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Charlotte, NC Metro Area (10 counties) History Bibliography: Secondary Sources

Mark Wilson, Summer 2016 draft version, revised 22 August

Ten-County Charlotte MSMA = Mecklenburg Co., Cabarrus Co., Gaston Co., Iredell Co., Lincoln Co.,

Rowan Co., Union Co., Chester Co. (SC), Lancaster Co. (SC), York Co. (SC).

General: Books and Articles

Alexander, J.B. The History of Mecklenburg County from 1740 to 1900. Charlotte: Observer Printing

House, 1902.

Blackwelder, Ruth. Old Charlotte and Mecklenburg Today. Charlotte: Mecklenburg Historical Society,

1973.

Blythe, LeGette, and Charles R. Brockman. Hornets’ Nest: The Story of Charlotte and Mecklenburg

County. Charlotte: McNally, 1961.

Brawley, James S. The Rowan Story, 1753-1953: A Narrative History of Rowan County, North Carolina.

Salisbury, NC: Rowan Print Co., 1953.

Brawley, James S. Rowan County: A Brief History. Raleigh: North Carolina Division of Archaeology and

History, 1974.

Brown, Douglas Summers. A City without Cobwebs: A History of Rock Hill, South Carolina. Columbia, SC:

University of South Carolina Press, 1953.

Campbell, Sandra Douglas. Iredell County, North Carolina: A Brief History. Charleston, SC: History Press,

2008.

Cash, W.J. The Mind of the South. New York: Knopf, 1941.

Clairborne, Jack. Jack Clairborne’s Charlotte. Charlotte: Charlotte Publishing, 1974.

Collins, Anne Pickens. A Goodly Heritage: History of Chester County, South Carolina. Chester, SC: Collins,

1986.

Flono, Fannie. Thriving in the Shadows: The Black Experience in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County.

Charlotte: Novello Festival Press, 2006.

Graves, William W. and Heather Smith, eds. Charlotte, NC: The Global Evolution of a New South City.

Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2010.

Hanchett, Thomas W. Sorting Out the New South City: Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte,

1875-1975. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Hanchett, Thomas W. “Sorting Out the New South City: Charlotte and Its Neighborhoods.” Ph.D. diss.,

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1993.

Harkey, W. Hugh, Jr. Greetings from Charlotte: A Pictorial Postcard History of Charlotte. Charlotte:

Hornet’s Nest Productions, 1992.

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Harkey, W. Hugh, Jr. More Tales from the Hornet’s Nest. Charlotte: Hornet’s Nest Productions, 1992.

Harris, Wade Hampton. Sketches of Charlotte. 8th Ed. Charlotte: Observer, 1909.

Keever, Homer M. Iredell: Piedmont County. Statesville, NC: Brady, 1976.

Kratt, Mary. Charlotte: Spirit of the New South. 2nd Ed. Winston-Salem, NC: J.F. Blair, 1992.

McShane, Chuck. A History of Lake Norman: Fish Camps to Ferraris. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2014.

McShane, Chuck. “The Story of Charlotte.” 12-part series. Charlotte Magazine, 2014-15. Full series

available online at http://www.charlottemagazine.com/Charlotte-Magazine/April-2015/The-Story-of-

Charlotte/

Morrill, Dan L. Historic Charlotte: An Illustrated History of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. San

Antonio: Historical Publishing Network, 2009.

Morrill, Dan. Rural Mecklenburg: A Vanishing Way of Life [film]

Puett, Minnie Stowe. History of Gaston County. Charlotte: Observer Printing House, 1939.

Ragan, Robert Allison. The History of Gastonia and Gaston County, North Carolina: A Vision of America

at Its Best. Charlotte: Loftin & Co., 2010.

Sherrill, William L. Annals of Lincoln County, North Carolina. Charlotte: Observer Printing House, 1937.

Tompkins, Daniel Augustus. History of Mecklenburg County and the City of Charlotte: From 1740 to

1903. Charlotte: Observer Printing House, 1903.

Walden, H. Nelson. History of Union County. Monroe, NC, 1964.

Wehunt-Black, Rita. Gaston County, North Carolina: A Brief History. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2008.

