Office of Archives and History North Carolina

Reducere. Originally published in 1960, this paperback is the most popular title ever published by the Historical Publications Section and has never gone out...

Reducere. Longneedle tells the life story of a longleaf pine in the longleaf pine savannas of the North Carolina Outer Coastal Plain. The remarkable, fire de...

Reducere. Presents a detailed introduction to each of the following maps: White 1585 MS, White-DeBry 1590, Mercator-Hondius 1606, Comberford 1657 MS, Ogilby-...

In this new study, Dr. Carole Troxler steps back more than two decades before the pivotal Battle of Alamance (May 16, 1771) to examine the issues a...

Reducere. A valuable, basic resource for genealogical research and the study of state and local history. It contains the date and history of the formation of...

Reducere. Recounts events leading to the establishment of twenty-nine lifesaving stations along North Carolina's treacherous coastline and the role of their ...

Reducere. Matching up history with the calendar, Ansley Wegner shares with readers a day-by-day chronicle highlighting topics of importance to North Carolina...

Reducere. North Carolina is a place where history has been enriched by legends and folklore. The 48 colorful Tar Heel tales in this volume include such well-...

This tenth revised edition of the popular marker guide contains inscriptions on 1, 513 markers erected across the state between 1935 and 2007. The ...

Reducere. DescriptionA new, annotated edition of an important slave narrative first published in 1922. Written by William Henry Singleton, who had been a sla...

From the drama of blockade-running to graphic descriptions of battles on the state's islands and sounds, this book portrays the explosive events th...

Reducere. In Native Carolinians, Dr. Theda Perdue, Atlanta Distinguished Professor of Southern Culture at UNC at Chapel Hill, discusses the history, life-sty...

Reducere. Children and parents will love learning their very first ideas about North Carolina in My N.C. from A-Z. This colorful, sturdy board book celebrate...

Reducere. Draws upon 17th- and 18th-century sources to trace the history of African Americans, slave and free, in North Carolina through 1800. The documents ...

Reducere. Arranged chronologically, this book traces coastal Onslow's social, economic, and political history from the county's creation in 1731 to the 1990s.

Reducere. Examines the history of James City, a black community located near New Bern. Established in 1863 as a camp for destitute former slaves, James City ...

Reducere. Discusses various Native American tribes, including the Cherokee, Catawba, and Tuscarora, that inhabited colonial North Carolina. Separate chapters...

Reducere. In Blackbeard Reconsidered, historian Baylus Brooks examines the myth of Blackbeard in the light of official government records in Jamaica and Chur...

Reducere. Originally published in 1992, A History of African Americans in North Carolina was the first one-volume survey of black history in the state. It tr...

Reducere. DescriptionThe first documented discovery of gold in the United States was in 1799 at John Reed's farm in Cabarrus County. This book traces the his...

Reducere. This volume is the latest in the North Carolina Troops series, which is published by the State of North Carolina, with the aim of presenting the hi...

Reducere. A fascinating portrayal of a handsome, timeless house in Chowan County near Edenton and of the people associated with it. Designed by British archi...

Reducere. The name Joffre Lanning Coe (1916-2000) is synonymous with North Carolina archaeology, and the original publication of this book in 1964 represente...

Reducere. Originally published in 2009, the revised edition includes a foreword by Dr. Valerie Ann Johnson, Chair of the North Carolina African American Heri...

Reducere. Destitute Patriots examines the contributions and sacrifices of the citizens of Bertie County in the context of North Carolina's preparations for a...

With Grand Illusions, Laura Phillips brings to readers her findings after decades of study of decorative interior painting. The chief focus is on t...

Reducere. The second volume in the True Tales for Young Readers series, this short biography of the civil rights leader is intended for middle school and hig...

Reducere. In mid-July 1916, the remnants of two hurricanes collided over western North Carolina, inundating the mountain region and the western Piedmont with...

Reducere. Presents the graphic and sad story of the British anti-submarine trawler Bedfordshire and the German submarine U-558. Off Cape Lookout on a fateful...

Reducere. Haven on the Hill tells the story of Dix Hill (or Dorothea Dix Hospital, as it became known in 1959) from Dorothea Lynde Dix's investigative trip t...

Reducere. Rebels and King's Men documents the contributions of Bertie citizens to the war effort and chronicles their service and sacrifices. Men from the co...

Reducere. Sallie Stockard (1869-1963), the first female graduate of the University of North Carolina, published three county histories between 1900 and 1904....

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Larry E. TiseEditor: Jeffrey J. CrowNew Voyages to Carolina offers a bold new approach for understanding and telling North ...

The first single-volume reference to the events, institutions, and cultural forces that have defined the state, the Encyclopedia of North Carolina ...

Reducere. This is a factual account, written in the pace of fiction, of hundreds of dramatic losses, heroic rescues, and violent adventures at the stormy mee...

Reducere. Read your way across North Carolina's Piedmont in the second of a series of regional guides that bring the state's rich literary history to life fo...

Reducere. Recounts the long trek of the Scotch-Irish from their adoptive Irish homeland to the mountains of southwestern North Carolina and graphically descr...

Reducere. In the mountains of western North Carolina, the Civil War was fought on different terms than those found throughout most of the South. Though relat...

The battle of Gettysburg was the largest engagement of the Civil War, and--with more than 51, 000 casualties--also the deadliest. The highest regim...

Reducere. The Croatan Indians of Sampson County, NC, written by George Edwin Butler (1868-1941) and composed only a year after Special Indian Agent Orlando M...

Reducere. How can a state be represented by Jesse Helms and John Edwards at the same time? Journalist Rob Christensen answers that question and navigates a c...

Reducere. The North Carolina Gazetteer first appeared to wide acclaim in 1968 and has remained an essential reference for anyone with a serious interest in t...

Reducere. The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, The Waterman's Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, riverme...