A Select Bibliography of North Carolina (1913, a bulletin of the N.C. Library commission) and D. C. McMurtrie, "A Bibliography of North Carolina Imprints," N. C. Historical Review, vols. xii, xiii (1935, 1936). General surveys of N. C. history are: History of North Carolina by R. D. W. Conner, W. K. Boyd, J. G. de R. Hamilton and three volumes of biography by a spe cial staff (6 vol. 1919) ; John W. Moore, History of North Carolina (2 VOL 1880) ; and S. A'Court Ashe, History of North Carolina (2 vol. 2908). For the colonial and revolutionary period there are some excel lent studies. Charles S. Cooke, "The Governor, Council and Assembly in Royal North Carolina" in the James Sprunt Historical Monographs (vol. xii., No.1912) ; C. L. Raper, North Carolina: A Study in English Colonial Government (19o4) ; J. S. Bassett, Constitutional Beginnings of North Carolina (1894) ; The Regulators of North Caro lina (1894) ; and Slavery in the State of North Carolina (1899). S. W. Weeks deals with the religious history in his Religious Development in the Province of North Carolina (1892), Church and State in North Carolina (1893) and Southern Quakers and Slavery (1896). E. W. Sikes, The Transition of North Carolina from Colony to Common wealth (1898), based on the public records, is accurate, though dull.
Among the controversial works on the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence are W. H. Hoyt's The Mecklenburg Declaration of Inde pendence (1907), which adopts the view held by many competent his torians that the alleged declaration is spurious; and G. W. Graham, The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence; J. B. Chesire, Non nulla (193o), memories, stories, traditions more or less authentic. W. K. Boyd, 18th Cent. tracts concerning N.C. (1927). For the Reconstruc tion period see J. G. de R. Hamilton, Reconstruction in North Carolina (1913) ; Hilary A. Herbert et al., Why the Solid South? or Reconstruc tion and its Results (1890) ; and House Report 22, 42nd Congress, and session (13 vol. 1872 ; vol. ii. deals with North Carolina). For works covering various phases of the State's history, Government and social life see the James Sprunt Historical Publications of the University of North Carolina (190o seq.) ; the Publications of the North Carolina Historical Commission; and the Historical Publications of North Caro lina College for women (1914—seq.). The chief published sources are The Colonial and State Records of North Carolina (3o vol. 1886 1914) ; see also "Report of the Public Archives of North Carolina" in the Annual Report of the American Historical Association vol. ii. (19o1).