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- 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
- Primary Source: A Declaration and Proposals of the Lords Proprietors of Carolina (1663)
- William Hilton Explores the Cape Fear River
- Primary Source: A Brief Description of the Province of Carolina
- Land Ownership and Labor in Carolina
- Primary Source: The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1669)
- Culpeper's Rebellion
- Settling the Coastal Plain
- The Present State of Carolina [People and Climate]
- Primary Source: An Act to Encourage the Settlement of America (1707)
- The Arrival of Swiss Immigrants
- Primary Source: A German Immigrant Writes to Home
- Quakers
- Graveyard of the Atlantic
- Primary Source: 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?
- Primary Source: John Lawson's Assessment of the Tuscarora
- Primary Source: The Tuscarora Ask Pennsylvania for Aid
- Primary Source: A Letter from Major Christopher Gale, November 2, 1711
- Primary Source: 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
- Primary Source: Leo Africanus Describes Timbuktu
- A Forced Migration
- Primary Source: Olaudah Equiano Remembers West Africa
- Primary Source: Venture Smith Describes His Enslavement
- Primary Source: Falconbridge's 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
- Primary Source: Summary of a Report Sent to Bethlehem
- From Caledonia to Carolina: The Highland Scots
- Primary Source: William Byrd on the People and Environment of North Carolina
- Governing the Piedmont
- Daily Life and Work
- The Importance of Rice to North Carolina
- Primary Source: 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
- Primary Source: Jesse Cook's Orphan Apprenticeship
- Benjamin Wadsworth on Children's Duties to Their Parents
- North Carolina's First Newspaper
- Poor Richard's Almanack
- Primary Source: 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
- Primary Source: Probate Inventory of Valentine Bird, 1680
- Primary Source: Will of Susanna Robisson, 1709
- Primary Source: Probate Inventory of Darby O'Brian, 1725
- Primary Source: Will of Samuel Nicholson, 1727
- Primary Source: Will of William Cartright, Sr., 1733
- Primary Source: Probate Inventory of James and Anne Pollard, Tyrrell County, 1750
- Primary Source: Will of Richard Blackledge, Craven County, 1776
- Primary Source: 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
- Primary Source: George Sims' An Address to the People of Granville County
- Primary Source: The Regulators Organize
- Primary Source: Herman Husband and "Some grievous oppressions"
- Primary Source: Edmund Fanning Reports to Governor Tryon
- Primary Source: Orange County Inhabitants Petition Governor Tryon
- Primary Source: Songs of the Regulators
- The Cost of Tryon Palace
- Primary Source: Chaos in Hillsborough 1770
- Primary Source: An Act for Preventing Tumultuous and Riotous Assemblies
- Primary Source: An Authentick Relation of the Battle of Alamance
- Primary Source: 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
- Primary Source: A Pledge to Violate the Stamp Act
- Primary Source: The First Provincial Congress
- The "Edenton Tea Party"
- Political Cartoon: A Society of Patriotic Ladies
- Primary Source: Backcountry Residents Proclaim Their Loyalty
- Primary Source: The Committees of Safety
- Primary Source: Loyalist Perspective on the Violence in Wilmington
- War and Independence
- Timeline of the Revolution 1775–1779
- Which Side to Take: Revolutionary or Loyalist?
- The Mecklenburg Declaration
- Primary Source: The Mecklenburg Resolves
- Josiah Martin and His Exit from New Bern
- "Liberty to Slaves": The Response of Free and Enslaved Black People to Revolution
- Thomas Peters, Black Loyalist and African Nationalist
- Primary Source: Lord Dunmore's Proclamation
- Primary Source: A Virginian Responds to Dunmore's Proclamation
- The Battle of Moores Creek Bridge
- Primary Source: Mary Slocumb at Moores Creek Bridge: The Birth of a Legend
- A Call for Independence
- Primary Source: Minutes on The Halifax Resolves
- Primary Source: The Declaration of Independence
- North Carolina’s Signers of the Declaration of Independence
- Primary Source: Plans for Democracy
- Primary Source: "Creed of a Rioter"
- Primary Source: The North Carolina Constitution and Declaration of Rights
- Nancy Hart, Revolutionary Woman
- The Rutherford Expedition (Intro)
- The Cherokees' and Catawbas' Stance in the Revolutionary War
- Primary Source: Boundary Between North Carolina and the Cherokee Nation, 1767
- The Rutherford Expedition
- Primary Source: A Letter to Brigadier General Rutherford
- Primary Source: Cherokee Leaders Speak About Land Cessions
- The Abduction of Jemima Boone
- The War in the South
- Timeline of the Revolution, 1780–1783
- Backcountry Loyalists in North Carolina
- The Southern Campaign
- Important Revolutionary War Sites: Quaker Meadows, N.C.
