Revolution-Era Articles in the North Carolina Historical Review 

This is a bibliography of the articles in the North Carolina Historical Review that cover aspects of the American Revolution.The list has been compiled by Kathryn McKee, managing editor of the North Carolina Historical Review, and Jane Shaw Stroup, director of the North Carolina History Encyclopedia. A list of all Historical Review articles can be found here. All issues through 1967 can be read online at no charge here, and this site provides more general information about the journal.

Alexander, C. B. “Richard Caswell: Versatile Leader of the Revolution.” North Carolina Historical Review 23, no. 2 (April 1946): 119–141.

Alexander, C. B. “Richard Caswell’s Military and Later Public Service.” North Carolina Historical Review 23, no. 3 (July 1946): 287–312.

Andrews, Alexander B. “Richard Dobbs Spaight.” North Carolina Historical Review 1, no. 2 (April 1924): 95–120.

Blackwelder, Ruth. “The Attitude of the North Carolina Moravians toward the American Revolution.” North Carolina Historical Review 9, no. 1 (January 1932): 1–21.

Brown, Weldon Amzy. “The Howe Peace Commission of 1776.” North Carolina Historical Review 13, no. 2 (April 1936): 122–142.

Browning, Andrew H. “Richard Dobbs Spaight in Ireland and Scotland: The Education of a North Carolina Founding Father.” North Carolina Historical Review 94, no. 2 (April 2017): 127–149.

Conkin, Paul. “The Church Establishment in North Carolina, 1765–1776.” North Carolina Historical Review 32, no. 1 (January 1955): 1–30.

Crow, Jeffrey J. “Tory Plots and Anglican Loyalty: The Llewelyn Conspiracy of 1777.” North Carolina Historical Review 55, no. 1 (January 1978): 1–17.

Crow, Jeffrey J. “What Price Loyalism? The Case of John Cruden, Commissioner of Sequestered Estates.” North Carolina Historical Review 58, no. 3 (July 1981): 215–233.

Crow, Jeffrey J. “The Whiskey Rebellion in North Carolina.” North Carolina Historical Review 66, no. 1 (January 1989): 1–28.

Davidson, Philip G. “Sons of Liberty and Stamp Men.” North Carolina Historical Review 9, no. 1 (January 1932): 38–56.

De Van Massey, Gregory. “The British Expedition to Wilmington, January– November, 1781.” North Carolina Historical Review 66, no. 4 (October 1989): 387–411.

Delaney, Norman C. “The Outer Banks of North Carolina during the Revolutionary War.” North Carolina Historical Review 36, no. 1 (January 1959): 1–16.

Dill Jr., Alonzo Thomas. “Eighteenth Century New Bern: A History of the Town and Craven County, 1700–1800, Part VII, New Bern during the Revolution.” North Carolina Historical Review 23, no. 3 (July 1946): 325–359.

Douglass, Elisha P. “Thomas Burke, Disillusioned Democrat.” North Carolina Historical Review 26, no. 2 (April 1949): 150–186.

Fonvielle Jr., Chris E. “‘With Such Great Alacrity’: The Destruction of Fort Johnston and the Coming of the American Revolution in North Carolina.” North Carolina Historical Review 94, no. 2 (April 2017): 150–201.

Frech, Laura Page. “The Wilmington Committee of Public Safety and the Loyalist Rising of February, 1776.” North Carolina Historical Review 41, no. 1 (January 1964): 21–33.

Fries, Adelaide L. “North Carolina Certificates of the Revolutionary War Period.” North Carolina Historical Review 9, no. 3 (July 1932): 229–241.

Ganyard, Robert L. “Threat from the West: North Carolina and the Cherokee: 1776– 1778.” North Carolina Historical Review 45, no. 1 (January 1968): 47–66.

Harrell, Isaac S. “North Carolina Loyalists.” North Carolina Historical Review 3, no. 4 (October 1926): 575–590.

Haywood, C. Robert. “The Mind of the North Carolina Opponents of the Stamp Act.” North Carolina Historical Review 29, no. 3 (July 1952): 317–343.

Heaton, Charles. “The Failure of Enlightenment Military Doctrine in Revolutionary America: The Piedmont Campaign and the Fate of the British Army in the Lower South.” North Carolina Historical Review 87, no. 2 (April 2010): 127–157.

Henderson, Archibald. “The Treaty of Long Island of Holston, July, 1777.” North Carolina Historical Review 8, no. 1 (January 1931): 55–116.

Higginbotham, Don. “James Iredell’s Efforts to Preserve the First British Empire.” North Carolina Historical Review 49, no. 2 (April 1972): 127–145.

Hilldrup, R. L. “The Salt Supply of North Carolina during the American Revolution.” North Carolina Historical Review 22, no. 4 (October 1945): 393–417.

Kay, Marvin L. Michael and William S. Price Jr. “ ‘To Ride the Wood Mare’: Road Building and Militia Service in Colonial North Carolina, 1740–1775.” North Carolina Historical Review 57, no. 4 (October 1980): 361–409.

Ketcham, Earle H. “The Sources of the North Carolina Constitution of 1776.” North Carolina Historical Review 6, no. 3 (July 1929): 215–236.

