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LGBTQ+ Life & Activism

LGBTQ+ life, activism, and oral histories, documented across the collections of twelve library systems and the State Archives of North Carolina.

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New Hope Creek (N.C.) -- History (1)

New Hope Creek (Orange County-Chatham County, N.C.) (22 works · 5 headings)

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New Hope Creek (Orange County-Chatham County, N.C.) (15)

New Hope Creek (Orange County-Chatham County, N.C.) -- Description and travel (1)

New Hope Creek (Orange County-Chatham County, N.C.) -- Environmental conditions (3)

New Hope Creek (Orange County-Chatham County, N.C.) -- History (3)

New Hope Creek (Orange County-Chatham County, N.C.) -- Maps (1)

North Carolina (7133 works · 363 headings)

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North Carolina (3016)

North Carolina -- Abstracts -- wills -- Orange County (1)

North Carolina -- Administrative and political divisions -- History -- Maps (1)

North Carolina -- African Americans -- History (1)

North Carolina -- Alamance County (32)

North Carolina -- Alamance County -- History (1)

North Carolina -- Alexander County (1)

North Carolina -- Anecdotes (3)

North Carolina -- Anson County (1)

North Carolina -- Antiquities (7)

North Carolina -- Appropriations and expenditures (1)

North Carolina -- Asheville (2)

North Carolina -- Ayr Mount (2)

North Carolina -- Basketball (1)

North Carolina -- Bath (1)

North Carolina -- Beaufort (1)

North Carolina -- Bertie County (2)

North Carolina -- Bibliography (1)

North Carolina -- Bibliography -- Catalogs (2)

North Carolina -- Bio-bibliography (1)

North Carolina -- Biography (144)

North Carolina -- Biography -- Congresses (3)

North Carolina -- Biography -- Indexes (1)

North Carolina -- Biography -- Juvenile literature (3)

North Carolina -- Biography -- Portraits (1)

North Carolina -- Biography -- Portraits -- Catalogs (2)

North Carolina -- Biography -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Catalogs (1)

North Carolina -- Black Mountain (1)

North Carolina -- Bladen County (1)

North Carolina -- Blowing Rock -- Flat Top Manor (1)

North Carolina -- Book rarities (4)

North Carolina -- Book rarities -- Facsimiles (1)

North Carolina -- Brunswick County (2)

North Carolina -- Buncombe County (2)

North Carolina -- Burlington (1)

North Carolina -- Business -- Periodicals (1)

North Carolina -- Butner (4)

North Carolina -- Cabarrus County (1)

North Carolina -- Caldwell County (1)

North Carolina -- Calendars (5)

North Carolina -- Camp Davis (1)

North Carolina -- Camp Lejeune (1)

North Carolina -- Cane Creek (Alamance County and Orange County) (3)

North Carolina -- Cane Creek Reservoir (19)

North Carolina -- Cape Fear River (2)

North Carolina -- Cape Fear River Watershed (1)

North Carolina -- Capital and capitol (1)

North Carolina -- Carrboro (327)

North Carolina -- Carteret County (1)

North Carolina -- Cary (10)

North Carolina -- Caswell County (7)

North Carolina -- Census (9)

North Carolina -- Census, 1820 (1)

North Carolina -- Census, 1830 (1)

North Carolina -- Census, 1850 (1)

North Carolina -- Chapel Hill (2929)

North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Battle Park (8)

North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Franklin Street (7)

North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Mason Farm (27)

North Carolina -- Chapel Hill Metropolitan Area (14)

North Carolina -- Chapel Hill Region (7)

North Carolina -- Chatham County (42)

North Carolina -- Church history (26)

North Carolina -- Church history -- 19th century (1)

North Carolina -- Church history -- African Methodist Episcopal (1)

North Carolina -- Church history -- Baptist (29)

North Carolina -- Church history -- Catholic (4)

North Carolina -- Church history -- Disciples of Christ (1)

North Carolina -- Church history -- Episcopal (18)

North Carolina -- Church history -- Jewish (1)

North Carolina -- Church history -- Mennonite (1)

North Carolina -- Church history -- Methodist (16)

North Carolina -- Church history -- Presbyterian (23)

North Carolina -- Church history -- Society of Friends (5)

North Carolina -- Church history -- Unitarian Universalist (1)

North Carolina -- Church history -- United Methodist (3)

North Carolina -- Churth history -- Presbyterian (1)

North Carolina -- Civilization -- 20th century (1)

North Carolina -- Climate (1)

North Carolina -- College discipline -- Chapel Hill -- Handbooks, manuals, etc (3)

