Record #:

21337

Author(s):

Potts, Louis W.

Abstract:

This article looks at the career of Hugh Williamson, a member of North Carolina's General Assembly, a delegate to the 1787 Constitutional Convention, and a North Carolina congressman who figured prominently in the creation of a federal policy for the public lands of the unpopulated West.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 64 Issue 4, Oct 1987, p371-393, por, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Williamson, Hugh, 1735-1819

Record #:

21356

Author(s):

Sims, Anastasia

Abstract:

An examination of the North Carolina branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) which, like the national organization, sought to combat alcohol, prostitution, promiscuity, and any other threats to morality and the moral way of life.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 64 Issue 4, Oct 1987, p394-415, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)

Record #:

21357

Author(s):

Durden, Robert F.

Abstract:

Part two of a two-part article examining the founding of Duke University in the 1920s and its early years under President William Preston Few, focusing on Few's success in establishing a strong structure of government in the university that set competing interests in balance.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 64 Issue 4, Oct 1987, p416-437, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Duke University--History