Architectural History/Surveys:
Brown, Marvin A. Greensboro, an Architectural
Record: a Survey of the Historic and Architecturally Significant Structures of
Greensboro, North Carolina. Greensboro, N.C.: Preservation Greensboro,
Inc., 1995. (GPL: 720.975662 B87)
Little-Stokes, Ruth. An Inventory of Historic
Architecture, Greensboro, North Carolina. Greensboro, N.C.: City of
Greensboro, 1976. (GPL: 975.662 I62)
Cone Export & Commission Company. Half
Century Book, 1891-1941. Greensboro: Cone Export & Commission Co.,
1941 (GPL: 677.2 C74)
Cone Mills Corp. [Carolyn R. Hines, ed.] A
Century of Excellence: The History of Cone Mills, 1891 to 1991. Greensboro: Cone Mills Corp., 1991. (GPL: 677.21 C39)
Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd, ed. Like A Family: The Making of a
Southern Cotton Mill World. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1987. (GPL: 305.9677 L72) Includes mentions/information on Greensboro/Guilford County mills &
workers.
Herring, Harriet L. Welfare Work in Mill Villages: The
Story of Extra-Mill Activities in North Carolina. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1929. (GPL: 331.8 H56; UNCG: HD 8039.T42
U65) Includes info. on Cone Mills (Proxity Mfg. Co. & Revolution Mill).
Carroll,
James Elwood. Amazing
Grace. Greensboro, N.C.: Grace United Methodist Church, 1996. (GPL: 287.6 C31)
Hawkins, Opal Winchester. From
Brush Arbor to Bricks and Mortar; An Oral History of the Mount Zion Community of
Greensboro, North Carolina. [Greensboro: Mount Zion Project
Committee], 1984. (GPL: NC 975.662 H39)
Hilty,
Hiram H. New
Garden Friends Meeting: The Christian People Called Quakers. N.C.: North
Carolina Friends Historical Society, 1983. (GPL: 289.6 H65)
Parker,
A. Leroy, et.al. Twenty
Years of Service: History of Parkway Baptist Church, Greensboro, North Carolina,
1956-1976. Greensboro, N.C., 1976. (GPL: 286.1 P23)
Rankin,
Rev. S[amuel] M[eek]. History of Buffalo Presbyterian Church and Her People.
Greensboro, N.C.: Joseph J. Stone & Co., 1934. (GPL: 285.1 R21)
Rowe,
Walter Wheat. The
History of the Baptists of Greensboro, North Carolina, 1850-1926: With
Particular Reference to the Work and Growth of the First Baptist Church.Greensboro, N.C.: Joseph J. Stone & Co., 1926. (GPL: 286 R87)
Simpson,
John W. History
of the First Presbyterian Church of Greensboro, North Carolina, 1824-1945. Greensboro, N.C., 1945. (GPL: 285.1 S61)
Education
& School History:
Arnett, Ethel Stephens. For Whom our Public Schools Were
Named, Greensboro, North Carolina. Greensboro, N.C.: Piedmont Press,
1973. (GPL: J975.662 Arnett)
Bowles, Elisabeth Ann. A Good Beginning: The First Four
Decades of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Chapel Hill:
UNC Press, 1967. (GPL: NC 378.756 B78)
Brooks, Aubrey Lee. "David Caldwell and His Log
College." N.C.
Historical Review 28 (Oct. 1951): 399-407.
Byrd, Peter. "A History of Greensboro/Grimsley
Senior High School," pp. 6-31, in Greensboro
/ Grimsley Senior High School Alumni Directory 1996. Norfolk, Va.:
Bernard C. Harris Publishing Co., 1996. (GPL: 373.75662 G81)
Donnell, Minor C. Bessemer School—The Early Days. (GPL: NC 371.01 D68)
Edmunds, Mary Lewis Rucker. Letters from Edgeworth, or the
Southernization of Minna Alcott: A tale of Sorcery, Intrigue and Romance in
Greensborough 1849-1851. Greensboro, N.C.: Greensboro Preservation
Society, 1988. (GPL: F Edmunds)
Gibbs, Warmoth T. History of the North Carolina
Agricultural and Technical College: Greensboro, North Carolina. Dubuque,
Iowa: W. C. Brown Book Co., 1966 (GPL: 630.71 G44)
Gilbert, Dorothy Lloyd. Guilford: A Quaker College. Greensboro: Joseph J. Stone, 1937. (GPL: 378 G95)
Liberti, Rita, " 'We Were Ladies, We Just Played
Basketball Like Boys': African American Womanhood and Competitive Basketball at
Bennett College, 1928-1942." Journal of Sport History, Vol. 25, No.