North Carolina -- Colleges and universities (1)

North Carolina -- Colleges and universities -- History (1)

North Carolina -- Commerce -- History -- 19th century (2)

North Carolina -- Commerce -- History -- 20th century (2)

North Carolina -- Community colleges -- Students (1)

North Carolina -- Constitution and government (1)

North Carolina -- Cooleemee Plantation (1)

North Carolina -- Counties -- Photographs (1)

North Carolina -- Creedmoor (4)

North Carolina -- Cumberland County (1)

North Carolina -- Dare County (1)

North Carolina -- Description and travel (6)

North Carolina -- Description and Travel -- 1865-1900 (1)

North Carolina -- Devotional literature (1)

North Carolina -- Directies (1)

North Carolina -- Directories (1)

North Carolina -- Drama (9)

North Carolina -- Drama -- Bibliography (1)

North Carolina -- Duke Forest (2)

North Carolina -- Durham (106)

North Carolina -- Durham -- West Point on the Eno (3)

North Carolina -- Durham County (81)

North Carolina -- Durham Metropolitan Area (25)

North Carolina -- Durham Region (2)

North Carolina -- Economic conditions (16)

North Carolina -- Economic conditions -- 20th century (2)

North Carolina -- Edenton (3)

North Carolina -- Education (1)

North Carolina -- Education, Higher (4)

North Carolina -- Educational planning (4)

North Carolina -- Efland (13)

North Carolina -- Elizabeth City (1)

North Carolina -- Elizabethtown (1)

North Carolina -- Emerald Isle (1)

North Carolina -- Emigration and immigration (1)

North Carolina -- Eno River (37)

North Carolina -- Eno River State Park (12)

North Carolina -- Eno River Watershed (5)

North Carolina -- Environmental conditions (1)

North Carolina -- Essays (4)

North Carolina -- Family Life (2)

North Carolina -- Fayetteville (4)

North Carolina -- Fiction (114)

North Carolina -- Foreign economic relations (1)

North Carolina -- Franklin County (2)

North Carolina -- Gaston County (1)

North Carolina -- Genealogy (158)

North Carolina -- Genealogy -- Bibliography -- Catalogs (1)

North Carolina -- Genealogy -- Periodicals (3)

North Carolina -- Genealogy -- Quaker (1)

North Carolina -- Genealogy -- Sources (1)

North Carolina -- Goldsboro (1)

North Carolina -- Government -- Education (1)

North Carolina -- Granville County (1)

North Carolina -- Greensboro (5)

North Carolina -- Guidebooks (9)

North Carolina -- Guilford County (3)

North Carolina -- Halifax (1)

North Carolina -- Halifax County (2)

North Carolina -- Harnett County (1)

North Carolina -- Haw River Watershed (1)

North Carolina -- Hillsborough (303)

North Carolina -- Hillsborough -- History -- 20th century (2)

North Carolina -- Hillsborough -- Montrose Garden (1)

North Carolina -- History (190)

North Carolina -- History -- 1775-1865 (96)

North Carolina -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Fiction (1)

North Carolina -- History -- 1865 (2)

North Carolina -- History -- 1865- (2)

North Carolina -- History -- 1865- -- Fiction (2)

North Carolina -- History -- 18th century -- Biography -- Indexes (1)

North Carolina -- History -- 19th century (1)

North Carolina -- History -- 19th century -- Sources (1)

North Carolina -- History -- 20th Century (3)

North Carolina -- History -- Census (1)

North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 (28)

North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Bibliography (1)

North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography (1)

North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns (3)

North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Confiscations and contributions (1)

North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction (4)

North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Monuments (1)

North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Moral and ethical aspects (1)

North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives (1)

North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate (3)

North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Psychological aspects (1)

North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Registers (1)

North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Registers of dead (2)

North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects (1)

North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- War work (1)

North Carolina -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 (47)

North Carolina -- History -- Drama (1)

North Carolina -- History -- Fiction (1)

North Carolina -- History -- Genealogy -- Hillsborough, Orange County, NC (1)

North Carolina -- History -- Manuscripts (1)

North Carolina -- History -- Maps (1)

North Carolina -- History -- Miscellanea (1)

North Carolina -- History -- Outlines, syllabi, etc (1)

North Carolina -- History -- Periodicals (4)

North Carolina -- History -- Pictorial works (2)

North Carolina -- History -- Regulator Insurrection, 1766-1771 (43)

North Carolina -- History -- Regulator Insurrection, 1766-1771 -- Campaigns (20)

North Carolina -- History -- Regulator Insurrection, 1766-1771 -- Sources (1)

