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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.
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
North Carolina Digital History: North Carolina in the New South,
chapters 1 (“Changes in Agriculture”) and 7 (“Politics and Populism”) at
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-newsouth/contents
Primary Texts
“Earl Councilman Interview,” Glencoe Research Forum at:
http://www.bitwisegifts.com/glencoenc/memories/waddell.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
U.S. manuscript microfilmed census
records, population schedule and agricultural schedule, 1860, 1870,
1880, 1890, 1900;
population schedule, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880. (Data on Garrett farm and Garrett
family members)
Other Sources
"The Agrarian South"
(optional background reading)
"The
Industrialization of North Carolina's Piedmont Region"
Selections from the Southern Oral History Program Collection (Southern
Historical Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill) maintained at the Documenting
the American South Web site.
"Southern Women"
Selections from the Southern Oral History Program Collection
(Southern Historical Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill) maintained at the
Documenting the American South Web site.
"Library of Southern
Literature" Collection of Southern literature from the colonial era
to 1900
maintained at the Documenting the American South Web site.
"The North Carolina
Experience"
Varied collection on North Carolina maintained at the Documenting
the American South Web site.
"Hine Collection" Lewis
Wickes Hine photos taken 1908-1924 of working conditions of children in
the US. Many pictures of farming and mill work in the South. Library of
Congress Collection. (Enter Lewis Wickes Hine's name in the "search"
box.)
FSA/OWI
Black-and-White Negatives Photos taken in 1930s.
Many pictures of farming and mill work in the South. Library of
Congress Collection. (Enter state--such as North Carolina--or topic in
the "search" box.)
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