Archie
К.
Davis Fellowships
The North Caroliniana Society has announced the granting of an Archie K. Davis Fellowship
to each of the following scholars for 2012—2013: Joseph Bathanti, Appalachian State University;
Jordan R. Bauer, University of Houston; Adrian Brettle, University of Virginia; Judkin
Browning, Appalachian State University; Benjamin Carp, Tufts University; T. Clay Cooper,
University of Florida; Janet Davidson, Cape Fear Museum; Daniel S. Goldberg, East Carolina
University; Julia Gunn, University of Pennsylvania; Susan Holland, East Carolina University;
Thomas L. Howard, University of Virginia; John James Kaiser, University of North Carolina
at Greensboro; Alex Lei dholdt, James Madison University; Elizabeth Lundeen, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Marvin Richardson, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill; James Ruehala, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Laura Sandy, Keele Univer¬
sity (United Kingdom); and Robert Shaphard, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Archie K. Davis Fellowships assist scholars in their travel to sources of North Carolina
history. The annual deadline for proposals is March 1. For information, visit wwu>.tKSociety.on>.
Women Workers at the Fayetteville Arsenal
By Megan Maxwell
“Where the history of the Revolution is written, the patriotism of women, modest as
well as true, no less heroic than gentle, wall grace its brightest page.” Charleston Mercury via
Fayetteville Observer, November 7, 1 861 .
The contributions of ladies on the home front during the Civil War are widely documented
by historians, newspaper accounts, letters, and diaries. As men joined the ranks of the Confederate