North Carolina -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1781 -- Campaigns (1)

North Carolina -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 (245)

North Carolina -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Campaigns (1)

North Carolina -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction (5)

North Carolina -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Juvenile fiction (1)

North Carolina -- History -- Societies, etc (11)

North Carolina -- History -- Societies, Etc. -- Periodicals (1)

North Carolina -- History -- Sources (11)

North Carolina -- History -- Sources -- Bibliography (2)

North Carolina -- History -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Catalogs (2)

North Carolina -- History -- Sources -- Periodicals (2)

North Carolina -- History -- Study and teaching (1)

North Carolina -- History, Local (3)

North Carolina -- History, Local -- Periodicals (1)

North Carolina -- Hyde County (1)

North Carolina -- Imprints (2)

North Carolina -- In art (1)

North Carolina -- In literature (1)

North Carolina -- Intellectual life (5)

North Carolina -- Intellectual Life -- 1783-1865 (1)

North Carolina -- Intellectual life -- 20th century (6)

North Carolina -- Johnston County (3)

North Carolina -- Juvenile fiction (11)

North Carolina -- Juvenile poetry (1)

North Carolina -- Kenansville (1)

North Carolina -- Kinston (1)

North Carolina -- Law -- Periodicals (1)

North Carolina -- Lee County (3)

North Carolina -- Lexington (2)

North Carolina -- Library resources (4)

North Carolina -- Lincoln County (1)

North Carolina -- Literature (2)

North Carolina -- Louisburg (1)

North Carolina -- Madison County (1)

North Carolina -- Manuscripts -- Catalogs (1)

North Carolina -- Maps (34)

North Carolina -- Maps -- Bibliography (1)

North Carolina -- Maps -- Bibliography -- Catalogs (1)

North Carolina -- Maps -- Exhibitions (1)

North Carolina -- Martin County (1)

North Carolina -- Mebane (16)

North Carolina -- Mecklenburg County (2)

North Carolina -- Military rosters (1)

North Carolina -- Militia (190)

North Carolina -- Milton (1)

North Carolina -- Mitchell County (1)

North Carolina -- Monroe (2)

North Carolina -- Moore County (1)

North Carolina -- Mount Olive (Wayne County) (1)

North Carolina -- Mountains -- Fiction (2)

North Carolina -- Municipal charters -- Chapel Hill (1)

North Carolina -- Nash County (1)

North Carolina -- Neuse River Watershed (2)

North Carolina -- New Bern (2)

North Carolina -- New Hanover County (2)

North Carolina -- New Hope Creek (Orange County-Chatham County) (22)

North Carolina -- Newspapers (74)

North Carolina -- Newspapers -- Indexes (3)

North Carolina -- Occaneechi Town Site (2)

North Carolina -- Orange County (819)

North Carolina -- Orange County -- Bridges (1)

North Carolina -- Orange County -- Chapel Hill (1)

North Carolina -- Orange County -- Roads (1)

North Carolina -- Orange Soil and Water Conservation District (1)

North Carolina -- Oxford (3)

North Carolina -- Parkwood (Durham County) (6)

North Carolina -- Periodicals (62)

North Carolina -- Periodicals -- Indexes (1)

North Carolina -- Perquimans County (1)

North Carolina -- Person County (4)

North Carolina -- Photographs (16)

North Carolina -- Pictorial works (4)

North Carolina -- Piedmont section -- Botany (1)

North Carolina -- Piedmont section -- Description and travel (1)

North Carolina -- Piedmont section -- Ecology (1)

North Carolina -- Piedmont section -- Fiction (2)

North Carolina -- Piedmont section -- Geology (3)

North Carolina -- Piedmont section -- Guidebooks (1)

North Carolina -- Piedmont section -- History (1)

North Carolina -- Piedmont section -- Maps (1)

North Carolina -- Piedmont section -- Planning (1)

North Carolina -- Piedmont section -- Poetry (1)

North Carolina -- Piedmont section -- Recreation (1)

North Carolina -- Piedmont section -- Restaurants, lunch rooms, etc (1)

North Carolina -- Piedmont section -- Social life and customs (1)

North Carolina -- Piedmont section -- Soils (1)

North Carolina -- Piedmont section -- Transportation (1)

North Carolina -- Pineville (1)

North Carolina -- Pitt County (1)

North Carolina -- Pittsboro (2)

North Carolina -- Poetry (26)

North Carolina -- Poetry -- Periodicals (5)

North Carolina -- Politics and government (422)

North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783 (15)

North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865 (86)

