku Klux Klan to President Franklin D. Roosevelt to labor leaders. The group declined with the onset of WWII, although it did continue to sponsor speakers.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 76 Issue 3, July 1999,
p285-315, il, por, f
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21578
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This article examines potential causes for University of North Carolina professor Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick'a steadfast antislavery beliefs which, among other things, led to his dismissal in 1856. The university stated its reasoning for the decision came from its belief that the university was no place for rancorous political debates. Effectively banished from his native North Carolina, Hedrick worked for the US Patent Office in Washington, D.C., and never again lived in North Carolina on a permanent basis.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 76 Issue 3, July 1999,
p316-336, il, por, f
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21579
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During her husband's service in the Confederate Army, Macon County resident Mary Bell demonstrated an unknown level of personal growth and flexibility apparent in her letters to her husband, Alfred. In their correspondence, Mary describes her problems and her neighbors'--providing a detailed view of her community. This insight into a community which, while isolated from the war, was also affected by it daily.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 69 Issue 4, Oct 1992,
p388-413 , il, por, f
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21580
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Under the auspices of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), University of North Carolina president Frank Porter Graham helped create the Institute for Nuclear Studies. Porter was then elected the institute's first president but his acceptance of the presidency began a series of dramatic events including a FBI probe, an AEC security clearance controversy, an investigation of loyalty procedures, and a failed bid for the US Senate in 1950. While not himself a Communist or Communist-sympathizer, Graham was associated with several organizations which were viewed as such. His support for these organizations stemmed from specific goals they championed that were not necessarily Communist related. The AEC's Personnel Security Review Board denied Graham clearance based on these affiliations, but not because for lack of loyalty. The AEC and its chairman, David Lilienthal, overruled the board and granted Graham the necessary clearance.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 69 Issue 4, Oct 1992,
p414-437 , il, por, f
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21581
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This article examines and calculates the number of slaves imported into North Carolina before slave trade restrictions were imposed in the mid-1790s. Overall slave trade in North Carolina was limited in scope as the state was not part of the triangular trade. Specialized slave merchants in the region were rare as the slave trade was incidental to the activities of the vessels engaging in it. Available records indicate the import of 3,236 slaves through sea routes, almost half from the West Indies.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 71 Issue 1, Jan 1994,
p1-61 , il, map, f
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21582
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This article presents and annotates a portion of the diary of Henry William Gangewer (1827-1880), which records the day to day activities of the 51st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment during the Burnside Expedition. The Burnside Expedition captured Roanoke Island on 7 February 1862 from Confederate forces.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 71 Issue 1, Jan 1994,
p62-84 , il, por, map, f
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21583
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In 1968, Richard Nixon reconciled with Republican and Democratic Dixiecrat segregationist led by Strom Thurmond and effectively ended the second Reconstruction of the 1950s and 1960s. To gain their support, Nixon promised to restrict federal support on desegregation and nominate Southern white conservatives to the Supreme Court. This exchange of political favors closely resembled the terms agreed to at Wormley's Hotel, in Washington D.C., that ended the first Reconstruction in 1877.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 71 Issue 1, Jan 1994,
p85-105 , il, por, f
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21588
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During its formative years following its founding, North Carolina lacked a evolved political, legal, and social structure. In this environment, women were able to assert themselves into the North Carolina legal system, unlike their contemporaries in Europe. Thus women, especially unmarried women, are quite visible in the legal records of colonial North Carolina. As the colony matured physically, economically, socially, and demographically from frontier to colony, the opportunities for women became less and less apparent.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 71 Issue 2, Apr 1994,
p151-173 , map, f
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21589
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In the 19th century before the Civil War, escaped slaves and their collaborators established escape routes by sea to leave North Carolina. This version of the Underground Railroad in Wilmington and other sea ports were so effective during the 1st half of the century that runaway slaves often ran to the coast instead of heading north to reach freedom through overland routes.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 71 Issue 2, Apr 1994,
p174-206 , il, por, f
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21590
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This article examines two military engagements at Gum Swamp near Kinston during the Civil War. The battles took place in the spring of 1863 and while of no strategic importance, they possess a level of human interest and are tactically instructive.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 71 Issue 2, Apr 1994,
p207-231 , il, por, map, f
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21591
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Political factionalism in North Carolina during the 1720s was not a simple two-sided conflict between popular opinion and entitled power but a complex, interest-based struggle that shifted to reflect economic and social divisions. The primary issue between factions was expansion southward along the Cape Fear River into Bath County. This conflict led to a more rapid transition from proprietary to royal rule in the colony.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 71 Issue 3, July 1994,
p284-305 , il, por, map, f
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21592
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This article examines the role of the 55th North Carolina regiment during the 1863 siege of Suffolk, Virginia. The only North Carolina infantry regiment in General James Longstreet's army, the article details how the unit, after accusations of cowardice, vindicated their honor on the field of battle and through duels.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 71 Issue 3, July 1994,
p306-330 , il, por, map, f
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21595
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An examination of Sir Walter Raleigh's first colony at Roanoke to trace the details of early Anglo-Indian exchange. Because the colony lasted for so short a period of time, because it existed over an extremely limited geographic area, and because this European presence did not result in domination and eradication of Indian peoples in this area, Roanoke allows for the close compass examination of the nature of Anglo-Indian relations in their infancy.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 76 Issue 4, Oct 1999,
p367-390, il, por, map, f
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