3, Fall 1999, pp. 567-584. (UNCG: GV571.J68)
New Wings; an
Anthology of Prose and Verse, Written during 1930-1931, by the Children of
Greensboro Public Schools, Greensboro, North Carolina. (GPL: NC 810.8 N53 v.1 1930-1931).
Park, Herbert W. Physical Education. Greensboro: Public Schools, 1923. (GPL:
NC 371.1 P23)
Report of the
Way We Were: Oral Histories of Four Former All-Black Public Schools in Two North
Carolina Counties. [Afro-American Genealogy and History Society, 1991]
(GPL: NC 371.97 R42)
Stoesen, Alexander R., Guilford College: On the Strength of 150 Years. Greensboro,
N.C.: Guilford College, 1987. (GPL: 378.GQ S87)
Trelease, Allen W. Changing Assignments: A Pictorial History of The University of North
Carolina at Greensboro. Greensboro, N.C.: The University,
1991. (GPL: 378.UG E T78)
Turrentine,
Samuel Bryant. A
Romance of Education: a Narrative Including Recollections and Other Facts
Connected with Greensboro College. Greensboro, N.C.: Piedmont Press,
1946. (GPL: 378 T95)
Chappell, John W. "History of Motion Picture
Exhibition in Greensboro, North Carolina, 1908-1928." M.A. Thesis, UNC
Chapel Hill, 1978. 130p.
Albright, James W. Greensboro, 1808-1904: Facts, Figures, Traditions and Reminiscences. Greensboro: Jos. J. Stone, 1904. (GPL: NC 975.6622 A342g)
Arnett, Ethel Stephens. Greensboro, North Carolina; the County Seat of Guilford.Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1955. (GPL: NC 975.6622 A74)
Banner, Ray. Greensboro, the Best Place to Live. Greensboro: 1998. (GPL: NC 975.6622 B21)
Fripp, Gayle Hicks. Greensboro. Dover: Arcadia, 1997. (GPL: NC 975.6622 F91)
Fripp,
Gayle Hicks. Greensboro : a Chosen
Center. Woodland Hills: Windsor, 1982. (GPL: NC 975.6622 F91)
Fripp,
Gayle Hicks. Greensboro : a Chosen Center. Sun Valley,
Calif.: American Historical Press, 2001. (GPL: 975.6622 F92
2001). Although this edition includes much of the same
text and illustrations as the first edition, the 2001 book adds an additional
chapter covering 1981-2000, with all new images. Also there is an
historical timeline of Greensboro's history (pp.228-229), and the
"Chronicles of Leadership" chapter -- which presents selected capsule
business/industry histories, includes, in many instances, different businesses
than were in the first book. So you should check both editions for
complete coverage.
