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General North Carolina History and Reference | Colonial North Carolina
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The list of books and articles about North Carolina provided here, though far from exhaustive, features resources that were useful in producing this digital collection. It consists of both primary and secondary sources that complement and supplement the documents in the collection. Our aim was not to tailor the list to a specific group, but rather to make it useful to all audiences interested in the history of North Carolina and to provide an overview of the state's early history.

General North Carolina History and Reference

Colonial North Carolina

Revolutionary and Early State North Carolina

  • Babits, Lawrence Edward, and Joshua B. Howard. Fortitude and Forbearance: The North Carolina Continental Line in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1783. Raleigh N.C.: Office of Archives and History, N.C. Dept. of Cultural Resources, 2004.
  • Buchanan, John. The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas. New York: Wiley, 1997.
  • Cavanagh, John C. Decision at Fayetteville: The North Carolina Ratification Convention and the General Assembly of 1789. Raleigh N.C.: State Dept. of Archives and History, 1989.
  • Conner, Robert Diggs Wimberly. Revolutionary Leaders of North Carolina. Greensboro, N.C.: The College, 1916.
  • Crow, Jeffrey J. Black Experience in Revolutionary North Carolina. Raleigh N.C.: State Dept. of Archives and History, 1977.
  • Draper, Lyman Copeland. King's Mountain and its Heroes: History of the Battle of King's Mountain, October 7th, 1780, and the Events which Led to It. Cincinnati: P.G. Thomson, 1881.
  • Fanning, David. The Narrative of Colonel David Fanning. Richmond, V.A.: 1861.
  • Ganyard, Robert L. The Emergence of North Carolina's Revolutionary State Government. Raleigh: North Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, 1978.
  • Lester, William Stewart. The Transylvania Colony. Spencer, Ind.: S.R. Guard & Co., 1935.
  • Mathews, Alice Elaine. Society in Revolutionary North Carolina. Raleigh: North Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, 1976.
  • McEachern, Leora H. and Isabel M. Williams, eds. Wilmington-New Hanover Safety Committee Minutes, 1774-1776. Wilmington, N.C.: Wilmington-New Hanover County American Revolution Bi-centennial Association, 1974.
  • Messick, Hank. King's Mountain: The Epic of the Blue Ridge "Mountain Men" in the American Revolution. Boston: Little, Brown, 1976.
  • Moore, Frank. The Diary of the American Revolution, 1775-1781. Hartford: J.R. Burr Publishing Co., 1876.
  • Morgan, David T., and William J. Schmidt. North Carolinians in the Continental Congress. Winston-Salem, N.C.: J. F. Blair, 1976.
  • Price, William S., Martin Howard, and Maurice Moore. Not a Conquered People: Two Carolinians View Parliamentary Taxation. Raleigh: North Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, 1975.
  • Ramsey, J. G. M. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Charleston, S.C.: Walker and James, 1853.
  • Rankin, Hugh F. "The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge Campaign, 1776." North Carolina Historical Review 30(1), 1953.
  • Rankin, Hugh F. Greene and Cornwallis: The Campaign in the Carolinas. Raleigh N.C.: State Dept. of Archives and History, 1976.
  • Rankin, Hugh F. The North Carolina Continentals. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
  • Treacy, Michael Frank. Prelude to Yorktown; the Southern Campaign of Nathanael Greene, 1780-1781. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1963.
  • Trenholme, Louise Irby. The Ratification of the Federal Constitution in North Carolina. New York: AMS Press, 1967.
  • Williams, Samuel Cole. History of the Lost State of Franklin. New York: The Press of the Pioneers, 1933.

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