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 81–100 of 169 displayed: go to page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
- The lasting impact of the Great Depression
- In The Great Depression and World War II, page 3.12
- Oral history interview with a Madison County, North Carolina, man about how the Great Depression affected his family and community long after the economic downturn ended. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: interview/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Levi Coffin and the Underground Railroad
- In Antebellum North Carolina, page 1.5
- A brief history of the Underground Railroad, an informal connection of people and homes across the United States that helped fugitive slaves reach safety in the North and elsewhere. Includes a discussion of the role of North Carolina native Levi Coffin.
- Format: book
- By L. Maren Wood.
- Life on the land: Voices
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 1.4
- Excerpts of oral history interviews with men and women who grew up on farms in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century North Carolina.
- Format: interview/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Life under Union occupation
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 6.13
- Diary of Alice Williamson, a sixteen year-old girl living in Union-occupied Tennessee in 1864 during the Civil War. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: diary/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Lincoln is inaugurated
- Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address, delivered March 4, 1861. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: speech/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert and L. Maren Wood.
- Lincoln's plans for reconstruction
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 7.5
- In Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address, with the Civil War nearly over, Lincoln called for reconciliation between North and South.
- Format: speech/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert and L. Maren Wood.
- The Live at Home Program
- In The Great Depression and World War II, page 2.7
- The Live At Home program, established during the Great Depression, helped North Carolinians to grow food to support themselves and to sell surplus food at local farmers markets. This 1936 report includes historical background and commentary.
- Format: book/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Managing a plantation: Expenses
- In Antebellum North Carolina, page 2.12
- Page from an account book kept by Duncan Cameron, a wealthy North Carolina planter, listing his business with a Petersburg merchant in 1841–42. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: document/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Managing a plantation: Property
- In Antebellum North Carolina, page 2.13
- Excerpt from the papers of Duncan Cameron, a wealthy North Carolina planter, listing property on his plantations, with notes of those that needed special attention. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: document/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Manumission
- In Antebellum North Carolina, page 1.7
- Petition from Ned Hyman to the North Carolina General Assembly asking for his manumission. Hyman claimed that his owner had promised him his freedom upon his owner's death. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: petition/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert and L. Maren Wood.
- Mapping life in a colonial town
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.14
- In North Carolina History: A Sampler, page 6.1
- From a detailed map of colonial Edenton, North Carolina, we can learn a great deal about daily life and community life on the eve of the Revolution.
- Format: activity
- By L. Maren Wood.
- Marriage in colonial North Carolina
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.6
- In the colonial period, how and when people got married depended on whether they were indentured servants, slaves, free laborers, or wealthy people. Many marriages were informal and validated by the community rather than by a legal license.
- Format: article
- By L. Maren Wood.
- Midwives and herbal medicine
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 2.2
- In North Carolina History: A Sampler, page 9.1
- Excerpts from the medicine recipe book of Rachel Allen, who lived near Snow Camp, North Carolina, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, show how residents of the backcountry treated wounds, illness, and disease.
- Format: /primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Military reconstruction
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 9.10
- First Reconstrution Act, passed by Congress over President Johnson's veto in 1867, which established military rule in the former Confederacy until states were formally readmitted to the Union. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: legislation/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- "The mill don't need him tonight"
- In The Great Depression and World War II, page 3.3
- In North Carolina History: A Sampler, page 5.4
- WPA interview with a Durham, North Carolina, girl about her family's experiences during the Great Depression. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: interview/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- The Mill Mother's Lament
- In North Carolina in the early 20th century, page 8.8
- Song by labor activist Ella Mae Wiggins sung during the Loray Mill strike in Gastonia, 1929. Includes biographical information about Wiggins.
- Format: music/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Nat Turner's Rebellion
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 9.1
- In 1831, Nat Turner, an enslaved man in Southampton, Virginia, led an insurrection in which a small band of slaves and free African Americans killed fifty-five whites. After the revolt, white militias and mobs hunted down blacks suspected of taking part in this or other insurrections, and southern states passed harsh new laws restricting the freedoms of both slaves and free blacks.
- Format: article
- By L. Maren Wood and David Walbert.
- Nathan Cole and the First Great Awakening
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.13
- Diary of a Connecticut man from the 1760s tells of his conversion experience after attending a revival at which the famous minister George Whitefield preached. Historical commentary explains the differences between eighteenth-century and present-day religion and revivals.
- Format: diary/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- New machine shop in Plymouth, N.C.
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 2.11
- Broadside advertisement for a machine shop opening in Plymouth, North Carolina, in 1880. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: advertisement/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- New Spring Goods
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 7.16
- Advertisements in a Plymouth, North Carolina, newspaper in May 1865, celebrating the return of peace -- and of consumer goods from the North. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: newspaper/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert and L. Maren Wood.
