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Colonial North Carolina (1600-1763)
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Introduction to NC Digital History
About the NC History Digital Textbook
Two Worlds: Prehistory, Contact, and the Lost Colony (to 1600)
The Land
Natural Diversity
The Natural History of North Carolina
The Cherokee's World Origin Story
The Creation and Fall of Man, From Genesis
The Golden Chain
Native Carolinians
The Mystery of the First Americans
Shadows of a People
Maintaining Balance: The Religious World of the Cherokees
Cherokee Women
The Importance of One Simple Plant
Spanish Exploration
Spain and America: From Reconquest to Conquest
Where am I? Mapping a New World
The De Soto Expedition
Juan Pardo, the Indians of Guatari, and First Contact
Spain's Reasons for Pardo's Expedition
The Spanish Empire's Failure to Conquer the Southeast
From England to America
England's Renaissance
Merrie Olde England?
Fort Raleigh and the Lost Colony
The Search for the Lost Colony
Amadas and Barlowe Explore the Outer Banks
John White Searches for the Colonists
Contact and Consequences
The Columbian Exchange
The Columbian Exchange At a Glance
Disease and Catastrophe
Smallpox
The Lost Landscape of the Piedmont
Colonial North Carolina (1600-1763)
Introduction to Colonial North Carolina (1600-1763)
Planting a Colony
The Founding of Virginia
Supplies for Virginia Colonists, 1622
A Little Kingdom in Carolina
The Charter of Carolina (1663)
The Lords Proprietors
A Declaration and Proposals of the Lords Proprietors of Carolina (1663)
William Hilton Explores the Cape Fear River
A Brief Description of the Province of Carolina
Land Ownership and Labor in Carolina
The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1669)
Culpeper's Rebellion
Settling the Coastal Plain
The Present State of Carolina [People and Climate]
An Act to Encourage the Settlement of America (1707)
The Arrival of Swiss Immigrants
A German Immigrant Writes to Home
Quakers
Graveyard of the Atlantic
Of the Inlets and Havens of This Country
The Life and Death of Blackbeard the Pirate
The Tuscarora War and Cary's Rebellion
Cary's Rebellion
The Tuscarora War
Who Owns the Land?
John Lawson's Assessment of the Tuscarora
The Tuscarora Ask Pennsylvania for Aid
A Letter from Major Christopher Gale, November 2, 1711
Christoph von Graffenried's Account of the Tuscarora War
The Fate of North Carolina's Native Peoples
Carolina Becomes North and South Carolina
From Africa to America
Africans Before the Atlantic Slave Trade
Leo Africanus Describes Timbuktu
A Forced Migration
Olaudah Equiano Remembers West Africa
Venture Smith Describes His Enslavement
An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa
African and African American Storytelling
Settling the Piedmont
Expanding to the West: Settlement of the Piedmont Region, 1730 to 1775
Mapping the Great Wagon Road
The Moravians: From Europe to North America
Summary of a Report Sent to Bethlehem
From Caledonia to Carolina: The Highland Scots
William Byrd on the People and Environment of North Carolina
Governing the Piedmont
Daily Life and Work
The Importance of Rice to North Carolina
Janet Schaw on American Agriculture
Naval Stores and the Longleaf Pine
The Value of Money in Colonial America
Marriage in Colonial North Carolina
Families in Colonial North Carolina
Learning in Colonial Carolina
An Orphan's Apprenticeship
Benjamin Wadsworth on Children's Duties to Their Parents
North Carolina's First Newspaper
Poor Richard's Almanack
Nathan Cole and the First Great Awakening
Mapping Life in a Colonial Town
Colonial Cooking and Foodways
Work in Colonial America: Blacksmithing
Material Culture: Exploring Wills and Inventories
About Wills and Probate Inventories
Probate Inventory of Valentine Bird, 1680
Will of Susanna Robisson, 1709
Probate Inventory of Darby O'Brian, 1725
Will of Samuel Nicholson, 1727
Will of William Cartright, Sr., 1733
Probate Inventory of James and Anne Pollard, Tyrrell County, 1750
Will of Richard Blackledge, Craven County, 1776
Probate Inventory of Richard Blackledge, Craven County, 1777
Inventories
The French and Indian War (Intro)
The French and Indian War
Fort Dobbs and the French and Indian War in North Carolina
Toward a Union of the Colonies?
The Albany Plan of Union
Revolutionary North Carolina (1763-1790)
The Regulators: Introduction
The Regulators
An Address to the People of Granville County
The Regulators Organize
Herman Husband: "Some grievous oppressions"
Edmund Fanning Reports to Governor Tryon
Orange County Inhabitants Petition Governor Tryon
Songs of the Regulators
The Cost of Tryon Palace
Chaos in Hillsborough 1770
An Act for Preventing Tumultuous and Riotous Assemblies
An Authentick Relation of the Battle of Alamance
Aftermath of the Battle of Alamance
Beginnings of the American Revolution: Resistance and Revolution
Timeline of Resistance, 1763–1774
Dashed Hopes for the Frontier
Taxes, Trade, and Resistance
The Stamp Act Crisis in North Carolina
A Pledge to Violate the Stamp Act
The First Provincial Congress
The "Edenton Tea Party"
Political Cartoon: A Society of Patriotic Ladies
Backcountry Residents Proclaim Their Loyalty
The Committees of Safety
Loyalist Perspective: Violence in Wilmington
War and Independence
Timeline of the Revolution 1775–1779
Which Side to Take: Revolutionary or Loyalist?