Yockey, Ross. Between Two Rivers: The Centennial of Belmont, North Carolina. Charlotte: Sally Hill

McMillan & Assoc., 1996.

General: Websites

plancharlotte.org (UNC Charlotte Urban Institute)

www.nakedcityblog.blogspot.com (blog on Charlotte by Mary Newsom of the Urban Institute)

www.cmstory.org (“The Charlotte Mecklenburg Story,” with detailed timeline, biographies, etc., from

the Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library)

livingcharlotte.uncc.edu (website for digital history project, “Living Charlotte: The Postwar Development

of a New South City, 1944-1987,” by the Special Collections department Atkins Library, UNC Charlotte)

specialcollections.uncc.edu (Special Collections & University Archives, Atkins Library, UNC Charlotte)

www.cmlandmarkscommission.org (newer website of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks

Commission)

http://www.charlottemagazine.com/Charlotte-Magazine/April-2015/The-Story-of-Charlotte/

http://www.charlottemagazine.com/Charlotte-Magazine/April-2015/The-Story-of-Charlotte/

http://www.nakedcityblog.blogspot.com/

http://www.cmstory.org/

http://livingcharlotte.uncc.edu/

https://specialcollections.uncc.edu/

http://www.cmlandmarkscommission.org/

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www.landmarkscommission.org (older website of Charlotte Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks

Commission)

www.historysouth.org (website of Tom Hanchett, leading historian of Charlotte)

www.Charlotte1911.org or dhpress.unc.edu/Charlotte1911/ (website of a UNC Chapel Hill digital

mapping project, using city directory data collected by Hanchett, representing the city in 1911)

www.charlottemuseum.org (Charlotte Museum of History)

www.museumofthenewsouth.org (Levine Museum of the New South)

http://www.gastoncountymuseum.org/ (Gaston County Museum)

http://digitalinnovation.unc.edu/projects/loray-mill-project/ (Loray Mill Project, UNC Digital Innovation

Lab)

http://www.charlotteregionalhistory.org/ (Charlotte Regional History Consortium)

18th Century and Before

Beaman, Thomas E., Jr., and John J. Mintz, “Untold Tales of Two Cities: The Curiously Limited Historical

Archaeologies of Wilmington and Charlotte.” North Carolina Archaeology 62 (Oct. 2013): 76-99.

Beck, Robin. Chiefdoms, Collapse & Coalescence in the Early American South. New York: Cambridge

University Press, 2013.

Beck, Robin A., Jr., and David G. Moore. “The Burke Phase: A Mississippian Frontier in the North

Carolina Foothills.” Southeastern Archaeology 21, no. 2 (Winter 2002): 192-205.

Blower, Daniel Frederick. “The Orange County and Mecklenburg County Instructions: The Development

of Political Individualism in Backcountry North Carolina, 1740-1776.” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan,

1984.

Bowers, H. Beau. “‘Government under which We Find Most Liberty’: The Political and Religious Culture

of Colonial Mecklenburg County, 1755-1775.” MA Thesis, UNC Charlotte, 1993.

Brown, Douglas Summers. The Catawba Indians: People of the River. Columbia: University of South

Carolina Press, 1966.C

Buchanan, John. The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas. New York:

Wiley, 1999.

Chandler, Abby. “‘Unawed by the Laws of their Country’: Local and Imperial Legitimacy in North

Carolina’s Regulator Rebellion.” North Carolina Historical Review 93, no. 2 (April 2016): 119-46.

Cometti, Elizabeth. “Some Early Best Sellers in Piedmont North Carolina.” Journal of Southern History

16, no. 3 (1950): 324-37.

http://www.landmarkscommission.org/

http://www.historysouth.org/

http://www.charlotte1911.org/

http://www.charlottemuseum.org/

http://www.museumofthenewsouth.org/

http://www.gastoncountymuseum.org/

http://digitalinnovation.unc.edu/projects/loray-mill-project/

http://www.charlotteregionalhistory.org/

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Crittenden, Charles Christopher. The Commerce of North Carolina, 1763-1789. New Haven: Yale


Crow, Jeffrey J. “Slave Rebelliousness and Social Conflict in North Carolina, 1775 to 1802.” William &

Mary Quarterly 37, no. 1 (1980): 79-102.

