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Silent Sam

The Confederate monument on McCorkle Place, its 1913 dedication and its 2018 toppling, documented across the collections of twelve library systems and the State Archives of North Carolina.

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Places represented  Chapel Hill · North Carolina · Orange County

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    Table Rock Mountain (1)

    Table settings & decorations (2)

    Tablecloths (1)

    Tableware (1)

    Tabor City (N.C.) (1)

    Taco Bell (Firm) (1)

    Tahoma, Lake (N.C.) (1)

    Talented students (1 works · 3 headings)

    Tallahassee (Fla.) (1)

    Tallapoosa (Ala.) (1)

    Tamworth swine (1 works · 2 headings)

    Tanborough (1)

    Tanks (Military science) (2)

    Tanner, Samuel (1)

    Tapp, Richard R., -- 1789-1864. -- Estate (1)

    Tapp, Sidney C. (1)

    Tar Heel (Nickname) (1)

    Tar Heel Sports Network (1)

    Tar Heel Voices (1)

    Tar River (N.C.) (2)

    Tar River (Person County-Beaufort County, N.C.) (2)

    Tar River Basin (N.C.) (1)

    Tarascio, Vincent J (1)

    Tarboro (N.C.) (3)

    Tariff (7)

    Tate, George W (1)

    Tate, George W. (1)

    Tatom, Absalom, -approximately 1815 (1)

    Tax (26)

    Tax administration and procedure -- North Carolina -- Orange County (1)

    Tax assessment (4 works · 5 headings)
    Tax collection (14 works · 3 headings)

    Tax exemption (11)

    Tax incidence (1 works · 2 headings)

    tax, alliance, council, Parliament, grievance, oath, finance, government, petition, legislation, militia, oath (1)

    Taxation (94 works · 17 headings)

    Taylor, Ann Eliza (1)

    Taylor, Doris A (1)

    Taylor, Hannis (1)

    Taylor, J. M. (1)

    Taylor, James (1)

    Taylor, James A. (James Alexander) (1)

    Taylor, Jesse Todd (1)

    Taylor, Mr. (1)

    Taylor, Nelson Ferebee (5 works · 2 headings)

    Taylorsville (N.C.) (1)

    Teacher centers (1 works · 2 headings)
    Teacher effectiveness (3 works · 3 headings)
    Teacher participation in administration (1 works · 2 headings)
    Teacher-student relationships (2 works · 2 headings)
    Teachers (45 works · 20 headings)
    Teachers colleges (6 works · 4 headings)
    Teachers' unions (1 works · 3 headings)
    Teachers' writings, American (1 works · 2 headings)
    Teaching (28 works · 6 headings)
    Teaching hospitals (1 works · 2 headings)

    Teaching skills and techniques (1)

    Teams in the workplace (1 works · 2 headings)

    Teamwork (Sports) (1)

    Teasley, Alan B (1)

    Technological innovations (5 works · 4 headings)
    Technology (3 works · 3 headings)

    Technology and state -- North Carolina -- Databases (1)

    Teenage girls (2 works · 2 headings)
    Teenage pregnancy (3 works · 2 headings)
    Teenagers (5 works · 6 headings)
    Teenagers' writings, American (1 works · 3 headings)
    Teeth (4 works · 4 headings)

    Tehran (Iran) -- Biography (1)

    Telecommunication in higher education (1 works · 2 headings)

    Telecommunication systems (2)

    Telegrams (1)

    Telephone (3 works · 2 headings)
    Telephone calls (1 works · 2 headings)
    Telephone companies (2 works · 5 headings)

    Telescopes (2)

    Television (2 works · 3 headings)
    Television and teenagers (1 works · 3 headings)
    Television broadcasting (3 works · 2 headings)
    Television broadcasting of news (1 works · 3 headings)
    Television in education (5 works · 3 headings)
    Television in politics (1 works · 2 headings)

    Television in science education (1)

    Television journalists -- United States -- Biography (1)

    Television musicals (1)

    Television news programs (1)

    Television personalities (1 works · 2 headings)

    Television plays -- History and criticism (1)

    Television producers and directors (1)

    Television programs (2 works · 3 headings)
    Television stations (1 works · 2 headings)
    Temperance (6 works · 6 headings)

    Tempest, Gerald F (1)

    Temple, Henry (2nd Viscount Palmerston) (1)

    Temple, John L (1)

    Tenant Farm (1)

    Tenant farmers (1 works · 2 headings)
    Tennessee (29 works · 11 headings)

    Tennessee River (2)

    Tennis (7 works · 5 headings)
    Tennis players (3 works · 4 headings)

    Tepper, Steven J (1)

    Terrell (N.C.) (1)