- The Battle of Kings Mountain
- The Overmountain Men and the Battle of Kings Mountain
- Primary Source: Diary Reporting Chaos in Salem
- The Battle of Guilford Courthouse
- David Fanning and the Tory War of 1781
- Skirmish at the House in the Horseshoe
- Primary Source: A Petition to Protect Loyalist Families
- A New National Government
- The First National Government: The Articles of Confederation
- Primary Source: The Articles of Confederation
- The Constitutional Convention
- Primary Source: The Constitution of the United States
- Primary Source: Debating the Federal Constitution
- Primary Source: North Carolina Demands a Declaration of Rights
- Primary Source: The Bill of Rights
- The Regulators: Introduction
- Early National (1790-1836)
- Creating a State
- An Agricultural State
- Primary Source: Thomas Jefferson on Manufacturing and Commerce
- Primary Source: Rachel Allen's Experience as Midwife and use of Herbal Medicine
- Primary Source: A Father's Advice to His Sons
- Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
- The Growth of Slavery in North Carolina
- Primary Source: Excerpt from Schoepf on the Auction of Enslaved People in 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
- Primary Source: Description of a Nineteenth Century Revival
- Rock Springs Camp Meeting
- Primary Source: "Be saved from the jaws of an angry hell"
- Primary Source: John Jea's Narrative on Slavery and Christianity
- Primary Source: Excerpt from "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
- Primary Source: North Carolina's Leaders Speak Out on Emigration
- Archibald Murphey
- Primary Source: "A poor, ignorant, squalid population"
- Primary Source: Archibald Murphey Proposes a System of Public Education
- Primary Source: Archibald Murphey Calls for Better Inland Navigation
- Canova's Statue of Washington
- Education
- Primary Source: A Free School in Beaufort
- Primary Source: Rules for Students and Teachers
- Primary Source: John Chavis Opens a School for White and Black Students
- Primary Source: Education and Literacy in Edgecombe County, 1810
- Primary Source: "For What Is a Mother Responsible?"
- The University of North Carolina Opens
- Primary Source: Student Life at UNC
- Cherokee Mission Schools
- Primary Source: A Bill to Prevent All Persons from Teaching Slaves to Read or Write, the Use of Figures Excepted (1830)
- Primary Source: Academies for Boys and Girls
- Primary Source: 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
- Primary Source: Debating War with Britain: For the War
- Primary Source: Debating War with Britain: Against the War
- Primary Source: The Burning of Washington
- Primary Source: Dolley Madison and the White House Treasures
- The Expansion of Slavery and the Missouri Compromise
- Nat Turner's Rebellion (Intro)
- Nat Turner's Rebellion
- Mapping Rumors of Nat Turner's Rebellion
- Primary Source: "Fear of Insurrection"
- Primary Source: Reporting on Nat Turner: The North Carolina Star, Sept. 1
- Primary Source: Reporting on Nat Turner: The Raleigh Register, Sept. 1
- Primary Source: Reporting on Nat Turner: The Raleigh Register, Sept. 15
- Primary Source: News Reporting of Insurrections in North Carolina
- Primary Source: Hysteria in Wilmington
- Primary Source: Letter Concerning Nat Turner's Rebellion
- Primary Source: Remembering Nat Turner
- Cherokee Removal and the Trail of Tears
- The Cherokee and the Trail of Tears
- The Cherokee Language and Syllabary
- Primary Source: Andrew Jackson Calls for Indian Removal
- Primary Source: "We have unexpectedly become civilized"
- Primary Source: The Indian Removal Act of 1830
- Primary Source: Cherokee Nation v. the State of Georgia, 1831
- Primary Source: Chief John Ross Protests the Treaty of New Echota
- Primary Source: A Soldier Recalls the Trail of Tears
- Primary Source: The Legend of Tsali
- Reform
