ANCHOR is designed for grade 8 and up and covers all of North Carolina history. It starts from the arrival of the first people some 12,000 years ago and goes to the present. There are eleven parts, organized chronologically, a collection of primary sources, readings, and multimedia that can be rearranged to meet the needs of the classroom. Special web-based tools aid reading and model historical inquiry, helping students build critical thinking and literacy skills.

This resource could not be developed without the help of a great number of partners and contributors. The following organizations and individuals contributed content, and their specific contributions are credited where they appear.

• Alamance Battleground State Historic Site
• The Asheville Citizen-Times
• Belk, Inc.
• Bennett Place State Historic Site
• BT Memories
• Cape Fear Museum
• Carolina K-12
• Carolina Music Ways Music Heritage Resource Group
• The Center for New North Carolinians, UNC-Greensboro
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention / U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• The Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum
• The Chronicle of Higher Education
• Connecticut Historical Society
• The Consulate General of Switzerland in New York
• The Daily Reflector (Greenville, NC)
• R. P. Stephen Davis, Jr., UNC Research Laboratories of Archaeology
• Digital Forsyth
• Digital Heritage, Mountain Heritage Center, Western Carolina University
• Duke Homestead State Historic Site
• Duke University Department of Sociology
• Duke University Libraries
• Durham County Public Library
• Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum
• Eastern North Carolina Digital Library, East Carolina University
• East Carolina University Libraries
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
• Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
• Fort Defiance
• Fort Dobbs State Historic Site
• Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum
• The Greensboro News-Record
• Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum
• The Henry Ford Estate
• Herbert Hoover National Library and Museum
• Randell Jones
• Library of Congress
• Douglas O. Linder, University of Missouri-Kansas City
• J. R. McNeill, Georgetown University
• National Archives and Records Administration
• National Museum of the American Indian / Smithsonian Institution
• National Museum of Health and Medicine
• National Museum of World War II
• National Park Service
• Naval History and Heritage Command, U.S. Navy
• The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.
• North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History
• North Carolina Freedom Monument Project
• North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program
• North Carolina Historic Sites
• North Carolina History Day
• North Carolina Institute of Medicine
• North Carolina Literary Review
• North Carolina Museum of History
• North Carolina State University D. H. Hill Library / Special Collections Research Center
• North Caroliniana Society
• Paul Green Foundation
• Preservation North Carolina
• Bruce Railsback, University of Georgia
• Sharon Raynor, Johnson C. Smith University
• Research Laboratories of Archaeology, UNC-Chapel Hill
• Research Triangle Park
• The Salisbury Post
• The Smoky Mountain News
• Stagville Plantation State Historic Site
• State Archives of North Carolina
• State Library of North Carolina
• Bill Thompson
• The Thomas Wolfe Memorial
• Tryon Palace State Historic Sites & Gardens
• University of Missouri-Kansas City / Marr Sound Archives, Miller Nichols Library
• UNC Libraries / Documenting the American South
• UNC Libraries / Health Sciences Library
• UNC Libraries / North Carolina Collection
• UNC Libraries / Southern Historical Collection
• UNC-TV
• UNC-Wilmington / William M. Randall Library
• U.S. Army Center of Military History
• U.S. Department of Agriculture
• U.S. Department of Energy
• U.S. Department of State
• U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk
• U.S. Military Academy, Department of History
• The Wilmington Star-News

In addition, thanks the many amateur and professional photographers who licensed their work freely on the web for public use. They are credited individually where their work appears.

Finally, thank you to the reenactors of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, March 2008, and at Living History Day at Alamance Battleground, October 2008, for their contributions.