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21658
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This article examines the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and the scandal that surrounded it after it awarded a fellowship to Hans Freistat in 1948. Freistat, an Austrian doctoral student and teaching assistant in physics at the University of North Carolina, was also a member of the Communist Party. After he was awarded the fellowship, North Carolina senator Clyde R. Hoey called for a congressional investigation into the AEC's methodology of awarding fellowships. During the investigation and after, Freistat lost both the fellowship and his teaching position, Congress instituted tougher background checks into fellowship candidates, and AEC chairman David E. Lilienthal resigned.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 79 Issue 4, Oct 2002,
p440-458 , por, f
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21661
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This article examines the political landscape of the Lower Cape Fear region of colonial North Carolina, comparing it to the rest of the colony. The Lower Cape Fear region developed quite distinctly from nearby regions as it contained a stable and wealthy ruling class and a large, unruly slave population. The differences between the Lower Cape Fear region and the rest of the colony emphasize the problem with generalizing North Carolina's political environment.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 81 Issue 1, Jan 2004,
p1-37 , il, por, map, f
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21662
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This article examines the 1936 execution of Allen Foster, the first inmate in North Carolina to die in the gas chamber. Previously, the state had used electrocution for capital punishment but the press reported negatively on the practice while churches and other groups asked for a different method. Foster's execution and several following executions did not go well, and there was another public clamor against the use of gas. While the debate continued, North Carolina used both methods for many years. Lethal use of gas was not legally ended in North Carolina until 1999.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 81 Issue 1, Jan 2004,
p38-72 , il, por, f
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21663
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This article presents and reproduces the account of Theodore Garnett on his service as a cavalryman of the Army of Northern Virginia during the closing months of the Civil War. During those months, Garnett was place in command of two North Carolina and one Georgia unit. The troops under his command took part in battles at Petersburg and Five Forks, as well as being present at the surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 81 Issue 1, Jan 2004,
p73-96 , por, map, f
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21664
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This article examines the often violent relationship between slaves and poor whites in the antebellum Carolinas. In poor white communities, the ideal of honor was very important to a man's standing in the community. When a poor white man was not respected in his community, he still demanded respect in the black community, often using force to achieve it.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 81 Issue 2, Apr 2004,
p139-167 , il, f
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21665
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This article examines Clay Dillard's journal describing her last few months as a student at Edgeworth Female Seminary (EFS) in Greensboro in 1856. The journal chronicles Dillard's romantic relationship with a teacher at EFS whom she was not allowed to marry and provided insight into the educational process of the period.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 81 Issue 2, Apr 2004,
p168-195 , il, f
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21673
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Nell Battle Lewis began writing a column for the 'News and Observer' in 1921. Lewis, a supporter of white public motherhood and white supremacy, advocated a agenda of social reform that included the rights of textile workers and women. During World War II, Lewis was unable to balance her political ideology with the changing world. Until her death in 1956, Lewis called for white mothers to protect their families from liberals, civil rights activists, Communists, and the federal government.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 81 Issue 3, July 2004,
p261-287 , il, por, f
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21674
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In 1791, Nathaniel Macon entered the U.S. House of Representatives and began a 37 year career in Congress. During those years, he spent 24 in the House and 13 in the Senate, and demonstrated a strong degree of Anti-federalism throughout. Macon had a deep suspicion of overarching power and subsequent corruption, supported white male suffrage, desired to protect individual freedoms, feared unfair taxation and patronage, and wanted to protect state sovereignty through the strict interpretation of the Constitution.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 81 Issue 3, July 2004,
p288-312 , il, por, f
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21675
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Aaron Snowden Piggot was a skilled doctor, anatomist, physiologist, and chemist who worked with the Confederacy as director of a medical laboratory in Lincolnton, North Carolina during the Civil War. As director, Piggot produced opiates and sulfuric acid which was crucial to the creation of many medicines and saved the lives of countless Confederate soldiers.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 81 Issue 3, July 2004,
p313-334 , il, por, f
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21676
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This article examines the company union at the Durham Hosiery Mills in the early 20th century and the company's transformation from labor paternalism to welfare capitalism.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 81 Issue 4, Oct 2004,
p365-392 , il, por, f
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21677
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This article examines the creation of segregated white private schools in Edgecombe, Halifax, and Nash counties after the 1954 'Brown v. Board of Education' Supreme Court decision. The movement to create private white schools was founded upon the mission of whites to maintain control over education and preserve social class structure.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 81 Issue 4, Oct 2004,
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21681
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This article examines the role Branch Rickey had in the 1959 to 1960 campaign to create a third major league, the Continental League, in major league baseball. The National and American Leagues opposed the action and killed the proposal by promising to add additional major league teams.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 81 Issue 4, Oct 2004,
p426-460 , il, por, f
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21682
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Elite upper class white women were essential throughout North Carolina in creating Confederate monuments in the 50 years following the Civil War. Groups such as the Ladies Memorial Association and United Daughters of the Confederacy raised money for monument construction through various means while also raising public awareness. Throughout North Carolina, over 80 monuments were dedicated and in 1914, the efforts of these southern women were commemorated with a statue at the state capitol.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 83 Issue 1, Jan 2006,
p60-90 , il, por, f
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21683
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This article examines the 1890s debate over the creation of a memorial in Goldsboro to commemorate fallen Confederate soldiers at the Battle of Bentonville. The debate involved both the issue of politics and Southern masculinity.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 83 Issue 1, Jan 2006,
p31-59 , il, por, f
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21684
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From 1865 to 1869, Freedmen's Bureau officials in Asheville fought for the betterment of recently freed African-Americans and poor whites throughout the region. Under the leadership of P.E. Murphy and Oscar Eastmond, the bureau fought the Ku Klux Klan and other groups that attempted to limited the rights of former slaves. The bureau endured the conflict which at times became violent and improved the conditions for former slaves in the mountains of North Carolina.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 83 Issue 1, Jan 2006,
p1-30, il, por, f
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