Local History Books: Greensboro

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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)


Business & Industry:

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).


Churches & Religion:

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)


Entertainment:

Chappell, John W. "History of Motion Picture Exhibition in Greensboro, North Carolina, 1908-1928." M.A. Thesis, UNC Chapel Hill, 1978.  130p.


General Histories:

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)


Military & Wars:

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)


Miscellaneous:

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)


Neighborhoods:

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)


People & Families:

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)


Race & Class Relations:

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)


Reminiscences:

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)


Social Change:

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 )


Sports:

Barrier, Smith. GGP 50th Anniversary Book 1938-1988. Greensboro, N.C.: Greater Greensboro Open Golf Tournament, 1988.  (GPL:  796.352 B27)


Women:

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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