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Hershel Parker

Hershel Parker

Hershel Parker was a 1997 Pulitzer finalist for Herman Melville: A Biography, 1819-1851 (Johns Hopkins, 1996). That volume and Herman Melville: A Biography, 1851-1891 (Johns Hopkins, 2002) each won the R. R. Hawkins award from the Association of American Publishers. The NEW YORKER blog called his Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative one of the “Books to Watch Out For” in January 2013. In Ornery People: What Was a Depression Okie? he is tracing newly discovered family stories in relation to the history of the South.

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People June 26, 2017 June 25, 2017

Avenging Francis Bradley, the Mecklenburg Marksman: A Family Story

As I summarized in The ‘Battle at McIntire’s Farm’, on October 3, 1780 Lord Cornwallis sent Maj. John Doyle on a foraging party north…

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The War Years (1775-1783) May 11, 2017 April 21, 2017

The “Battle at McIntire’s Farm”: Joseph Graham as Historian of the Revolution

On September 25, 1780 as Lord Cornwallis entered North Carolina he was harassed by “a few light troops” commanded by Col. William R. Davie[1]…

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The War Years (1775-1783) February 27, 2017 February 22, 2017

A ‘Heavenly Harvest’ of Vulnerable Women in North Carolina: Tory Troops as Sexual Predators

Strong in the memories of North Carolina veterans of the Revolution were images of Tory (Americans loyal to the British government) terrorists, mounted on…

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People January 11, 2017 December 12, 2016

North Carolina Patriot Women Who Talked Back to the Tories

On January 10, 1776, the British governor of North Carolina, Josiah Martin, then bobbing on the HMS Scorpion off Wilmington, appointed just over two…

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People November 24, 2015 August 28, 2016

Absolving David Fanning—from Dreck to Rumph

I keep promising myself to write on how David Fanning, the Tory guerrilla turned British colonel, became a psychotic murderer off the battlefield in…

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The War Years (1775-1783) May 4, 2015 August 28, 2016

Fanning’s Bloody Sabbath as Traced by Alexander Gray

On March 10, 1782, Colonel David Fanning led a band of vengeful Loyalists on a path of slaughter and arson in northern Randolph County,…

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People January 22, 2015 August 28, 2016

John Butler’s “Want of Good Generalship”

I plan to write about how the Tory guerrilla David Fanning changed after being made a Loyalist Colonel and given his own red coat,…

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The War Years (1775-1783) October 8, 2014 August 28, 2016

Fanning Outfoxes Marion

When news of Lord Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown on October 19, 1781 arrived in southeastern North Carolina well into November, the war there did…

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People August 11, 2014 August 28, 2016

The Tryon County Patriots of 1775 and Their “Association”

On August 14, 1775 some North Carolina colonial men, possibly as many as four dozen or so, met at the Tryon County courthouse. That…

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