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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.

 Steven Hahn, The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890.  New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. (Please read the 2006 edition.)  

 
Jacquelyn Hall, James Leloudis, et al, Like a Family: The Making of a Cotton Mill World Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. See also the “Like a Family” web site at:
 http://www.historians.org/tl/LessonPlans/nc/Leloudis/index.html

Tom Hanchett, The Growth of Charlotte
at http://www.cmhpf.org/educhargrowth.htm or read chapter 1 and 2 of Hanchett's Sorting Out the New South City: Race, Class and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Janet Irons, Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934. University of Illinois Press, 2000. Chap. 1, "Customary Rights," at books.google.com

Primary Texts

“Earl Councilman Interview,” Glencoe Research Forum at:
 http://www.bitwisegifts.com/glencoenc/glencoe.htm

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, pp. 199-207.
http://www.archive.org/stream/joelchandlerharr00harruoft#page/206/mode/2up

“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