David Walbert
David Walbert is Editorial and Web Director for LEARN NC in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education. He is responsible for all of LEARN NC’s educational publications, oversees development of various web applications including LEARN NC’s website and content management systems, and is the organization’s primary web, information, and visual designer. He has worked with LEARN NC since August 1997.
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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- Smokehouse at Allen House
- Log smokehouse behind the Allen House in Alamance County, North Carolina.
- Format: image/photograph
- The sounds of prayer in Southeast Asia
- This minilesson uses audio recordings of the prayers of three different religions as an introduction to the cultural diversity of Southeast Asia.
- Format: lesson plan
- By David Walbert.
- Spain and America: From Reconquest to Conquest
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 3.1
- In 1491, no European knew that North and South America existed. By 1550, Spain -- a small kingdom that had not even existed a century earlier -- controlled the better part of two continents and had become the most powerful nation in Europe. In half a century of brave exploration and brutal conquest, both Europe and America were changed forever.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- The State of Franklin
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 1.2
- Petition from residents of Tennessee County, North Carolina, in 1784, to the General Assembly, requesting that they be permitted to form a new state. Primary source includes historical commentary.
- Format: petition
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert.
- Statue of Kerenhappuch Norman Turner
- Kerenhappuch Norman Turner was born in central Virginia about 1733. She was married to James Turner and moved to Maryland sometime before 1775. She is said to have had a son badly wounded at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. Somehow, Mrs. Turner received...
- Format: image/photograph
- Statue of Nathaniel Greene
- A statue of Nathaniel Greene at Guilford Courthouse National Military Park. Greene's army of Continental soldiers and militia lost the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, but did such damage to the British army that British General Lord Cornwallis was forced to...
- Format: image/photograph
- Steamboats
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 7.1
- Article about the early development of steamboats and their introduction on North Carolina's inland waterways. Includes an explanation of how steamboats work.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Taking aim
- Having forced the militia to retreat, British soliders ("Redcoats") take aim at the first line of Continental troops in a reenactment of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse.
- Format: image/photograph
- Teaching with disturbing images
- Photographs are especially powerful tools for explaining current and historical events — not least horrible or brutal events, such as war, genocide, famine, terrorism, slavery, and lynching. In fact, photographs are often used specifically to raise an...
- By David Walbert.
- Theater at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site
- The outdoor theater at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site on Roanoke Island where Paul Green's drama The Lost Colony is performed.
- Format: image/photograph
- Think for yourself! Media literacy every day
- Information, like air, is everywhere, and we breathe it in whether we mean to or not. If we want our students to be rational, responsible citizens and consumers, we have to help them develop a filter they can use all the time, not just when they're doing research.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- The Third North Carolina Regiment
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 6.4
- In the Spanish-American War, North Carolina raised an all-black regiment under black command. The soldiers faced racism and violence from whites both in and out of the military, and white Democrats campaigned against the regiment in 1898.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- To link or not to link? Using hypertext wisely
- In Writing for the Web, page 6
- Links are the soul of the web, but make sure they support your content rather than detracting from it.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Town Creek burial house and guard tower
- This photograph, taken inside the town center at Town Creek Indian Mound, shows a recreation of the Town Creek burial house. The Indians who lived here built round, thatch-roof huts in which to bury their dead.
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- Town Creek burial house and major temple
- This photograph, taken at Town Creek Indian Mound, shows recreations of the town burial house and major temple. The burial mound was a round, thatch-roof hut in which the Town Creek Indians buried their dead. In the background, the major temple sits atop the...
- Format: image/photograph
- Town Creek major temple
- The earthen mound after which Town Creek Indian Mound is named is the town's principal structure. The mound, made from soil carried in baskets on people's backs, was built on the site of an earlier ceremonial earth lodge that had collapsed. More soil was piled...
- Format: image/photograph
- Town Creek minor temple
- At Town Creek Indian Mound, a recreation of the town's minor temple has been built on the site of the original, across the plaza from the major temple. The rectangular temple had a thatch roof and walls made of wattle and daub — a wooden frame plastered...
- Format: image/photograph
- Town Creek minor temple and palisade
- At Town Creek Indian Mound, a recreation of the town's minor temple has been built on the site of the original, across the plaza from the major temple. The rectangular temple had a thatch roof and walls made of wattle and daub — a wooden frame plastered...
- Format: image/photograph
- Town Creek palisade and guard tower
- At Town Creek, visitors enter through a guard tower built into the palisade surrounding the town. The palisade — a walled enclosure protecting the town — was made of vertical logs held together with a mixture of clay and straw. When Town Creek...
- Format: image/photograph
- Transit of Venus
- On June 8, 2004, a transit of Venus will occur, the first in 122 years. This article explains what a transit is, why it matters, and when and how you can safely view it.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