Current, Richard N. “That Other Declaration: May 20, 1775.” North Carolina Historical Review 54, no. 2

(April 1977): 169-91.

Davidson, Chalmers G. “Independent Mecklenburg.” North Carolina Historical Review 46, no. 2 (April

1969): 122-29.

Davis, R.P. Stephen, Jr. “The Cultural Landscape of the North Carolina Piedmont at Contact.” In The

Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, ed. Robbie Ethridge and Charles Hudson. Jackson, MS,

2002. Pp. 135-54.

Denson, Andrew C. “Diversity, Religion, and the North Carolina Regulators.” North Carolina Historical

Review 72, no. 1 (1995): 30-53.

Dobbs, G. Rebecca. “Frontier Settlement Development and ‘Initial Conditions’: The Case of the North

Carolina Piedmont and the Indian Trading Path.” Historical Geography 37 (2009): 114-37.

Dussek, Hugh. “Pre-Revolutionary History: Socio-Religious Perspectives on the Scots-Irish and Highland

Scots in the Backcountry of North Carolina.” Ph.D. diss., Union Institute, 2002.

Ekirch, A. Roger. “Poor Carolina”: Politics and Society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729-1776. Chapel Hill:

University of North Carolina Press, 1981.

Edelson, S. Max. “Defining Carolina: Cartography and Colonization in the North American Southeast,

1657-1733.” In Creating and Contesting Carolina: Proprietary Era Histories, ed. Michelle LeMaster and

Bradford J. Wood. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. Pp. 27-48.

Fenn, Elizabeth A., and Peter H. Wood. Natives and Newcomers: The Way We Lived in North Carolina

before 1770. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983.

Fisher, Kirsten. Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina. Ithaca: Cornell


Fitts, Mary Elizabeth. “Mapping Catawba Coalescence.” North Carolina Archaeology 55 (Jan. 2006): 1-

59.

Greene, Jack P. The Quest for Power: The Lower House of Assembly in the Southern Royal Colonies,


Hairr, John. “John Lawson’s Observations on the Animals of Carolina.” North Carolina Historical Review

88, no. 3 (July 2011): 312-32.

Heath, Charles L. “Catawba Militarism: Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Overviews.” North Carolina

Archaeology 53 (Jan. 2004): 80-121.

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Heaton, Charles. “The Failure of Enlightenment Military Doctrine in Revolutionary America: The

Piedmont Campaign and the Fate of the British Army in the Lower South.” North Carolina Historical

Review 87, no. 2 (April 2010): 127-57.

Henderson, Archibald. “The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence.” Mississippi Valley Historical

Review 5, no. 2 (1918): 207-15.

Hendricks, Christopher Edwin. “Town Development in the Colonial Backcountry: Virginia and North

Carolina.” Ph.D. diss., William & Mary, 1991.

Hooker, Richard J., ed. The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution: The Journal and Other

Writings of Charles Woodmason, Anglican Itinerant. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,

1953.

Jones, Eric E. “The Settlement Ecology of Middle-Range Societies in the Western Carolina Piedmont, AD

1000-1600.” North Carolina Archaeology 64 (Oct. 2015): 1-32.

Jones, Eric E., et. al. “Exploring Tribal Settlement Ecology in the Southeast: A Case Study from the North

Carolina Piedmont, 800-1600 CE.” North American Archaeologist 33, no. 2 (2012): 159-92.

Kars, Marjoleine. Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

Kay, Marvin L. Michael. “The Payment of Provincial and Local Taxes in North Carolina, 1748-1771.”

William & Mary Quarterly 26, no. 2 (1969): 218-40.

Kay, Marvin L. Michael, and Lorin Lee Cary. Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775. Chapel Hill: University

of North Carolina Press, 1995.

Keel, Bennie C. “Salvage Archaeology at the Hardins Site, 31GS29, Gaston County, North Carolina.”

Southern Indian Studies 39 (1990): 1-17.

Lee, Wayne E. Crowds and Soldiers in Revolutionary North Carolina: The Culture of Violence in Riot and

War. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.

