LEARN NC

Contents

  1. Welcome! Coming soon!
  2. Credits & acknowledgments
  1. 1 Getting started
    1. 1.1Watch the trailer!
    2. 1.2A digital textbook? (Frequently asked questions)
    3. 1.3What's in a digital textbook?
    4. 1.4Getting around
  2. 2 Readings
    1. 2.1The mystery of the first Americans
    2. 2.2Cherokee women
    3. 2.3The founding of Virginia
    4. 2.4Naval stores and the longleaf pine
    5. 2.5The development of sacred singing
    6. 2.6A revolution in agriculture
    7. 2.7Industrialization in North Carolina
    8. 2.8The Wilmington Race Riot
    9. 2.9North Carolina and the "Blue Death": The flu epidemic of 1918
    10. 2.10North Carolina's wartime miracle: Defending the nation
    11. 2.11Pearl Harbor
    12. 2.12Bombs over Goldsboro
    13. 2.13The North Carolina Fund
  3. 3 Documents
    1. 3.1Amadas and Barlowe explore the Outer Banks
    2. 3.2Violence in Wilmington
    3. 3.3Diary of a farm wife
    4. 3.4"I am sorry to tell that some of our brave boys has got killed"
    5. 3.5A sharecropper's contract
    6. 3.6"Where Home Used to Be"
    7. 3.7Triracial segregation in Robeson County
    8. 3.8Charlotte Hawkins Brown's rules for school
    9. 3.9Billy Graham and civil rights
  4. 4 Newspapers and magazines
    1. 4.1Poor Richard's Almanack
    2. 4.2Academies for boys and for girls
    3. 4.3"We have unexpectedly become civilized"
    4. 4.4A female raid
    5. 4.5Advertising new products
    6. 4.6Newspaper coverage of the first flight
    7. 4.7The police chief is killed
    8. 4.8Liberating France
    9. 4.9The Greensboro sit-ins
    10. 4.10"Senator No"
  5. 5 Oral histories
    1. 5.1Interview with W. L. Bost
    2. 5.2Mill village and factory: Voices
    3. 5.3Self-Sufficiency on the farm: Gardening, picking, canning, cracklings, and sewing
    4. 5.4"The mill don't need him tonight"
    5. 5.5Racial discrimination in the Army
    6. 5.6Perspectives on school desegregation: Fran Jackson
    7. 5.7A soldier's experience in Vietnam: Herbert Rhodes
    8. 5.8The closing of a factory
  6. 6 Working with maps
    1. 6.1Mapping life in a colonial town
    2. 6.2Mapping rumors of Nat Turner's Rebellion
    3. 6.3A railroad timetable
    4. 6.4Changes in agriculture
    5. 6.5The election of 1972
    6. 6.6Mapping rainfall and flooding
    7. 6.7Mapping a changing North Carolina
  7. 7 Working with images
    1. 7.1"A Society of Patriotic Ladies"
    2. 7.2The Battle of Guilford Courthouse
    3. 7.3Remembering the Revolution
    4. 7.4Mill villages
    5. 7.5Sour stomachs and galloping headaches
    6. 7.6Propaganda and public opinion in the First World War
    7. 7.7Child labor
    8. 7.8Rationing
  8. 8 Video
    1. 8.1Work in Colonial America: Blacksmithing
    2. 8.2Mustering out of the Confederate army
    3. 8.3Domestic work in the nineteenth century
    4. 8.4Henry Ford and the Model T
    5. 8.5From stringbands to bluesmen: African American music in the Piedmont
    6. 8.6Midway
    7. 8.7The Battle of the Bulge
    8. 8.8Living with the bomb
    9. 8.9Growing tobacco
  9. 9 Other sources
    1. 9.1Midwives and herbal medicine
    2. 9.2Southern cooking, 1824
    3. 9.3Businesses by county, 1854
    4. 9.4Death of an Old Carriage Horse
    5. 9.5Small-town businesses, 1903
    6. 9.6Student life at the Normal and Industrial School
    7. 9.7Victory Gardens
    8. 9.8D-Day
    9. Coming soon!
    10. 9.10Music and morale
    11. 9.11Languages and nationalities
  1. Glossary
  2. Works Cited
  3. Index