NCLR 1999

Women Civil War Reenactors: A Combat Dispatch from Fort Branch
by Patrick Huber
photography by Glenda Jakubowski

It’s a Guy Thing
by Glenda Jakubowski

Abram Joseph Ryan
by Lorraine Hale Robinson

Cold Mountain in Time and Place
by Paul D. Knoke
art by Donald R. Sexauer

Cold Mountain, Bushwhackers, and the Guerrilla War in Appalachian North Carolina
a review by William Trotter
photography by David Newton

Mary Bayard Clarke and the Yankee Occupation of Raleigh
by Terrell Armistead Crow and Mary Moulton Barden

A Mind of the South: An Epistolary Perspective on the Reconstruction Era
by Amanda Tilley

A Civil War Letter from Richard to His Father
introduced by Randall Martoccia, edited by Amanda Tilley with Allyson Michelle Graham
art by James I. McElhinney

Gray Ghosts and Fading Hope: Two Views of Wilmington’s Civil War History
a review by William Thiessen

“Living for Dixie”: The Refrain of Postwar Nationalism in Two North Carolina Magazines
by Sharon Kennedy-Nolle

The Iconography of Postwar Magazine Covers
by Lorraine Hale Robinson

Singular Devotion and a Compound of Incongruities: Bryan Grimes and Thomas L. Clingman of North Carolina
a review by Mark A. Moore

Speaking the Silences of Slavery: Carolina Lee Hentz’s The Planter’s Northern Bride and Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
by Heidi LM Jacobs

Blurring the Color Line in Carolina Lee Hentz’s Marcus Warland
by Betina Entzminger

What We Can Learn from a Better Bibliographical Record of Charles W. Chesnutt’s Periodical Fiction
by Charles Johanningsmeier

Frisk’s First Rat
an uncollected story by Charles Waddell Chesnutt

Black Voices, White Stories: An Intertextual Analysis of Thomas Nelson Page and Charles Waddell Chesnutt
by Keith Byerman

The Charles W. Chesnutt Association
by Stephanie Russell

The Civil War Imaginations of Thomas Dixon and Charles Chesnutt; Or, North Carolina, “This Strange World of Poisoned Air”
by Judith Jackson Fossett
art by Shelton Bryant

The Story of Wildacres Retreat
by Becky Story

“We Were Whole Again”: Kaye Gibbons’s On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon
by Mary Ann Wilson

Chasing Johnny Armstrong
a poem by Al Maginnes
photography by W. Cameron Dennis

Miriam: Pine Barrens
a poem by Richard Chess
photography by Tama Hochbaum

Robin Braswell vs. Calley Braswell, Jinny Emery vs. Stephen Emery and Michael Shoffner vs. Sarah Shoffner
three poems by Dannye Romine Powell

The Walls of the West of Ireland and What the Rain Said This Morning
two poems by Jeffrey Franklin
photography by C. W. Sullivan, III and Tama Hochbaum

On the Silver Coast
a poem by Minnie Bruce Pratt
photography by Jacobus Boers

Last Judgment and Flag
two poems by Becke Roughton
photography by Steve Bauler and Jacobus Boers

Political Sonata
a poem by Christopher Davis
photography by Tama Hochbaum

Trains
an essay by Rebecca McClanahan
photography by Mary Thiessen

The Bad Motor on the Good Sheet
a short story by Ruth Moose
photography by Susan Young and Brandie Knox Kirkman

A Visitor, 1923
a short story by Eleanor Ross Taylor
photography by Joyce Joines Newman and Steve Bauler

Learning to Listen
a review of Olive Tilford Dargan’s From My Highest Hill 
by Walter Squire
photograph by Bayard Wootten

Laying the Rails, Crafting the Text
a review of John Ehle’s The Road
by John Lang

Lessons in Memory: Jill McCorkle’s Latest Collection of Stories
a review by Christina G. Bucher

Energetic Disturbances: A Debut Short Story Collection by June Spence
a review by Joy Castro

Newsrooms and Fishing Ponds: First Novels from Two North Carolina Writers
a review by Erik Bledsoe
illustrations by Daniel Wallace

Threads of a Dark Design
a review of Katheryn Stripling Byer’s Black Shawl
by Peter Makuck

An Equal and Opposite Reaction: On the Poetry of Kathleen Halme and Michael White
a review by Jeffrey Franklin
art by Claude Howell

Local and National Efforts to Honor George Moses Horton
by Marjorie Hudson

Dictionary of North Carolina Writers, Inborden to Kuralt
by Lorraine Hale Robinson

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