North Carolina Division of Archives & History
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Blue’s March: An Overmountain Men Tale
$18.00 Add to cartDuring the War for Independence, threats of war spread throughout America’s thirteen colonies. By 1780, British Loyalists terrorized Patriots’ homes throughout the Carolinas and planned to move westwa… [more below]
- Author: Hatton, Katelynn A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0865265143
- Language: English
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Freedom’s Howl: Song of the Red Wolves
$18.00 Add to cartIn a cozy, sheltered den in the woods, four Red Wolf puppies are born. Their parents and older brothers will nurture and teach them through the summer and fall, as they learn to mark, hunt, and howl. … [more below]
- Author: Heyes, Eileen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: June 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0865265127
- Language: English
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So Great the Devastation: The 1916 Flood in Western North Carolina
$10.00 Add to cartIn mid-July 1916, the remnants of two hurricanes collided over western North Carolina, inundating the mountain region and the western Piedmont with historic rainfall. The result was catastrophic. Land… [more below]
- Author: Bandel, Jessica A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0865264813
- Language: English
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Within Our Power: The Story of the Edenton Ladies’ Tea Party
$18.00 Add to cartIn 1774, many people in thirteen of Great Britain’s North American colonies were angry. They had been ordered to pay money–taxes–to the government. However, they had no governmental representatives … [more below]
- Author: Walker, Sally
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0865265062
- Language: English
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Bountiful Red Acres: Two Farms, Two Families, and a Year on the Land
$14.95 Add to cartYoung readers can get a taste of farm life in the North Carolina Piedmont through Bountiful Red Acres. The story chronicles a year in the lives of two neighboring families–one Black and one White–mo… [more below]
- Author: Heyes, Eileen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 086526502X
- Language: English
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The Formative Cultures of the Carolina Piedmont
$22.00 Add to cartThe name Joffre Lanning Coe (1916-2000) is synonymous with North Carolina archaeology, and the original publication of this book in 1964 represented a landmark in American archaeology. In it Coe repor… [more below]
- Author: Coe, Joffre Lanning
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 086526323X
- Language: English
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The First Colonists: Documents on the Planting of the First English Settlements in North America, 1584-1590
$16.00 Add to cartSixteenth-century narratives collected by Richard Hakluyt and drawings by John White offer remarkable firsthand evidence of the first voyages and attempts at colonization of the New World by the Engli… [more below]
- Author: Quinn, David Beers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 245
- Publish Date: January 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0865261954
- Language: English
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The Pirates of Colonial North Carolina
$10.00 Add to cartOriginally published in 1960, this paperback is the most popular title ever published by the Historical Publications Section and has never gone out of print. It contains a separate chapter about Black… [more below]
- Author: Rankin, Hugh F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: January 01 1960
- ISBN10: 0865263310
- Language: English
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North Carolina in Maps
$10.00 Add to cartPresents a detailed introduction to each of the following maps: White 1585 MS, White-DeBry 1590, Mercator-Hondius 1606, Comberford 1657 MS, Ogilby-Moxon ca. 1672, Moseley 1733, Collet 1770, Mouzon 177… [more below]
- Author: Cumming, William P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 44
- Publish Date: January 01 1966
- ISBN10: 0865262578
- Language: English
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Mapping the NC Coast: Sixteenth-Century Cartography and the Roanoke Voyages
$12.00 Add to cartHistorical survey that examines the cartography known or available to the English colonists of 1584-1587 as well as that which they produced during their explorations. Includes twenty-eight map plates… [more below]
- Author: Cumming, William P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: January 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0865262322
- Language: English
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Rockingham County: A Brief History
$12.00 Add to cartAuthor Lindley Butler traces the history of this northern Piedmont county from initial exploration by William Byrd II in 1728 to continued growth in 1981. Special attention is devoted to nineteenth- a… [more below]
- Author: Butler, Lindley S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: January 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0865261989
- Language: English
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A Day of Blood: The 1898 Wilmington Race Riot
$26.00 Add to cartOriginally published in 2009, the revised edition includes a foreword by Dr. Valerie Ann Johnson, Chair of the North Carolina African American Heritage Commission and Dean of the School of Arts, Scien… [more below]
- Author: Umfleet, Lerae Sikes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: August 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0865265011
- Language: English
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Native Carolinians: The Indians of North Carolina
$12.00 Add to cartIn Native Carolinians, Dr. Theda Perdue, Atlanta Distinguished Professor of Southern Culture at UNC at Chapel Hill, discusses the history, life-style, and culture of the native people of the region b… [more below]
- Author: Perdue, Theda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0865263450
- Language: English
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My N.C. from A-Z
$14.95 Add to cartChildren and parents will love learning their very first ideas about North Carolina in My N.C. from A-Z. This colorful, sturdy board book celebrates pride of place, creates connections to North Caroli… [more below]
- Author: Lanier, Michelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0865264996
- Language: English
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We Who Believe in Freedom: The Life and Times of Ella Baker
$14.00 Add to cartThe second volume in the True Tales for Young Readers series, this short biography of the civil rights leader is intended for middle school and high school readers. Ella Baker, who grew up in Littleto
- Series: True Tales for Young Readers
- Author: Williams, Lea E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: November 01, 2017
- ISBN10: 0865264880
- Language: English
