William A. Link is Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History at the University of Florida. He is the author of seven books on the history of the South, including Roots of Secession: Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia (2003), Righteous Warrior: Jesse Helms and the Rise of Modern Conservatism (2008), North Carolina: Change and Tradition in a Southern State (2009), and Links: My Family in American History (2012). His most recent book is Atlanta, Cradle of the New South: Race and Remembering in the Civil Wars Aftermath (2013).

North Carolina 2nd edition is a single volume, fascinating history of the state that covers political, economic, cultural and social dimensions of the Tar Heel state's past. This new edition includes new material and an updated history to the present day.
* The most up-to-date history of the state, encompassing events up until 2015
* The new edition includes six sections of primary-source documents
* Includes the very latest historical literature
* Answers meaningful questions concerning the history and the future of this unique and quickly growing state

Preface and Acknowledgments ix
Part 1 Colonial North Carolina 1
1 European Invasion 3
2 Origins of North Carolina 24
3 A Slave Society 44
Suggested Readings, Part 61
Document Section, Part 64
Part 2 The Revolutionary Republic 79
4 Immigrants and the Back country World 81
5 The Age of Revolution 101
6 The New Republic 124
Suggested Readings, Part2 146
Document Section, Part 2 149
Part 3 The Civil War Crisis 161
7 Social Change in Antebellum North Carolina 163
8 Political Parties and the Coming of the Civil War 184
9 The Civil War 201
Suggested Readings, Part 222
Document Section, Part 227
Part 4 Reconstruction and Its Aftermath 237
10 Reconstruction 239
11 Social Change in the Post-Reconstruction Era 260
12 Populism and the Crisis of the 279
Suggested Readings, Part 300
Document Section, Part 303
Part 5 Modernizing North Carolina 315
13 Progressive North Carolina 317
14 WorldWar I and the 343
15 Depression, New Deal, and WorldWar II 367
Suggested Readings, Part 392
Document Section, Part 395
Part 6 Toward the Twenty-First Century 409
16 Postwar North Carolina 411
17 The Civil Rights Revolution 435
18 Modernizers and Traditionalists 458
Suggested Readings, Part 6 481
Document Section, Part 6 484
Appendix 495
State Symbols 495
Governors 495
United States Senators 498
North Carolina Population, 1790-2010 500
Index 501