LeMaster, Michelle. “War, Masculinity, and Alliances on the Carolina Frontier.” In Creating and

Contesting Carolina: Proprietary Era Histories, ed. Michelle LeMaster and Bradford J. Wood. Columbia:

University of South Carolina Press. Pp. 164-85.

Lewis, Johanna Miller. Artisans in the North Carolina Backcountry. Lexington: University Press of

Kentucky, 1995.

Lewis, Johanna Miller. “Women Artisans in Backcountry North Carolina, 1753-1790.” North Carolina

Historical Review 68, no. 3 (July 1991): 214-36.

May, J. Alan. “Archaeological Excavations at the Crowders Creek Site (31GS55): A Late Woodland

Farmstead in the Catawba River Valley, Gaston County, North Carolina.” Southern Indian Studies 38

(1989): 23-48.

McCullough, Gary L. The Hezekiah Alexander Homesite and Related History of Charlotte and

Mecklenburg County. 2003.

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McReynolds, Theresa E. “Catawba Population Dynamics during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth

Centuries.” North Carolina Archaeology 53 (Jan. 2004): 42-59.

Merrell, James H. The Indians’ New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact

through the Era of Removal. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.

Moore, Peter N. World of Toil and Strife: Community Transformation in Backcountry South Carolina,

1750-1805. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007.

Moore, Peter N. “The Mysterious Death of William Richardson: Kinship, Female Vulnerability, and the

Myth of Supernaturalism in the Southern Backcountry.” North Carolina Historical Review 80, no. 3 (July

2003): 279-96.

Moore, Peter N. “The Local Origins of Allegiance in Revolutionary South Carolina: The Waxhaws as a

Case Study.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 107, no. 1 (Jan. 2006): 26-41.

Morrill, Dan L. Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution. Baltimore: Nautical and Aviation Pub.

Co. of America, 1993.

Patton, James W. “The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence and Andrew Jackson’s Birthplace.”

Mississippi Valley Historical Review 29, no. 1 (1942): 79-90.

Plane, Mark R. “Catawba Ethnicity: Identity and Adaptation on the English Colonial Landscape.” North

Carolina Archaeology 53 (Jan. 2004): 60-79.

Plumer, Richard P. Charlotte and the American Revolution: Reverend Alexander Craigshead, the

Mecklenburg Declaration and the Foothills Fight for Independence. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2014.

Power, J. Tracy. “‘The Virtue of Humanity Was Totally Forgot’: Buford’s Massacre, May 29, 1780.”

South Carolina Historical Magazine 93, no. 1 (Jan. 1992): 5-14.

Preyer, Norris W. Hezekiah Alexander and the Revolution in the Backcountry. Charlotte: Heritage, 1987.

Ramsey, Robert W. Carolina Cradle: Settlement of the Northwest Carolina Frontier, 1747-1762. Chapel

Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1964.

Ramsey, Robert W. “James Carter: Founder of Salisbury.” North Carolina Historical Review 39, no. 2

(April 1962): 131-39.

Rubin, Ben. “The Rhetoric of Revenge: Atrocity and Identity in the Revolutionary Carolinas.” Journal of

Backcountry Studies 5, no. 2 (Fall 2010): 1-46.

Salley, A.S. and Worthington Chauncey Ford. “Dr. S. Millington Miller and the Mecklenburg

Declaration.” American Historical Review 11, no. 3 (April 1906): 548-58.

Salley, Alexander Samuel, Jr. “The Mecklenburg Declaration: The Present Status of the Question.”

American Historical Review 13, no. 1 (1907): 16-43.

Seyfert, Scott. The First American Declaration of Independence? The Disputed History of the

Mecklenburg Declaration of May 20, 1775. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014.

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Thorp, Daniel B. “Doing Business in the Backcountry: Retail Trade in Colonial Rowan County, North

Carolina.” William & Mary Quarterly 48, no. 3 (July 1991): 387-408.

Thorp, Daniel B. “Taverns and Tavern Culture on the Southern Colonial Frontier: Rowan County, North

Carolina, 1753-1776.” Journal of Southern History 62, no. 4 (November 1996): 661-88.

Troxler, Carole Watterson. Farming Dissenters: The Regulator Movement in Piedmont North Carolina.