North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865 -- Sources (26)

North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 (4)

North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 (8)

North Carolina -- Politics and Government -- 1865-1950- (2)

North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1951- (11)

North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1951- -- Newspapers (1)

North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1951- -- Periodicals (2)

North Carolina -- Politics and Government -- 19th Century -- Sources (1)

North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 20th century (4)

North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 21st century (1)

North Carolina -- Politics and government -- Bibliography (5)

North Carolina -- Politics and government -- Bibliography -- Catalogs (7)

North Carolina -- Politics and government -- Bibliography -- Periodicals (4)

North Carolina -- Politics and government -- Periodicals (2)

North Carolina -- Politics and government -- Study and teaching (Higher) (1)

North Carolina -- Politics and government -- To 1775 (39)

North Carolina -- Politics and government -- To 1775 -- Sources (12)

North Carolina -- Population (1)

North Carolina -- Private Schools (1)

North Carolina -- Race relations (24)

North Carolina -- Race Relations -- 20th Century (1)

North Carolina -- Race relations -- Fiction (1)

North Carolina -- Race relations -- Film catalogs (1)

North Carolina -- Race relations -- History (4)

North Carolina -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century (6)

North Carolina -- Race relations -- Periodicals (1)

North Carolina -- Race relations -- Political aspects (1)

North Carolina -- Race relations -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Catalogs (1)

North Carolina -- Raleigh (50)

North Carolina -- Raleigh Metropolitan Area (18)

North Carolina -- Raleigh Region (1)

North Carolina -- Randolph County (1)

North Carolina -- Religion (1)

North Carolina -- Religion -- 19th century (2)

North Carolina -- Religion -- 20th century (3)

North Carolina -- Religion -- Fiction (1)

North Carolina -- Religion -- History (1)

North Carolina -- Religious and Ecclesiastical Institutions -- History (1)

North Carolina -- Religious life and customs (1)

North Carolina -- Remote-sensing images (1)

North Carolina -- Research Triangle (20)

North Carolina -- Rhodhiss (1)

North Carolina -- Rocky Mount (2)

North Carolina -- Rougemont (1)

North Carolina -- Salisbury (2)

North Carolina -- Sampson County (1)

North Carolina -- Seaboard (1)

North Carolina -- Sermons (2)

North Carolina -- Shelby (1)

North Carolina -- Smithfield (1)

North Carolina -- Social conditions (8)

North Carolina -- Social conditions -- 20th century (3)

North Carolina -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century (1)

North Carolina -- Social life and customs (22)

North Carolina -- Social Life and Customs -- 1865-1918 (1)

North Carolina -- Social Life and Customs -- 1918-1945 (1)

North Carolina -- Social life and customs -- 20th century (2)

North Carolina -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes (1)

North Carolina -- Social life and customs -- Fiction (2)

North Carolina -- Social life and customs -- Humor (1)

North Carolina -- Social policy -- 20th century (1)

North Carolina -- Societies, etc (2)

North Carolina -- Songs and music (6)

North Carolina -- Stagville Plantation (1)

North Carolina -- Statistics (1)

North Carolina -- Student bar associations -- Periodicals (1)

North Carolina -- Sunset Beach (1)

North Carolina -- Telephone Directories (1)

North Carolina -- Textbooks -- Science -- Bibliography (1)

North Carolina -- Tours (1)

North Carolina -- Tryon County (1)

North Carolina -- University Lake (2)

North Carolina -- Vance County (1)

North Carolina -- Wake County (21)

North Carolina -- Wake Forest (1)

North Carolina -- Warren County (2)

North Carolina -- Washington County (1)

North Carolina -- Weldon (1)

North Carolina -- Wilkes County (1)

North Carolina -- Williamston (1)

North Carolina -- Wilmington (4)

North Carolina -- Wilson (Wilson County) (1)

North Carolina -- Winston-Salem (1)

North Carolina -- Winston-Salem -- Salem (1)

North Carolina -- Yadkin County (2)

North Carolina. (45 works · 2 headings)

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North Carolina. -- Constitution (1)

North Carolina. -- General Assembly. -- Senate -- Contested elections (2)

These headings come from Library of Congress and local vocabularies used by the participating libraries. Counts show linked works in Orange County Indexed. Related headings are grouped automatically, and the People section combines common name variants. Report corrections through the contact form.

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Orange County Indexed brings together records about Orange County from twelve library systems and the State Archives of North Carolina, the Digital Public Library of America, DataCite, and Crossref. This page searches the full index, including books, maps, archival collections, government documents, campus materials, digitized primary sources, and published research about the county.

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