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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- Fort Raleigh: Interior of fort
- A reconstruction of the earthen fort built by the first European settlers of Roanoke Island in 1585. This photograph shows the interior of the fort, taken from the entrance. The fort is the only structure from the Roanoke settlement whose location has been...
- Format: image/photograph
- Freed people at New Bern
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 4.5
- Excerpt from the report of Vincent Colyer, Superintendent of the Poor for Union-occupied North Carolina during the Civil War, about his work with freedmen and escaped slaves. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: book
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood and David Walbert.
- French firearms
- At a reenactment of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, a Continental soldier displays a French musket. The Continental Army used firearms and artillery from a variety of sources, but French arms -- and armed forces -- were critical to the American victory.
- Format: image/photograph
- From documents to digitization
- To design a research project using primary sources from the Web, you'll need to know what's out there and how to find it. This article explains what's available, why, and where.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1669)
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 1.9
- The lengthy and complicated plan devised by the Lords Proprietors for the government of Carolina would have established a feudal system of elaborate courts, manors, and serfs. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: constitution
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert.
- Goldenrod
- Format: image/photograph
- Goldenrod
- Format: image/photograph
- Governing the Piedmont
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 5.7
- As settlers spread across the North Carolina Piedmont in the eighteenth century, the provincial government didn't keep up with them. Westerners weren't fairly represented in the provincial Assembly, and the so-called "Granville District," owned by the one remaining Lord Proprietor, was badly mismanaged.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Grandfather clock at Allen House
- This view of the inside of the Allen House in Alamance County, N.C. shows the kind of furniture that was present when the house was occupied in the late 1700s. To the right of an open door is a tall grandfather clock, made entirely of wood and brought from...
- Format: image/photograph
- Graveyard of the Atlantic
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 2.6
- The waters off North Carolina's coast have been called the "Graveyard of the Atlantic" because of the great number of ships that have wrecked there -- thousands since the sixteenth century. Geography, climate, and human activity have all played roles in making this region unusually treacherous to shipping.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Gray treefrog
- This gray treefrog was found sunning himself on the window of LEARN NC's office suite. He may be an Eastern gray treefrog (Hyla versicolor) or a Cope's gray treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis); the appearance of the...
- Format: image/photograph
- Gray treefrog with visible leg coloration
- This gray treefrog was found sunning himself on the window of LEARN NC's office suite. He may be an Eastern gray treefrog (Hyla versicolor) or a Cope's gray treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis); the appearance of the...
- Format: image/photograph
- The growth of cities
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 2.4
- Cities grew rapidly after the Civil War, in North Carolina as across the United States. But the great majority of North Carolina's population remained rural. This article includes maps and tables of census data.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Guest of honor: A presidential banquet
- In Rethinking Reports, page 1.3
- A research assignment in which students plan a banquet in honor of a president.
- By Melissa Thibault and David Walbert.
- Helping the wounded
- A Continental soldier helps a wounded comrade from the field at a reenactment of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse.
- Format: image
- Henry Grady and the "New South"
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 2.2
- Excerpt from a speech by Atlanta journalist and editor Henry Grady, praising the South's recovery from the Civil War, advocating industrial development, and inviting cooperation between North and South. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: speech
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood and David Walbert.
- Higher order thinking with Venn diagrams
- Graphic organizers are powerful ways to help students understand complex ideas. By adapting and building on basic Venn diagrams, you can move beyond comparison and diagram classification systems that encourage students to recognize complex relationships.
- Format: article/best practice
- By David Walbert.
- 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 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
- 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
- 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.