- Whigs and Democrats
- Reform Movements Across the United States
- Primary Source: 1835 Amendments to the North Carolina Constitution
- Ratifying the Amendments
- Primary Source: North Carolina's First Public School Opens
- Criminal Law and Reform
- Dorothea Dix Hospital
- Primary Source: Dorothea Dix Pleads for a State Mental Hospital
- Primary Source: The Raleigh Female Benevolent Society
- Antebellum (1836–1860)
- A Slave State
- Distribution of Land and Slaves
- Social Divisions in Antebellum North Carolina
- Primary Source: North Carolina v. Mann
- Primary Source: The Quakers and Anti-Slavery
- Levi Coffin and the Underground Railroad
- Negotiated Segregation in Salem
- Primary Source: Ned Hyman's Appeal for Manumission
- Primary Source: A Petition to Free a White Slave
- Primary Source: A Sampling of Black Codes
- Primary Sources: Advertising Recapture and Sale of Enslaved People
- Primary Source: Freedom-Seekers and the Great Dismal Swamp
- Primary Source: Antislavery Feeling in the Mountains
- Farms and Plantations
- Primary Source: James Evan's Seasons on a Farm
- Primary Source: Henry William Harrington Jr.'s Diary
- Primary Source: Diary of a Farm Wife
- Primary Source: The Duties of a Young Woman
- Primary Source: Southern Cooking and Housekeeping Book, 1824
- Primary Source: Thomas Bowie's diary
- Primary Source: Court Days
- Primary Source: A Bilious Fever
- Bright Leaf Tobacco
- Primary Source: Frederick Law Olmstead on Naval Stores in Antebellum North Carolina
- Primary Source: Stagville Plantation Expenses Records
- Plantation Records: Property
- Primary Source: Stagville Plantation Expansion Records
- Antebellum Homes and Plantations
- Life in Slavery
- The Life of a Slave
- Primary Source: Excerpt from James Curry's Autobiography
- Primary Source: Interview with Fountain Hughes
- Primary Source: Harriet Jacobs Book Excerpt
- Primary Source: Lunsford Lane Buys His Freedom
- Primary Source: James Curry Escapes from Slavery
- Jonkonnu in North Carolina
- Primary Source: Cameron Family Plantation Records
- Business and Industry
- Technology and Transportation
- Music and the Arts
- Joining Together in Song: Piedmont Music in Black and White
- Primary Source: African American Spirituals
- Primary Source: The Gospel Train
- Primary Source: I'm Gwine Home on de Mornin' Train
- Primary Source: Long Way to Travel
- Frankie Silver: Female Folklore Legend
- Primary Source: The Ballad of Frankie Silver
- Primary Source: All Hail to Thee, Thou Good Old State
- Primary Source: The Old North State
- George Moses Horton
- Primary Source: George Moses Horton's "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
- Primary Source: Hedrick's Defense
- Primary Source: UNC Dismisses Benjamin Hedrick
- Primary Source: Helper's The Impending Crisis of the South
- Primary Source: Furor Over Hinton Helper's Book
- The Election of 1860
- A Slave State
- Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1876)
- Secession
- Timeline of the Civil War, January–June 1861
- Secession and Civil War
- Fort Sumter
- Primary Source: North Carolinians Debate Secession
- Primary Source: A Virginia Boy Volunteers
- Primary Source: A UNC Student Asks to Sign Up
- Primary Source: North Carolina Secedes
- Primary Source: The North Carolina Oath of Allegiance
- Primary Source: "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
- Primary Source: Rose O'Neal Greenhow Describes the Battle of Manassas
- Tar Heels Pitch In
- Primary Source: Girls Helping the Cause
- The Burnside Expedition, 1862
- The War Continues, 1862–1864
- North Carolina as a Civil War Battlefield, May 1862–November 1864
- Primary Source: The Raleigh Standard Protests Conscription
- Primary Source: Running the Blockade
- Primary Source: Cargo Manifests of Confederate Blockade Runners
- Primary Source: Freed People at New Bern
- Primary Source: The Emancipation Proclamation
