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History 131-0

Course Readings Available at Hunter Library

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After the Fact: the Art of Historical Detection, Volume I by James West Davidson; Mark H. Lytle
Call Number: WCU GENERAL E175 .D38 201
ISBN: 9780077292683
Publication Date: 2009-09-22
The Cherokee Removal by Theda Perdue; Michael D. Green
Call Number: WCU GENERAL E99.C5 P43 2005
ISBN: 9781319049027
Publication Date: 2016-04-29
Second edition only at Hunter Library. Print copy of third edition on order.

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History 476/576

Giving Preservation a History by Max Page (Editor); Randall Mason (Editor)
Call Number: E-book. Click title to access online.
ISBN: 9781135952570
Publication Date: 2004-08-02
A Golden Haze of Memory by Stephanie E. Yuhl
Call Number: E-book. Click title to access online.
ISBN: 9780807876541
Publication Date: 2006-03-08
Denmark Vesey's Garden by Ethan J. Kytle; Blain Roberts
Call Number: E-book. Click title to access online.
ISBN: 9781620973660
Publication Date: 2018-04-01
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Historic Real Estate by Whitney Martinko
Call Number: E-book. Click title to access online.
ISBN: 9780812296990
Publication Date: 2020-05-15
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History 350-01

Introduction to Public History by Cherstin M. Lyon; Elizabeth M. Nix; Rebecca K. Shrum
Call Number: E-book. Click title to access online.
ISBN: 9781442272224
Publication Date: 2017-03-06
From Storefront to Monument by Andrea A. Burns
Call Number: E-book. Click title to access online.
ISBN: 9781625340351
Publication Date: 2013-10-03
1 Print Copy Available at Hunter Library and 1 for request from ASU Check Availability
A Rift in the Earth by James Reston; James Reston
Call Number: E-book. ONLY 6 USERS AT A TIME
ISBN: 9781628728583
Publication Date: 2017-09-05

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HIST-341

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North Carolina by William A. Link
Call Number: E-book. Unlimited users. Click title to access online.
ISBN: 9781118833537
Publication Date: 2017-11-23
The American Slave: Volume 14, North Carolina Narratives Part 1 by George P. Rawick; Jules Rawick
Call Number: E-book. Click title to access online.
ISBN: 9780837163123
Publication Date: 1972-10-27
Blood Done Sign My Name by Timothy B. Tyson
Call Number: E-book. ONLY 6 USERS AT A TIME
ISBN: 9781400083114
Publication Date: 2005-05-03

Reading Assignments

Michael Leroy Oberg, “Lost Colonists, Lost Indians,” The Head in Edward Nugent’s Hand: Roanoke’s Forgotten Indians (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), 123-152.
John R. Maass, “‘All This Poor Province Could Do’: North Carolina and the Seven Years War, 1757-1762 (Links to an external site.),” North Carolina Historical Review 79:1 (2002): 50-89.
William A. Link, North Carolina: Change and Tradition in a Southern State: Ch. 5: “The Age of Revolution.”
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William A. Link, North Carolina: Change and Tradition in a Southern State: Ch. 10: “Reconstruction.”
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William A. Link, North Carolina: Change and Tradition in a Southern State: Ch. 15: “Depression, New Deal, and WWII.”
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Jeffrey J. Crow, Paul D. Escott, and Flora J. Hatley, eds., “Nineteenth-Century Slavery,” A History of African Americans in North Carolina, rvd. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 2002), 48-69.
See PDF Chapter in Canvas.
Richard Reid, “Raising the African Brigade: Early Black Recruitment in Civil War North Carolina,” North Carolina Historical Review 70:3 (1993): 266-297.
William L. Barney, “Confederate Soldier,” The Making of a Confederate: Walter Lenoir’s Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), Chapter 2.
Wilmington on Fire (Streaming Video)
Steven E. Nash, "Aiding the Southern Mountain Republicans: The Freemen's Bureau in Buncombe County," North Carolina Historical Review 83:1 (2006): 1-30.
Roger Biles, "Tobacco Towns: Urban Growth and Economic Development in Eastern North Carolina," North Carolina Historical Review 84:2 (2007): 156-190.

Stephen Wallace Taylor, "Railroads, Good Roads, and Sawmill Villages," in The New South's New Frontier: A Social History of Economic Development in Southwestern North Carolina (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001),16-35.
See PDF Chapter in Canvas.
Richard D. Starnes, "National Parks, Ski Resorts, and Second Homes: Mountain Tourism Development after 1930," in Creating the Land of the Sky: Tourism and Society in Western North Carolina (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005), 117-47.
Terry Sanford and the New South (Streaming Video)
Amos Esty, "North Carolina Republicans and the Conservative Revolution, 1964-1968," North Carolina Historical Review 82:1 (2005): 1-32.
Christopher Arris Oakley, "Indian Gaming and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians," North Carolina Historical Review 78:2 (2001): 133-55.