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- Collection: Scholarship
Kent Redding, Making Race, Making Power (2003)
Democratic elites were able to make and regain power in the 1870s because they had established mechanisms for doing so, mechanisms that fit well with the vertical patterns of social relations of North Carolina’s society and tapped…
Tags: State Government, State Politics
R.W. Reising, "Literary Depictions of Henry Berry Lowry: Mythic, Romantic, and Tragic" (1992)
Henry Berry Lowry is central to the culture of the Lumbee Indians, the largest body of Native Americans east of the Mississippi River. In virtually all studies of the tribe, the outlaw who mysteriously disappeared in 1872 garnerse laboratem ention.…
Jeffrey Brooke Allen, "The Racial Thought of White North Carolina Opponents of Slavery, 1789-1876" (1982)
Herbert Aptheker, Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion (2006)
Fear created suspicion, suspicion led to torture, torture to confessions. Or, it is possible, and that is but a guess, that panic, or part of it, was maintained by people interested in the purchase of slaves at a low price. Another hypothesis was…
Tags: Slavery/Slaves
Richard Bardolph, "Confederate Dilemma: North Carolina Troops and the Deserter Problem" (1989)
At the Beginning of the Civil War, the Confederate States of America could hardly have foreseen the enormous problem that desertion in its army would have become. Amid the initial enthusiasm following the outbreak of the conflict, the rush of…
Tags: Civil War, desertion, North Carolina
Richard Bardolph, "Inconstant Rebels: Desertion of North Carolina Troops in the Civil War" (1964)
That the Confederate soldier has no superior in the annals of war is an article of the American Creed. His accomplishments against overwhelming odds, through four years of heroic suffering, are his monument. Magnificent in his forbearance and his…
Tags: Civil War, desertion, North Carolina
John Barrett, Sherman's March through the Carolinas (1956)
Sherman's movements through South and North Carolina were bold, imaginative strokes, masterfully executed. One historian has rightly characterized the Carolinas campaign as "a triumph of physical endurance and mechanical skill on the part of the army…
Peter S Bearman, "Desertion as Localism: Army Unit Solidarity and Group Norms in the U.S. Civil War" (1991)
Drawing from the experiences of 3,126 enlisted men from North Carolina who fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War, the author focuses on the determinants of desertion. Men deserted because their identity as Southerners was eroded by an emergent…
Tags: Civil War, desertion, North Carolina
Kent Blaser, "North Carolina and John Brown's Raid" (1978)
Tags: prewar
David Blight, Race and Reunion (2001)
This book is a history of how Americans remembered their most divisive and tragic experience during the fifty-year period after the Civil War. It probes the interrelationship between the two broad themes of race and reunion in American culture and…
Tags: Commemoration
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Josephus Daniels, 1862-1948
Josephus Daniels (1862-1848) was the influential editor of the Raleigh News and Observer during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He…