- Primary Source: Iowa Royster on the March into Pennsylvania
- African American Soldiers
- The Thomas Legion
- Primary Source: 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
- Primary Source: Rose O'Neal Greenhow to Jefferson Davis
- Primary Source: "My dear little darling"
- Primary Source: Life in Camp
- Primary Source: A Plea for Supplies
- Civil War Army Hospitals
- Primary Source: Enduring Amputation
- Salisbury Prison
- Primary Source: Vance's Proclamation Against Deserters
- Primary Source: "I am sorry to tell that some of our brave boys has got killed"
- The Home Front
- Primary Source: "My dear I ha'n't forgot you"
- Zebulon Vance
- The Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony
- Paper Money in the Civil War
- Primary Source: Pleading for Corn
- Primary Source: A Female Raid
- Primary Source: "No one has anything to sell"
- The Shelton Laurel Massacre
- Primary Source: The Home Guard
- Primary Source: A Civil War at Home: Treatment of Unionists
- The Lowry War
- Primary Source: 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
- Primary Source: The Destruction of the CSS Albemarle
- Wilmington, Fort Fisher, and the Lifeline of the Confederacy
- Primary Source: Lincoln's Plans for Reconstruction
- Primary Source: An Account of Stoneman's Raid
- Sherman's March Through North Carolina
- Primary Source: "Where Home Used to Be"
- Primary Source: The Battle of Bentonville
- The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Johnston Surrenders
- Mustering Out of the Confederate Army
- Primary Source: Parole Signed by the Officers and Men in Johnston's Army
- Primary Source: "For us the War is Ended"
- Primary Source: Catherine Anne Devereux Edmondston and the Collapse of the Confederacy
- Primary Source: May 1865 Advertisements
- Freedom
- Primary Source: What Justice Entitles Us To
- Primary Source: Character of Men Employed as Scouts
- Early Schools for Freed People
- Primary Source: Freedmen's Schools the school houses are crowded, and the people are clamorous for more
- Primary Source: Louisa Jacobs on Freedmen
- Primary Source: Address of The Raleigh Freedmen's Convention
- Primary Source: Reuniting Families
- Making Marriages Legal
- Primary Source: Charges of Abuse
- Reconstruction (Intro)
- Reconstruction
- Timeline of Reconstruction in North Carolina
- Reconstruction in North Carolina
- Primary Source: Johnson's Amnesty Proclamation
- Primary Source: Amnesty Letters
- Primary Source: Black Codes in North Carolina, 1866
- Primary Source: Catherine Edmondston and Reconstruction
- Primary Source: Amending the U.S. Constitution
- African Americans Get the Vote in Eastern North Carolina
- Primary Source: Military Reconstruction Act
- Disabled Veterans of the Civil War, Part I
- Disabled Veterans of the Civil War, Part II
- Disabled Veterans of the Civil War, Part III
- Carpetbaggers
- John Adams Hyman
- The 1868 Constitution
- Jim Crow
- "Redemption" and the End of Reconstruction
- Redemption and Redeemers in the South
- Primary Source: Republican Rule
- Primary Source: Conservative Opposition
- Primary Source: The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan
- Primary Source: Governor Holden Speaks Out Against the Ku Klux Klan
- The Kirk-Holden War
- Primary Source: The Murder of "Chicken" Stephens
- Primary Source: "Address to the Colored People of North Carolina"
- The Compromise of 1877
- The Lost Cause
- Secession
- 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
- Primary Source: Life on the Land: Voices
- Primary Source: A Sharecropper's Contract
- The Struggles of a Tenant Farmer
- Primary Source: 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
- Primary Source: 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
- Primary Source: Small-Town Businesses, 1903
- Primary Source: New Machine Shop in Plymouth, N.C.
