I've put on this page a few additional papers I wrote while in NCSU's Public History Program. Only one of them has a slight connection with John D. Jones.

Jones met Archibald D. Murphy - the "Father of Internal Improvement," "Father of the Common Schools," and North Carolina's "first native historian" - when the latter visited Wilmington in 1817. Murphy's enthusiasm for road and canal projects, and for reclaiming swamp land, stirred Jones' interest in such endeavors. My paper focused on an area of A.D. Murphy's life in which he was unsuccessful - his finances.

"Cents and Sensibility" dealt with the creation of the United States' monetary system in the 1780s. It was published in The Numismatist, a publication of the American Numismatic Association.

"In Sherman's Wake" recounted the experiences of refugees who followed the Union Army from Columbia, S.C., to Fayetteville and Wilmington, N.C. in 1865.

Thaddeus Shaw Page, a North Carolinian from Aberdeen, became the National Archives' Administrative Secretary in 1935. Ten years later he was responsible for Victory Loan Trains which toured the country to display documents and artifacts from World War II. The tours served also as a means to sell Victory bonds.