Posted in Tar Heelia on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources announced today that 24,000 articles from William S. Powell’s Dictionary of North Carolina Biography and Encyclopedia of North Carolina will be added to NCPedia, the free, online encyclopedia of North Carolina history, biography, and culture maintained by the State Library of North Carolina. This is big news for [...]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
One of the most famous maps of early North Carolina is the one created in 1733 by Edward Moseley, the Surveyor General of the province (Note: It’s NOT the one above. Keep reading to learn more). Moseley’s A New and Correct Map of the Province of North Carolina is generally cited as the first map [...]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Memorabilia Moment, Tar Heelia on February 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The photo above is one of 66 images of historic schools in North Carolina that the State Library of North Carolina added to its Flickr site. Our colleagues are trying to determine where each of these schools stood. The photos were included in the Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of North Carolina [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, Tar Heelia, tagged american heritage, american revolution, intestine war, nc gov abner nash, thomas b allen on February 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“In the South, intestine [internal] war continually raged inside the conventional war of strategy and maneuver being fought by the British and Continental armies. Intestine warfare was more than pitched; it fondly embraced cruelty, nighttime murders and hangings without trial…. “Or, as North Carolina Governor Abner Nash more vividly described the land that suffered it, [...]
Posted in Tar Heelia on February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Our friends at the State Library of North Carolina have just added a bunch of new materials to their excellent historical state publications online collection. Among the titles recently added is the North Carolina Collection’s copy of the Public Papers and Letters of O. Max Gardner, from his term as Governor, 1929-1933. The volume includes [...]
Posted in Tar Heelia on February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Several new titles just added to “New in the North Carolina Collection.” To see the full list simply click on the link in this entry or click on the “New in the North Carolina Collection” tab at the top of the page. As always, full citations for all the new titles can be found in [...]
Posted in Tar Heelia on January 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Several new titles just added to “New in the North Carolina Collection.” To see the full list simply click on the link in this entry or click on the “New in the North Carolina Collection” tab at the top of the page. As always, full citations for all the new titles can be found in [...]
Posted in History, Just A Bite, On This Day, Tar Heelia on January 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Our colleagues at NCpedia remind us that today marks the 300th anniversary of the Carolina Proprietors’ official appointment of Edward Hyde as governor of the northern half of the Carolina province. As William S. Powell writes in North Carolina Through Four Centuries: Unhappy over the chaotic conditions in their province, the Lords Proprietors decided on [...]
Posted in Tar Heelia, tagged esse quam videri, ferdinand waldo demara, great impostor, machiavelli, nc state motto, robert crichton, stephen colbert, the prince on January 23, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Stephen Colbert isn’t alone in kissing off the noble concept of North Carolina’s state motto. “It is not…necessary for a prince to have all the above-named qualities,” Niccolo Machiavelli advised in “The Prince” (1532), “but it is very necessary to seem to have them.” And then there was Ferdinand Waldo Demara (1921-1982), who out of [...]
Posted in Tar Heelia, tagged 25th nc infantry regiment, camp davis nc on January 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The ill-starred and ill-steered Costa Concordia was dominating cable news when this liftout quote on the back cover of the latest Windows grabbed my eye: “We can see the Yankee ships all the time. [T]he other day one came so close I could see the Captain….” Letter writer William Cain, 25th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, [...]