- The Belk Brothers' Department Stores
- Factories and Mill Villages
- Work in a Textile Mill
- Primary Source: Working in a Tobacco Factory
- Life in the Mill Villages
- Primary Source: 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
- Primary Source: The Knights of Labor
- Primary Source: Opposition to the Knights of Labor
- Primary Source: Tobacco Workers Strike
- Education and Opportunity
- Timeline of North Carolina Colleges and Universities, 1865–1900
- North Carolina State University
- A Women's College
- Primary Source: Student Life at the Normal and Industrial School
- Primary Source: Wealth and Education by the Numbers, North Carolina 1900
- The Colored State Normal Schools
- Primary Source: African American College Students, 1906
- The Biltmore Forest School
- Athletics
- Life in the Gilded Age
- Biltmore Estate
- Primary Source: Charles Waddell Chesnutt's "The Bouquet"
- Primary Source: Southern Women and the Bicycle
- Primary Source: Bicycles and the Public
- The Roller Skate Craze
- Advertising New Products
- Cities and Public Architecture
- Sanitariums
- Primary Source: Warm Springs Hotel Advertisement
- Primary Source: Tourism Advertisement for Southern Pines, NC
- Richard Etheridge
- North Carolina in an American Empire
- Politics and Populism
- The Rise of Populism
- Populists, Fusionists, and White Supremacists: North Carolina Politics from Reconstruction to the Election of 1898
- Primary Source: Leonidas Polk and the Farmers' Alliance
- Primary Source: Chatham County Farmers Protest
- Marion Butler and Fusion Politics
- George Henry White: a Biographical Sketch
- 1898 and White Supremacy
- Primary Source: The Wilmington Record Editorial
- Primary Source: The Democrats Appeal to Voters
- The Wilmington Coup
- Primary Source: The "Revolutionary Mayor" of Wilmington
- Primary Source: Letter from an African American Citizen of Wilmington to the President
- Primary Source: J. Allen Kirk on the 1898 Wilmington Coup
- Primary Source: The Suffrage Amendment
- Voter Registration Cards
- Primary Source: 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
- Primary Source: New Bern Daily Journal on Municipal Electric Services
- Electric Streetcars
- Idol’s Dam and Power Plant
- Primary Source: Max Bennet Thrasher on Rural Free Delivery
- Primary Source: Consequences of the Telephone
- The Road to the First Flight
- Announcing the First Flight
- Primary Source: Newspaper Coverage of the First Flight
- Henry Ford and the Model T
- Primary Source: Women and the Automobile
- Primary Source: Letter Promoting 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
- Primary Source: History of Women's Clubs
- Primary Source: Charles Brantley Aycock and His Views on Education
- Primary Source: Woman's Association for Improving School Houses
- Statewide Prohibition
- Primary Source: Railroad Quarantines
- Winston-Salem's Early Hospitals
- Primary Source: Food Adulteration
- Primary Source: Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
- Primary Source: Bulletin on 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
- Primary Source: The Importance of Camp Bragg
- Primary Source: Speech on Conditions at Camp Greene
- Primary Source: Diary of a Doughboy
- Primary Source: Letter Home from the American Expeditionary Force
- Primary Source: Governor Bickett's speech to the Deserters of Ashe County
- Rescue at Sea
- North Carolina and the "Blue Death": The Flu Epidemic of 1918
- Primary Source: Bulletin on Stopping the Spread of Influenza
- Primary Source: Speech on Nationalism from Warren Harding
- 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
- Primary Source: Equal Pay for Equal Work
- Gertrude Weil
- Primary Source: Proceedings from the North Carolina Equal Suffrage League
- Primary Source: Alice Duer Miller's "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
- Primary Source: Letter Detailing Triracial Segregation in Robeson County
- Primary Source: George White Speaks Out Against Lynchings
- The Great Migration and North Carolina
- Durham's "Black Wall Street"
- W. E. B. Du Bois on Black Businesses in Durham
- The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company
- Charlotte Hawkins Brown
- Primary Source: Charlotte Hawkins Brown's Rules for School
- Primary Source: 1912 Winston Salem Segregation Ordinance Enacted
- Rosenwald Schools in North Carolina
- 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
- Primary Source: Excerpt of Child Labor Laws in North Carolina
- Primary Source: Statute on Workplace Safety
- The Fair Labor Standards Act
- Tobacco Bag Stringing: Life and Labor in the Depression
- Primary Source: Interviews on Rural Electrification
