This book chronicles the Outer Banks town of Nags Head as a beach resort beginning in the antebellum period and continuing into the early twentieth century. There is a discussion of the ocean-front beach cottages that were built during the years between the Civil War and World War II for merchants, planters, and professional men and their families from northeastern North Carolina and from Virginia. Also discussed in great detail are the activities enjoyed by the owners of those cottages during their summer visits.The text first appeared as an article in the October 1997 issue of the North Carolina Historical Review.

Unpainted Aristocracy: The Beach Cottages of Old Nags Head

Arts & Photography

Catherine W. Bishir

Architecture

North Carolina Division of Archives and History

The correspondence of William Tryon and other selected papers, Vol. 2

History

William Tryon

Americas

Discusses what native America was like before the arrival of Europeans; the Indian way of life; Indian-white relations; and native Carolinians today. Includes separate chapters on the Cherokee and the Lumbee and an appendix listing important dates in North Carolina Indian history.

Native Carolinians: The Indians of North Carolina

Theda Perdue

Picture postcards, introduced in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, quickly became one of the nation's most popular means of communicating. Sending and receiving messages accompanied by printed images was a novel and exciting experience for the general public at a time when the telephone was still in its infancy.Like the rest of the nation, North Carolina was caught up in the postcard craze during the first two decades of the twentieth century. Between 1905 and 1925 thousands of "view" cards depicting North Carolina scenes were produced. The cards feature a wide range of subject matter and reflect a topical and geographic diversity.The 520 postcard views reproduced in this volume offer a glimpse into a bygone era in the history of North Carolina. They depict the state's eight largest cities; its more numerous--and more typical--small towns; and the environment in which early twentieth-century North Carolinians resided, earned their livelihoods, conducted business, traveled, learned, worshiped, socialized, and engaged in popular diversions.With few exceptions, the images that compriseA North Carolina Postcard Album have never before been published. Their availability in this volume will add immeasurably to the visual record of the state's early twentieth-century towns, buildings, history, urban history, photography, architecture, historic preservation, and recreation.

A North Carolina Postcard Album, 1905-1925

Stephen E. Massengill and Robert M. Topkins

State Troops and Volunteers contains 603 rare and striking photographs of Tar Heel soldiers who lived, fought, and died during the Civil War. This volume differs from previous books of Civil War photographs in two important ways. First, the author, relying principally on compiled military service records and family histories, has assembled a detailed account of each soldier's wartime career. Included, when available, are the soldier's civilian occupation, dates of birth and death, date of enlistment, unit affiliation, and events that affected him while in service. Second, the volume includes a vast array of previously unpublished photographs held by family members of the pictured soldiers. Fully three quarters of the images reproduced in State Troops and Volunteers remain in the hands of descendants of the pictured soldiers.
 State Troops and Volunteers opens with rare images of North Carolinians who fought in the Mexican War or served in the antebellum state militia. Men like these formed the leadership core of the state's early Civil War units. Chapter 2 focuses on the men who enthusiastically enlisted during 1861, the first year of the Civil War. Chapters 3 and 4 are topical in nature and examine cavalry and family portraits respectively. Chapter 5, arranged chronologically, pictures North Carolinians who served through the grueling year of 1862. Chapters 2 and 5 also feature brief narratives on the campaigns and battles that the soldiers encountered and recount their experiences, often in the men's own words.
 This volume presents a unique blend of important images and illuminating text that offers readers the opportunity to see beyond the faces of Tar Heels who fought, and often died, during the Civil War.

State Troops and Volunteers: A Photographic Record of North Carolina's Civil War Soldiers

Biographies & Memoirs

Greg Mast

Leaders & Notable People

A Romantic Architect in Antebellum North Carolina is not merely a compilation of images; rather, it is a parcel of North Carolina's history. It represents the combined efforts of several years' careful research and thoughtful writing on the part of its authors. It is also a tribute to North Carolina's leaders during the several decades prior to the Civil War who labored to take a sluggish and backward state and make it among the most progressive in the United States. Those leaders, whose names appear throughout this document, strove to create the finest system of public education in the nation, constructed the then-longest railroad in the world, and created institutions for the care of the blind, insane and deaf. They also commissioned one of the nation's preeminent architects, Alexander Jackson Davis, for the design of their public and private edifices.

The Works of Alexander Jackson Davis: A Romantic Architect in Antebellum North Carolina

Davis, Edward T.

Sanders, John L.

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