• A brief history of Macon County, North Carolina (1891) – Smith, C. D. (Conaro Drayton) – 15 pages
• A general directory of Mount Airy, North Carolina : rural routes and suburbs, 1913-1914 (1913) – 108 pages
• A history of Rowan County, North Carolina : (1916) – Rumple, Jethro; Daughters of the American Revolution. Elizabeth Maxwell Steele Chapter (Salisbury, N.C.) – 618 pages
• A history of Watauga County, North Carolina : with sketches of prominent families (1915) – Arthur, John Preston – 364 pages
• Asheville and Buncombe County (1922) – Sondley, F. A. (Forster Alexander); Davidson, Theodore F. (Theodore Fulton) – 200 pages
• Beasley & Emerson’s Charlotte directory for 1875-76 : being a complete index to the residents of the entire city : also a classified business directory, to which is added an appendix containing useful information of the city, county, state, churches, banks, societies and miscellaneous matters, with a sketch of Charlotte, together with a street directory (1875) – 136 pages
• Biographical history of North Carolina from colonial times to the present; Volume 5 (1905) – Ashe, Samuel A. (Samuel A’Court) – 500 pages
• Centennial of Haywood County and its county seat, Waynesville, N. C. (1908) – Allen, W. C. (William Cicero) – 184 pages
• City directory of Asheville, North Carolina (1910) – 532 pages
• City directory of Asheville, North Carolina (1922) – 630 pages
• County government and county affairs in North Carolina (1918) – North Carolina Club; Branson, E. C. (Eugene Cunningham) – 188 pages
• County government in colonial North Carolina (1911) – Guess, William Conrad – 39 pages
• Directory of Burlington, Graham and Haw River, N.C. (1909) – Miller, Ernest H – 184 pages
• Durham County : economic and social (1918) – 92 pages
• Durham, N.C. directory (Volume 1903/1904) – 298 pages
• Early family burial grounds of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina : 1763, late 1800 (1900) – Daughters of the American Revolution – 40 pages
• Early history of Tarboro, North Carolina : also collated colonial public claims of Edgecombe County : and Easter Sunday in Savannah, Ga. (1908) – Lichtenstein, Gaston – 16 pages
• Economic and social history of Chowan County, North Carolina, 1880-1915 (1917) – Boyce, Warren Scott – 296 pages
• Fisher’s River (North Carolina) scenes and characters (1859) – Taliaferro, Hardin E – 269 pages
• Forsyth : a county on the march (1949) – Fries, Adelaide L. (Adelaide Lisetta) – 248 pages
• Forsyth County (1898) – Fries, Adelaide L. (Adelaide Lisetta) – 132 pages
• Haddock’s Wilmington, N.C., directory, and general advertiser : containing a general and business directory of the city, historical sketch, state, county, city government, &c., &c. (1871) – Haddock, T. M. (Thomas M.); Heinsberger, P – 276 pages
• Halifax County : economic and social : a laboratory study in the Rural Social Science Department of the University of North Carolina (1920) – 75 pages
• Heads of families at the first census of the United States taken in the year 1790 : North Carolina (1908) – United States. Bureau of the Census – 292 pages
• Hickory, North Carolina city directory [serial] ((1921/1922) – 168 pages
• Historical papers of the North Carolina Conference Historical Society and the Western North Carolina Conference Historical Society (1925) – North Carolina Conference Historical Society; Western North Carolina Conference Historical Society – 175 pages
• History of Edgecombe county, North Carolina (1920) – Turner, Joseph Kelly; Bridgers, John Luther – 486 pages
• History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte : from 1740 to 1903 Volume 1 (1903) – Tompkins, Daniel Augustus – 202 pages
• History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte : from 1740 to 1903 Volume 2 (1903) – Tompkins, Daniel Augustus – 213 pages
• History of North Carolina : from the earliest discoveries to the present time Volume 1 (1880) – Moore, John W. (John Wheeler) – 495 pages
• History of North Carolina : from the earliest discoveries to the present time Volume 2 (1880) – Moore, John W. (John Wheeler) – 530 pages
• History of Wake County, North Carolina : with sketches of those who have most influenced its development (1922) – Chamberlain, Hope Summerell – 302 pages
• Indexes to documents relative to North Carolina during the colonial existence of said state, now on file in the offices of the Board of Trade and State Paper Offices in London (1843) – Gallatin, Albert – 210 pages
