This collection of nineteen original essays on selected topics and epochs in North Carolina history offers a broad survey of the state from its discovery and colonization to the present.
Julian Pleasants offers a grassroots view of World War II's extraordinary impact on the homefront by focusing on the myriad ways, large and small, that the war changed the lives of average citizens.
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Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce, Fourteenth Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1920, ... 1880–1940,” in Great Britain and Her World, 1750–1914: Essays in Honour of W. O. Henderson, ed. by Barrie M. Ratcliffe ...
Describes the Great War as seen through the eyes of North Carolina doughboys who fought on the western front in Belgium and France.
Even though it was far from the scenes of conflict, Texas was forever changed, as historian Gregory W. Ball details in Texas and World War I. This accessible history recounts the ways in which the war affected Texas and Texans politically, ...
22 David R. Goldfield chronicles the e√orts and evaluates the success of Virginia's urban boosters in his interpretation of antebellum urban growth in the state; see his Urban Growth in the Age of Sectionalism, chap. 2.
This fourth volume in Westholme's State Military History Series, North Carolina: A Military History will provide readers with a comprehensive overview of North Carolina's long and storied martial past, recounting wars from the colonial ...
Originally published by UNC Press in 1984, the book was the first investigation of colonial military life to give equal attention to official records and to the diaries and other writings of the common soldier.