Fred D. Ragan
Fred D. Ragan was formerly professor of history at East Carolina University
specializing in constitutional and twentieth-century history and held a doctorate in history from the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.
Resources created by Fred D. Ragan
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- Searching for greener pastures: Out-migration in the 1800s
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 4.1
- In the first half of the nineteenth century, a steady stream of emigration flowed from North Carolina to western states and territories. North Carolinians were pushed by a lack of economic opportunity at home and pulled by open land in the West. Only after the 1830s, when a progressive political leadership supported schools and internal improvements, did out-migration slow.
- Format: article
- By Donald R. Lennon and Fred D. Ragan.
