Search results | J. Murrey Atkins Library

Title: "The Burthen Now Upon Our Hands": The Treatment of British Prisoners of War in the Revolutionary South, 1780-1781
Author: Grover, Thomas
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Military history, History
Description: Casualties represent the human element destroyed by war. As such, historians use their numbers to describe the scale or aftermath of a given conflict in terms of dead and wounded. Yet, there exists a third group of casualties often not included in...

Title: 'The Court Devoured Him': The History of the North Carolina Juvenile Court Statute of 1919
Author: Brown, Savannah
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: For over a century, North Carolina has continued to treat sixteen year olds as adults in the criminal justice system. The Juvenile Court Statute of 1919 mandated sixteen as the upper age of criminality, cementing that age for all juvenile offender...

Title: A Missing Mountain Memory: The Marion Manufacturing Mill Strike of 1929
Author: Stevens, Megan
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: History, Modern, History
Description: In Marion, North Carolina, the local residents of the city and surrounding region have forgotten a tragic strike that took place at one of the local mills in 1929, though it was possibly the deadliest textile mill strike in the South. The strike, ...

Title: The Champions of Popular Rights: North Carolina’s Political Reformation, 1850-1862
Author: Holt, Bradley
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: In the decade before the American Civil War, North Carolina voters embarked on a path to remake state politics and government in a manner beneficial to the non-plantation owning class of white men. Politically educated and mobilized through newspa...

Title: The South Carolina Black Code and Its Legacy
Author: McIntyre, Larry
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: In December 1865 the South Carolina State Legislature ratified a series of laws designed to control the social and economic futures of the freedpeople. Informally known as the Black Code, South Carolina’s white leadership claimed these laws protec...

Title: “WHAT’S PAST IS PROLOGUE”: NORTH CAROLINA’S FORGOTTEN BLACK CODE
Author: Warlick, Tommy
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: JOHN THOMAS WARLICK, IV. "What’s Past is Prologue": North Carolina’s Forgotten Black Code. (Under the direction of DR. JOHN DAVID SMITH) Between late 1865 and early 1867, after the South’s failure to preserve slavery through armed conflict, lawmak...