HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA, Volumes I-III; Volume I: The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods, 1584-1783. Volume II: The Federal Period, 1783-1860. Volume III: North Carolina Since 1860.
Orig. pub. Chicago and New York 1919. Reprinted 1973. Print on Demand Edition 2024. Volume I, ix, 519 pp., illus., index
Volume II, viii, 407 pp., illus., maps, index
Volume III, vi, 434 pp., illus., maps, index
Available by individual volume. See entries for each volume. Item #199
This is a three-volume set written by three outstanding North Carolina historians. It was the narrative history to go along with three volumes of biographies published in 1919 by The Lewis Publishing Company. This narrative history went on to become a standard for its time.
Robert Digges Wimberly Connor authored The Colonial and Revolutionary Times, 1584-1783. Connor was a prolific writer and University of North Carolina Historian. His major contributions came in the archival field as he was the founder of what became the North Carolina Department of Archives and History. From 1934 until 1941 he served as the first Archivist of the United States developing that organization.
William Kenneth Boyd, author of Volume Two, The Federal Period, 1783-1860, was a noted historian and author at Duke University. His work was notable for its emphasis on the broader aspects of history and was characterized as the "first adequate interpretation of the history of that period." In the late twenties he devoted considerable time to the acquisition of southern Americana for the Duke Library and the development of the Flowers Collection.
Joseph Gregoire de Roulhac Hamilton, author of Volume Three, was an historian and professor at the University of North Carolina and founder of the Southern Historical Collection there. He served as its first director. His manuscript-collecting travels across the South to build that collection are legendary. He published Reconstruction in North Carolina in 1914. This volume, North Carolina Since 1860, summarizes his larger work on that subject and he relies heavily on public documents in other parts of the book.
Price: $180.00