The Mecklenburg Resolves
Liberty to Slaves: The Black Response
Lord Dunmore's Proclamation
A Virginian Responds to Dunmore's Proclamation
The Battle of Moores Creek Bridge
Mary Slocumb at Moores Creek Bridge: The Birth of a Legend
A Call for Independence
The Halifax Resolves
The Declaration of Independence
Plans for Democracy
Creed of a Rioter
The North Carolina Constitution and Declaration of Rights
The Rutherford Expedition (Intro)
The Cherokees' and Catawbas' Stance in the Revolutionary War
Boundary Between North Carolina and the Cherokee Nation, 1767
The Rutherford Expedition
A Letter to Brigadier General Rutherford
Cherokee Leaders Speak
The War in the South
Timeline of the Revolution, 1780–1783
The Southern Campaign
The Battle of Kings Mountain
The Overmountain Men and the Battle of Kings Mountain
Muskets and Rifles: The Soldier's Experience
Chaos in Salem
The Battle of Guilford Courthouse
David Fanning and the Tory War of 1781
Skirmish at the House in the Horseshoe
A Petition to Protect Loyalist Families
A New National Government
The First National Government: The Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation
The Constitutional Convention
The Constitution of the United States
Debating the Federal Constitution
North Carolina Demands a Declaration of Rights
The Bill of Rights
Early National (1790-1836)
Creating a State
The State of Franklin
The United States in the 1790s
A Capital in the "Wilderness"
Nathaniel Macon
Nathaniel Macon on Democracy
The Walton War
An Agricultural State
Thomas Jefferson on Manufacturing and Commerce
Midwives and Herbal Medicine
A Father's Advice to His Sons
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
The Growth of Slavery in North Carolina
A Slave Auction at Wilmington
Christian Revival
The Second Great Awakening
Into the Wilderness: Circuit Riders Take Religion to the People
A Camp Meeting Scene
What a Religious Revival Is
Description of a Nineteenth Century Revival
Rock Springs Camp Meeting
"Be saved from the jaws of an angry hell"
Preaching Obedience to Slaves
Elizabeth, a Colored Minister of the Gospel, Born in Slavery
John Chavis
The Development of Sacred Singing
The Rip Van Winkle State
Searching for Greener Pastures: Out-Migration in the 1800s
Migration Into and Out of North Carolina: Exploring Census Data
North Carolina's Leaders Speak Out on Emigration
Archibald Murphey
"A poor, ignorant, squalid population"
Archibald Murphey Proposes a System of Public Education
Archibald Murphey Calls for Better Inland Navigation
Canova's Statue of Washington
Education
A Free School in Beaufort
Rules for Students and Teachers
John Chavis Opens a School for White and Black Students
Education and Literacy in Edgecombe County, 1810
"For What Is a Mother Responsible?"
The University of North Carolina Opens
Student Life at UNC
Cherokee Mission Schools
A Bill to Prevent All Persons from Teaching Slaves to Read or Write, the Use of Figures Excepted (1830)
Academies for Boys and Girls
First Year at New Garden Boarding School
A Timeline of North Carolina Colleges (1766–1861)
Gold Rush
The North Carolina Gold Rush
The Reed Gold Mine
From the North Carolina Gold-Mine Company
Minting Gold into Coins
The Workings of a Gold Mine
Traveling the State
Steamboats
The Dismal Swamp Canal
How a Canal Works
Elisha Mitchell and His Mountain
Elisha Mitchell Explores the Mountains
The Buncombe Turnpike
State and National Politics
The Stanly-Spaight Duel
The Louisiana Purchase
The War of 1812
Debating War with Britain: For the War
Debating War with Britain: Against the War
The Burning of Washington
Dolley Madison and the White House Treasures
The Expansion of Slavery and the Missouri Compromise
The Expansion of Slavery and the Missouri Compromise
Nat Turner's Rebellion (Intro)
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Mapping Rumors of Nat Turner's Rebellion
"Fear of Insurrection"
Reporting on Nat Turner: The North Carolina Star, Sept. 1
Reporting on Nat Turner: The Raleigh Register, Sept. 1
Reporting on Nat Turner: The Raleigh Register, Sept. 15
Insurrections in North Carolina?
