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Society, economy, politics and law 300 to 389: 126 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.

• By Her Own Bootstraps: A Saga of Women in North Carolina Coates, Albert · 1975

  Albert Coates, who founded the University of North Carolina's Institute of Government, traces how North Carolina women gained legal and civic standing, with attention to figures such as Chapel Hill's Cornelia Phillips Spencer, Sallie Southall Cotten, Ellen Winston and Susie Sharp. Privately printed at Chapel Hill in 1975; 231 illustrated pages.

  Call number NC 301.4756 COA View in OCPL catalog →
• North Carolina's Demographic Transformation: The Impact of Race and Immigration Andrews, Louis · 2004 Foundational

  Louis Andrews and George McDaniel examine how immigration and race were changing North Carolina's population in this 66-page paper with maps, charts and references, the fourth of the occasional papers of Representative Government Press of Raleigh, 2004.

  Call number NC 304.837 ANDREWS View in OCPL catalog →
• Wouldn't Take Nothin' for My Journey Now Lauterer, Jock · 1980

  A pictorial book on older North Carolinians by Jock Lauterer, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1980; 167 illustrated pages.

  Call number NC 305.26 LAU View in OCPL catalog →
• Don't Send Me Flowers When I'm Dead: Voices of Rural Elderly Salber, Eva J. · 1983

  Interviews with elderly country people in North Carolina, many of them farmers and some of them single, gathered by Eva J. Salber. Duke University Press published the collection in 1983: 145 pages of text with 30 pages of plates.

  Call number NC 305.26 SAL View in OCPL catalog →
• Seniors 90-100+ and Their Families: What Keeps Them Going. Volume 1 Wilson, Doris M. · 2012

  Interviews with men and women in their nineties and past one hundred, and with their families, about the attitudes, experience and wisdom that have carried them into late old age, gathered by Doris M. Wilson. Published in Chapel Hill in 2012 as the first volume; 317 pages, illustrated, with an index.

  Call number NC 305.262 WILSON View in OCPL catalog →
• First Women of Orange County: Women's History Month Project, 1993-1994 1994 Start here

  A Women's History Month project of 1993 and 1994 from the Orange County Women's History Month Committee, profiling women who were firsts in the county. Published in Chapel Hill in 1994, 13 pages plus unnumbered leaves with illustrations, facsimiles and portraits.

  Call number NC 305.409 FIR View in OCPL catalog →
• Southern Women in Revolution, 1776-1800: Personal and Political Narratives Kierner, Cynthia A. · 1998

  Cynthia A. Kierner prints and interprets 98 petitions that women sent to the legislatures of North and South Carolina between 1776 and 1800. Soldiers' widows sought back pay, wives of banished loyalists asked that their husbands be let home, deserted wives wanted separate estates, and freed Black women sought recognition of their freedom. An essay opens each of five chapters, and closing lists sort each state's petitions by subject. University of South Carolina Press, 1998.

  Call number NC 305.409 KIE View in OCPL catalog →
• Where My Feet Have Taken Me: A Collection of Short Stories by Women and Girls Living in Orange County, NC 2005 Foundational

  A collection of short stories written by women and girls living in Orange County, N.C., published in 2005 for Women's History Month.

  Call number NC 305.409 WHE View in OCPL catalog →
• North Carolina Planters and Their Children, 1800-1860 Censer, Jane Turner · 1984 Foundational

  Family life among North Carolina's planters from 1800 to 1860, parents and children alike, in a social history by Jane Turner Censer. Louisiana State University Press published it in 1984: 191 pages with two maps, a bibliography of 25 pages and an index.

  Call number NC 305.523 CEN View in OCPL catalog →
• Race and Politics in North Carolina, 1872-1901: The Black Second Anderson, Eric · 1981 Foundational

  Eric Anderson's political history of North Carolina's Second Congressional District, the Black Second, from 1872 to 1901. The district, where most counties had Black majorities, sent four Black Republicans to Congress: John A. Hyman, James E. O'Hara, Henry P. Cheatham and George H. White, who left in 1901 after the state's disfranchisement amendment of 1900. Louisiana State University Press published the study in 1981, with a bibliography and an index.

  Call number NC 305.896 AND View in OCPL catalog →
• Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South Brown, Leslie · 2008 Wider context

  Leslie Brown's history of Black Durham, the community Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois both admired in the 1910s, from emancipation to the civil rights era. Drawing on interviews and family stories, Brown puts African American women at the center and argues that conflicts of gender and class among Black Durhamites fed their activism. UNC Press, 2008, in the John Hope Franklin series; 451 pages with maps.

  Call number NC 305.896 BRO View in OCPL catalog →
• Like A Family: The Making of A Southern Cotton Mill World 1987 Wider context

  Jacquelyn Dowd Hall of UNC Chapel Hill, a historian of Southern labor and a champion of oral history sources, wrote this history of the Southern cotton mill world, its factories, workers and mill communities, with five co-authors: Christopher Daly, Lu Ann Jones, Robert R. Korstad, James Leloudis and Mary Murphy. UNC Press published it in 1987; Norton reissued it in 1989 and UNC Press in 2000, with a foreword by Michael Frisch.

  Call number NC 305.967 LIK View in OCPL catalog →