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8 results for North Carolina Historical Review Vol. 34 Issue 3, July 1957
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20709
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This article examines the cultural progress made in North Carolina in the first half of the 20th century. Particular attention is given to literary works produced in the state, and on the impact of culture on life.
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20717
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This essay attempts to provide an overview of life in the 1850s. A significant amount of attention is given to national and international politics of the day and its effect on the country as a whole.
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20718
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This article examines Dr. John Brickell's publication of \"The Natural History of North Carolina\" in 1737, a very close copy of John Lawson's \"History of Carolina\" (c1708), examining if Brickell's work was genuine or if it was plagiarized from Lawson.
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20719
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This article provides an account of a duel between hotel manager Daniel Dugger and Democratic congressman from Virginia George C. Dromgoole in 1837. The piece draws heavily from an account of the event printed in the Brunswick Gazette by Warner Lewis (AKA \"Monitor,\") on January 19, 1893, and is supplemented by Lewis' additional research, primarily focused on Dromgoole's life and character and on the nature of formal duels.
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20720
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This article looks at the work of the Nation's first professional forester Gifford Pinchot at the Biltmore Estate and as manager of the Biltmore Forest. Hired by George W. Vanderbilt in 1892, Pinchot was contracted to design a management plan for the estate and to superintend the preparation of an exhibit of the Biltmore Forest for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. In addition to biographical information on Pinchot, Pinkett looks at Pinchot's forestry methodology, his development of the Columbian Exposition exhibit, his development of the Pisgah Forest, and his legacy at the Biltmore Estate.
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20721
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This article examines the development of the cotton textile industry in the Reconstruction era South. Particular attention is given to the re-imagining of a labor model, of the development of a labor force and labor legislation, and a restructuring of the Southern economy. The influence of the Northern textile industry is also discussed.
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20740
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This article looks nationalism and sectionalism as it was defined by editor of the magazine Old South, William Gilmore Simms, who put himself on record as both a nationalist and a sectionalist and maintained that his position was not only logical but inevitable.
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20741
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This is a reprint of a manuscript letter written by Governor William Tryon on July 26, 1765 to an uncle in England providing a casual account of his first nine months in North Carolina. Information of Tryon's arrival and the letter itself as well as biographical information on the letter's recipient is included in Powell's introduction.
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