William A. Link 
North Carolina [EPUB ebook] 
Change and Tradition in a Southern State

Preface and Acknowledgments ix
Part 1 Colonial North Carolina 1
1 European Invasion 3
2 Origins of North Carolina 24
3 A Slave Society 44
Suggested Readings, Part 1 61
Document Section, Part 1 64
Part 2 The Revolutionary Republic 79
Immigrants and the Backcountry World 81
4 The Age of Revolution 101
5 The New Republic 124
6 Suggested Readings, Part 2 146
Document Section, Part 2 149
Part 3 The Civil War Crisis 161
7 Social Change in Antebellum North Carolina 163
8 Political Parties and the Coming of the Civil War 184
9 The Civil War 201
Suggested Readings, Part 3 222
Document Section, Part 3 227
Part 4 Reconstruction and Its Aftermath 237
10 Reconstruction 239
11 Social Change in the Post-Reconstruction Era 260
12 Populism and the Crisis of the 1890s 279
Suggested Readings, Part 4 300
Document Section, Part 4 303
Part 5 Modernizing North Carolina 315
13 Progressive North Carolina 317
14 World War I and the 1920s 343
15 Depression, New Deal, and World War II 367
Suggested Readings, Part 5 392
Document Section, Part 5 395
Part 6 Toward the Twenty-First Century 409
16 Postwar North Carolina 411
17 The Civil Rights Revolution 435
18 Modernizers and Traditionalists 458
Suggested Readings, Part 6 481
Document Section, Part 6 484
Appendix 495
State Symbols 495
Governors 495
United States Senators 498
North Carolina Population, 1790-2010 500
Index 501

William A. Link is Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History at the University of Florida. He is the author of seven books on the history of the South, including Roots of Secession: Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia (2003), Righteous Warrior: Jesse Helms and the Rise of Modern Conservatism (2008), North Carolina: Change and Tradition in a Southern State (2009), and Links: My Family in American History (2012). His most recent book is Atlanta, Cradle of the New South: Race and Remembering in the Civil Wars Aftermath (2013).