Medicine
& Medical History:
Phillips, Robert L. History of the Greensboro Academy
of Medicine, 1946-1984. Greensboro, N.C.: Guilford County Medical
Society, 1984. (GPL: 610.6 P56)
Phillips,
Robert L. History of the Hospitals in Greensboro, N.C.: Including the
Sanitariums, Infirmaries, and Institutes. Greensboro,
N.C.: The Printworks, 1996. (GPL:
362.11 P56)
Phillips,
Robert L. History of Integration of Medicine in Greensboro, North Carolina:
Chronological Documentation. Greensboro, N.C.: R.L.Phillips, 1990. (GPL: 362.108996
P56)
Phillips, Robert L. A History of Medicine in
Greensboro, North Carolina during the 19th and 20th Centuries: A Series of Essays… Greensboro,
N.C.: The Printworks, 1991-1997. (GPL: 610.975662 H67)
Phillips, Robert L. The Life and Writings of John Wesley Long MD, 1859-1926: History of
Medicine in the Piedmont Section of North Carolina as well as a Medical and
Generalized Chronology for this Period. Greensboro, N.C.: Custom
Graphics, 1985. (GPL: 610.92 L84)
Phillips, Robert L. Medical Shoulders During the 19th and 20th Centuries in Greensboro, North Carolina: Biographical
Sketches of over 800 Physicians in Greensboro. Greensboro, N.C.: The
Printworks, 1993. (GPL: 610.92 P56)
Phillips, Robert L. The Story of Fluoride and Tobacco
In Greensboro, N.C.: Chronological Documentation of the Historical Struggle. Greensboro, N.C.: R.L.Phillips, 1995. (GPL:
362.296 P56)
Phillips, Robert L. They Did It: 21 Profiles of
Non-Physician Heroines and Pacesetters in Greensboro's Medical Care History.Greensboro, N.C.: R.L.Phillips, 1998. (GPL:
362.109756 P56)
Arnett,
Ethel Stephens. Confederate Guns
Were Stacked [at] Greensboro, North Carolina. Greensboro: Piedmont Press, 1965. (GPL: NC 973.782 A74)
Hendricks,
Howard O. Imperiled
city : the movements of the Union and Confederate armies toward Greensboro in
the closing days of the Civil War in North Carolina. M.A.
Thesis, UNCG, 1987. (UNCG: AS36
.N65 Hist., 87-4)
Newlin,
Algie Innman. The
Battle of New Garden. Greensboro, N.C.: N.C. Friends Historical Society,
1977. (GPL: 973.337 N54)
Carroll, Karen Cobb. "Sterling, Campbell, and
Albright: Textbook Publishers, 1861-1865." N.C. Historical Review 63 (Jan. 1986): 169-198.
(GPL: Periodicals)
Decker,
William. "Lindley Field: A Case Study in North Carolina Aviation
History." M.A. Thesis, UNCG, 1991. (UNCG: AS36 .N65 Hist., 91-1)
Greensboro Bar Association. Greensboro bar : pictures and
biographical sketches of its members, including practicing attorneys and judges, 1939. Greensboro: Bar Association,
1939. (GPL: 920 G815)
O'Brien,
Gail Williams. The
legal fraternity and the making of a new South community, 1848-1882. Athens,
GA: University of Ga. Press, 1986.
(UNCG: HN79.N82
G856 1986 )
Phillips,
Robert L. The
History of Auctioneering in Guilford County. Greensboro, N.C.: The Printworks, 1995. (GPL: 381.1709
P56)
Watkins,
N.J. (ed.) The
Pine and The Palm: or, The Trip of the Northern Editors to the South in 1872,
Under the Leadership of Maj. N. H. Hotchkiss. Baltimore, MD: J. D. Ehlers and Co., 1873. (GPL: NC 917.W33)
Municipal
(City) Services:
Greensboro Fire Department [L.W.Coble, D.E.Spears,
eds.]. Greensboro Fire Department 1808-1990. Greensboro, N.C.:
Greensboro Fire Dept., 1991. (GPL:
363.378 G81 1991)
Greensboro
Fire Department [Carol Key,m Kevin Key, Mark Schmitt, C. W. Whitworth, eds.]. Greensboro
Fire Department 1926-2001. Greensboro, N.C.: Greensboro Fire Dept.,
2001. (GPL: 363.378 G81 2001). This recent history has more
information, history, photographs, time-lines, etc., than the earlier volume.
Greensboro Police Department. 100th Anniversary
1889-1989. Greensboro, N.C.: The Department, 1989.
(GPL: 363.2 G81)
Baylin,
Jonathan F. An
historical study of residential development in Greensboro, 1808-1965. (M.A.
