L. Maren Wood
Maren Wood is a research associate with LEARN NC’s North Carolina History Digital Textbook Project. She is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, having received a B.A. from the University of Lethbridge (Alberta, Canada) and an M.A. in British History from Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada. Her dissertation is titled Dangerous Liaisons: Narratives of Sexual Danger in the Anglo-American North, 1750 to 1820.
Resources created by L. Maren Wood
Records 1–20 of 71 displayed: go to page 1, 2, 3, 4
- Amending the U.S. Constitution
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 9.8
- Text of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments to the U.S. Constitution, passed after the Civil War to abolish slavery and to guarantee the civil rights of African Americans.
- Format: constitution
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Amnesty letters
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 9.5
- Letters from North Carolinians to President Andrew Johnson asking for amnesty after the Civil War. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: letter
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Andrew Jackson calls for Indian removal
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 10.3
- Excerpt from President Andrew Jackson's first inaugural address, 1829, in which he argued that American Indians should be removed west of the Mississippi. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: speech
- Commentary and sidebar notes by Kathryn Walbert and L. Maren Wood.
- Archibald Murphey calls for better inland navigation
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 4.7
- Excerpt from Archibald Murphey’s Report to the Committee on Inland Navigation in which he calls for the government to invest in the state’s internal transportation system as a way to break their dependency on neighboring states and to increase land values, population and state revenue.
- Format: report
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert and L. Maren Wood.
- Archibald Murphey proposes a system of public education
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 4.6
- Report of a joint legislative committee, 1817, laying out a complete plan for statewide public education, including primary schools, academies, and the University of North Carolina. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: report
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- The Battle of Bentonville
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 7.9
- Memoir of a Confederate soldier describing the march to Bentonville and the battle there on March 19, 1865. He describes the desperate state of the Confederate army by the end of the war. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: book
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- The Battle of Gettysburg
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 4.9
- The diary of Confederate soldier Louis Leon in the first days of July 1863, describing his experiences at the Battle of Gettysburg. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: diary
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert and L. Maren Wood.
- Benjamin Wadsworth on the duties of children to their parents
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.10
- Excerpt from a book by an eighteenth-century Puritan minister about expectations for children's behavior and respect for their parents. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: book
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- A Bill to Prevent All Persons from Teaching Slaves to Read or Write, the Use of Figures Excepted (1830)
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 5.9
- Law enacted by the North Carolina General Assembly, 1830. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: legislation
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Black codes, 1866
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 9.6
- Excerpts of legislation passed by the North Carolina General Assembly after the Civil War to limit the freedoms of former slaves. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: legislation
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood and David Walbert.
- The burning of Washington
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 8.6
- Report in the Raleigh Star, September 2, 1814, on the burning of Washington by the British during the War of 1812. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: newspaper
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert and L. Maren Wood.
- Catherine Edmondston and Reconstruction
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 9.7
- Excerpts from the diary of Catherine Edmonston of Halifax County, North Carolina, 1865–66, in which she describes her frustration with emancipation and her family's attempts to control its former slaves. Includes historical commentary. Note: This source contains explicit language or content that requires mature discussion.
- Format: diary
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Cherokee Nation v. the State of Georgia, 1831
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 10.6
- When Georgia tried to subject the Cherokee to state law, they sued the state in federal court. The Supreme Court ruled against them in 1831, in this decision written by Chief Justice John Marshall. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: court decision
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood and David Walbert.
- Chief John Ross protests the Treaty of New Echota
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 10.7
- In this 1836 letter, Cherokee Chief John Ross urges Congress not to ratify the Treaty of New Echota, in which a small group of Cherokee men claiming to represent the Nation agreed to removal. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: letter
- Commentary and sidebar notes by Kathryn Walbert and L. Maren Wood.
- A civil war at home: Treatment of Unionists
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 6.11
- Excerpt from the memoir of W. B. Younce, an Ashe County man who was drafted into the Confederate army and deserted. He describes the conditions on the home front, particularly the treatment of Unionists. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: book
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood and David Walbert.
- Debating war with Britain: Against the war
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 8.5
- Article from the Carolina Federal Republican of Raleigh, published just after Congress declared war on Great Britain in 1812, arguing against the war. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: newspaper
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Descriptions of a revival
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 3.5
- Letter from Samuel McCorkle, 1802, describing a revival in North Carolina and the experiences of people he knew to have been converted. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: letter
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Dorothea Dix pleads for a state mental hospital
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 11.8
- In this excerpt from her "memorial" to the North Carolina General Assembly, New England reformer Dorothea Dix lays out her arguments for building a state hospital for the mentally ill. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: report
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Education and literacy in Edgecombe County, 1810
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 5.4
- In this 1810 letter, Jeremiah Battle of Edgecombe County describes the lack of education in eastern North Carolina and the consequences for society and politics. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: letter
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Elisha Mitchell explores the mountains
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 7.5
- Letter from Elisha Mitchell to his wife while doing a geologic survey in northwestern North Carolina, 1828. Mitchell discusses his work, the places he stayed, and the people he met. Includes historical commentary as well as a contemporary map and a Google map with relevant locations marked.
- Format: letter
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert and L. Maren Wood.