• Joel Lane, pioneer and patriot. a biographical sketch, including notes about the Lane family and the colonial and revolutionary history of Wake County, North Carolina (1900) – Haywood, Marshall De Lancey – 23 pages
• Johnston county: economic and social (1922) – 83 pages
• North Carolina schools and academies, 1790-1840; a documentary history (1915) – Coon, Charles L. (Charles Lee) – 846 pages
• Randolph County business directory, 1894 : in three parts: 1, Alphabetical … 2, Classified … 3, Farmers and land owners … : also a supplement .. (1894) – Branson, L. (Levi) – 330 pages
• Record of the service of the Forty-fourth Massachusetts volunteer militia in North Carolina, August 1862 to May 1863 (1887) – Gardner, James Browne, ed – 364 pages
• Register of the North Carolina Society of the Colonial Dames of America (1912) – North Carolina Society of Colonial Dames of America; Wood, Jean Dalziel; Sprunt, Luola Murchison – 233 pages
• Richmond County directory for the years 1916-1917 (1916) – 176 pages
• Rockingham County, economic and social : a laboratory study at the University of North Carolina, Department of Rural Economics and Sociology (1918) – 72 pages
• Roster of Confederate soldiers in the war between the states furnished by Lincoln County, North Carolina, 1861-1865 (1905) – United Confederate Veterans. W.J. Hoke Camp (Lincolnton, N.C.); United Daughters of the Confederacy. Southern Stars Chapter (Lincolnton, N.C.); Nixon, Alfred – 64 pages
• Rutherford County, North Carolina, its establishment, early history, topography, soil, products, and other resources (1886) – Hicks, Oliver; Twitty, W. L. – 40 pages
• Salisbury-Spencer, North Carolina city directory (1907) – 398 pages
• School history of North Carolina, from 1584 to 1879 (1879) – Moore, John W. (John Wheeler) – 323 pages
• Sketches of western North Carolina, historical and biographical : illustrating principally the Revolutionary period of Mecklenburg, Rowan, Lincoln, and adjoining counties, accompanied with miscellaneous information, much of it never before published (1877) – Hunter, C. L – 357 pages
• Souvenir of the twin cities of North Carolina, Winston-Salem, Forsyth County (1890) – Winkler, Angelina Virginia (Walton) – 91 pages
• Statesville, North Carolina, city directory (1916/1917) – 152 pages
• Story of progress of the queen city Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, North Carolina (1910) – Henry, W. R. – 34 pages
• The Asheville city directory and gazetteer of Buncombe County for 1883-’84 : comprising a complete list of the citizens of Asheville with places of business and residence … (1883) – Davison, J. P -152 pages
• The beginnings of public education in North Carolina : a documentary history, 1790-1840 Volume 1 (1908) – Coon, Charles Lee – 531 pages
• The beginnings of public education in North Carolina : a documentary history, 1790-1840 Volume 2 (1908) – Coon, Charles Lee – 546 pages
• The history of Guilford County, North Carolina (1902) – Stockard, Sallie Walker – 197 pages
• The Knox family; a genealogical and biographical sketch of the descendants of John Knox of Rowan County, North Carolina, and other Knoxes (1905) – Goodman, Hattie S – 266 pages
• The Lowrie history : as acted in part by Henry Berry Lowrie, the great North Carolina bandit, with biographical sketch of his associates (c1909) – Norment, Mary C; Olds, Fred A – 192 pages
• The Mecklenburg declaration of independence; a study of evidence showing that the alleged early declaration of independence by Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, on May 20th, 1775, is spurious (1907) – Hoyt, William Henry – 284 pages
• The state records of North Carolina 1780-81 (1907) – Saunders, William Lawrence, ed; Clark, Walter, ed; Weeks, Stephen Beauregard – 789 pages
• The Watkins family of North Carolina, particularly enumerating those descendants of Levin Watkins of Duplin County, N.C., who emigrated to Alabama and Mississippi early in the nineteenth century (1915) – Watkins, William Bismarck – 85 pages
• Wake County : economic and social (1918) – 67 pages
• Waynesville and Haywood County directory (Volume 1906/1907) – 186 pages
• Western North Carolina; a history (1730-1913) (1914) – Arthur, John Preston; National Society Daughters of the American Revolution of North Carolina. Edward Buncombe Chapter, Asheville – 709 pages
• Winston-Salem, N.C. city directory (1915) – 702 pages

