History MA alumnus, Eric Medlin,’17, Publishes Book on North Carolina’s Furniture Industry

We are proud to announce that History MA alumnus, Eric Medlin, ’17, recently published a book with the University of Georgia Press. Sawdust In Your Pockets: A History of the North Carolina Furniture Industry is the first ever survey of the state’s furniture industry. Medlin became interested in the subject, when a local historian told him there had never been a history of the NC furniture industry despite that fact it was an industry that dominated the economy in the twentieth century. 

Since graduating, Medlin has been working in Raleigh and teaching history classes at Wake Tech Community College.  He has published on mid-twentieth-century historians, antebellum North Carolina history, and the Kellogg-Briand Pact. He is the author of A History of Franklin County, North Carolina.