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North Carolina history bookshelf, E-1: 815 titles as they stand on the shelf at OCPL, in call-number order. North Carolina histories of every kind, from the university and the State Fair to the state’s natural history and Durham’s Hayti.

• Selective Service in North Carolina in World War II King, Spencer Bidwell · 1949

  The wartime draft in North Carolina is the subject of Spencer Bidwell King's official history, which recounts how the state carried out the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 and its amendments through World War II. Published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1949, 451 pages with illustrations, portraits, maps and a bibliography.

  Call number NC 151.52 KIN View in OCPL catalog →
• Thirty Sermons by Thirty North Carolina Preachers 1893

  Levi Branson, the Raleigh publisher, edited this third volume of his North Carolina Sermons series in 1893, gathering one sermon apiece from thirty contributors; 314 pages. Most were ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, or of the state's local ministers' conference, but Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist Protestant, Christian Church and A.M.E. preachers appear as well, among them F. L. Reid of Greensboro Female College, Solomon Pool and Branson himself.

  Call number NC 252 THI View in OCPL catalog →
• Religion and the American Revolution in North Carolina Calhoon, Robert M. · 1976

  Number 11 in the North Carolina Bicentennial Pamphlet Series, Robert M. Calhoon's study of religion in North Carolina during the American Revolution rests on period sources and ends with a bibliography. The state Division of Archives and History published it in Raleigh in 1976; 81 pages with illustrations.

  Call number NC 261.7 CAL View in OCPL catalog →
• Collections of the Protestant Episcopal Historical Society for the Year 1851 Protestant Episcopal Historical Society · 1851

  The first volume of the Protestant Episcopal Historical Society's collections, printed in New York in 1851, gathers documents on the Anglican church in early America. It opens with a reprint of George Keith's 1706 journal of missionary travels from New Hampshire to Caratuck (Currituck), with letters by Keith and his associate Talbot. Other papers include Henderson Walker's 1703 letter to the Bishop of London and an account of Blair's 1703 mission to North Carolina.

  Call number NC 262 COL View in OCPL catalog →
• A History of Orange Presbytery, 1770-1970 Stone, Robert Hamlin · 1970

  Orange Presbytery, the regional body of Presbyterian churches organized in 1770, is the subject of Robert Hamlin Stone's bicentennial history. The synod named it Orange because two of its first six ministers lived in Orange County, and at the start it took in every congregation in both Carolinas. The presbytery published the book at Greensboro in 1970, 430 pages with maps, facsimiles, portraits and a bibliography.

  Call number NC 262.4 STO View in OCPL catalog →
• Fall Tour Of Historic Churches And Sites North Carolina Presbyterian Historical Society · 1983

  A tour booklet from the North Carolina Presbyterian Historical Society's fall tour of 1983, covering historic churches and sites in Hillsborough. Church buildings in Hillsborough are its subject, so church architecture and local history are its ground.

  Call number NC 275.6 NORTH View in OCPL catalog →
• The Colonial Clergy of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina Weis, Frederick Lewis · 1976

  Frederick Lewis Weis's reference work on the ministers who served in colonial Virginia and the two Carolinas, one of several regional volumes he compiled on the colonial clergy, with others on the Middle Colonies and on Maryland, Delaware and Georgia. It first appeared in 1955 as the seventh publication of a Boston society of descendants of the colonial clergy. Reprinted in Baltimore in 1976, 100 pages.

  Call number NC 280.409 WEI View in OCPL catalog →
• Centennial Ceremonies Held in Christ Church Parish, Raleigh, North Carolina, A. D. 1921: Including Historical Addresses Raleigh (N.C.) · 1922

  Christ Church in Raleigh, the Episcopal parish organized in August 1821, marked its centennial with services and a reception from October 9 to 12, 1921, and the vestry had the proceedings printed the next year. The 55 pages include Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire's address on the early rectors, a parish history by Marshall De Lancey Haywood, recollections by Samuel A. Ashe, three poems, and portraits of past rectors.

  Call number NC 283.756 RAL View in OCPL catalog →
• Ambivalent Churchmen and Evangelical Churchwomen: The Religion of the Episcopal Elite in North Carolina, 1800-1860 Rankin, Richard · 1993

  Religious life among North Carolina's Episcopal elite from 1800 to 1860, studied by Richard Rankin, who contrasts the men's ambivalence toward the church with the evangelical devotion of the women and follows the Diocese of North Carolina through the period. Published by the University of South Carolina Press in 1993; xv and 203 pages with illustrations, notes and an index.

  Call number NC 283.756 RAN View in OCPL catalog →
• The Moravians in North Carolina: An Authentic History Reichel, Levin Theodore · 1968

  First published at Salem in 1857, Levin T. Reichel's history of the Moravian settlements of Wachovia runs from the land purchase and first settlement at Bethabara in 1753 through Bethania, Salem, Friedberg, Friedland and Hope, the Revolution, Salem Female Academy, the church's Indian mission of 1801, its mission to African Americans from 1822, and the congregations to 1856. Lists of ministers and first settlers close the book. Reprinted in 1968, 206 pages.

  Call number NC 284 REI View in OCPL catalog →
• History of the German Settlements and of the Lutheran Church in North and South Carolina, From the Earliest Period of the Colonization of the Dutch, German, and Swiss Settlers to the Close of the First Half of the Present Century Bernheim, G. D. · 1975

  The German-speaking settlers of the Carolinas and their Lutheran churches, in a history by G. D. Bernheim, then pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Wilmington. The first half follows the Dutch, German and Swiss colonists through the Revolution; the rest traces the Lutheran Church in both states to 1850. First published in Philadelphia by the Lutheran Book Store in 1872; this is the Regional Publishing Company reprint of 1975, running to page 557.

  Call number NC 284.1 BER View in OCPL catalog →
• History of the German Settlements and of the Lutheran Church in North and South Carolina, From the Earliest Period of the Colonization of the Dutch, German, and Swiss Settlers to the Close of the First Half of the Present Century Bernheim, G. D. · 1872

  Gotthardt Dellmann Bernheim, pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Wilmington, traces the Dutch, German and Swiss settlers of the Carolinas and their Lutheran churches to about 1850. Chapters cover the Palatines and Swiss at New Bern in 1710, the colonies at Purrysburg, Orangeburg and Saxe-Gotha in South Carolina, Pennsylvania Germans in central North Carolina from about 1750, and the Moravians at Salem. Philadelphia, 1872; 557 pages.

  Call number NC 284.1 BER View in OCPL catalog →