    Territoriality (Zoology) (1)

    Terrorism (1 works · 2 headings)
    Terrorism investigation (1 works · 2 headings)

    Testing (1)

    Texas (17 works · 6 headings)
    Textbooks (2 works · 4 headings)
    Textile factories (2 works · 2 headings)
    Textile industry (15 works · 14 headings)

    Textile machinery (1)

    Textile manufacturers (2 works · 2 headings)

    Textile manufacturing (1)

    Textile schools (1 works · 2 headings)
    Textile workers (10 works · 10 headings)

    Textiles (1)

    Thackston, James (1)

    Thad Cockerell (1)

    The Abolition Movement; Spiritualism and Religion (1)

    The Breeders (Musical group) (1)

    The Causey Way (Musical group) (1)

    The Chris Stamey Experience (Musical group) (1)

    The Comas (Musical group) (3)

    The Crooked Jades (Musical group) (1)

    The Delusions (1)

    The Fall (Musical group) (1)

    The Mayflies U (Musical group)S (Musical group)A (Musical group) (1)

    The Melvins (Musical group) (1)

    The military (1)

    The Moaners (Musical group) (1)

    THE PAPERS OF ARCHIBALD D. MURPHEY (1)

    THE PAPERS OF WILLIE PERSON MANGUM, 1807-1894 (1)

    The Sea and Cake (Musical group) (1)

    The Tom Collins (Musical group) (1)

    The Vandermark 5 (Musical group) (1)

    Theater (18 works · 12 headings)

    Theater and society -- North Carolina (1)

    Theater audiences (2)

    Theater management (1 works · 2 headings)
    Theaters (9 works · 2 headings)
    Theatrical companies (2 works · 2 headings)

    Theatrical productions (2)

    Theft (1 works · 3 headings)

    Themes -- Fiction (2)

    Theological Seminaries (1)

    Thomas B. Freeland (1)

    Thomas Barrett Hagood, 1841-1917 (1)

    Thomas Bello (1)

    Thomas M. (Thomas Michael), 1831-1896 Holt (1)

    Thomas Minter Gunter (1)

    Thomas Ruffin Gwynn (1)

    Thomas Strange Lindsay, 1843-1869 (1)

    Thomas Wolfe Memorial (1)

    Thomas, Abishai (1)

    Thomas, Helen (1)

    Thomas, Pierre (1)

    Thomas, William (1)

    Thompson, Ann (1)

    Thompson, Coy (1)

    Thompson, D. Kent (1)

    Thompson, Eliza J. (1)

    Thompson, Ellen (1)

    Thompson, Franklin (1)

    Thompson, George W. (1)

    Thompson, Henry P. (1)

    Thompson, James (1)

    Thompson, James A. (1)

    Thompson, James S. (1)

    Thompson, John (1)

    Thompson, John A. (1)

    Thompson, Joseph K. (1)

    Thompson, Julia A. (1)

    Thompson, Margaret M. (1)

    Thompson, Mary (1)

    Thompson, Mary Ann (1)

    Thompson, Patterson (2)

    Thompson, Rachel (1)

    Thompson, Rebecca (1)

    Thompson, Robert (1)

    Thompson, Samuel S. (1)

    Thompson, Sue Meyer (1)

    Thompson, Thomas (1)

    Thompson, Thomas, D. Ca. 1795 -- Family (1)

    Thompson, William (3)

    Thompson, William P. (1)

    Thomsaville (N.C.) (1)

    Thornton, Lenox T. (1)

    Thornton, Mary Lindsay (1)

    Thornton, William E. (William Edgar), 1929 (4)

    THOUGHTS ON GOVERNMENT (1776) (1)

    Thrasher, Thomas R (1)

    Threshing machines -- United States (1)

    Thriller (1)

    Thrillers (Fiction) (3)

    Thrombosis (2 works · 2 headings)

    Thrones (Musical group) (1)

    Throop, Suzanne Everett (1)

    Ticknor and Fields (1 works · 2 headings)

    Tift Merritt (2)

    Tilley, Cora E. (1)

    Tilley, Henry Aldolphous (1)

    Tilley, Lorena (1)

    Tilley, Mary Anna (1)

    Timberlake (N.C.) -- Telephone Directories (1)

    Time perspective (1)

    Time Travel -- Fiction (1)

    Timinaction (Musical group) (1)

    Timmons-Goodson, Patricia Ann (1)

    Tin (1)

    Tinnen, Marsha (1)

    Tinnin, Louvisa (1)

    Tintype (1 works · 2 headings)
    Tissue banks (1 works · 2 headings)
    Tivoli (N.Y.) (1 works · 2 headings)

    To 1775 (1)

