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Literature and language 800 to 899, 400 to 499: 37 titles as they stand on the shelf at OCPL, in call-number order. North Carolina history bookshelf, E-1: North Carolina histories of every kind, from the university and the State Fair to the state’s natural history and Durham’s Hayti.

• What Did They Mean by That?: A Dictionary of Historical & Genealogical Terms Old & New Drake, Paul · 2013

  Obsolete words and forgotten meanings that turn up in old documents fill Paul Drake's dictionary, together with newer terms used by historians and genealogists. It is illustrated and includes maps. First published in 1994, it appeared in a new edition in 2000, of which this is a 2013 printing.

  Call number NC 423.1 DRAKE View in OCPL catalog →
• Reading Early American Handwriting Sperry, Kip · 1998

  Kip Sperry teaches the reading of handwriting in wills, deeds, church registers and other early American records. He covers letter forms, numbers and Roman numerals, abbreviations and contractions, common terms, and dates across the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, then offers nearly a hundred sample documents of rising difficulty, each with his transcription on the facing page. Genealogical Publishing Company, 1998; 289 pages with a long bibliography.

  Call number NC 427.973 SPE View in OCPL catalog →
• Washakie: The Little Indian Boy Harley, Karen Lynch · 2024

  Karen Lynch Harley wrote and illustrated this picture book about a young Haliwa-Saponi boy who learns from his grandmother's stories while he plays on her front porch, with Tutelo-Saponi words woven into the telling. The Haliwa-Saponi, descended from Tuscarora, Nansemond, Tutelo and Saponi people, number some 4,060 citizens, most of them in Warren and Halifax counties of northeastern North Carolina. Published in Raleigh in 2024.

  Call number NC 497.52 HARLEY View in OCPL catalog →
• Minor Vocabularies of Tutelo and Saponi Sapir, Edward · 2022 Foundational

  Tutelo, a Siouan language once spoken in Virginia and North Carolina, is recorded here in two vocabularies of about fifty words each, printed in 1913 and both gathered in Ontario: Leo Frachtenberg's from Lucy Buck, an elderly Tutelo woman, in 1907, and Edward Sapir's from Andrew Sprague, a Cayuga who had heard Tutelo as a child, in 1911. Seven Saponi place-names noted by William Byrd in 1728 are added. First issued in 2002; reprinted 2022.

  Call number NC 497.52 SAPIR View in OCPL catalog →
• Local History : How to Find and Write It Whitener, Daniel Jay · 1955

  Daniel Jay Whitener's short guide to researching and writing local history, published in Asheville in 1955 by the Western North Carolina Historical Association, 17 pages.

  Call number NC 808.02 WHI View in OCPL catalog →
• Orange County Voices: A Class of '87 Student Writing Project 1986 Foundational

  Orange County Voices, a work of Orange County history dated 1986.

  Call number NC 808.89 ORA View in OCPL catalog →
• Writing Civil Rights: The Pursuit of Justice in African American Literature : A Collection of Student Reflections, Summer 2011 2011

  Reflections by incarcerated students at Orange Correctional Center in Hillsborough, written for a Stepping Stones seminar on the pursuit of justice in African American literature that Patrick Elliot Alexander and Allison Curseen taught from June 20 to August 22, 2011. Writings by Pauli Murray and Martin Luther King Jr. figure in the 54-page collection.

  Call number NC 810 WRITING View in OCPL catalog →
• A Living Culture in Durham: A Collection of Writings by Durham Area Authors 1987

  An anthology of poetry and prose by writers of Durham and its surroundings, edited by Judy Hogan with Mary Ellen Priestley and Margaret Stephens and illustrated with Ted Bodenheimer's photographs. Hogan founded Carolina Wren Press, the Durham publisher that issued the 478-page collection in 1987, and helped found the North Carolina Writers' Network.

  Call number NC 810.8 LIV View in OCPL catalog →
• Chapel Hill Carousel: Edited by Jessie Rehder Rehder, Jessie · 1967 Foundational

  Jessie Rehder, who taught creative writing at the University of North Carolina, assembled this 1967 anthology of fiction and prose by writers connected with Chapel Hill for UNC Press. Among the pieces are Wallace Kaufman's 'Regard me well', a piece by Frances Gray Patton anatomizing the Southern belle, and early groundwork by Reynolds Price for his first novel; Thomas Wolfe also figures in it. 215 pages.

  Call number NC 810.8 REH View in OCPL catalog →
• Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont: A Guidebook Eubanks, Georgann · 2010 Foundational

  Georgann Eubanks's guidebook to Piedmont places tied to North Carolina writers, part of the North Carolina Arts Council's literary trails project, with photographs by Donna Campbell. Eighteen driving and walking tours run from Winston-Salem and Charlotte east to Warrenton; Tour 14 covers Hillsborough, Efland and Mebane, and Tour 16 Chapel Hill and Carrboro. UNC Press, 2010; 455 pages with color maps and an index.

  Call number 810.975 EUBANKS View in OCPL catalog →
• Young Readers' Picturebook of Tar Heel Authors Walser, Richard Gaither · 1966

  A picture book of North Carolina writers for young readers by Richard Walser, with brief biographical and bibliographical notes, published by the State Department of Archives and History for use in the schools. First issued in 1957 as Picturebook of Tar Heel Authors; this third edition, revised and enlarged, appeared in 1966, 70 pages. Walser taught English at North Carolina State from 1946.

  Call number NC 810.997 WAL View in OCPL catalog →
• The Poems of Governor Thomas Burke of North Carolina: On Divers Matters, Including A Few Written in Praise of the American War for Independence Against Great Britain : & Also A Number Concerning A Young Man's Affairs of the Heart Burke, Thomas · 1961

  Thomas Burke, the Irish-born physician and lawyer who settled in Hillsborough in 1774 and was governor when David Fanning's Loyalists captured him in 1781, wrote these twenty-three poems, from verses on the war for independence to love poems. Seventeen were printed here for the first time. Richard Walser supplied an introduction and notes, and the 69-page book, published in Raleigh in 1961, imitates eighteenth-century printing.

  Call number NC 811.2 BUR View in OCPL catalog →