Durham County : A History of Durham County, North Carolina /

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This sweeping history of Durham County, North Carolina, extends from the seventeenth century to the end of the twentieth.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Anderson, Jean Bradley
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2011.
Edición:2nd ed., rev. and expanded.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
North Carolina > Durham County.
Durham County (N.C.) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Land for the taking : prehistory-1740s
  • Moving in, 1740s-1771
  • The American Revolution
  • Eighteenth-century Orange County, 1752-1800
  • The Rip Van Winkle era, 1801-1840
  • Improvement fever, 1840-1861
  • Origins of the town of Durham, 1819?-1861
  • Victory from defeat, 1861-1865
  • From bust to boom, 1865-1880
  • A house divided : an independent Black culture, 1865?-1880
  • A county at last, 1880?-1890
  • The apogee of an era, 1890-1903
  • Social challenges, 1900-1917
  • The face of change, 1903-1917
  • Joining the world, 1917-1924
  • Elation and depression, 1925-1941
  • World War II and the end of an era, 1941-1945
  • The old order changeth, 1946-1969
  • Civil rights, 1954-1978
  • Rounding out a century, 1960-1981
  • City and county to century's end
  • Appendix: Population statistics and officeholders.

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