Kopperman, Paul E. “The Medical Dimension in Cornwallis’s Army, 1780–1781.” North Carolina Historical Review 89, no. 4 (October 2012): 367–398.

Lee, Lawrence. “Days of Defiance: Resistance to the Stamp Act in the Lower Cape Fear.” North Carolina Historical Review 43, no. 2 (April 1966): 186–202.

Lennon, Donald R. “‘The Graveyard of American Commanders’: The Continental Army’s Southern Department, 1776–1778.” North Carolina Historical Review 67, no. 2 (April 1990): 133–158.

London, Lawrence F. “The Representation Controversy in Colonial North Carolina.” North Carolina Historical Review 11, no. 4 (October 1934): 255–270.

Lutz, Paul V. “A State’s Concern for the Soldiers’ Welfare: How North Carolina Provided for Her Troops during the Revolution.” North Carolina Historical Review 42, no. 3 (July 1965): 315–318.

Maass, John R. “‘The Cure for All Our Political Calamities’: Archibald Maclaine and the Politics of Moderation in Revolutionary North Carolina.” North Carolina Historical Review 85, no. 3 (July 2008): 251–281.

McCurry, Allan J. “Joseph Hewes and Independence: A Suggestion.” North Carolina Historical Review 40, no. 4 (October 1963): 455–464.

Miles, Edwin A. “Benson J. Lossing and North Carolina Revolutionary History.” North Carolina Historical Review 35, no. 1 (January 1958): 11–19.

Morgan, David T. “Cornelius Harnett: Revolutionary Leader and Delegate to the Continental Congress.” North Carolina Historical Review 49, no. 3 (July 1972): 229–241.

Morgan, David T. and William J. Schmidt. “From Economic Sanctions to Political Separation: The North Carolina Delegation to the Continental Congress, 1774–1776.” North Carolina Historical Review 52, no. 3 (July 1975): 215–234.

Nelson, Paul David. “Horatio Gates in the Southern Department, 1780: Serious Errors and a Costly Defeat.” North Carolina Historical Review 50, no. 3 (July 1973): 256–272.

Parramore, Thomas C. “The Great Escape from Forten Gaol: An Incident of the Revolution.” North Carolina Historical Review 45, no. 4 (October 1968): 349–356.

Rankin, Hugh F. “The Moore’s Creek Bridge Campaign, 1776.” North Carolina Historical Review 30, no. 1 (January 1953): 23–60.

Rankin, Richard. “ ‘Musquetoe’ Bites: Caricatures of Lower Cape Fear Whigs and Tories on the Eve of the American Revolution.” North Carolina Historical Review 65, no. 2 (April 1988): 173–207.

Rayburn, Richard H. “Infallible Power: The “Musquetoe,” the Wilmington-New Hanover County Safety Committee, and the Coming of Revolution in the Lower Cape Fear, 1774–1776.” North Carolina Historical Review 92, no. 4 (October 2015): 387–425.

Rippy, J. Fred. “A View of the Carolinas in 1783.” North Carolina Historical Review 6, no. 4 (October 1929): 362–370.

Sanders, Jennings B. “Thomas Burke in the Continental Congress.” North Carolina Historical Review 9, no. 1 (January 1932): 22–37.

Smiley, David L. “Revolutionary Origins of the South’s Constitutional Defenses.” North Carolina Historical Review 44, no. 3 (July 1967): 256–269.

Stokes, Durward T. “Adam Boyd, Publisher, Preacher, and Patriot.” North Carolina \Historical Review 49, no. 1 (January 1972): 1–21.

Stover, John F. “French-American Trade during the Confederation, 1781–1789.” North Carolina Historical Review 35, no. 4 (October 1958): 399–414.

Stumpf, Vernon O. “Josiah Martin and His Search for Success: The Road to North Carolina.” North Carolina Historical Review 53, no. 1 (January 1976): 55–79.

Taylor, H. Braughn. “The Foreign Attachment Law and the Coming of the Revolution in North Carolina.” North Carolina Historical Review 52, no. 1 (January 1975): 20–36.

Thorne, Dorothy Gilbert. “North Carolina Friends and the Revolution.” North Carolina Historical Review 38, no. 3 (July 1961): 323–340.

Watson, Alan D. “The Committees of Safety and the Coming of the American Revolution in North Carolina, 1774–1776.” North Carolina Historical Review 73, no. 2 (April 1996): 131–155.

Watson, Alan D. “Counterfeiting in Colonial North Carolina: A Reassessment.” North Carolina Historical Review 79, no. 2 (April 2002): 182–197.

Watterson, John. “Poetic Justice; or, an Ill-fated Epic by Thomas Burke.” North Carolina Historical Review 55, no. 3 (July 1978): 339–346.

Watterson III, John S. “The Ordeal of Governor Burke.” North Carolina Historical Review 48, no. 2 (April 1971): 95–117.

Wheeler, E. Milton. “Development and Organization of the North Carolina Militia.” North Carolina Historical Review 41, no. 3 (July 1964): 307–323.

Zornow, William Frank. “North Carolina Tariff Policies, 1775–1789.” North Carolina Historical Review 32, no. 2 (April 1955): 151–164.