North Carolina History: A Digital Textbook
Primary sources, multimedia, readings, and lesson plans to tell the many stories of North Carolina's past.
Replace your textbook — or enhance your teaching with selections.
What’s a digital textbook?
LEARN NC’s “digital textbook” for 8th-grade North Carolina history offers a new model for teaching and learning. It makes primary sources central to the learning experience, using them to tell the stories of the past rather than merely illustrating it. Special web-based tools help students learn to read those sources and ask good questions of them. And because it’s on the web, this textbook relies on multimedia whenever possible to supplement or even replace text.
Teaching and learning online
Designed for use online, our digital textbook includes interactive tools to help students understand and interpret historical sources and readings. A modular approach lets teachers use as little or as much of the textbook as meets their needs. And every section will come classroom-ready with lesson plans and activities.
You can read more or watch this animated tour to learn more about the features and resources of our digital textbook.
Publishing schedule
The textbook will be ready to be taught in its entirety during the 2009–2010 school year. The remaining modules will be published in January 2010, and a complete educator's guide will be available in summer 2010.
Questions?
Get answers to frequently asked questions about the digital textbook. (If we haven't answered yours, feel free to contact us for more information.
You can also download a flyer (PDF, 95KB) about the digital textbook project.
Explore
Search
More than just a linear narrative, our “digital textbook” is modular and fully searchable. If you need a primary source, a map, some background reading, or a lesson plan, this is the place to start!
Browse
This is a tag cloud. It shows the most common keywords or "tags" assigned to pages of the textbook. Tags assigned to the most resources appear larger.
- 17 records tagged with 4-H clubs
- 11 records tagged with advertising
- 10 records tagged with Africa
- 115 records tagged with African Americans
- 27 records tagged with American history
- 132 records tagged with American Indians
- 47 records tagged with American Revolution
- 23 records tagged with antebellum
- 60 records tagged with archaeology
- 10 records tagged with artifacts
- 21 records tagged with battles
- 12 records tagged with Biltmore Estate
- 12 records tagged with business
- 32 records tagged with Cherokee
- 19 records tagged with children
- 20 records tagged with civil disobedience
- 35 records tagged with civil rights
- 20 records tagged with Civil Rights Movement
- 83 records tagged with Civil War
- 79 records tagged with colonial
- 22 records tagged with colonization
- 15 records tagged with Constitution
- 12 records tagged with culture
- 17 records tagged with desegregation
- 13 records tagged with diseases
- 13 records tagged with Durham County
- 21 records tagged with economics
- 51 records tagged with education
- 11 records tagged with England
- 11 records tagged with Europe
- 18 records tagged with exploration
- 50 records tagged with farming
- 23 records tagged with food
- 12 records tagged with freedmen
- 18 records tagged with geography
- 69 records tagged with government
- 56 records tagged with Great Depression
- 12 records tagged with health
- 14 records tagged with home front
- 11 records tagged with immigration
- 10 records tagged with industrialization
- 46 records tagged with industry
- 44 records tagged with labor
- 15 records tagged with labor unions
- 12 records tagged with language arts
- 12 records tagged with legislation
- 13 records tagged with letters
- 14 records tagged with Lords Proprietors
- 12 records tagged with Lumbee
- 11 records tagged with Mecklenburg County
- 13 records tagged with medicine
- 13 records tagged with migration
- 102 records tagged with military
- 19 records tagged with minimum wage
- 11 records tagged with mountains
- 16 records tagged with music
- 13 records tagged with New Hanover County
- 19 records tagged with newspapers
- 23 records tagged with oral histories
- 13 records tagged with Orange County
- 13 records tagged with Outer Banks
- 14 records tagged with Piedmont
- 88 records tagged with politics
- 12 records tagged with pottery
- 24 records tagged with poverty
- 27 records tagged with Reconstruction
- 16 records tagged with reform
- 13 records tagged with Regulators
- 28 records tagged with religion
- 13 records tagged with Roanoke
- 12 records tagged with school desegregation
- 15 records tagged with science
- 10 records tagged with segregation
- 10 records tagged with slave insurrections
- 21 records tagged with slave narratives
- 71 records tagged with slavery
- 77 records tagged with social studies
- 44 records tagged with soldiers
- 15 records tagged with South Carolina
- 10 records tagged with Spain
- 11 records tagged with strikes
- 13 records tagged with suffrage
- 21 records tagged with technology
- 14 records tagged with textile mills
- 45 records tagged with tobacco
- 32 records tagged with tobacco bag stringing
- 13 records tagged with trade
- 27 records tagged with transportation
- 11 records tagged with Tuscarora
- 83 records tagged with United States
- 10 records tagged with Vietnam War
- 16 records tagged with Virginia
- 14 records tagged with voting
- 33 records tagged with war
- 10 records tagged with wills
- 17 records tagged with Wilmington
- 58 records tagged with women
- 35 records tagged with work
- 15 records tagged with World War I
- 57 records tagged with World War II