Thesis, UNC Chapel Hill, 1968). (UNCG:
F264.G8 B39)
Brown, Marvin A. Greensboro, an Architectural
Record: a Survey of the Historic and Architecturally Significant Structures of
Greensboro, North Carolina. Greensboro, N.C.: Preservation Greensboro,
Inc., 1995. Includes historical
information on the formation of individual neighborhoods. (GPL: 720.975662 B87).
Fripp,
Gayle Hicks. "Greensboro's Early Suburbs," in Bishir, Catherine W. and
Lawrence S. Earley, Early Twentieth-Century Suburbs in North Carolina: Essays
on History, Architecture and Planning. Raleigh, ...: N.C. Dept. of
Cultural Resources, 1985. pp.49-57. (GPL: 711.58 E12)
Fripp, Gayle Hicks. Greensboro Vol.II: Neighborhoods. Charleston: Arcadia, 1998. (GPL: NC 975.6622 F91)
Caldwell, Bettie D. (compiler). Founders and Builders of
Greensboro, 1808-1908, fifty
sketches. Greensboro: J.J.Stone & Co., 1925. (GPL: 920 C14)
Edmunds, Mary Lewis Rucker. Governor
Morehead’s Blandwood and the Family Who Lived There. Greensboro:
Greensboro Printing, 1976. (GPL: NC 929.2 M83)
Jones, Abe E., Jr. Greensboro 27. Bassett,
Va.: Bassett Printing Co., 1976. (GPL: 920 J76)
Photographs
& Photographers:
Catlett,
J[ames] Stephen. Martin's
and Miller's Greensboro. Charleston: Arcadia, 1999 (GPL: NC 975.6622 C36)
Catlett, J[ames] Stephen. Dateline Greensboro : the Piedmont and beyond. Charleston: Arcadia, 2002 (GPL: NC 975.6622 C36)
Edmunds,
Mary Lewis Rucker. The photography of John Walker Fry : the immediate world and distant vistas
of a Victorian gentleman : with explanatory text and including an intimate
history of Greensboro. Winston-Salem, N.C.: Hunter Publishing Co., 1982. (GPL: 975.6622 F94)
Fry, John Walker. The Photography of John Walker Fry. Greensboro: Greensboro
Preservation Society, 1982. (GPL: NC 975.6622 F94)
O’Keefe,
Patrick, ed. Greensboro, a
Pictorial History. Norfolk: Donning, 1977. (GPL: NC 975.662 G81)
Pictorials
(images of people, businesses, buildings, streets):
Album of
Greensboro, N.C. Greensboro: Chamber of Commerce, 189_? (GPL: NC 975.6622 A34)
Art Work of Greensboro, North Carolina. Chicago: The Gravure Illustration Company, 1904. (GPL: 975.6622 G777a)
Greensboro Illustrated: The Gate City, 1904-1905. Greensboro: 1905. (UNCG: F264.G780)
Isaacs, I. J. (compiler), Progressive Greensboro, the Gate
City of North Carolina: Also a Series of Comprehensive Sketches of
Representative Business Enterprises. Greensboro, N.C.: Jos. J. Stone
& Co., 1903. (GPL: Ref.
975.6622 P96)
Weaver, C. E., City
of Greensboro, N.C.: Pen and Picture Sketches. Richmond, Va: Central
Publishing Co., Inc., 1917. (GPL: 975.633 G815)
Atwood, Jesse H.,
et. al., Thus Be Their Destiny: The Personality Development of Negro Youth in Three Communities. Washington: American Council on Education,
1941.
