Author: Jacob Calvin LeonardPublisher:
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Category : Davidson County (N.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Centennial History of Davidson County, North Carolina
Author: Jacob Calvin LeonardPublisher:
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Category : Davidson County (N.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The People and Their Peace
Author: Laura F. EdwardsPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807832634
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
This study discusses changes in the legal logic of slavery, race, and gender. Drawing on extensive archival research in North and South Carolina, Laura F. Edwards illuminates those changes by revealing the importance of localized legal practice.
Writing Women's History
Author: Elizabeth Anne PaynePublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1617031747
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Contributions by Laura F. Edwards, Crystal Feimster, Glenda E. Gilmore, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Darlene Clark Hine, Mary Kelley, Markeeva Morgan, Anne Firor Scott, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and Deborah Gray White Anne Firor Scott's The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930 stirred a keen interest among historians in both the approach and message of her book. Using women's diaries, letters, and other personal documents, Scott brought to life southern women as wives and mothers, as members of their communities and churches, and as sometimes sassy but rarely passive agents. She brilliantly demonstrated that the familiar dichotomies of the personal versus the public, the private versus the civic, which had dominated traditional scholarship about men, could not be made to fit women's lives. In doing so, she helped to open up vast terrains of women's experiences for historical scholarship. This volume, based on papers presented at the University of Mississippi's annual Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History, brings together essays by scholars at the forefront of contemporary scholarship on American women's history. Each regards The Southern Lady as having shaped her historical perspective and inspired her choice of topics in important ways. These essays together demonstrate that the power of imagination and scholarly courage manifested in Scott's and other early American women historians' work has blossomed into a gracious plentitude.
The North Carolina Gazetteer, 2nd Ed
Author: William S. PowellPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807898295
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
The North Carolina Gazetteer first appeared to wide acclaim in 1968 and has remained an essential reference for anyone with a serious interest in the Tar Heel State, from historians to journalists, from creative writers to urban planners, from backpackers to armchair travelers. This revised and expanded edition adds approximately 1,200 new entries, bringing to nearly 21,000 the number of North Carolina cities, towns, crossroads, waterways, mountains, and other places identified here. The stories attached to place names are at the core of the book and the reason why it has stood the test of time. Some recall faraway places: Bombay, Shanghai, Moscow, Berlin. Others paint the locality as a little piece of heaven on earth: Bliss, Splendor, Sweet Home. In many cases the name derivations are unusual, sometimes wildly so: Cat Square, Huggins Hell, Tater Hill, Whynot. Telling us much about our own history in these snapshot histories of particular locales, The North Carolina Gazetteer provides an engaging, authoritative, and fully updated reference to place names from all corners of the Tar Heel State.
A History of the Liberty Baptist Association
Author: Henry SheetsPublisher:
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Remembering Old Jamestown
Author: Mary A. BrowningPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625848900
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Founded by Quakers in the late eighteenth century, Jamestown, North Carolina, has a rich heritage that distinguishes it from many neighboring Southern communities. From General Cornwallis in the waning years of the American Revolution to the flight of Jefferson Davis from the Confederate capital at Richmond with Union forces at his heels, history has not passed Jamestown by. The town has seen gold mines and gunsmiths, a forgotten school and a cotton mill from 1865 thats still spinning. Join local historian Mary A. Browning as she relates these short tales from the towns colorful past, drawn from her column in the Greensboro News & Record.
Some Interesting Colonial Churches in North Carolina
Author: Jordan K. RousePublisher:
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Category : Church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Genealogy of Hammers Relating to North Carolina, 1684-1987
Author: Ruth Hammer Swearington WinklerPublisher:
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Descendants of Abraham Hammer (1730-1800?), born in Plymouth Twp., Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania to John (Johannes) and Jane Hammer. He married Rachel Meeting (d. after 1784) in 1755. She was the daughter of Aaron Meeting. He died before 1800 in Randolph Co., (formerly Orange Co.), North Carolina. They had six children. John (Johannes) Hammer (1684-1765) was an immigrant from Palatinate, Germany, who first immigrated to Great Britain in the early 18th century, stopped for a while in Wales, and finally immigrated to America settling in Pennsylvania. Descendants live mostly in North Carolina but also in Pennsylvania, Florida, California and elsewhere.
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