For centuries, North Carolina has been home to people from many cultures and backgrounds. But in the last few decades the state has become far more diverse, attracting immigrants from more than a hundred countries. We’ll conclude our story of North Carolina’s history with a look at the current and changing face — and faces — of North Carolina.
- ANCHOR
- 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
- 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 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
- 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)
- 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 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 Regulators: Introduction
- Early National (1790-1836)
- Creating a State
- An Agricultural State
- 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
- Traveling the State
- 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
- Business and Industry
- Technology and Transportation
- 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
- A Slave State
- Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1876)
- Secession
- The War Begins, 1861
- The Burnside Expedition, 1862
- 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
- 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
- North Carolina in an American Empire
- Politics and Populism
- 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
- Changes in Agriculture
- 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
- 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
- The Gastonia Strike (Intro)
- Turn of the 20th Century Technology and Transportation
- The Great Depression and World War II (1929 and 1945)
- Understanding the Great Depression
- 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
- Fighting the War
- The Soldier's Experience
- 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
- Victory — and After
- Postwar North Carolina (1945-1975)
- Introduction
- The Cold War Begins
- 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
- 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
- A Lifetime of Change
- Recent North Carolina
- Introduction
- From Carter to G.W. Bush: U.S. Politics of the Turn of the 20th Century
- Politics, Personalities, and Issues
- The Changing Economy
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Reading Primary Sources: Newspaper Advertisements
- Reading Primary Sources: Newspaper Editorials
- Reading Primary Sources: Slave Narratives
- Reading Newspapers: Reader Contributions
- Reading Newspapers: Factual Reporting
- Analyzing Political Cartoons
- About ANCHOR
Table of Contents
- Introduction to NC Digital History
- Two Worlds: Prehistory, Contact, and the Lost Colony (to 1600)
- Colonial North Carolina (1600-1763)
- 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
New North Carolinians
Table of Contents
- Introduction to NC Digital History
- Two Worlds: Prehistory, Contact, and the Lost Colony (to 1600)
- Colonial North Carolina (1600-1763)
- 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