Raleigh: North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 2011.

Ward, H. Trawick, and R.P. Stephen Davis, Jr. Indian Communities on the North Carolina Piedmont, AD

1000 to 1700. 1993.

Ward, H. Trawick, and R.P. Stephen Davis, Jr. Time before History: The Archaeology of North Carolina.


1780s-1850s

Carpenter, Layne Clarissa. “‘Live by the Spirit’: Institutional Discipline for Crimes against Order and

Morals in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, 1767-1839.” MA Thesis, UNC Charlotte, 2015.

Cecil-Fronsman, Bill. Common Whites: Class and Culture in Antebellum North Carolina. Lexington:

University Press of Kentucky, 1992.

Cowan, Thomas. “William Hill and the Aera Ironworks.” Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts 13,

no. 2 (Summer 1987): 1-31.

Crowson, E. Thomas. “Building the Landsford Canal.” South Carolina History Illustrated 1, no. 2 (1970):

18-25.

Davis, Burke. The Southern Railway: Road of the Innovators. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina

Press, 1985.

Dyer, Janet S., Karen M. McConnell, and Ann Williams, ed. A Life in Antebellum Charlotte: The Private

Journal of Sarah F. Davidson, 1937. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2005.

Fairley, Wade B. “The Changing York County, South Carolina, Tombstone Business, 1750-1850.” Journal

of Early Southern Decorative Arts 16, no. 2 (Winter 1990): 1-30?

Ford, Lacy K. Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800-1860. New York:

Oxford University Press, 1988.

Forret, Jeffrey Paul. “… ‘Promises to Be Very Rich: The Development of the Gold Mining Industry in the

Agrarian Society of Western North Carolina, 1825-1837.” MA Thesis, UNC Charlotte, 1998.

Forret, Jeff. “Slave Labor in North Carolina’s Antebellum Gold Mines.” North Carolina Historical Review

76, no. 2 (April 1999): 135-62.

Forret, Jeff. “The United States Branch Mint at Charlotte: Superintendents, Spoils, and the Second-Party

System, 1837-1841.” North Carolina Historical Review 77, no. 2 (April 2000): 151-78.

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Glass, Brent D. “King Midas and Old Rip: The Gold Hill Mining District of North Carolina.” Ph.D. diss.,

UNC Chapel Hill, 1980.

Glass, Brent D. “‘Poor Men with Rude Machinery’: The Formative Years of the Gold Hill Mining District,

1842-1853.” North Carolina Historical Review 61 (1984): 1-35.

Glass, Brent D. “The Miner’s World: Life and Labor at Gold Hill.” North Carolina Historical Review 62

(1985): 420-47.

Green, Fletcher Melvin. “Gold Mining: A Forgotten Industry of Ante-Bellum North Carolina.” North

Carolina Historical Review 14 (1937): 1-19, 135-55.

Griffin, Richard W., and Diffee W. Standard. “The Cotton Textile Industry in Ante-Bellum North Carolina,

Part 2: An Era of Boom and Consolidation, 1830-1860.” North Carolina Historical Review 34 (April 1957):

131-64.

Hines, Elizabeth and Michael S. Smith. “Gold Is Where You Find It: Placer Mining in North Carolina,

1799-1849.” Earth Sciences History 21, no. 2 (2002): 119-49.

Hines, Elizabeth, and Michael Smith. “The Rush Started Here II: Hard Rock Gold Mining in North

Carolina, 1825 to 1864.” Earth Sciences History 25, no. 1 (2006): 37-74.

Knapp, Richard F. “Golden Promise in the Piedmont: The Story of John Reed’s Mine.” North Carolina

Historical Review 52, no. 1 (January 1975): 1-19.

Megginson, W.J. African American Life in South Carolina’s Upper Piedmont, 1780-1900. Columbia:

University of South Carolina Press, 2006.

Merrell, James H. “Racial Education of the Catawba Indians.” Journal of Southern History 50, no. 3

(1984): 363-84.

Moore, Kate. “Strange Business for a Lady: Single Women’s Work in Mecklenburg County, NC, 1774-

1860.” MA Thesis, UNC Charlotte, 2016.

