Record #:

21815

Author(s):

Combs, Edwin L., III

Abstract:

This article looks at the unique problems encountered by commercial interests in coastal North Carolina during the 18th century utilizing data contained in 1768-1772 British customs returns. This data was overlooked by historian Charles Christopher Crittenden in his 1936 article, 'Commerce of North Carolina, 1763-1789,' leading Combs to challenge Crittenden's conclusions and place his focus on the delicate balance between maritime trade, mercantilism, and economic development.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 80 Issue 1, Jan 2003, p1-27, il, por, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Commerce; Maritime commerce

Record #:

21816

Author(s):

Steward, Rodney J.

Abstract:

This article examines the relationship between Confederate identity and conceptions of Christianity, manhood, patriotism, and class in the antebellum South through the wartime diary of North Carolina lawyer and Confederate bureaucrat David Schenck.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 82 Issue 1, Jan 2005, p61-81 , il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Culture--North Carolina; Culture--Southern; Antebellum period, 1820-1861; Schenck, David, 1835-1902

Record #:

21821

Author(s):

Lockley, Timothy J.

Abstract:

This article looks at how public poor relief was conceived and utilized as a social tool, with a particular interest in the emphasis placed on mass education by reformers in the 1840s and 1850s. Buncombe County and Asheville are used as a case study.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 80 Issue 1, Jan 2003, p28-51, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Buncombe County--History; Public Poor Relief

Record #:

21822

Author(s):

Starnes, Richard D.

Abstract:

An examination of tourism's social and economic force in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and its role in shaping the history of the post-Civil War South via the development of Victorian consumer culture, a more prosperous middle class, a growing transportation network, and the entrepreneurial development of leisure pursuits and accommodations. Asheville is used as a case study.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 80 Issue 1, Jan 2003, p52-80, il, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

New South--Tourism; Asheville--Tourism--History

Record #:

21823

Author(s):

Moore, Peter N.

Abstract:

Discusses the 1771 case of the Agnes Richardson and the death of her husband, of Presbyterian minister William Richardson, in the Waxhaw settlement, a Scots-Irish American community along the North Carolina-South Carolina border. The story that emerged regarding Agnes' possible role in the death, and a harrowing trial and accusation, reveal a focus on supernaturalism and folk justice that are commonly associated with the backcountry. Investigation of historical evidence reveals that her accusation has much to say about the social and legal constructs of early American society.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 80 Issue 3, July 2003, p279-296, il, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Waxhaw--History; North Carolina--History--Women; Folklore--North Carolina

Record #:

21824

Author(s):

Huber, Patrick

Abstract:

A look at the hillbilly songs of Dave McCarn, a Gastonia, textile mill worker, who wrote about the realities of life for Southern mill workers in the 1920s-30s. McCarn's best-known recording, \"Cotton Mill Colic,\" and its two sequels, criticized the Southern textile industry for failing to pay workers a living wage.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 80 Issue 3, July 2003, p297-333, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Textile industry

Record #:

21825

Author(s):

Senter, Jim

Abstract:

An examination of the Outer Banks ecological history focusing on forests and the idea suggesting human intervention brought about its destruction. Evidence suggests that geological and climactic changes were the causes of the live dunes that threatened the forests rather than anthropogenic processes.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 80 Issue 3, July 2003, p334-371, il, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Maritime forests

Record #:

21828

Author(s):

Haller, Charlotte A.

Abstract:

Focusing on the town of Wilmington and the surrounding area, this article focuses on the efforts of white Baptist and Methodist preachers to bring religion to the region, as well as on the role of the Methodist Church in the lives of black evangelicals and their lives as compared to black evangelicals in other parts of the state.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 80 Issue 2, Apr 2003, p125-152, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Methodist Episcopal Church--History; African American evangelicals

Record #:

21829

Author(s):

Bradley, Mark L.

Abstract:

This article examines the debate over whether to emancipate and arm Southern slaves to fight for the Confederacy during the Civil War. The perspective of Governor Zebulon B. Vance is given particular attention, along with the attitudes of North Carolinians towards slaves during the war, and to emancipated blacks after the war.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 80 Issue 2, Apr 2003, p153-187, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894

Record #:

21830

Author(s):

Krause, Bonnie J.

Abstract:

This article looks at the life and career of Lucy Saunders Herring, an African American educator in North Carolina from 1916 to 1968. In addition to her classroom work, Herring organized health clinics and other community programs, raised funds for black schools in North Carolina, and was the supervisor of the Jeanes Fund, a philanthropic gift used for Southern black rural schools.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 80 Issue 2, Apr 2003, p188-212, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Herring, Lucy Saunders, 1900-1995

Record #:

21831

Author(s):

Massengill, Stephen E.

Abstract:

This article discusses the various celebrations held at Kitty Hawk over the years to mark anniversaries of Orville and Wilbur Wright's first successful powered flight of a heavier-than-air machine in December 1903. There were elaborate ceremonies for the 25th anniversary in 1928, the 50th in 1953, the 75th in 1978, and the dedication of the Wright Memorial in 1932. The article was written in anticipation of the 100th anniversary in December of 2003.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 80 Issue 4, Oct 2003, p404-429, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912

Record #:

21832

Author(s):

Strobel, Christoph

Abstract:

This article looks at the role that violence against blacks in the American South in the late 19th century and in South Africa in the early 20th century had in maintaining white supremacy in both regions. Particular attention is given to the Red Shirts, vigilantes in eastern North Carolina, and their acts of political terror during the 1898 election, as well as the use of violence by white Afrikaners in South Africa during the 1914 rebellion against official military and foreign policies of the government.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 80 Issue 4, Oct 2003, p430-452, il, por, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Red Shirt Campaign; Segregation--Violence; Segregation--South Africa

Record #:

21833

Author(s):

Stewart, Bruce E.

Abstract:

A look at the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in western North Carolina and their objection the activities of federal revenue agents with regard to taxation of whiskey and the destruction of illegal \"moonshine\" stills. The KKK was able to secure considerable local support on this issue during the late 19th century as they targeted federal government agents at work in the region.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 80 Issue 4, Oct 2003, p453-474, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Ku Klux Klan

Record #:

21851

Author(s):

Minchin, Timothy J.

Abstract:

This article looks at civil rights activist Floyd B. McKissick and his efforts to establish Soul City in rural Warren County, North Carolina in 1973. Soul City was an interracial community and the first new town planned by a minority developer. Soul City's remoteness made it difficult to attract residents, business, and industry though and the town was foreclosed by the Department of Housing and Urban Development in 1979.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 82 Issue 2, Apr 2005, p125-155 , il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

McKissick, Floyd B., 1922-1991; Soul City (Warren County); Civil rights movement--Activists

Record #:

21852

Author(s):

Gershenhorn, Jerry

Abstract:

This article discusses the creation of doctoral program in education at North Carolina College (NCC) in the early 1950s. The program was created in an attempt to skirt US Supreme Court decisions that called for more equal higher education for blacks. The program lasted for 11 years before it collapsed as it lacked the support of the black community who saw it as separate and unequal education.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 82 Issue 2, Apr 2005, p156-192 , il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Civil rights; Higher education--History; North Carolina College