Hysteria in Wilmington
"A sickening state of things"
Remembering Nat Turner
Cherokee Removal and the Trail of Tears
The Cherokee and the Trail of Tears
The Cherokee Language and Syllabary
Andrew Jackson Calls for Indian Removal
"We have unexpectedly become civilized"
The Indian Removal Act of 1830
Cherokee Nation v. the State of Georgia, 1831
Chief John Ross Protests the Treaty of New Echota
A Soldier Recalls the Trail of Tears
The Legend of Tsali
Reform
Whigs and Democrats
Reform Movements Across the United States
1835 Amendments to the North Carolina Constitution
Ratifying the Amendments
North Carolina's First Public School Opens
Criminal Law and Reform
Dorothea Dix Hospital
Dorothea Dix Pleads for a State Mental Hospital
The Raleigh Female Benevolent Society
Antebellum (1836–1860)
A Slave State
Distribution of Land and Slaves
Social Divisions in Antebellum North Carolina
North Carolina v. Mann
The Quakers and Anti-Slavery
Levi Coffin and the Underground Railroad
Negotiated Segregation in Salem
Manumission
A Petition to Free a White Slave
Black Codes
Advertising for Slaves
Runaways and Slave Hunters in the Dismal Swamp
Antislavery Feeling in the Mountains
Farms and Plantations
Crops and Livestock
Seasons on a Farm
Diary of a Planter
Diary of a Farm Wife
The Duties of a Young Woman
Southern Cooking, 1824
Southern Honor
Court Days
A Bilious Fever
Bright Leaf Tobacco
Naval Stores in Antebellum North Carolina
Plantation Records: Expenses
Plantation Records: Property
Plantation Records: Expansion
Antebellum Homes and Plantations
Life in Slavery
The Life of a Slave
James Curry's Childhood in Slavery
Interview with Fountain Hughes
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Lunsford Lane Buys His Freedom
James Curry Escapes from Slavery
Jonkonnu in North Carolina
Plantation Records: Slave Names
Business and Industry
Towns and Villages
Occupations in 1860
Businesses by County, 1854
Thomas Day, African American Craftsman
Indian Cabinetmakers in Piedmont North Carolina
The Nissen Wagon Works
The Alamance Cotton Mill
Technology and Transportation
The Invention of the Telegraph
The North Carolina Railroad
Estimated Cost of the North Carolina Rail Road, 1851
The Wilmington and Weldon Railroad
Railroad Timetables
The Fayetteville and Western Plank Road
On the Road with Jane Caroline North
Music and the Arts
Joining Together in Song: Piedmont Music in Black and White
African American Spirituals
The Gospel Train
I'm Gwine Home on de Mornin' Train
Long Way to Travel
Frankie Silver: Female Folklore Legend
The Ballad of Frankie Silver
All Hail to Thee, Thou Good Old State
The Old North State
George Moses Horton
Death of an Old Carriage Horse
Towards Secession
From Pro-Slavery to Secession
The Mexican-American War
The California Gold Rush
The Compromise of 1850
A Divided Nation
Benjamin Hedrick
UNC Dismisses Benjamin Hedrick
The Impending Crisis of the South
Furor Over Hinton Helper's Book
The Election of 1860
Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1876)
Secession
Timeline of the Civil War, January–June 1861
Secession and Civil War
Fort Sumter
North Carolinians Debate Secession
A Virginia Boy Volunteers
A UNC Student Asks to Sign Up
North Carolina Secedes
The North Carolina Oath of Allegiance
"The Southern Cross"
The War Begins, 1861
North and South in 1861
Timeline of the Civil War, July 1861-July 1864
The Civil War: from Bull Run to Appomattox
North Carolina as a Civil War Battlefield: May 1861-April 1862
The Union Blockade
Rose O'Neal Greenhow Describes the Battle of Manassas
Tar Heels Pitch In
Girls Helping the Cause
The Burnside Expedition, 1862
The Burnside Expedition
War on the Outer Banks
The Battle of Roanoke Island
The Burning of Elizabeth City
The Battle of New Bern
The War Continues, 1862–1864
North Carolina as a Civil War Battlefield, May 1862–November 1864
The Raleigh Standard Protests Conscription
Running the Blockade
Cargo Manifests of Confederate Blockade Runners
Freed People at New Bern
The Emancipation Proclamation
Iowa Royster on the March into Pennsylvania
African American Soldiers
The Thomas Legion
The Capture of Plymouth
Civil War Casualties
A Soldier's Life
The Life of a Civil War Soldier
Small Arms in the Civil War
Civil War Uniforms
Soldiers' Food
Rose O'Neal Greenhow to Jefferson Davis
"My dear little darling"
Life in Camp
A Plea for Supplies
Civil War Army Hospitals
Enduring Amputation
Salisbury Prison
Vance's Proclamation Against Deserters
"I am sorry to tell that some of our brave boys has got killed"
The Home Front
"My dear I ha'n't forgot you"
Zebulon Vance
The Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony
Paper Money in the Civil War
Pleading for Corn
A Female Raid
"No one has anything to sell"
The Shelton Laurel Massacre
The Home Guard
A Civil War at Home: Treatment of Unionists
The Lowry War
Life Under Union Occupation
The War Comes to an End, 1864–1865
Timeline of the Civil War, August 1864–May 1865
North Carolina as a Civil War Battlefield, November 1864–May 1865
The Destruction of the CSS Albemarle
Wilmington, Fort Fisher, and the Lifeline of the Confederacy
Lincoln's Plans for Reconstruction
An Account of Stoneman's Raid
Sherman's March Through North Carolina
"Where Home Used to Be"
The Battle of Bentonville
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Johnston Surrenders
Mustering Out of the Confederate Army
Parole Signed by the Officers and Men in Johnston's Army
"For us the War is Ended"
"Can the very Spirit of Freedom Die out?"
