Part One: Colonial North Carolina -- European Invasion -- Origins of North Carolina -- A Slave Society -- Part Two: The Revolutionary Republic -- Immigrants and the Backcountry World -- The Age of Revolution -- The New Republic -- Part Three: The Civil War Crisis -- Social Change in Antebellum North Carolina -- Political Parties and the Coming of the Civil War -- The Civil War -- Part Four: Reconstruction and Its Aftermath -- Reconstruction -- Social Change in the Post-Reconstruction Era -- Populism and the Crisis of the 1890s -- Part Five: Modernizing North Carolina -- Progressive North Carolina -- World War I and the 1920s -- Depression, New Deal, and World War II -- Part Six: Toward the Twenty-First Century -- Postwar North Carolina -- The Civil Rights Revolution -- Modernizers and Traditionalists -- Appendix: State Symbols; Governors; U.S. Senators; North Carolina Population, 1790-2010.