Carolina Cradle

Author : Robert W. Ramsey
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469616793
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carolina Cradle written by Robert W. Ramsey and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of the settlement of one segment of the North Carolina frontier -- the land between the Yadkin and Catawba rivers -- examines the process by which the piedmont South was populated. Through its ingenious use of hundreds of sources and documents, Robert Ramsey traces the movement of the original settlers and their families from the time they stepped onto American shores to their final settlement in the northwest Carolina territory. He considers the economic, religious, social, and geographical influences that led the settlers to Rowan County and describes how this frontier community was organized and supervised.

Author : Robert Wayne Ramsey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780807809341
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carolina Cradle written by Robert Wayne Ramsey and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the "invasion" of emigrant families into the area and their socio-economic and religious reasons for migrating during the period. A #87-442 Gift-Friends of the Genealogy Collection.

Author : McKissick Museum
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780872499508
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carolina Folk written by McKissick Museum and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies the Carolinas' contributions to Southern Folk traditions.

Author : Michele Gillespie
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820346543
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North Carolina Women written by Michele Gillespie and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Carolina has had more than its share of accomplished, influential women—women who have expanded their sphere of influence or broken through barriers that had long defined and circumscribed their lives, women such as Elizabeth Maxwell Steele, the widow and tavern owner who supported the American Revolution; Harriet Jacobs, runaway slave, abolitionist, and author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; and Edith Vanderbilt and Katharine Smith Reynolds, elite women who promoted women's equality. This collection of essays examines the lives and times of pathbreaking North Carolina women from the late eighteenth century into the early twentieth century, offering important new insights into the variety of North Carolina women's experiences across time, place, race, and class, and conveys how women were able to expand their considerable influence during periods of political challenge and economic hardship, particularly over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These essays highlight North Carolina's progressive streak and its positive impact on women's education—for white and black alike— beginning in the antebellum period on through new opportunities that opened up in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They explore the ways industrialization drew large numbers of women into the paid labor force for the first time and what the implications of this tremendous transition were; they also examine the women who challenged traditional gender roles, as political leaders and labor organizers, as runaways, and as widows. The volume is especially attuned to differences in region within North Carolina, delineating women's experiences in the eastern third of the state, the piedmont, and the western mountains.

Author : Mark Cryan
Publisher : Lineup Books
ISBN 13 : 9781938532177
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cradle of the Game written by Mark Cryan and published by Lineup Books. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The glory of North Carolina baseball, past and present, is richly detailed in the Second Edition of Cradle of the Game: Baseball and Ballparks in North Carolina. The comprehensive volume explores minor-league and leading college ballparks large and small. It will entertain readers interested in Tar Heel state baseball history, and serve as a guide to visitors of today's ballparks.The Tar Heel State has a special place in the baseball world; it's a place where affiliated teams play at almost every level -- from rookie ball to Triple-A -- and college players complete in the NCAA and the Coastal Plain League. In Cradle of the Game, their stories are richly told, with a chapter devoted to each of the teams competing the state.

Author : Lindley S. Butler
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469667576
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of North Carolina in the Proprietary Era, 1629-1729 written by Lindley S. Butler and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Lindley S. Butler traverses oft-noted but little understood events in the political and social establishment of the Carolina colony. In the wake of the English Civil Wars in the mid-seventeenth century, King Charles II granted charters to eight Lords Proprietors to establish civil structures, levy duties and taxes, and develop a vast tract of land along the southeastern Atlantic coast. Butler argues that unlike the New England theocracies and Chesapeake plantocracy, the isolated colonial settlements of the Albemarle—the cradle of today's North Carolina—saw their power originate neither in the authority of the church nor in wealth extracted through slave labor, but rather in institutions that emphasized political, legal, and religious freedom for white male landholders. Despite this distinct pattern of economic, legal, and religious development, however, the colony could not avoid conflict among the diverse assemblage of Indigenous, European, and African people living there, all of whom contributed to the future of the state and nation that took shape in subsequent years. Butler provides the first comprehensive history of the proprietary era in North Carolina since the nineteenth century, offering a substantial and accessible reappraisal of this key historical period.

Author : Carl Alwin Schenck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Birth of Forestry in America written by Carl Alwin Schenck and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Catherine W. Bishir
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 677 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North Carolina Architecture written by Catherine W. Bishir and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This award-winning, lavishly illustrated history displays the wide range of North Carolina's architectural heritage, from colonial times to the beginning of World War II. North Carolina Architecture addresses the state's grand public and private buildings that have become familiar landmarks, but it also focuses on the quieter beauty of more common structures: farmhouses, barns, urban dwellings, log houses, mills, factories, and churches. These buildings, like the people who created them and who have used them, are central to the character of North Carolina. Now in a convenient new format, this portable edition of North Carolina Architecture retains all of the text of the original edition as well as hundreds of halftones by master photographer Tim Buchman. Catherine Bishir's narrative analyzes construction and design techniques and locates the structures in their cultural, political, and historical contexts. This extraordinary history of North Carolina's built world presents a unique and valuable portrait of the state.

Author : Robert L. Graham
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1468575643
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grahams of Rowan & Iredell Counties, North Carolina written by Robert L. Graham and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-08-10 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book has a lot of historical content along with some poetry and humor. The main part is falily history including some of the sescenants of James Gram born in Scotland in 1670 along with documentation on the descendants

Author : April C. Smith
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469654962
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thirty Great North Carolina Science Adventures written by April C. Smith and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Carolina possesses an astonishingly rich array of natural wonders. Building on this abundance, April C. Smith passionately seeks to open the world of nature to everyone. Her popular science guidebook features thirty sites across North Carolina that are perfect for exploration and hands-on learning about the Earth and the environment. A stellar group of naturalists and educators narrate each adventure, explaining key scientific concepts by showing you exactly where and how to look. This guidebook is for anyone—teens, kids, families, hikers, teachers, students, and tourists alike—who loves to be outside while learning. * All you need to plan trips and discover new attractions * Organized by the state's Mountain, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain regions * The 30 adventures spotlight wonderful places to hike, fascinating geological formations to find, animals and plants to observe, and hands-on learning activities * Explains clearly the scientific processes that made North Carolina the state it is today * Richly illustrated with photographs, diagrams, and maps; includes an indispensable science glossary