May 1865 Advertisements
Freedom
What Justice Entitles Us To
Character of Men Employed as Scouts
Early Schools for Freed People
Freedmen's Schools: The school houses are crowded, and the people are clamorous for more
Louisa Jacobs on Freedmen
Address of The Raleigh Freedmen's Convention
Reuniting Families
Making Marriages Legal
Charges of Abuse
Reconstruction (Intro)
Reconstruction
Timeline of Reconstruction in North Carolina
Reconstruction in North Carolina
Johnson's Amnesty Proclamation
Amnesty Letters
Black Codes, 1866
Catherine Edmondston and Reconstruction
Amending the U.S. Constitution
African Americans Get the Vote in Eastern North Carolina
Military Reconstruction
The 1868 Constitution
John Adams Hyman
"Redemption" and the End of Reconstruction
Republican Rule
Conservative Opposition
The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan
Governor Holden Speaks Out Against the Ku Klux Klan
The Kirk-Holden War
The Murder of "Chicken" Stephens
Address to the Colored People of North Carolina
The Compromise of 1877
North Carolina in the New South (1870-1900)
Changes in Agriculture
Life on the Land: The Piedmont Before Industrialization
A Revolution in Agriculture
Sharecropping and Tenant Farming
Life on the Land: Voices
A Sharecropper's Contract
The Struggles of a Tenant Farmer
The Evils of the Crop Lien System
Tobacco Farming the Old Way
The History of the State Fair
The African American State Fair
Cities and Industry
Growth and Transformation: the United States in the Gilded Age
Henry Grady and the "New South"
Industrialization in North Carolina
The Growth of Cities
Immigration in U.S. History
Railroads in Western North Carolina
The Dukes of Durham
The Tobacco Industry and Winston-Salem
The Textile Industry and Winston-Salem
Small-Town Businesses, 1903
New Machine Shop in Plymouth, N.C.
The Belk Brothers' Department Stores
Factories and Mill Villages
Work in a Textile Mill
Working in a Tobacco Factory
Life in the Mill Villages
Mill Villages
Mill Village and Factory: Voices
Inventions in the Tobacco Industry
The Bonsack Machine and Labor Unrest
Workers' Pay and the Cost of Living
The Struggles of Labor and the Rise of Labor Unions
The Knights of Labor
Opposition to the Knights of Labor
Tobacco Workers Strike
Education and Opportunity
Timeline of North Carolina Colleges and Universities, 1865–1900
North Carolina State University
A Women's College
Student Life at the Normal and Industrial School
Wealth and Education by the Numbers, North Carolina 1900
The Colored State Normal Schools
African American College Students, 1906
The Biltmore Forest School
Athletics
Life in the Gilded Age
Biltmore Estate
The Bouquet
Southern Women and the Bicycle
Bicycles: Scourge of the Streets?
The Roller Skate Craze
Advertising New Products
Cities and Public Architecture
Sanitariums
The Growth of Tourism: Warm Springs
The Growth of Tourism: Southern Pines
Domestic Work in the Nineteenth Century
North Carolina in an American Empire
Expansion and Empire, 1867–1914
The Spanish-American War
"The duty of colored citizens to their country"
The Third North Carolina Regiment
Ensign Worth Bagley
Politics and Populism
The Rise of Populism
Populists, Fusionists, and White Supremacists: North Carolina Politics from Reconstruction to the Election of 1898
Leonidas Polk and the Farmers' Alliance
Chatham County Farmers Protest
Marion Butler and Fusion Politics
George Henry White: a Biographical Sketch
1898 and White Supremacy
The Wilmington Record Editorial
The Democrats Appeal to Voters
The Wilmington Race Riot
The "Revolutionary Mayor" of Wilmington
Letter from an African American Citizen of Wilmington to the President
J. Allen Kirk on the Wilmington Race Riot
The Suffrage Amendment
Voter Registration Cards
Governor Aycock on "The Negro Problem"
Wilmington Massacre November 1898
North Carolina in the Early 20th Century (1900–1929)
Turn of the 20th Century Technology and Transportation
Municipal Electric Service
Electric Streetcars
Idol’s Dam and Power Plant
Rural Free Delivery
The Impact of the Telephone
The Road to the First Flight
Announcing the First Flight
Newspaper Coverage of the First Flight
Henry Ford and the Model T
The Woman at the Wheel
The Good Roads Movement