    To 1799 (1)

    To 1830 (1)

    To 1901 (2)

    To 1918 (1)

    Tobacco (13 works · 5 headings)
    Tobacco industry (6 works · 3 headings)
    Tobacco pipes (1 works · 2 headings)

    Tobacco warehouses (1)

    Tobacco workers -- North Carolina -- Pictorial works (1)

    Tod Robinson Caldwell, 1818-1874 (1)

    Togo -- Politics and government (1)

    Toleration (1 works · 2 headings)

    Toll bridges (5)

    Tolls (4 works · 2 headings)

    Tom Davenport Films (1)

    Tonyn, Patrick (3)

    Tool (2)

    Top hats (1)

    Topographic maps (1)

    Topography (4)

    Torbush, Carl (1)

    Tornadoes (1)

    Torture (1)

    Total quality management in education (1 works · 2 headings)
    Tourism (15 works · 2 headings)

    Tourist maps (5)

    Tourists (1 works · 2 headings)
    Tower clocks (1 works · 2 headings)

    Town and Country Motel and Restaurant. (1)

    Town Creek Indian Mound (1)

    town, boundary, land, legislation, court of law, administration, death, law and order, government, law, debt, treasury, finance, sheriff, crime (1)

    town, charter, settler, voting, land, sheriff, assembly, property, livestock, law and order (1)

    Towns (1)

    Township of Cedar Grove (Orange County, N.C.) (3 works · 2 headings)

    Townships (4)

    Toxic Pig Fuck (Musical group) (1)

    Toxicity testing (1)

    Toxicological chemistry (1)

    Toy, Walter Dallam (1)

    Track (1)

    Track and field (9 works · 3 headings)
    Track and field athletes (8 works · 4 headings)

    Track athletics (2)

    Trackrabbits (Musical group) (1)

    Tractor Hips (Musical group) (1)

    Tracy, James Wright (1)

    Tracy, Leonora Catherine (1)

    Trade (25)

    Trade associations (1 works · 2 headings)

    Trade routes (1)

    trade, legislation, Board of Trade, Parliament, women, death (1)

    trade, legislation, council, construction (1)

    Trademark licenses -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill (2)

    Trading (1)

    Trading path -- Indexes (2)

    Traffic accidents (2 works · 2 headings)
    Traffic calming (1 works · 2 headings)
    Traffic congestion (2 works · 3 headings)
    Traffic engineering (13 works · 9 headings)
    Traffic estimation (1 works · 2 headings)
    Traffic flow (3 works · 22 headings)
    Traffic noise (2 works · 3 headings)
    Traffic regulations (11 works · 2 headings)
    Traffic safety (10 works · 4 headings)

    Traffic signs & signals (1)

    Traffic surveys (7 works · 7 headings)

    Trafficking in enslaved persons (1)

    Trails (25 works · 25 headings)

    Trails & paths (2)

    Training manuals (1 works · 2 headings)

    Trains (1)

    Tramps (2)

    Tranquility Plantation (1)

    Trans Am (Musical group) (1)

    Trans people (2 works · 2 headings)

    Transfer students -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Handbooks, manuals, etc (2)

    Transgender people (2)

    Transplanting Traditions Community Farm (1)

    Transportation (73 works · 35 headings)

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    Transportation (35)

    Transportation -- Environmental aspects (1)

    Transportation -- Environmental aspects -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill (1)

    Transportation -- North Carolina -- Carrboro (2)

    Transportation -- North Carolina -- Carrboro -- Planning (27)

    Transportation -- North Carolina -- Carrboro -- Planning -- Evaluation (1)

    Transportation -- North Carolina -- Carrboro -- Planning -- Public Opinion (1)

    Transportation -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill (5)

    Transportation -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Planning (31)

    Transportation -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Planning -- Evaluation (1)

    Transportation -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Planning -- Public Opinion (1)

    Transportation -- North Carolina -- Chatham County -- Planning (2)

    Transportation -- North Carolina -- Durham (1)

    Transportation -- North Carolina -- Durham -- Planning (16)

    Transportation -- North Carolina -- Durham -- Planning -- Public Opinion (1)

    Transportation -- North Carolina -- Durham County -- Planning (27)

    Transportation -- North Carolina -- Durham County -- Planning -- Evaluation (1)

    Transportation -- North Carolina -- Durham County -- Planning -- Public Opinion (1)

    Transportation -- North Carolina -- Fayetteville -- Planning (1)

    Transportation -- North Carolina -- Franklin County -- Planning (1)

    Transportation -- North Carolina -- Granville County -- Planning (1)

    Transportation -- North Carolina -- Harnett County -- Planning (1)