- Primary Source: Mary Allen Discusses a Farm Family in Sampson County
- The Live at Home Program
- 4-H and Home Demonstration During the Great Depression
- Eugenics in North Carolina
- Primary Source: 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
- Primary Source: Louella Odessa Saunders on Self-Sufficient Farming
- Primary Source: A Textile Mill Worker's Family
- Primary Source: Juanita Hinson and the East Durham Mill Village
- Primary Source: Begging Reduced to a System
- Primary Source: Working as a Waitress
- Health and Beauty in the 1930s
- Paul Green
- Paul Green's The Lost Colony
- Krispy Kreme
- Primary Source: Lasting Impacts of the Great Depression
- War Begins
- 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
- Primary Source: Landing in Europe, Through the Eyes of the Cape Fear
- Liberating France
- Primary Source: Soldier Interview on Battle of the Bulge
- Iwo Jima
- The Soldier's Experience
- Primary Source: Enlisting for Service in World War II
- Primary Source: Basic Training in World War II
- Face to Face with Segregation: African American marines at Camp Lejune
- Primary Source: Black Soldiers on Racial Discrimination in the Army
- Music and Morale
- Primary Source: The Story of a B-17 crew
- Primary Source: Richard Daughtry on Surviving the Blitz
- Primary Source: James Wall on Serving in the Air Force
- Primary Source: Norma Shaver and Serving in the Pacific
- The War at Home
- Primary Source: Roosevelt's Fireside Chat 21
- Primary Source: Roosevelt's Fireside Chat 23
- North Carolina's Wartime Miracle: Defending the Nation
- Japanese-American Imprisonment: Introduction
- Japanese-American Imprisonment: WWII and Pearl Harbor
- Japanese-American Imprisonment: Executive Order 9066 and Imprisonment
- Japanese-American Imprisonment: Prison Camps
- Japanese-American Imprisonment: Legal Challenges
- Japanese-American Imprisonment: Closing Facilities and Life After
- Primary Source: Poster Announcing Japanese American Removal and Relocation
- Rosie the Riveter
- Germans Attack Off of North Carolina's Outer Banks
- Primary Source: Wartime Wilmington, Through the Eyes of the Cape Fear
- Primary Source: Margaret Rogers and 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
- Primary Source: 4-H Club Promotional Materials
- Primary Source: 4-H Club Instructions
- Primary Source: Joining a 4-H Club
- Primary Source: Report on 4-H club contributions to the war effort
- Primary Source: North Carolina's Feed a Fighter Contest
- 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
- Primary Source: A Black Officer in an Integrated Army
- Primary Source: 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
- Primary Source: 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
- Primary Source: Billy Graham and Civil Rights
- The Little Rock Nine
- Desegregation Pioneers
- Youth Protest: JoAnne Peerman
- Primary Source: Interview with William Culp
- Primary Source: 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
- Primary Source: Picketers Wanted
- 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
- Primary Source: Billy Barnes on Fighting Poverty
- Harold Cooley, Jim Gardner, and the Rise of the Republican Party in the South
- Primary Source: UNC Students Against The Speaker Ban
- Primary Source: Jesse Helms' Viewpoint on the Speaker Ban
- The Women's Movement
- Primary Sources: Segregated Employment Ads
- Primary Source: Bill Hull on Gay Life in Midcentury North Carolina
- The Aftermath of Martin Luther King's Assassination
- Interpreting Historical Figures: Howard Lee
- Interpreting Historical Figures: Senator Sam Ervin
- 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 Narratives of Enslaved People from 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: Narratives of Enslaved People
- 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
- Reading Primary Sources: thinking about thinking
- Reading Primary Sources: Letters
- Reading Primary Sources: Newspaper Advertisements
- Reading Primary Sources: Newspaper Editorials
- Reading Primary Sources: Narratives of Enslaved People
- Reading Newspapers: Reader Contributions
- Reading Newspapers: Factual Reporting
- Analyzing Political Cartoons
- About ANCHOR
Analyze the Source
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
- Reading Primary Sources: thinking about thinking
- Reading Primary Sources: Letters
- Reading Primary Sources: Newspaper Advertisements
- Reading Primary Sources: Newspaper Editorials
- Reading Primary Sources: Narratives of Enslaved People
- Reading Newspapers: Reader Contributions
- Reading Newspapers: Factual Reporting
- Analyzing Political Cartoons
- About ANCHOR