WBT Charlotte in the Golden Age of Radio
Sour Stomachs and Galloping Headaches
The Progressive Era
Reform and a New Era
Women's Clubs
Improving School Houses
The "Education Governor"
Statewide Prohibition
Quarantines
Winston-Salem's Early Hospitals
Death in a Pot
The Jungle
Sanitation and Privies
World War I
Timeline of World War I
The United States and World War I
Propaganda and Public Opinion in the First World War
"Over There"
The War and German Americans
The Increasing Power of Destruction: military technology in World War I
Camp Bragg
Conditions at Camp Greene
Diary of a Doughboy
A Letter Home from the American Expeditionary Force
Ashe County Deserters
Rescue at Sea
North Carolina and the "Blue Death": The Flu Epidemic of 1918
Stopping the Spread of Influenza
"Nationalism and Americanism"
African American Involvement in World War I
The Treaty of Versailles
Women's Suffrage
Timeline of Women's Suffrage
The Long Struggle for Women's Suffrage
Equal Pay for Equal Work
Gertrude Weil
The North Carolina Equal Suffrage League
Why We Oppose Votes for Men
Our Idea of Nothing at All
Votes for Women
Gertrude Weil Urges Suffragists to Action
North Carolina and the Women's Suffrage Amendment
Gertrude Weil Congratulates — and Consoles — Suffragists
Lillian Exum Clement
Jim Crow and Black Wall Street
The Birth of "Jim Crow"
A Sampling of Jim Crow Laws
Triracial Segregation in Robeson County
George White Speaks Out on Lynchings
The Great Migration and North Carolina
Durham's "Black Wall Street"
Black Businesses in Durham
The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company
Charlotte Hawkins Brown
Charlotte Hawkins Brown's Rules for School
1912 Winston Salem Segregation Ordinance Enacted
Black Student Activism in the 1920s and 1930s
The Roaring Twenties
The Booming Twenties
How the Twenties Roared in North Carolina
"Eastern North Carolina for the farmer"
"Home folks and neighbor people"
North Carolina Debates Evolution
Thomas Wolfe
Asheville Reacts to Look Homeward, Angel
From Stringbands to Bluesmen: African American Music in the Piedmont
Hillbillies and Mountain Folk: Early Stringband Recordings
Jubilee Quartets and the Five Royales: From Gospel to Rhythm & Blues
The "Flapper"
Going to the Movies
Industry and Labor
Child Labor
Why Belong to the Union?
Work and Protest, 1920–1934
Work and Protest: Voices
Alice Caudle Talks About Mill Work
The Carolina Coal Company Mine Explosion
The Southern Highland Craft Guild
The Gastonia Strike (Intro)
The Gastonia Strike
The Strike Begins
An Industry Representative visits Loray Mills
A Union Organizer Blames the Mill
The Strikers Move Into Tents
Congress Considers an Inquiry Into Textile Strikes
The Police Chief is Killed
The Mill Mother's Lament
The Great Depression and World War II (1929 and 1945)
Understanding the Great Depression
The Great Depression: An Overview
The Economics of the Great Depression
The Depression for Farmers
Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression
The Bonus Army
Roosevelt and the New Deal
The Banking Crisis
The Economics of Recovery and Reform
Relief, Recovery, and Reform
Ending Child Labor in North Carolina
Child Labor Laws in North Carolina
Workplace Safety
The Fair Labor Standards Act
Tobacco Bag Stringing: Life and Labor in the Depression
A Sampson County Farm Family
Rural Electrification
The Live at Home Program
4-H and Home Demonstration During the Great Depression
Eugenics in North Carolina
Records of Eugenical Sterilization in North Carolina
The Blue Ridge Parkway
Roads Taken and Not Taken: Images and the Story of the Blue Ridge Parkway “Missing Link”
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Life During the Depression
Self-Sufficiency on the Farm: Gardening, Picking, Canning, Cracklings, Sewing
A Textile Mill Worker's Family
"The mill don't need him tonight"
"Begging reduced to a system"
A Waitress
"He never wanted land till now"
Health and Beauty in the 1930s
Paul Green
Paul Green's The Lost Colony
Krispy Kreme
The Lasting Impact of the Great Depression
War Begins
The Coming of War
Timeline of World War II: 1931–1941
Pearl Harbor
"A date which will live in infamy"
Americans React to Pearl Harbor
Mobilizing for War
Fighting the War
The United States in World War II
