Further reading

Clay, James, and Douglas Orr, eds., North Carolina Atlas: Portrait of a Changing Southern State 1971 Christensen, Rob. The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2008). Cooper, Christopher A., and H. Gibbs Knotts, eds. The New Politics of North Carolina (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008) Crow; Jeffrey J. and Larry E. Tise; Writing North Carolina History (1979) onine Fleer; Jack D. North Carolina Government & Politics (1994) online political science textbook Hawks; Francis L. History of North Carolina 2 vol 1857 Kersey, Marianne M., and Ran Coble, eds., North Carolina Focus: An Anthology on State Government, Politics, and Policy, 2d ed., (Raleigh: North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research, 1989). Lefler; Hugh Talmage. A Guide to the Study and Reading of North Carolina History (1963) online Lefler, Hugh Talmage, and Albert Ray Newsome, North Carolina: The History of a Southern State (1954, 1963, 1973), standard textbook Link, William A. North Carolina: Change and Tradition in a Southern State (2009), 481pp history by leading scholar Luebke, Paul. Tar Heel Politics: Myths and Realities (1990). Powell William S. Dictionary of North Carolina Biography. Vol. 1, A-C; vol. 2, D-G; vol. 3, H-K. 1979–88. Powell, William S. North Carolina Fiction, 1734–1957: An Annotated Bibliography 1958 Powell, William S. North Carolina through Four Centuries (1989), standard textbook Powell, William S. and Jay Mazzocchi, eds. Encyclopedia of North Carolina (2006) 1320pp; 2000 articles by 550 experts on all topics; ISBN 0-8078-3071-2. The best starting point for most research. Ready, Milton. The Tar Heel State: A History of North Carolina (2005) excerpt and text search WPA Federal Writers' Project. North Carolina: A Guide to the Old North State. 1939. famous WPA guide to every town

Primary sources

Hugh Lefler, North Carolina History Told by Contemporaries (University of North Carolina Press, numerous editions since 1934) H. G. Jones, North Carolina Illustrated, 1524–1984 (University of North Carolina Press, 1984) North Carolina Manual, published biennially by the Department of the Secretary of State since 1941.