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21620
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This article examines the history of North Carolina's Bingham School, a private classical academy that ran from 1793 to 1928. During the school's first 80 years, it focused on a classical education while fending off claims that a more practical curriculum was needed. It was claimed by headmasters up to 1873 that classical study remained central to the training of a Southern gentleman and expressed the conservative nature of South both politically and socially.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 73 Issue 3, July 1996,
p328-377 , il, por, map, f
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21621
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During the Civil War, Confederate attempts to build ironclads in Wilmington failed because of shortages in skilled labor and materials needed for construction. The Wilmington facilities were more than acceptable for ironclad construction but shortages in oakum, seasoned timber, and metal plate as well as the necessary woodworkers and metalworkers, doomed Confederate efforts.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 73 Issue 4, Oct 1996,
p409-434, il, por, map, f
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21622
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The 1864 yellow fever epidemic in New Bern was exacerbated through ignorance and a reluctance to spread panic amongst the civilian population. The first signs of sickness were originally attributed to other diseases and efforts to contain the 'miasma' believed to cause the illness failed. Once the epidemic was contained through evacuation, a Confederate plot to initiate germ warfare was discovered. This led some to believe Dr. Luke Blackburn used contaminated clothing to start the sickness, but it is very unlikely that was the case.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 73 Issue 4, Oct 1996,
p435-483
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21627
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This article examines the political quarrel between North Carolina congressman George Henry White, the only black member of Congress in 1900, and Josephus Daniels, the editor of the Raleigh 'News and Observer.' White and Daniels feuded over White's efforts to promote racial equality and introduction of a federal anti-lynching law, all of which Daniels opposed. White did not run for reelection to the House of Representatives, retired from politics, and relocated to the North because of Daniels campaign against him through the newspaper.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 77 Issue 1, Jan 2000,
p1-33 , il, por, f
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21628
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This article examines the how the shipbuilding industry helped rejuvenate the economy of North Carolina during World War II. Wooden shipbuilding in particular was already established at several small facilities within the state. Through these facilities, 148 wooden vessels were built in North Carolina that saw service in World War II.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 77 Issue 1, Jan 2000,
p34-53 , il, f
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21629
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The second in a series of articles examining of the formative years of industrial electric supply systems, specifically the Southern Power Company that would become the Duke Power Company in 1924. By that time, the company was already important to the region's industrial development. Storm and flood damage in 1916 led to the construction of three more dams along the Catawba River and the company gained a rate increase in 1921 as well. In 1924, the company also established the Duke Endowment and Charitable Foundation and reorganized Trinity College into Duke University. For its philanthropic work, the Duke Power Company was given even better rates.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 77 Issue 1, Jan 2000,
p54-89 , il, por, f
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21630
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This article examines the fate of African-born Muslim slaves in North Carolina, with more scrutiny on the life of Umar ibn Said, an educated and upper class Muslim from Senegal. It delivers details from his life, especially after he became a slave in 1810 on a Cape Fear River plantation owned by James Owen. It also chronicles his conversion to Christianity, which was used by missionaries as an example on how to convert Muslims.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 77 Issue 2, Apr 2000,
p127-150 , il, por, f
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21631
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This article examines the Whig accusation of misappropriated funds that drove the Democratic-appointed superintendent of the US Branch Mint at Charlotte, John Hill Wheeler from office in 1841. The debate began as minor allegations of unnecessary spending for the mint grounds but developed in debates regarding the spoils system. The Whigs, while publically condemning this practice, used their actions to assert their right to benefit from political patronage.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 77 Issue 2, Apr 2000,
p151-178 , il, por, f
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21632
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This article examines the North Carolina government's attempts to improve economic condition of the state during the Antebellum Period. North Carolina was very dependent on its neighboring states for economic support following the American Revolution. On the suggestion of several North Carolina governors, the General Assembly sponsored programs to improve the condition of the state's roads, railways, and waterways.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 77 Issue 2, Apr 2000,
p179-204 , il, por, map
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21633
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In 1945, Mary Price organized the Committee of North Carolina (CNC) of the Southern Conference from Human Welfare. The CNC was a liberal, mixed-gender organization that included Communist sympathizers but was not connected to the Communist Party USA. Under Price's leadership, the CNC became the core of the Progressive Party in North Carolina. Price's role in the CNC served as an example for the participation in liberal politics of women in North Carolina.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 77 Issue 3, July 2000,
p269-311 , il, por, f
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21634
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This article examines the role of Alexander Welch Reynold, commander of the North Carolina-Virginia Brigade, in the Battle at Missionary Ridge near Chattanooga, Tennessee, in November 1863 during the Civil War. The majority of historical research has considered Reynold's brigade as a leading cause of the Confederate defeat but additional official reports from the battle have cleared the brigade.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 77 Issue 3, July 2000,
p312-336 , il, por, f
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21635
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This article examines the role the 1st and 2nd North Carolina Union Volunteer Infantry regiments had during the Civil War. Composed of North Carolina citizens who were sympathetic to the Union cause, they were nicknamed 'Buffaloes' and were usually poor farmers who had no vested interest in slavery, opposed Confederate conscription or wanted to remain close to their families, as these units did not leave the state of North Carolina for deployment.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 77 Issue 3, July 2000,
p337-363 , il, por, map, f
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21636
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In 1870, members of the Ku Klux Klan murdered Wyatt Outlaw, an African-American town commissioner in Alamance County. The incident eventually led to the impeachment of Govern William Woods Holden over his handling of the situation. Outlaw was allegedly the son of a slave woman and Chesley Farrar Faucett, a rich white landowner. Outlaw was also a skilled craftsman, respected leader of the local community, a Union veteran and a politician. His murder was seen as a large setback for Reconstruction in North Carolina.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 77 Issue 4, Oct 2000,
p403-433 , il, por, f
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21637
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This article discusses the career of African American furniture maker Thomas Day, a free black craftsman who lived in northern North Carolina, near his birthplace in Virginia. Legend and myth have grown around Day's life and accomplishments, but his access to and business with white customers and his ability to prosper in that world can be attributed mainly to his recognized talent as a craftsman, even if such recognition of a black man was extraordinary in pre-Civil War North Carolina.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 78 Issue 1, Jan 2001,
p32-66, il, por, f
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21638
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This article describes some of the theories regarding the disappearance of Sir Walter Raleigh's colonists who had disappeared from Roanoke Island as posited by other historians, including the work of David Beers Quinn. Parramore debates Quinn on some issues, and also supplements Quinn's findings with his own research and thesis.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 78 Issue 1, Jan 2001,
p67-83, map, f
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