Historical Context Materials and Research Guides

Historical Context Materials

Ashe, Samuel A. Biographical History of North Carolina from Colonial Times to the Present. Greensboro: Charles L. Van Noppen Publishing, 1905.

Bishir, Catherine W. and Michael T. Southern. A Guide to Historic Architecture of Eastern North Carolina. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Butchko, Thomas R., editor. Martin Architectural Heritage. Williamston: Martin County Historical Society, 1998.

Corbitt, David Leroy. The Formation of the North Carolina Counties: 1663-1943. Raleigh: State Department of Archives and History, 1950.

Everett, Bonner Swindell. Robersonville, North Carolina Centennial. [Robersonville]: Robersonville Centennial Inc., 1972.

Hughes, Shelby Jean Nelson, editor. Martin County Heritage. Williamston: Martin County Historical Society, 1980.

Pickens, Cathy. True Crimes Stories of the South. Charleston: The History Press, 2023.

Powell, W.S. North Carolina Through Four Centuries. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1989.

Redford, Dorothy Spruill. Somerset Homecoming: Recovering a Lost Heritage. New York City: Anchor Press, 1988

Waite, Caitlin, curator. Eastern NC Memories: A Pictorial History of the mid-1800s through 1939. [Greenville]: Pediment Publishing, 2021.

Research Guides

Gibson, Brenda. North Carolina Legal Research. Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press, 2019

Haines, Jeffrey. Research in North Carolina (NGS Research in the States Series). Arlington, Virginia: National Genealogical Society, 2017.

Leary, Helen F.M. “Colonial North Carolinians.” Mp3. Uploaded 2003. NC Research Series. https://www.ncgenealogy.org/product/nc-research-series-colonial-north-carolinians-mp3/ : 23 August 2024.

Leary, Helen F.M. North Carolina Research: Genealogy and Local History. Raleigh, North Carolina: North Carolina Genealogical Society, 1996.