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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- 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.
- A Brief Description of the Province of Carolina
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 1.8
- A pamphlet produced in 1660s London at the request of the Lords Proprietors described the economic opportunity and religious freedom available to settlers in Carolina. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: book
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert.
- A British victory
- The British take the field after the Continental retreat at a reenactment of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse.
- Format: image/photograph
- 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.
- Bust of Paul Green at Waterside Theatre, Manteo
- Format: image/photograph
- Cannon at Alamance Battleground
- A cannon sits in the grass at Alamance Battleground Historic Site in North Carolina, illustrating the kinds of weapons used during the 1764–1771 uprising of the Regulators against the colonial government in the state.
- Format: image/photograph
- Cannon smoke
- After the Continentals fire their cannon at a reenactment of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, smoke obscures their view of the battlefield.
- Format: image/photograph
- Cargo manifests of Confederate blockade runners
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 4.4
- Cargo manifests of various ships that ran the Union blockade to bring goods from Nassau, in the Bahamas, to Wilmington, North Carolina, during the Civil War. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: document
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert.
- Casualties
- In a reenactment of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, men begin to fall as the British and Continentals exchange musket fire.
- Format: image/photograph
- Cavalry gear
- At a Civil War reenactment, a Union cavalry officer displays his gear.
- Format: image/photograph
- The Charter of Carolina (1663)
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 1.4
- In the Charter of Carolina, King Charles II of England granted the eight men known as the Lords Proprietors rights to the land that became North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Primary source includes historical commentary.
- Format: charter
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert.
- 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.
- Christoph von Graffenried's account of the Tuscarora War
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 3.7
- Account of the beginnings of the Tuscarora War in North Carolina between settlers and Indians. Primary source includes historical commentary.
- Format: book
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert.
- 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.
- Civil War casualties
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 4.14
- Historians estimate that about 620,000 Americans died in the Civil War -- almost as many as have died in all other U.S. wars combined. This article explains why.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- The clinical interview
- In Problem centered math, page 3
- Do your students have a strong number sense, or do they rely on memorized procedures, floundering when faced with unfamiliar problems? A clinical interview can help you to assess how your students think about mathematics. This example interview provides a model.
- By David Walbert.
- Close-up view of fireplace at Allen House
- Close-up of the fireplace in the Allen House in Alamance County, N.C., where John and Rachel Allen lived with their family in the late 1700s. On the floor of the fireplace, two andirons stand in the ashes holding a log. To the right of the andirons, a kettle...
- Format: image/photograph
- Colonial bed at Allen House
- Inside view of the Allen House in Alamance County, N.C., showing the kind of furniture and household items that would have been present when the house was occupied in the late 1700s. In the center of the image is a wooden-framed bed with a straw mattress supported...
- Format: image/photograph
- Colonial candle-making demonstration
- At the Allen House in Alamance County, N.C., a colonial re-enactor dips a wick into a pot of hot wax to make candles.
- Format: image/photograph
- Colonial candle-making tools
- This photograph, taken at a recreation of colonial life at Alamance Battleground, N.C., shows some of the tools that were used to make candles in the colonial era.
- Format: image/photograph
