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BUILDING THE NEW SOUTH
THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION OF THE PIEDMONT AFTER THE CIVIL WAR
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Landmarks,
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Readings
Secondary Texts Bess Beatty, Alamance: The Holt Family and Industrialization in a North Carolina County, 1837–1900. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Michael Coventry, Peter Felton, David Jaffee, Cecilia O’Leary, and Tracy Weis, with Susannah McGowan, “Ways of Seeing: Evidence and Learning in the History Classroom,” Journal of American History 92: 4 (March 2006), 1371-1402.
Tom Hanchett,
The Growth of Charlotte
“Earl Councilman Interview,” Glencoe Research Forum at:
Henry Grady,
“Bay State Club Address”
in
Harris, Joel Chandler, ed. Life of Henry W. Grady, Including his
Writings and Speeches. New York: Cassell Publishing Company, 1890,
“Icy Norman Interview,” Southern
Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
(Available at the Documenting the American South Web site at
http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/norman/norman.html
Daniel Augustus Tompkins, Cotton
Mill, Commercial Features. A Text-Book for the Use of Textile Schools
and Investors. With Tables Showing Cost of Machinery and Equipments for
Mills Making Cotton Yarns and Plain Cotton Cloths. First published,
1899; Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
Documenting the American South, 2001.
(pp. 17-23; 109-121; 176-179)
http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/tompkins/tompkins.html
U.S. manuscript microfilmed census
records, population schedule and agricultural schedule, 1860, 1870;
population schedule, 1880, 1900. (Data on Garrett farm and Garrett
family members)
Selections from the following newspapers:
Alamance Gleaner
Christian Sun
The Burlington News |