Timeline of World War II: 1942–1945
The Science and Technology of World War II
The USS North Carolina
Midway
D-Day
Landing in Europe
Liberating France
The Battle of the Bulge
Iwo Jima
The Holocaust
The Soldier's Experience
Enlisting
Basic Training
Face to Face with Segregation: African American marines at Camp Lejune
The Experiences of Black Soldiers
Racial Discrimination in the Army
Music and Morale
The Story of a B-17 crew
Surviving the Blitz
Serving in the Air Force
Serving in the Pacific
The War at Home
Calling for Sacrifice
The Manpower Problem
North Carolina's Wartime Miracle: Defending the Nation
The Japanese-American Internment
Rosie the Riveter
Germans Attack Off of North Carolina's Outer Banks
Wartime Wilmington
Prisoners of War in North Carolina
Rationing
War Bonds
Covering the Beat: UNC in the WWII Era
Feed a Fighter
Food for Fighters
Victory Gardens
4-H and Home Demonstration Work during World War II
4-H mobilization for victory (1943)
Enlistment for Victory (1943)
Feed a Fighter in Forty-Four
4-H club contributions to the war effort
Winners in North Carolina's Feed a Fighter Program
Victory — and After
Victory in Europe
The Atomic Bomb
Statement by the President Announcing the Use of the A-Bomb at Hiroshima
A Tale of Two Cities
Victory over Japan
Occupying Japan
World War II Dead and Missing from North Carolina
Into the Postwar Era
Postwar North Carolina (1945-1975)
Introduction
The Cold War Begins
The Cold War: An Overview
The Origins of the Cold War
The Korean War
Living with the Bomb
The Cold War in the 1950s
Sputnik and Explorer
John F. Kennedy
Bombs over Goldsboro
The Space Race
Postwar Life
The GI Bill
The Interstate Highway System
Interstate Highways from the Ground Up
Changes in Agriculture 1860-
Growing Tobacco
The Influence of Radio
The Grandfather Mountain Highland Games
The Andy Griffith Show
Selling North Carolina, One Image at a Time
More than Tourism: Cherokee, North Carolina, in the Post-War Years
The Singing on the Mountain
Scottish Heritage at Linville
The Harriet-Henderson Textile Workers Union Strike: Defeat for Struggling Southern Labor Unions
W. Kerr Scott: From Dairy Farmer to Transforming North Carolina Business and Politics
Governor Terry Sanford: Transforming the Tar Heel State with Progressive Politics and Policies
The Struggle for Civil Rights, 1930–1959
Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
April 1947: Journey of Reconciliation
The Piedmont Leaf Tobacco Plant Strike, 1946
Desegregating the Armed Forces
A Black Officer in an Integrated Army
The 1950 Senate Campaign
Alone but Not Afraid: Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Lumbees Face the Klan
Robert F. Williams and Black Power in North Carolina
The NAACP in North Carolina: One Way or Another
Pauli Murray and 20th Century Freedom Movements
School Desegregation
Brown v. Board of Education and School Desegregation
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
The Pupil Assignment Act: North Carolina's Response to Brown v. Board of Education
With All Deliberate Speed: The Pearsall Plan
Perspective on Desegregation in North Carolina: Harry Golden's Vertical Integration Plan
Billy Graham and Civil Rights
The Little Rock Nine
Desegregation Pioneers
Youth Protest: JoAnne Peerman
A Teacher's Protest: William Culp
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
The Impact of Busing in Charlotte
Opposition to Busing
Perspectives on School Desegregation: Fran Jackson
Perspectives on School Desegregation: Harriet Love
Achieving Civil Rights, 1960–1965
The Civil Rights Movement, 1960–1980
Religion and the Civil Rights Movement: Malcolm X Visits North Carolina in 1963
The Women of Bennett College: Unsung Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement
Sit-Ins
The Greensboro Sit-Ins
Wanted: Picketers
The Freedom Riders
Desegregating Public Accommodations in Durham
Desegregating Hospitals
The March on Washington, 1963
The Precursor: Desegregating the Armed Forces
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Struggle for Voting Rights
The Selma-to-Montgomery March
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Lumbee Organize Against the Ku Klux Klan January 18, 1958: The Battle of Hayes Pond, Maxton, N.C.
