CHRISTOPHER ELLINGWOOD. A study of Unitarian theology prior to the American Civil War to assess its flexibility in accommodating both immediate abolitionists as well as t[...]

This thesis examines the role of free people of color in the colonial Indian trade in England’s southern American colonies, primarily Virginia and the Carolinas, from the[...]

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[...]

Tate Street represents a cultural center in Greensboro, North Carolina. This work outlines the varying social groups, organizations, and institutions that defined Tate St[...]

On December 1, 1955, news of the arrest of Rosa Parks swept through the city of Montgomery. Though not the first African American to challenge segregated seating on publi[...]

An anonymous author in 1837 lamented that "if the world were just" the term Old Maid, instead of a pejorative, would "be a synonyme(sp) of useful virtue." While scholars [...]

The Civil War challenged almost every aspect of life for Confederate North Carolinians. Daily necessities became impossible to find or were outrageously priced, roles wit[...]

Mecklenburg County, North Carolina was located in the Carolina backcountry—an area frequently viewed as immoral, disorganized, and barbaric by contemporaries. However, t[...]