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First published in 1942, Cross Creek Cookery was compiled by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings at the request of readers who wanted to recreate the luscious meals described in Cross Creek – her famous memoir of life in a Florida hamlet.

Lovers of old-fashioned, down-home cooking will treasure the recipes for Grits, Hush-Puppies, Florida Fried Fish, Orange Fluff, and Utterly Deadly Southern Pecan Pie. For more adventuresome palates, there are such unusual dishes as Minorcan Gopher Stew, Coot Surprise, Alligator-Tail Steak, Mayhaw Jelly, and Chef Huston’s Cream of Peanut Soup.

Spiced with delightful anecdotes and lore, Cross Creek Cookery guides the reader through the rich culinary heritage of the deep tidal South with a loving regard for the rituals of cooking and eating. Anyone who longs for food — and writing — that warms the heart will find ample portions of both in this classic cookbook.

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A century ago, in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, one of the world’s greatest public hospitals was built. Massive and modern, the hospital’s twenty-two state-of-the-art buildings were crammed onto two small islands, man-made from the rock and dirt excavated during the building of the New York subway. As America’s first line of defense against immigrant-borne disease, the hospital was where the germs of the world converged.

The Ellis Island hospital was at once welcoming and foreboding—a fateful crossroad for hundreds of thousands of hopeful immigrants. Those nursed to health were allowed entry to America. Those deemed feeble of body or mind were deported.

Three short decades after it opened, the Ellis Island hospital was all but abandoned. As America after World War I began shutting its border to all but a favored few, the hospital fell into disuse and decay, its medical wards left open only to the salt air of the New York Harbor.

With many never-before-published photographs and compelling, sometimes heartbreaking stories of patients (a few of whom are still alive today) and medical staff, Forgotten Ellis Island is the first book about this extraordinary institution. It is a powerful tribute to the best and worst of America’s dealings with its new citizens-to-be.

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You’ll start at the right place: The beginning! Learn answers to the most important and popular questions: What is a blog? Do I need a blog? How do I get started? What do I blog about? How do I blog? Creative Blogging then takes you through the how-to aspects of blogging, so you can quickly learn the terminology and get started. You’ll then be able to choose the right blogging tool for you!

Soon, you’ll be prepared to unleash your creativity! Like a good author, you’ll learn how to find information to blog about, and how to express yourself in your blog in the ways that you want. Your creativity is what will make your blog successful, but every artist needs an audience. Creative Blogging reveals how to draw people to your site!

You’ll also discover how to work with images and video, how to integrate your blog with Twitter and Facebook, and even how to make money with your blog! Let your creativity bring your audience to you and your blog with Creative Blogging.

This book is for beginners looking to start a new blog and let their creativity find their audience within the blogosphere. You’ll learn the basics of how to blog,how to show your creative self on your blog, and how to find your audience.

What you’ll learn:

• What a blog is—everything you need to know!
• How to choose the best blog tool for YOU!
• How to set up and organize your blog
• How to be creative in your blog’s design and layout
• How to work with images to create a beautiful blog
• More advanced blog techniques and strategies
• Tools to promote your blog, increase visits, and make money!
• How to connect with popular social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook
• Where to find help, tools, tips and tricks

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Family history isn’t hard. We do it every day without thinking about it. Our minds travel in that direction. Our minds are always going home. Family stories are our points of reference in every situation. They are involuntary responses, like sneezes. We see a hat worn by a man on an old movie channel and our minds jump to grandfather; his hat, his chair, his Scottie on his lap. We roll our cart by the butcher case at the grocery store and a passing glimpse at cubes of stew beef transports us momentarily to mother’s kitchen, where she reaches for her blue-speckled roasting pan, the one with the lid.

When you give your stories, you are giving yourself. You are giving your parents, your grandparents, your great-grandparents to future generations. You are allowing the past and the present to shake hands with one another.

Your family history is not meant to be painted in broad brush strokes, summing up the meaning of the millennium. It is a description of your living room, of your grandmother’s living room-your life.

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Telling Stories explores why and how personal narratives should be used as evidence, and the methods and pitfalls of their use. The authors stress the importance of recognizing that stories that people tell about their lives are never simply individual. Rather, they are told in historically specific times and settings and call on rules, models, and social experiences that govern how story elements link together in the process of self-narration. Stories show how individuals’ motivations, emotions, and imaginations have been shaped by their cumulative life experiences. In turn, Telling Stories demonstrates how the knowledge produced by personal narrative analysis is not simply contained in the stories told; the understanding that takes place between narrator and analyst and between analyst and audience enriches the results immeasurably.

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The volume begins with a profile of the Lady of Cofitachequi, who sat at the head of an Indian chiefdom and led her people in encounters with Spanish explorers. The essays that follow look at well-known women such as Eliza Lucas Pinckney, who managed several indigo plantations; the abolitionist Angelina Grimke; and Civil War diarist Mary Boykin Chesnut. Also included, however, are essays on the much-less-documented lives of poor white farming women (the Neves family of Mush Creek), free African American women (Margaret Bettingall and her daughters), and slave women, the latter based on interviews and their own letters. The essays in volume 1 demonstrate that many women in this most conservative of states, with its strong emphasis on traditional gender roles, carved out far richer public lives than historians have often attributed to antebellum southern women.

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