David Walbert
David Walbert was Editorial and Web Director of LEARN NC until 2011. In that role, he was responsible for all of LEARN NC’s educational publications, overseeing development of various web applications including LEARN NC’s website and content management systems, and was the organization’s primary web, information, and visual designer.
David holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Garden Spot: Lancaster County, the Old Order Amish, and the Selling of Rural America, published in 2002 by Oxford University Press. With LEARN NC, he has written numerous articles for K–12 teachers on topics such as historical education, visual literacy, writing instruction, and technology integration.
Resources created by David Walbert
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- Hurry up and wait
- Continental troops wait for the British to arrive in a reenactment of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse.
- Format: image/photograph
- The impact of busing in Charlotte
- In Postwar North Carolina, page 4.9
- Interviews with former white and black students in Charlotte schools about their experiences before and after desegregation. Includes historical background.
- Format: interview/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by Dayna Durbin Gleaves and David Walbert.
- The impending crisis of the South
- In Antebellum North Carolina, page 7.8
- Excerpt from Hinton Helper's 1857 book arguing against slavery on the grounds that it kept the South subservient to the North and hurt poor whites. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: book/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert.
- The Indian Removal Act of 1830
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 10.5
- Act of Congress, passed in 1830, authorizing President Andrew Jackson to transfer Eastern Indian tribes to the territories west of the Mississippi River. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: legislation/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by Kathryn Walbert, L. Maren Wood, and David Walbert.
- Industrialization in North Carolina
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 2.3
- In North Carolina History: A Sampler, page 2.7
- Industrialization needed five things -- capital, labor, raw materials, markets, and transportation -- and in the 1870s, North Carolina had all of them. This article explains the process of industrialization in North Carolina, with maps of factory and railroad growth.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Integrating maps
- In Map skills and higher-order thinking, page 6
- Textbooks frequently use maps as learning aids, but research has found that the way maps are most often used does not support students' learning. It turns out that both the order and the context in which materials are presented are crucial....
- Format: article/best practice
- By David Walbert.
- The Interstate Highway System
- In Postwar North Carolina, page 2.2
- Planning for an improved national system of highways had begun during the Depression, but it was not until 1956 that President Eisenhower called for a "modern, interstate highway system."
- Format: article
- Adapted by David Walbert.
- Introduction
- More than 9,000 years ago, the first humans arrived in what is now North Carolina. Their ancestors had migrated from Asia to North America about 12,000 years ago across a land bridge that had emerged when, during the last Ice Age, glaciers froze the oceans...
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Introduction
- The nearer we come to the present, the more difficult it becomes to write history. When we consider events of a hundred years ago, we can evaluate their long-term impact. But the events of the last ten or twenty years are still raw; we don't know their consequences...
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Introduction: Rethinking reports
- A little creativity can make research a rewarding learning experience for students and teachers alike.
- By David Walbert and Melissa Thibault.
- Janet Schaw on American agriculture
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.3
- Excerpt from the diary of a Scottish lady traveling in North Carolina on the eve of the American Revolution. She describes, and harshly criticizes, the farming practices she finds in the colonies. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: diary/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert and L. Maren Wood.
- John Lawson's assessment of the Tuscarora
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 3.4
- Excerpt from John Lawson's 1709 A New Voyage to Carolina discussing the sources of conflict between the Tuscarora and English settlers in North Carolina and Lawson's hopes for integrating the Tuscarora into colonial society. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: book/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert.
- Johnson's Amnesty Proclamation
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 9.4
- In May 1865, President Andrew Johnson offered amnesty to most former Confederate soldiers, excepting high-ranking officers, some politicians, and the wealthiest Confederates. Original source includes historical commentary.
- Format: proclamation/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert and L. Maren Wood.
- Keep it short (but not too short)
- In Writing for the Web, page 4
- Shorter paragraphs and pages will help make your writing easier to read on the web, but you don't have to sacrifice important content.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Kinetic connections: Bloom's taxonomy in action
- An introduction to strategies for using the web to push your students to higher levels of thinking.
- Format: article
- By Bobby Hobgood, Ed.D., Melissa Thibault, and David Walbert.
- Kitchen at Bennett Place
- Format: image/photograph
- Kitchen at Bennett Place
- During the negotiations of the surrender, James, Nancy, and their daughter Eliza and her child retired to the kitchenhouse to await the outcome. This kitchenhouse is a partial reconstruction identical to the original kitchen that stood on the Bennett Farm...
- Format: image/photograph
- The Knights of Labor
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 3.10
- Excerpt from the 1878 Platform of the Knights of Labor, an early labor union. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: declaration/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert.
- Land and work in Carolina
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 1.10
- This article explains the key elements of feudalism, including its hierarchy of personal relationships and system of landholding, and how those elements evolved into the systems of labor and land ownership seen in colonial North Carolina.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Lattice multiplication
- Lattice multiplication is a method of multiplying large numbers using a grid. This method breaks the multiplication process into smaller steps, which some students find easier. Digits to be carried are written within the grid, making them harder to miss.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
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