Protest, Change, and Backlash: the 1960s
Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
The North Carolina Fund
Fighting Poverty
The Speaker Ban Controversy
Jesse Helms and the Speaker Ban
The Women's Movement
Segregated Employment Ads
Gay Life
The Aftermath of Martin Luther King's Assassination
Howard Lee
Senator Sam Ervin: Interpreting Historical Figures
The Vietnam War
Outline of the Vietnam War
The Vietnam War: A Timeline
Something He Couldn't Write About: Telling My Daddy's Story of Vietnam
A Soldier's Experience in Vietnam: Herbert Rhodes
A Soldier's Experience in Vietnam: Tex Howard
A Soldier's Experience in Vietnam: John Luckey
A Soldier's Experience in Vietnam: Robert L. Jones
A Soldier's Experience in Vietnam: Johnas Freeman
Anti-War Demonstrations
Campus Protests
The Limits of Change: The 1970s
Nixon, Vietnam, and The Cold War/ Nixon's Accomplishments and Defeats
The Wilmington Ten
The 1971 Constitution
North Carolina's First Presidential Primary
The Election of 1972
The Equal Rights Amendment
Watergate
The Greensboro Killings
A Lifetime of Change
Early Childhood
Country Memories
Rebecca Clark and the Change in Her Path in Education
Race Relations
Pay Raise
Politics
Recent North Carolina
Introduction
From Carter to G.W. Bush: U.S. Politics of the Turn of the 20th Century
The Carter Years
A Society in Transition
The Reagan Years
The Presidency of George H. W. Bush
The United States in the 1990s
The War on Terror and the Presidency of George W. Bush
Politics, Personalities, and Issues
Jim Hunt
"Senator No"
The 1984 Senate Campaign
Henry Frye
Urban Renewal and the Displacement of Communities
Urban Renewal and Durham's Hayti Community
The Changing Economy
Research Triangle Park
The Closing of a Factory
Key Industries: Banking and Finance
Key Industries: Biotechnology
Key Industries: Furniture
Key Industries: Hog Farming
Key Industries: Information Technology
Key Industries: Textiles & Apparel
Economic Change: From Traditional Industries to the 21st Century Economy
Key Industries: Tobacco
The Environment
The Environmental Justice Movement
Moving Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
Coastal Erosion and the Ban on Hard Structures
The Impact of Hog Farms
Regulating Hog Farms
Cane Creek Reservoir
Air Pollution
Drought and Development
The Mountains-to-Sea Trail
Hugh Morton and North Carolina's Native Plants
Grandfather Mountain: Commerce and Tourism in the Appalachian Environment
Hurricane Floyd
Ten years Later: Remembering Hurricane Floyd's Wave of Destruction
Hurricane Floyd's Lasting Legacy
How Does a Hurricane Form?
Understanding Floods
Mapping Rainfall and Flooding
The Evacuation
Rising Waters
Damage from Hurricane Floyd
Floyd and Agriculture
Cleaning Up After the Flood
The Problems of Flood Relief
Preventing Future Floods
Reclaiming Sacred Ground: How Princeville is Recovering from the Flood of 1999
Natural Disasters and North Carolina in the second half of the 20th Century
New North Carolinians
Languages and Nationalities
Latino Immigration
Five Faiths
A Hindu Temple in Cary
The Montagnards
Immigration from Africa
Appendixes
Appendix A. Reading Primary Sources: an introduction for students
Appendix B. Wills and inventories: a process guide
Appendix C. John Lawson
Appendix D: Rip Van Winkle
Appendix E: The Confessions of Nat Turner
Appendix F: Political Parties in the United States
From 1788–1840
From 1820-1860
From 1870–1900
From 1896-1929
Appendix G: North Carolina's Governors
Appendix H. The Election of 1860: Results by State
Appendix I: Remembering the Revolution
Appendix J: Reading Slave Narratives: the WPA interviews
Appendix K: Organization of Civil War armies
Appendix L: A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown
Appendix M: Memorial Day
Appendix N: Pilot Training Manual for the B-17 Flying Fortress
Guides for Reading Primary Sources
Reading Primary Sources: thinking about thinking
Reading Primary Sources: Letters
Identify the Source
What is the nature of this source?
Who created this source, and what do I know about her, him, or them?
When was the source produced?
Where was the source produced?
Contextualize the Source
What do I know about the historical context of this source?
What do I know about how the creator of this source fits into that historical context?
Why did the person who created the source do so?
Explore the Source
What factual information is conveyed in this source?
What opinions are related in this source?
What is implied or conveyed unintentionally in the source?
What is not said in the source?
What is surprising or interesting about the source?
What do I not understand about the source?
Analyze the Source
How does the creator of the source convey information and make his or her point?
How is the world descibed in the source different from my world?
How might others at the time have reacted to this source?
Evaluate the Source
How does this source compare to other primary sources?
How does this source compare to secondary source accounts?
What do I believe and disbelieve from this source?
What do I still not know — and where can I find that information?
Appendix A: Transcription of Letters
Appendix B: John Adams to Abigail Adams Letter 1, July 3, 1776
Appendix C: John Adams to Abigail Adams Letter 2, July 3, 1777
Reading Primary Sources: Newspaper Advertisements
Reading Newspapers: advertisements
Identify the Source
What is the nature of this source?
Who created this source, and what do I know about her, him, or them?
When was the source produced?
Where was the source produced?
Contextualize the Source
What do I know about the historical context of this source?
What do I know about how the creator of this source fits into that historical context?
Why did the person who created the source do so?
Explore the Source
What factual information is conveyed in this source?
What opinions are related in this source?
What is implied or conveyed unintentionally in the source?
What is not said in the source?
What is surprising or interesting about the source?
What do I not understand about the source?
Analyze the Source
How does the creator of the source convey information and make his or her point?
How is the world descibed in the source different from my world?
How might others at the time have reacted to this source?
Evaluate the Source
How does this source compare to other primary sources?
How does this source compare to secondary source accounts?
What do I believe and disbelieve from this source?
What do I still not know — and where can I find that information?
Appendix A: Transcribed Carolina Watchman Ads, January 7, 1837
Appendix B: Carolina Watchman Ads, January 7, 1837
Reading Primary Sources: Newspaper Editorials
Reading Newspapers: editorial and opinion pieces
Identify the Source
What is the nature of this source?
