The North Carolina Experience: An Interpretive and Documentary History - Paperback

by Lindley S. Butler (Editor), Alan D. Watson (Editor)

This collection of nineteen original essays on selected topics and epochs in North Carolina history offers a broad survey of the state from its discovery and colonization to the present. Each chapter consists of an interpretive essay on a specific aspect of North Carolina's history, a collection of supporting documents, and a brief bibliography.

Selections cover historical periods ranging from Elizabethan to contemporary times and examine such issues as slavery, populism, civil rights, and the status of women. Essays address the tragedy of North Carolina's Indians, the state's role in the Revolutionary War and the Confederacy, and the impact of the Great Depression. North Carolina's place in the New South and evangelical culture in the state are also discussed.

Designed as a supplementary reader for the study and teaching of North Carolina history, The North Carolina Experience will introduce college students to the process of historical research and writing. It will also be a valuable resource in secondary schools, public libraries, and the homes of those interested in North Carolina history.

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The North Carolina Experience: An Interpretive and Documentary History is designed to introduce the reader to the process of history. Simply stated, history is the recorded past interpreted, and this work presents to the reader brief interpretive essays and primary sources on specific topics. In this encounter with historians and their sources of history, one should grow to understand that history is no simple formula but a complex discipline that often raises more questions than are answered.