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36647
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The author gives an early history of the Decoy Festival.
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The author gives an early history of the how white squirrels wound up in Brevard, NC and how the festival has brought the community together since its creation in 2004.
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The author gives the history of the early beginnings of North Carolina Christmas flotilla’s and the Ocean Isle Beach Christmas Flotilla and what it takes to build a display for a boat in the flotilla.
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36650
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The author talks about the different New Year’s celebrations held in North Carolina’s past. The Cherokee’s ‘Great New Moon Ceremony,’ colonial Christmas, Watch Night, Hogmanay, Rosh Hashanah, and numerous other celebrations that still bring people together for New Year’s festivities.
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40912
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An early example of Colonial women's involvement in the fight for independence from Great Britain happened a year after an event renowned in American history textbooks. Just as remembrance-worthy as the Sons of Liberty dumping tea into Boston Harbor is a pledge signed by fifty one women from Edenton. Spearheaded by Penelope Barker, the Edenton Tea Party had put into writing their resolve to drink no more of the product they also saw as justification for rebellion.
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41160
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Based upon a North Carolina Museum of History exhibit, this article examines how Lewis Hine’s expose of child labor exploitation in North Carolina’s textile mills contributed to stronger child labor laws. It also reveals that child labor is a current history issue, making whistleblowing initiatives of individuals like Hine still crucial.
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Social reformers--Lewis Hine; Social reformers--photographers--Lewis Hine; Textile mills--North Carolina--child labor ; Textile mills--North Carolina, Piedmont--Reconstruction period; Mill villages; Mill villages--Cannon Mills--Concord; National Child Labor Committee--Lewis Hine; Catawba Cotton Mill (Newton); Daniel Mfg. Co., (Lincolnton); Crescent Hosiery Mill (Scotland Neck) ; Loray Mill (Gastonia); Child labor--North Carolina
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41161
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Interviews between Museum Studies graduate students and former textile mill employees revealed how blurred racial segregation boundaries in Greensboro mill villages created a relationship unique in the Jim Crow era.
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Textile mill villages--North Carolina--Greensboro; Cone Mills (Greensboro); Segregation--Jim Crow laws; Textile towns--see also textile mill villages ; University of North Carolina Greensboro--Department of History--Museum Studies ; Mill system--Greensboro--racial segregation; African American mill villages--Greensboro--East White Oak; African American mill villages--Greensboro--Franklin Richmond; Mill villages--Greensboro--White Oak; Mill villages--Greensboro--White Oak--Buddy Owens; Greensboro--museum exhibitions--The Fabric of Memory: The Cone Mill Villages ; Greensboro--museum exhibitions--Revolution Mill ; Black YMCAs--North Carolina--East White Oak Community Center
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41162
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An analysis of University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill students’ clothing styles during the 20th century revealed their dramatic differences: a shift from formal to casual clothing; a shift from collective to individual expression of fashion. It also noted how America's dominant culture during this century influenced these trends.
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University of North Carolina Chapel Hill--Wilson Special Collections Library--North Carolina Collection; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill--North Carolina Collection Gallery ; Higher education--history--North Carolina ; Clothing and dress--college students--social aspects ; Clothing and dress--college students--sociocultural influences ; Clothing and dress--college students--historical influences ; College students--Conduct of life; Clothing and dress--college students--North Carolina ; Yearbooks--University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
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An examination of the Otey sisters’ role in North Carolina history included: the demand for their formal attire among high society during the first half of the 20th century; their involvement in Civil Rights movement during the second half of this century.
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Kay, Willie Otey, 1894-1992; Clothing and dress; Shaw University (Raleigh); Shaw University--Leonard Medical School (Raleigh); North Carolina Museum of History--exhibits--Willie Otey Kay; Civil Rights movement--North Carolina--June Campbell; Civil Rights movement--North Carolina--Ralph Campbell; North Carolina Debutante Ball--Willie Otey Kay; Alpha Kappa Alpha Ball--Willie Otey Kay; African American hospitals--John Walcott Kay
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This examination of North Carolina’s role in combat the past one hundred and fifty years included citizens and their uniforms. Service members include a Colored Cavalry member who helped draft the state constitution, Parker D. Robbins, and one of the first World War II female American POWs, Evelyn Whitlow.
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Civil War--Colored regiments--Parker D. Robbins; Robbins, Parker D., 1834-1917; 1868 constitutional convention--North Carolina--Parker D. Robbins; Whitlow, Evelyn Barbara, 1916-1994; Civil War--14th Regiment North Carolina troops--Quentin Busbee; Spanish-American War--Lieutenant William E. Shipp; Shipp, William E., 1861-1898; Civil War--North Carolina ; Spanish-American War--North Carolina ; Revolutionary War--North Carolina ; American Revolution--see also Revolutionary War, 1775-1783; World War I--North Carolina--Wilmington Light Infantry
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Examining the lives of pirates who ruled the seas around the Caribbean islands and American colonies between 1650-1730 explained the attraction of the notorious profession, as well as the counter-cultural egalitarian system that emerged on-board.
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Pirates--18th century--Henry Morgan ; Pirates--18th century--William Kidd; Pirates--18th century--Bartholomew "Black Bart" Roberts ; Pirates--18th century--Jack Rackham; Pirates--18th century--Benjamin Hornigold ; Pirates--18th century--Samuel Bellamy; Blackbeard, circa 1680-1718; Blackbeard--see also Edward Teach; Read, Mary, c.1695-1721; Bonny, Anne, 1697-1782
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The author’s interview with a North Carolina State English professor uncovered the faint resemblance between the dialect popularized in movies and real life pirates like Stede Bonnet. What many may regard as “pirate talk” was popularized by English actor Robert Newton. How many pirates actually spoke reflected an Outer Banks residency or origin from a variety of countries, such as France, China, and Spain.
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Pirates--Outer Banks; Pirates--portrayal in movies--Robert Newton; Pirates--portrayal in fiction--Robert Louis Stevenson; Dialect--Outer Banks--pirates; North Carolina State University--English department--Language and Life Project; Reaser, Jeffrey L.; TALKIN' TAR HEEL (book) ; Outer Banks brogue--Elizabethan English dialect
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This biographical account of Blackbeard chiefly focused on fantastical details of his death and life, which helped to assure his prominent place in pirate history.
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Blackbeard, circa 1680-1718; Blackbeard--see also Edward Teach; Pirates--18th century--Benjamin Hornigold ; Bonnet, Stede, 1688-1718; QUEEN ANNE'S REVENGE (Ship); QUEEN ANNE'S REVENGE (ship)--see also LA CONCORDE ; Maynard, Robert; Spotswood, Alexander; North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources ; State Archives of North Carolina ; A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE PYRATES (book); Charles Johnson--author--Blackbeard
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A history of Blackbeard’s flagship included its beginnings in France and circumstances of its end, in what was Topsail Inlet.
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15.Underwater Archaeology by Kenyon, Kimberly Tar Heel Junior Historian Vol. 57 Issue 2, Spring 2018
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41169
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A reflection of Kenyon’s interest in underwater archaeology includes a brief history of this field in North Carolina and one of the most famous discoveries in this state’s waterways.
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QUEEN ANNE'S REVENGE (Ship); Blackbeard, circa 1680-1718; Blackbeard--see also Edward Teach; Underwater archaeology--see also nautical, marine, or maritime archaeology ; East Carolina University--Maritime history and archaeology; Archaeology; Archaeology and history; Archaeology---Techniques; Artifacts; Shipwrecks; Shipwrecks--Conservation; Underwater archaeology--North Carolina; MODERN GREECE (Ship)