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Close to Home: North Carolina Winter 2025-26 |
The North Carolina Collection of the Forsyth County Public Library houses a broad range of non-circulating resources to suit your research needs. The room contains a wealth of local, state and federal information as well as archived issues of newspapers and magazines. Our knowledgeable staff will be happy to assist you with your project, whether you are an experienced researcher or just getting started. For help with questions about North Carolina, local history, or genealogy, please come visit us on the second floor of the Central Library in Winston-Salem, NC or call 336-703-3070 during regular business hours. |
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America into its fiery vortex. The Clayton family, like many in the country is torn and at odds with the looming involvement. Discover this rich and moving portrayal of a Southern family during the tragic madness of WW1. American Achilles is the sequel to American Janus in the Southern Warrior Series. It continues the story of the Claytons, a proud, multi-generational North Carolina family. Follow their triumphs, trials and heartbreak during The Great War both at home and overseas on the Western Front. |
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Who's Your Founding Father?: One Man's Epic Quest to Uncover the First, True Declaration of Independence by David FlemingComposed during a clandestine all-night session inside the Charlotte courthouse, the Mecklenburg Declaration, aka the MecDec, was signed on May 20, 1775 — a date that’s still featured on the state flag of North Carolina. About a year later, in 1776, Jefferson is believed to have plagiarized the MecDec while composing his own, slightly more famous Declaration, and then covered the whole thing up. David Fleming leaves no archive, cemetery, bizarre clue, conspiracy theory, or wild character unexplored as he travels the globe and shines new light on one of the most fantastic, important — and controversial — stories in American history. |
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This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America's Revolutionary War in the South by Alan Pell CrawfordA groundbreaking recovery of history; the overlooked story of the
battles of America's Revolutionary War that were fought and won in the South. The famous battles that form the backbone of the story
put forth of American independence--at Lexington and Concord,
Brandywine, Germantown, Saratoga, and Monmouth--while crucial,
did not lead to the surrender at Yorktown. It was in the three-plus
years between Monmouth and Yorktown that the war was won.
Alan Pell Crawford's riveting book tells the story of these missing three years.
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Portraits of the African-American Experience in Concord-Cabarrus, North Carolina 1860-2008by Jr. Davis, BernardThis is an up front, straight talk, history book about noteworthy African-American persons, events, landmarks and little known Black History facts relating to yesterday and today in Concord-Cabarrus County, North Carolina. Designed to inform others about the experiences of slavery, segregation, discrimination and the achievements of those African-Americans, some of whom were either enslaved, born in or moved to the South between 1860 and 2008.
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A Consequential Life: David Lowry Swain, Nineteenth-Century North Carolina, and Their Universityby Willis P. WhichardOver half a century ago, historian Hugh T. Lefler viewed UNC president David Lowry Swain as a North Carolina leader who perhaps merited full-length biographical treatment. A Consequential Life fills this perceived gap in the state's biographical literature. It not only details the life and work of the man who was arguably the state's most significant nineteenth-century leader; in the process it also recounts the history of the state's university in the three-plus decades when he was the focal point of its life.
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Forsyth County Public Library
660 W. Fifth St., Winston-Salem, NC 27101
336-703-2665forsythlibrary.org |
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