Eastern North Carolina Digital Library
About this resource
- Appropriate grades
- K–12
- Subjects
- arts (fine art), English language arts (folklore, literature), social studies (African Americans, American Indians, civics and government, economics, geography, North Carolina, religion, United States history), thinking skills (information literacy)
- Provider
- East Carolina University Joyner Library
- Special requirements
- Windows Media Player or QuickTime will be needed for the video portions of the site.
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In 2003, East Carolina University’s Joyner Library began to digitize approximately 200 texts relating to the history of 29 counties in eastern North Carolina. Today the project once know as the North Carolina History and Fiction Digital Library, now boasts the digitization of local history texts, oral history texts, and fictional works which total “more than 60,000 original paper pages.” In addition, the project has “partnered with the Historic Hope Foundation, Tobacco Farm Life Museum, the Country Doctor Museum and members of ECU's College of Education to produce zoomable maps, zoomable images and video footage of museum artifacts, and related alignments and lesson plans for North Carolina educators.”
The website includes a list of Eastern North Carolina counties and a clickable map which takes the viewer to artifacts and primary source documents relating to that county. All pages of historical texts may be enlarged and are available in an easy to read transcription.
Students will enjoy seeing the artifacts of the Country Doctor Museum, Historic Hope Plantation, and the Tobacco Farm Life Museum. They can manipulate the images by zooming in on them to see details, pan to specific areas of the image and even turn the image. Each artifact is described by its place of origin, measurements, material composition, and its use. Click on the audio/video feature to hear a narrator describe an artifact and how it was used. A transcript is also available. This feature will help students understand what life was like in their county many years ago.
Maps are listed alphabetically and include maps of battles fought during the Civil War, soil surveys, towns, Indian settlements, and even a map of the Lost Colony. The Maps section also uses the zoom and pan function for viewing detail.
The Classroom Resources section includes lesson plans for all grade levels. Texts can be searched by reading level as well. All of these resources are aligned to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.
