Durham County

A History of Durham County, North Carolina

Jean Bradley Anderson

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9780822349839
• eBook ISBN:
  9780822394044
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

In this revised and expanded second edition of Durham County, Jean Bradley Anderson extends her sweeping history of Durham from the seventeenth century to the end of the twentieth. Moving beyond traditional local histories, which tend to focus on powerful families, Anderson integrates the stories of well-known figures with those of ordinary men and women, blacks and whites, to create a complex and fascinating portrait of Durham's economic, political, social, and labor history. Drawing on extensive primary research, she examines the origins of the town of Durham and recounts the growth of communities around mills, stores, taverns, and churches in the century before the rise of tobacco manufacturing. A historical narrative encompassing the coming of the railroad; the connection between the Civil War and the rise of the tobacco industry; the Confederate surrender at Bennett Place; the relocation of Trinity College to Durham and, later, its renaming as Duke University; and the growth of health-service and high-technology industries in the decades after the development of Research Triangle Park, this second edition of Durham County is a remarkably comprehensive work.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Preface to the First Edition
• Abbreviations
• 1. Land for the Taking: Prehistory–1740s
• 2. Moving In, 1740s–1771
• 3. The American Revolution
• 4. Eighteenth-Century Orange County, 1752–1800
• 5. The Rip Van Winkle Era, 1801–1840
• 6. Improvement Fever, 1840–1861
• 7. Origins of the Town of Durham, 1819–1861
• 8. Victory from Defeat, 1861–1865
• 9. From Bust to Boom, 1865–1880
• 10. A House Divided: An Independent Black Culture, 1865–1880
• 11. A County at Last, 1880–1890
• 12. The Apogee of an Era, 1890–1903
• 13. Social Challenges, 1900–1917
• 14. The Face of Change, 1903–1917
• 15. Joining the World, 1917–1924
• 16. Elation and Depression, 1925–1941
• 17. World War II and the End of an Era, 1941–1945
• 18. The Old Order Changeth, 1946–1969
• 19. Civil Rights, 1954–1978
• 20. Rounding Out a Century, 1960–1981
• 21. City and County to Millennium’s End
• Appendix: Population Statistics and Officeholders
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index