Who created this source, and what do I know about her, him, or them?
When was the source produced?
Where was the source produced?
Contextualize the Source
What do I know about the historical context of this source?
What do I know about how the creator of this source fits into that historical context?
Why did the person who created the source do so?
Explore the Source
What factual information is conveyed in this source?
What opinions are related in this source?
What is implied or conveyed unintentionally in the source?
What is not said in the source?
What is surprising or interesting about the source?
What do I not understand about the source?
Analyze the Source
How does the creator of the source convey information and make his or her point?
How is the world descibed in the source different from my world?
How might others at the time have reacted to this source?
Evaluate the Source
What do I believe and disbelieve from this source?
How does this source compare to other primary sources?
How does this source compare to secondary source accounts?
What do I still not know — and where can I find that information?
Reading Primary Sources: Slave Narratives
Identify the Source
What is the nature of this source?
Who created this source, and what do I know about her, him, or them?
When was the source produced?
Where was the source produced?
Contextualize the Source
What do I know about the historical context of this source?
What do I know about how the creator of this source fits into that historical context?
Why did the person who created the source do so?
Explore the Source
What factual information is conveyed in this source?
What opinions are related in this source?
What is implied or conveyed unintentionally in the source?
What is not said in the source?
What is surprising or interesting about the source?
What do I not understand about the source?
Analyze the Source
How does the creator of the source convey information and make his or her point?
How is the world descibed in the source different from my world?
How might others at the time have reacted to this source?
Evaluate the Source
How does this source compare to other primary sources?
How does this source compare to secondary source accounts?
What do I believe and disbelieve from this source?
What do I still not know — and where can I find that information?
Appendix A: Abner Jordan Slave Narrative
Reading Newspapers: Reader Contributions
Reading Newspapers: Factual Reporting
Analyzing Political Cartoons
About ANCHOR
Partners and Contributors
Staff and Advisors
Digital Textbook FAQs
Pacing Guide
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Table of Contents
Introduction to NC Digital History
Two Worlds: Prehistory, Contact, and the Lost Colony (to 1600)
Colonial North Carolina (1600-1763)
Introduction to Colonial North Carolina (1600-1763)
Planting a Colony
Settling the Coastal Plain
The Tuscarora War and Cary's Rebellion
From Africa to America
Settling the Piedmont
Daily Life and Work
The Importance of Rice to North Carolina
Janet Schaw on American Agriculture
Naval Stores and the Longleaf Pine
The Value of Money in Colonial America
Marriage in Colonial North Carolina
Families in Colonial North Carolina
Learning in Colonial Carolina
An Orphan's Apprenticeship
Benjamin Wadsworth on Children's Duties to Their Parents
North Carolina's First Newspaper
Poor Richard's Almanack
Nathan Cole and the First Great Awakening
Mapping Life in a Colonial Town
Colonial Cooking and Foodways
Work in Colonial America: Blacksmithing
Material Culture: Exploring Wills and Inventories
The French and Indian War (Intro)
Revolutionary North Carolina (1763-1790)
Early National (1790-1836)
Antebellum (1836–1860)
Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1876)
North Carolina in the New South (1870-1900)
North Carolina in the Early 20th Century (1900–1929)
The Great Depression and World War II (1929 and 1945)
Postwar North Carolina (1945-1975)
Recent North Carolina
Appendixes
Guides for Reading Primary Sources
About ANCHOR
Colonial Cooking and Foodways
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Table of Contents
Introduction to NC Digital History
Two Worlds: Prehistory, Contact, and the Lost Colony (to 1600)
Colonial North Carolina (1600-1763)
Introduction to Colonial North Carolina (1600-1763)
Planting a Colony
Settling the Coastal Plain
The Tuscarora War and Cary's Rebellion
From Africa to America
Settling the Piedmont
Daily Life and Work
The Importance of Rice to North Carolina
Janet Schaw on American Agriculture
Naval Stores and the Longleaf Pine
The Value of Money in Colonial America
Marriage in Colonial North Carolina
Families in Colonial North Carolina
Learning in Colonial Carolina
An Orphan's Apprenticeship
Benjamin Wadsworth on Children's Duties to Their Parents
North Carolina's First Newspaper
Poor Richard's Almanack
Nathan Cole and the First Great Awakening
Mapping Life in a Colonial Town
Colonial Cooking and Foodways
Work in Colonial America: Blacksmithing
Material Culture: Exploring Wills and Inventories
The French and Indian War (Intro)
Revolutionary North Carolina (1763-1790)
Early National (1790-1836)
Antebellum (1836–1860)
Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1876)
North Carolina in the New South (1870-1900)
North Carolina in the Early 20th Century (1900–1929)
The Great Depression and World War II (1929 and 1945)
Postwar North Carolina (1945-1975)
Recent North Carolina
Appendixes
Guides for Reading Primary Sources
About ANCHOR