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The separation of white and black schools remained largely unquestioned and unchallenged in North Carolina for the first half of the twentieth century, yet by the end of the 1970s, …
Eric Anderson studies one of the most remarkable centers of black political influence in the late nineteenth century, North Carolina's second congressional district. From its …
Five months after the end of the Civil War, northern journalist Sidney Andrews toured the former Confederacy to report on the political, economic, and social conditions in the …
Daniel Russell is a good example of what Carl Degler has termed ""the other South."" The son of an aristocratic eastern North Carolina family of staunch Whig-Unionists, he entered …
In North Carolina's Free People of Color, 1715- 1885, Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. examines the lives of free persons categorized by their communities as "negroes," "mulattoes," …
Gregory S. Taylor's Central Prison: A History of North Carolina's State Penitentiary is the first scholarly study to explore the prison's entire history, from its origins in the …
One of the most eccentric and accomplished politicians in all of American history, John Randolph (1773-1833) led a life marked by controversy. The long-serving Virginia congressman …