Moore, Peter J. “Family Dynamics and the Great Revival: Religious Conversion in the South Carolina

Piedmont.” Journal of Southern History 70, no. 1 (Feb. 2004): 35-62.

Sellers, Charles. “Old Mecklenburg and the Meaning of the American Experience.” North Carolina

Historical Review 46, no. 2 (April 1969): 142-56.

Shuford, Amanda G. “The Evolution of Secessionist Thought in the North Carolina Counties of Guilford,

Mecklenburg, and Wake, 1850-1861.” MA Thesis, California State University at Fullerton, 1996.

Smith, John David. “‘I Was Raised Poor and Hard as Any Slave: African American Slavery in Piedmont

North Carolina.” North Carolina Historical Review 90, no. 1 (Jan. 2013): 1-25.

Stewart, Bruce E. “‘The Forces of Bacchus Are Fast Yielding’: The Rise and Fall of Anti-Alcohol Reform in

Antebellum Rowan County, North Carolina.” North Carolina Historical Review 87, no. 3 (July 2010): 310-

38.

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Trelease, Allen W. The North Carolina Railroad, 1849-1871, and the Modernization of North Carolina.


Young, Otis E., Jr. “The Southern Gold Rush, 1828-1836.” Journal of Southern History 48 (1982): 373-92.

Watson, Harry L. An Independent People: The Way We Lived in North Carolina, 1770-1820. Chapel Hill:


Civil War and Reconstruction Eras

Brown, David. “North Carolinian Ambivalence: Rethinking Loyalty and Disaffection in the Civil War

Piedmont.” In North Carolinians in the Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction, ed. Paul Escott. Chapel

Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. Pp. 7-36.

Carpenter, Robert C. Gaston County, North Carolina, in the Civil War. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2016.

Donnelly, Ralph W. “The Charlotte, North Carolina Navy Yard, C.S.N.” Civil War History 5, no. 1 (March

1959): 72-79.

Fuhlhage, Michael. “‘The Most Solemn and Impressive Duty’” [about Salisbury Prison]. Journalism

History 39, no. 2 (Summer 2013): 82-93.

Greenwood, Janette Thomas. On the Home Front: Charlotte during the Civil War. Charlotte: History

Department of the Mint Museum, 1982.

Hardy, Michael C. Civil War Charlotte: Last Capital of the Confederacy. Charleston, SC: History Press,

2012.

Hasegawa, Guy R. “‘Absurd Prejudice’: A. Snowden Piggot and the Confederate Medical Laboratory at

Lincolnton.” North Carolina Historical Review 81, no. 3 (July 2004): 313-34.

Hoffman, Carolyn F. “The Development of Town and Country: Charlotte and Mecklenburg County,

North Carolina, 1850-1880.” Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, College Park, 1988.

Jones, Mark, and John Wertheimer. “Pinkney and Sarah Ross: The Legal Journey of an Ex-Slave and His

White Wife in the Carolina Borderlands during Reconstruction.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 103,

no. 4 (October 2002): 325-50.

McLaughlin, Florence C. “Diary of Salisbury Prison by James W. Eberhart.” Western Pennsylvania

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Mercer, Garry C. “Confederate Military Prisons: Governor Henry T. Clark’s Role in Establishing the First

Permanent Military Prison at Salisbury, North Carolina.” Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science 41,

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West, Jerry Lee. The Reconstruction Ku Klux Klan in York County, South Carolina, 1865-1877. Jefferson,

NC: McFarland, 2002.

1880s-1930s, including New South and Progressive Era

Akers, John McCorkle. “Finances of the City of Charlotte, North Carolina, 1917-1929.” MA Thesis,

University of North Carolina, 1933.

Baker, Christina L., and William J. Baker. “Shaking All Corners of the Sky: The Global Response to the

Gastonia Strike of 1929.” Canadian Review of American Studies 21, no. 3 (Winter 1990): 321-31.

Barber, Rupert T., Jr. “A Historical Study of the Theatre in Charlotte, North Carolina, from 1873 to

1902.” Ph.D. diss., Louisiana State University, 1970.