Includes study of Greensboro youth. (NC A&T & UNCG: E 185.6
A85)
Bagwell, William. School Desegregation in the Carolinas: Two Case Studies. Columbia:
USC
Press, 1972. Compares Greensboro, N.C. and Greenville, S.C. (GPL:
370.19 B14)
Bermanzohn, Paul C. and Sally A., The
true story of the Greensboro Massacre. New York: C. Caunce, 1980. (GPL: 322.43 B51)
Bermanzohn, Salley Avery, Survivors of the 1979 Greensboro
Massacre: A Study of the Long Term Impact of Protest Movements on the Political
Socialization of Radical Activists. (Ph.D. thesis, City University New
York). Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Dissertation Services, 1998. (UNCG: HX91.N8 R410)
Bradley, Josephine Ophelia Boyd, Wearing
My Name: School Desegregation, Greensboro, North Carolina, 1954-1958. (Ph.D. Thesis, Emory University, 1995) Ann
Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1996. (UNCG: LC214.23.G720 B73
1995b)
Chafe, William H. Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina and the Black Struggle for Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. (GPL: NC 323.423 C43)
Chafe, William H., "Greensboro, North Carolina,
Perspectives on Progressivism." In Southern
Businessmen and Desegregation, ed. By Elizabeth Jacoway & David R.
Colburn. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1982 pp.
42-70
Horowitz, Marcia R., The Jewish Community of
Greensboro: Its Experience in a Progressive Southern City. (M.A. thesis). University of N.C. at Greensboro, 1993. (UNCG AS36.N65 ML S, 93-3)
Peck, Jane Cary Chapman, School Desegregation in
Greensboro, North Carolina, 1954-1971: A Case Study in Purposive Social Change. (Ph.D. Thesis , Boston University, 1974). Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Dissertation
Services, 1995. (UNCG:
LC214.23.G720 P43 1974b)
Red Tide Rising in the Carolinas. Alexandria, Va: Western Goals, 1980. (UNCG: HX91.N8 R410 )
Sieber,
H.A. White Water, Colored Water.
Greensboro: Project Homestead, 1993. (GPL: NC 975.6622 S57)
Stuber, Robert W., The Negro and the Struggle for
Equal Opportunity in Greensboro, May-July, 1963. (M.A. Thesis).
University of N.C. at Greensboro, 1970. (UNCG:
AS36.N65 Hist. 70-3)
Tumin,
Melvin Marvin, Desegregation:
resistance and readiness. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1958. (GPL:
326 T92)
Wheaton, Elizabeth, Codename GREENKIL: the 1979
Greensboro killings. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1987. (GPL:
363.3497 W55)
Wolff, Miles. Lunch at the 5 & 10. Chicago: I. R. Dee, 1990. (GPL: NC 305.896 W85)
Edmonds, Mary Lewis R. Recollections of Greensboro. Greensboro,
N.C.: M.L.Edmunds, 1993. (GPL: 975.6622 E24)
Griffin, Roy. As
I Remember---(A Boy in the’Twenties). 1967. (GPL: NC 818 G85)
Griffin, Roy. Look over Your Shoulder…One-Nine-O-O: Greensboro at the Turn of the
Century. [Greensboro]: 1970. (GPL: NC 917.5662 G85)
Sills, Walter H. Old Times Not Forgotten. Volumes 1 and 2. Greensboro: W. H.
Sills, 1991-1996. (GPL: NC 975.6622 S58)
Kipp, Samuel Millard, III. "Old Notables and
Newcomers: The Economic and Political Elite of Greensboro, North Carolina,
1880-1926." Journal of Southern
History (Aug., 1977), 373-394.
Kipp,
Samuel Millard, III. Urban
growth and social change in the South, 1870-1920 : Greensboro, North Carolina as
a case study. (Princeton
Univ., PhD Thesis, 1974) Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International,
1980. (UNCG: HN80.G73 K560
1974b )
Barrier, Smith. GGP
50th Anniversary Book 1938-1988. Greensboro,
N.C.: Greater Greensboro Open Golf Tournament, 1988. (GPL: 796.352 B27)
Smith,
Mary K. Watson. The
Women of Greensboro, N.C., 1861-1865. Greensboro, N.C.: Little Rock,
(Ark.): Democrat P. & L. Co., [1919?].
(UNCG: w HQ1439.G74 S650 )
Smith,
Mary K. Watson [Susie M. H. Smith, ed.]. The Love That Never Failed. Charlottesville, Va.: The Michie Co., 1928. (GPL: B S651S)
Zopf,
Paul E. A
Profile of Women in Greensboro. Greensboro: City of Greensboro,
Commission on the Status of Women, 1977.
(GPL: 305.4 Z88)
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