Lane and White, the governors of Roanoke
Stephen B. Weeks on Ralph Lane and John White, the two men who governed the Roanoke colony for Sir Walter Raleigh in the 1580s. Published by the students of the University at Chapel Hill in 1890.
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By Stephen B. (Stephen Beauregard) Weeks
Blackbeard, the corsair of Carolina : a paper read before the North Carolina Historical Society at Chapel Hill, September 19, 1888
A paper Stephen B. Weeks read to the North Carolina Historical Society at Chapel Hill on 19 September 1888, on the pirate Blackbeard, who died in 1718. The Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies printed it the following year from the North Carolina University Magazine.
The North Carolina Historical Society
An account of the North Carolina Historical Society, attributed to Stephen B. Weeks and detached from the University Magazine of December 1887. The Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies printed it at Chapel Hill, where the historical society was based.
The Weeks collection of Caroliniana
Stephen B. Weeks describes the Caroliniana library he assembled, a bibliography of North Carolina books and imprints printed at Raleigh in 1907 by E.M. Uzzell and Company. The Weeks collection passed to the university's North Carolina Collection in 1918, so the pamphlet also is a checklist of what that collection took in.
About Stephen B. (Stephen Beauregard) Weeks
The acquisition of the Stephen B. Weeks Collection of Caroliniana
Louis Round Wilson's account of how the University of North Carolina Library at Chapel Hill acquired the Stephen B. Weeks collection of Caroliniana, the private library gathered by the historian Stephen Beauregard Weeks, 1865 to 1918. Dated 1965, it concerns Weeks and the library's North Carolina Collection.
Life and Orange County connections
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- Stephen B. Weeks publishes a register of the Philanthropic Society Stephen Beauregard Weeks, class of 1886, published a 72-page catalogue of Philanthropic Society members since 1795, with a short history of the society and notes on members' careers.Search the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 799
- The University Magazine issues its Golden Jubilee number In 1894 the University Magazine marked fifty years since its first issue with a Golden Jubilee number, prepared largely by faculty editor Collier Cobb and filled with articles on the university's history. People: Collier Cobb, Stephen B. (Stephen Beauregard) Weeks, Kemp Plummer Battle, George Tayloe WinstonSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 739
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- Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies University schools and programs · Chapel Hill · 1 event here
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- Background context: Weeks, Stephen Beauregard NCpedia
- Search beyond the index: NC LIVE: prepared search for Stephen B. (Stephen Beauregard) Weeks NC LIVE An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read
- Ask locally: Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection (OCPL) The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
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