Beatty, Bess. “The Edwin Holt Family: Nineteenth Century Capitalists in North Carolina.” North Carolina

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Beatty, Bess. “Lowells of the South: Northern Influences on the Nineteenth Century North Carolina

Textile Industry.” Journal of Southern History 53, no. 1 (Feb. 1987): 36-62.

Beck, John J. “Building the New South: A Revolution from Above in a Piedmont County.” Journal of

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Beck, John Jacob. “Development in the Piedmont South: Rowan County, North Carolina, 1850-1900.”

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Billings, Dwight D. Planters and the Making of a “New South”: Class, Politics, and Development in North

Carolina, 1865-1900. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981.

Buggs, Patricia A. “The Negro in Charlotte, North Carolina, as Reflected in the Charlotte Observer and

Related Sources, 1900-1910.” MA Thesis, Atlanta University, 1976.

Burgess, Allen Edward. “Tar Heel Blacks and the New South Dream: The Coleman Manufacturing

Company, 1896-1904.” Ph.D. diss., Duke University, 1977.

Byerly, Victoria. Hard Times Cotton Mill Girls: Personal Histories of Womanhood and Poverty in the

South. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 1986.

Camper, Starr Morrow. “Preserving Old South Culture in the New South: White Women’s Groups in

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Carlton, David. Mill and Town in South Carolina, 1880-1920. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University

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Carlton, David. “The Piedmont and Waccamaw Regions: An Economic Comparison.” South Carolina

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Carlton, David. “The Revolution from Above: The National Market and the Beginnings of

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Carlton, David, and Peter Coclanis. “Capital Mobilization and Southern Industry: The Case of the

Carolina Piedmont.” Journal of Economic History 49 (March 1989): 73-94.

Clay, Howard Bunyan. “Daniel Augustus Tompkins: An American Bourbon.” Ph.D. diss., University of

North Carolina, 1950.

Clegg, Claude A. III. Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010.

Cox, Annette. “The Loray, North Carolina’s ‘Million Dollar Mill’: The ‘Monstrous Hen’ of Southern

Textiles.” North Carolina Historical Review 89, no. 3 (July 2012): 241-75.

Cox, Annette. “The Saga of Ella May Wiggins.” Southern Cultures 21, no. 3 (Fall 2015): 111-15.

Dillard, Geraldine. “The Negro in the Political, Economic, and Social Development of Charlotte, North

Carolina, 1890-1900.” MA Thesis, Atlanta University, 1972.

Dillard, Jack, et. al. City of Canvas: The Story of Camp Greene [film]. Charlotte: WTVI, 2011.

Douglas, Edna May. “An Analysis of the Retail Trading Area of Charlotte, North Carolina.” Ph.D. diss.,

University of North Carolina, 1945.

Durrill, Wayne K. “Producing Poverty: Local Government and Economic Development in a New South

Community, 1874-1884.” Journal of American History 71, no. 4 (March 1985): 764-81.

Durrill, Wayne K. “A Tale of Two Courthouses: Civic Space, Political Power, and Capitalist Development

in a New South Community, 1843-1940.” Journal of Social History 35, no. 3 (Spring 2002): 659-81.

Earle, John R., Dean D. Knudsen, and Donald W. Shriver, Jr. Spindles and Spires: A Re-Study of Religion

and Social Change in Gastonia. Atlanta: John Knox, 1976.

Escott, Paul D. Many Excellent People: Power and Privilege in North Carolina, 1850-1900. Chapel Hill:


Ford, Lacey K. “Rednecks and Merchants: Economic Development and Social Tensions in the South

Carolina Upcountry, 1865-1900.” Journal of American History 71 (September 1984): 294-318.

Freeze, Gary Richard. “Model Mill Men of the New South: Paternalism and Methodism in the Odel

Cotton Mills of North Carolina, 1877-1908.” Ph.D. diss., UNC Chapel Hill, 1988.

Freeze, Gary R. “Roots, Barks, Bernes, and Jews: The Herb Trade in Gilded-Age North Carolina.” Essays

in Economic and Business History 13 (1995): 107-27.

Geske, Kurt David. “Where Johnny Got His Gun: One American City’s Experience with Military

Mobilization during World War II, Charlotte and Camp Greene, North Carolina.” MA Thesis, UNC

Charlotte, 2012.

Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North

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