    Transportation -- North Carolina -- Hillsborough -- Planning (10)

    Transportation -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century (1)

    Transportation -- North Carolina -- Johnston County -- Planning (1)

    Transportation -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- Planning (27)

    Transportation -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- Planning -- Evaluation (1)

    Transportation -- North Carolina -- Planning -- History (2)

    Transportation -- North Carolina -- Raleigh (1)

    Transportation -- North Carolina -- Raleigh -- Planning (1)

    Transportation -- North Carolina -- Research Triangle Park (1)

    Transportation -- North Carolina -- Research Triangle Park Region -- Planning (2)

    Transportation -- North Carolina -- Wake County -- Planning (1)

    Transportation -- North Carolina. (1)

    Transportation -- Planning (3)

    Transportation surveys -- North Carolina -- Hillsborough (1)

    Transsexualism -- United States (1)

    Transsexuals -- United States (1)

    Transylvania (Romania) (1)

    Transylvania Colony (2)

    Transylvania County (N.C.) (8)

    Traumatisme psychique -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse (1)

    Travel (123)

    TRAVEL / United States / South / South Atlantic (DC, DE, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV) (1)

    Travel costs (1)

    travel guidebooks (2)

    Travel photography (1)

    Travel writing (1)

    Travelers (6 works · 4 headings)

    Treason (5)

    Treasure hunting (2)

    Treasurers (2)

    treasury, quitrent, tax, land, finance, government (1)

    treasury, quitrent, tax, land, finance, government, governor, communications (1)

    treasury, trade, customs, crime, legislation, arrest, ships and sailors (1)

    Treaties (5)

    Trees (22 works · 13 headings)
    Trees in winter (1 works · 2 headings)

    Trent River (1)

    Trent River (N.C.) (1)

    Trenton (N.C.) (1)

    Trevor Dunn's Trio Convulsant (Musical group) (1)

    Trials (4 works · 2 headings)

    Trials (Military offenses) (1)

    Trials (Murder) (6 works · 2 headings)

    Triangle African American History Colloquium (1)

    Triangle Area (N.C.) -- Commerce -- Statistics (1)

    Triangle Land Conservancy (1)

    Triangles (Interpersonal relations) (1 works · 2 headings)

    Triangulation -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- Maps (1)

    Triassic (2)

    Triassic Geologic Period (2)

    Trice, Edward (1)

    Trice, Henrietta (1)

    Trice, James E. (1)

    Trice, Jane (1)

    Trice, Lewis (1)

    Trice, Nancy (1)

    Trice, Nancy Jane (1)

    Trice, Richard (1)

    Trice, Samuel (1)

    Trice, William H. E. (1)

    Trice, Zebiah (1)

    Trinity (1)

    Trivia and miscellanea (3)

    Troop Movements (2)

    Trotman, William (1)

    Trousdale, Alexander (1)

    Troutman (1)

    Troy (N.C.) (1)

    Trucks -- Routes -- North Carolina -- Hillsborough -- Planning (1)

    True Crime (1)

    True crime stories (2)

    Trumbull, Joseph (1)

    Trustees, Boards of (3)

    Trusts and trustees (5)

    Tryon (N.C.) (2)

    Tryon County (1)

    Tryon County (historical, 1768-1779), North Carolina, United States (1)

    Tryon County (N.C.) (2)

    Tryon Palace (New Bern, N.C.) (3)

    Tryon, Studwick Samuel (1)

    Tsalagi Indians (1)

    Tslagi Indians (1)

    Tuberculosis (4 works · 3 headings)

    Tuberculosis Sanatorium System Board of Directors (1)

    Tucker, Garland S. (1)

    Tucker, William H. Pace (1)

    Tuition (6)

    Turin (Italy) -- Pictorial works (1)

    Turkey -- Study and teaching -- United States -- Library resources (1)

    Turnbull, Andrew (2)

    Turnbull, Mary (1)

    Turner and Jones (Hillsborough, N.C.) (1)

    Turner, Evan H (1)

    Turner, John B (2)

    Turner, Josiah (3)

    Turner, Lizzie (1)

    Turner, William H. (1)

    Turrentine, James (1)

    Tuscarora Indians (4 works · 4 headings)
    Tutelo Indians (5 works · 3 headings)
    Tutors and tutoring (3 works · 2 headings)

    Twine (1)

    Two Dollar Pistols (Musical group) (1)

    Tyler County (Tex.) (1 works · 2 headings)
    Type and type-founding (1 works · 2 headings)
    Typhoid fever (3 works · 2 headings)

    Tyrrell County (1)

    Tyrrell County (N.C.) (18 works · 2 headings)

    Tyrrell, William (1)

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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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