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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- Understanding and using fonts
- In Writing for the Web, page 7
- Serifs, sans serifs, and when to use them.
- By David Walbert.
- Union army hats from the Civil War
- Format: image/photograph
- Union soldier standing picket
- A Union soldier stands picket on the old Hillsborough Road. This photograph was taken at the living history program of "Union Occupation" at Bennett Place State Historic Site in Durham, North Carolina.
- Format: image/article
- The value of money in colonial America
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.5
- This article explains the many kinds of money that circulated in colonial America and why it is nearly impossible to say what they were worth "in today's money."
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Vote for me! A re-election editorial
- In Rethinking Reports, page 1.4
- A research assignment in which students write an editorial for or against the re-election of a selected president.
- By Melissa Thibault and David Walbert.
- "We have unexpectedly become civilized"
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 10.4
- Letter from citizens of Turkey Town in the Cherokee Phoenix and Indians' Advocate, 1829, opposing relocation. The authors pointed out the irony that even after becoming "civilized" as white people had claimed to want, they were nevertheless being pushed off their land. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: newspaper
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert and L. Maren Wood.
- Wealth and education in North Carolina, 1900
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 4.5
- Report on the North Carolina Colored State Normal Schools for 1903, listing data on value of property owned by each race and on school size and attendance. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: data set
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert.
- Where am I? Mapping a New World
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 3.2
- Early European travelers to the Americas reported bits and pieces of information back to Europe. Over the centuries, mapmakers assembled these reports into maps. As time went by, explorers and mapmakers compiled an increasingly accurate understanding of the Americas and of the world. To do so, they had to invent new tools for mapmaking, embrace radical new ideas about the shape of the world, and discard cherished beliefs.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Whigs and Democrats
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 11.1
- After the War of 1812, the two-party system of Federalists and Democratic-Republicans collapsed, and an era of one-party rule was known as the Era of Good Feelings. But new conflicts arose over the presidency of Andrew Jackson, the Second Bank of the United States, and tariffs, and two new parties, the Whigs and the Democrats, emerged. In North Carolina, the Whigs gained power in the 1830s and began a period of reform.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Who owns the land?
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 3.3
- Europeans and American Indians had very different ideas about what it meant to "own" land, and these differences led to many of the conflicts between the two cultures in America.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Wills and inventories: A process guide
- Guiding questions for students investigating daily life in the past through wills, inventories, and probate records.
- Format: article/learner's guide
- By David Walbert.
- Workers' pay and the cost of living
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 3.8
- In this activity, students examine census records of North Carolina tobacco mills and retail prices of food to determine how much money factory workers made in "real dollars."
- Format: activity
- By David Walbert.
- Works available for use
- In Web Publishing & Collaboration Guide, page 3.4
- Many works, copyrighted or not, are available to the public for various kinds of use, including republication and distribution. The public domain The public domain comprises works...
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Writing for the web
- In Writing for the Web, page 1
- Why teachers need to think about how they communicate on the web.
- By David Walbert.
