Durham County
Subtitle: a history of Durham County, North Carolina
By: Jean Bradley Anderson
Edition: 2nd ed., rev. and expanded.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 596
ISBN-13: 9780822349839
Subjects: History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Land for the taking : prehistory-1740s; title: Moving in, 1740s-1771; title: The American Revolution; title: Eighteenth-century Orange County, 1752-1800; title: The Rip Van Winkle era, 1801-1840; title: Improvement fever, 1840-1861; title: Origins of the town of Durham, 1819?-1861; title: Victory from defeat, 1861-1865; title: From bust to boom, 1865-1880; title: A house divided : an independent Black culture, 1865?-1880; title: A county at last, 1880?-1890; title: The apogee of an era, 1890-1903; title: Social challenges, 1900-1917; title: The face of change, 1903-1917; title: Joining the world, 1917-1924; title: Elation and depression, 1925-1941; title: World War II and the end of an era, 1941-1945; title: The old order changeth, 1946-1969; title: Civil rights, 1954-1978; title: Rounding out a century, 1960-1981; title: City and county to century's end; title: Appendix: Population statistics and officeholders.