A North Carolina History Online Resource

This online resource is designed for grade 8 and up and covers all of North Carolina history, from the arrival of the first people some 12,000 years ago to the 21st century. This resource is organized into eleven chapters, presented chronologically and thematically, and includes secondary source readings, primary sources and multimedia. The resource is designed to model historical inquiry and help students build critical thinking and literacy skills.

What's new in ANCHOR?

ANCHOR is routinely adding new pages of content to its chapters. New pages contain robust information along with a considerable number of supporting outsources. These new pages can also include relevant primary sources and related historical materials, along with numerous classroom and student activities. Lesson plans are also often included. Please visit these new resources and consider adding them to your classroom toolkit!

• The Black Pioneers Loyalist Company
• The Lavender Scare in North Carolina
• Primary Source: The Transylvania Purchase and the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals, March 17, 1775
• The My Lai Massacre - March 16, 1968
• Disabled Veterans of the Civil War, Part I
• Disabled Veterans of the Civil War, Part II
• Disabled Veterans of the Civil War, Part III
• Juneteenth
• Important Revolutionary War Sites: Quaker Meadows, N.C.
• Thomas Peters, Black Loyalist and African Nationalist
• Nancy Hart, Revolutionary Woman
• Important Revolutionary War Sites: Quaker Meadows, N.C.
• Harold Cooley, Jim Gardner, and the Rise of the Republican Party in the South
• North Carolina’s Signers of the Declaration of Independence
• Backcountry Loyalists in North Carolina
• Population and Immigration Trends in North Carolina
• Rosenwald Schools in North Carolina
• Jim Crow
• The Lost Cause
• The Raleigh News and Observer
• Richard Etheridge
• Carpetbaggers
• Josiah Martin and His Exit from New Bern
• Redemption and Redeemers in the South
• The Mecklenburg Declaration