Conversion Narratives
Conversion Narrativesby Jay Mazzocchi, 2006From colonial times, many North Carolinians have felt compelled to record the events and emotions surrounding their religious journeys. Most conversion...
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Colonial and State Records
Colonial and State Recordsby Robert J. Cain, 2006The basic documents of North Carolina's history from 1662 to 1790 were reproduced in two state-sponsored publications, the Colonial Records of North...
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Clark's Regimental Histories
Clark's Regimental Historiesby William S. Powell, 2006"Clark's Regimental Histories" is the popular title for the five-volume Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in...
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Clansman, The
The Clansmanby Ronnie W. Faulkner, 2006The Clansman, a novel recounting the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the so-called redemption of the South by the Ku Klux Klan, was written by North Carolina...
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Civil War Rosters
Civil War Rostersby Weymouth T. Jordan Jr. and Wiley J. Williams, 2006A Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War between the States, by Confederate veteran John Wheeler Moore, was an undertaking by...
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Carnegie Libraries
Carnegie Librariesby Eileen McGrath, 2006See also: Public Libraries; Library, State; Library history: NC Digital Collections.Between 1886 and 1923, industrialist Andrew Carnegie and the Carnegie...
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Byer, Kathryn Stripling
Byer, Kathryn Striplingby Sierra Alley, 2013 b. 1944—Kathryn Stripling Byer, an American poet, teacher and essayist, was born in Camilla, Georgia. Her father, C.M. Stripling, was a farmer and her...
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Business Directoriesby Wiley J. Williams, 2006 Additional research provided by Robert C. Kenzer.Business directories have been published in North Carolina since the beginning of the nineteenth...
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Broadsides
Broadsidesby William S. Powell, 2006See also: Advertising, PrintingBroadsides, or broadsheets, single sheets of paper with printed text on one or both sides, were used in England as early as 1575 to...
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Book Publishing
Book Publishingby William G. DiNome, 2006 Additional research provided by John F. Ansley.See also: Printing, AlmanacsThe growth of book publishing in North Carolina came late relative to other states,...
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Bernice Bienenstock Furniture Libraryby Joe Exum Brown, 2006Bernice Bienenstock Furniture Library in High Point is considered to be one of the largest and most comprehensive furniture publications...
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Atticusby Richard Rankin, 2006Atticus was the pseudonym employed by the author of a scathing, 4,500-word letter printed on the front page of the 7 Nov. 1771 issue of the Virginia Gazette...
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Arator
Aratorby Jean B. Anderson, 2006Arator, or the Plowman, was an agricultural periodical published monthly by its editor Thomas J. Lemay from 1855 to 1857. Lemay had been prevailed on by the North...
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Antebellum Literature
Views through Pen and Ink: North Carolina's Antebellum Literature Records an EraBy W. Keats Sparrow Reprinted with permission from the Tar Heel Junior Historian, Fall 1996.Tar Heel Junior Historian...
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Almanacs
Almanacsby William S. Powell, 2006See also: Book Publishing.In early North Carolina an almanac and a Bible were often the only publications owned by a family. North Carolina residents relied on...
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Creed of a Rioter
"Creed of a Rioter"by Willis P. Whichard, 2006"Creed of a Rioter" was a political essay penned by James Iredell in the fall of 1776. Iredell's earlier essays had attacked Britain's wrongdoings in...
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