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| Author | : Jean Bradley Anderson |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 664 |
| Release | : 2011-05-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0822349833 |
This sweeping history of Durham County, North Carolina, extends from the seventeenth century to the end of the twentieth.
| Author | : William Hutchinson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 668 |
| Release | : 1787 |
| Genre | : Durham (England : County) |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Nikolaus Pevsner |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 656 |
| Release | : 1983-01-01 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9780300095999 |
The premier monument is Durham Cathedral, greatest of English Norman churches. Lovers of the Middle Ages will also seek out the county's exceptional Anglo-Saxon churches, while many of its great castles - Brancepeth, Raby, Auckland, Lambton - conceal palatial Georgian and Victorian interiors. The landscape varies dramatically, from the wilds of Teesdale and Weardale, in the west, to the pioneering industrial ports of Sunderland and Hartlepool on the coast, including fine gentry houses and stone-built market towns. South Tyneside and northern Cleveland, historically part of County Durham, are also covered.
| Author | : Leslie Brown |
| Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 468 |
| Release | : 2009-11-17 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0807877530 |
In the 1910s, both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional race progress. Migration, urbanization, and industrialization had turned black Durham from a post-Civil War liberation community into the "capital of the black middle class." African Americans owned and operated mills, factories, churches, schools, and an array of retail services, shops, community organizations, and race institutions. Using interviews, narratives, and family stories, Leslie Brown animates the history of this remarkable city from emancipation to the civil rights era, as freedpeople and their descendants struggled among themselves and with whites to give meaning to black freedom. Brown paints Durham in the Jim Crow era as a place of dynamic change where despite common aspirations, gender and class conflicts emerged. Placing African American women at the center of the story, Brown describes how black Durham's multiple constituencies experienced a range of social conditions. Shifting the historical perspective away from seeing solidarity as essential to effective struggle or viewing dissent as a measure of weakness, Brown demonstrates that friction among African Americans generated rather than depleted energy, sparking many activist initiatives on behalf of the black community.
| Author | : William Page |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 474 |
| Release | : 1907 |
| Genre | : Durham (England : County) |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Robert Franklin Durden |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 332 |
| Release | : 1975 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780822307433 |
Chiefly a record of the life and descendants of Washington Duke. He was born 20 Dec 1820 to Taylor Duke and Dicey Jones. He married Mary Caroline Clinton in 1842. They were the parents of two children. She died in 1847. He married Artelia Toney in Dec 1852. They were the parents of three children. She died in 1858. He died 8 May 1905.
| Author | : Jim Wise |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 151 |
| Release | : 2008-11-12 |
| Genre | : Photography |
| ISBN | : 1614230374 |
Run into the history of the Bull City! There is much history in the Bull City, and some of it can be found within these pages. How Bull Durham smoking tobacco put Durham, North Carolina, on the map. How a plastic cow and an oversized flag cut the city council down to size. How it felt to travel back in time at the Duke Homestead. How sportsman Al Mann and "Mom" Ruby Planck left indelible marks on their hometown. Journalist and local historian Jim Wise shows you that while Durham's stories are its own, readers may find the people, places and truths in them resonate with hometowns everywhere.
| Author | : John Lawson |
| Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 366 |
| Release | : 1967 |
| Genre | : Botany |
| ISBN | : 9780807841266 |
Exploring women's contributions to the southern farm economy in the 20th century, Jones argues that rural women were not passive victims of modernization but creative businesswomen and eager participants in market exchanges.
| Author | : Jim Wise |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780738523811 |
From Durham, North Carolina's start in the tobacco and textile industries, the stories of the history and evolution of the Bull City are fascinating and sometimes unexpected. From the Cigarette City to the City of Medicine, Durham has progressed from a country crossroad, famed for rum and rowdiness, to a prosperous metropolis, renowned for medical research and advanced technology. Recognized as a thriving point in North Carolina's Research Triangle, the city began along industrial and commercial networks as early as the seventeenth century, paving the way for famous beginnings in the distinctive tobacco and textile industries. From its roots in the agrarian Carolina backcountry to its foundation as a railroad stop, growth into a tobacco-based industrial area, and transformation into a coming-of-age city, the Bull City story is wrought with tales of coincidence, good fortune, and unexpected outcomes. Durham exists through quirk and happenstance, derived from a slave's drowsiness, a textile tycoon's authority, and the union of a widower and the county's loveliest girl. The developing city embodies the spirit of these unique beginnings. Starting long before North Carolina was established and extending to the present, Durham: A Bull City Story recounts the engaging, comprehensive history of an environmentally and culturally rich area of the state. A myriad of first-hand accounts allow the reader to mingle with Durham's residents throughout significant historical times.
