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- Town Creek Indian Mound
- In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 5
- The Town Creek Indian Mound has been one of the longest and most thoroughly investigated archeological sites in the state. Its owner, L. D. Frutchey, recognized it as a significant Indian construction in the early 1930s and showed the site to the head of the...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Hurricane storm surges
- In Hurricanes on sandy shorelines: Lessons for development, page 5
- Figure 2 illustrates just how high hurricane storm surges can get along the gently sloping shorefaces of the southeastern United States. The photograph is of an exhibit at the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher. The exhibit stands 6.5 feet above mean sea...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- The 2004 presidential election in historical context
- Historian William E. Leuchtenburg talks about past presidential elections and how the 2004 election fits or defies precedents.
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- Conventions
- In The five features of effective writing, page 6
- Conventions — grammar, spelling, and the like — are important to good writing, but should be taught only after the other Features of Effective Writing.
- By Kathleen Cali.
- North Carolina's rain forest
- In Jocassee Gorges: Temperate rain forests of the Blue Ridge, page 1
- The Blue Ridge escarpment is the steep slope that separates North Carolina's mountains from its Piedmont plateau. The escarpment trends north and east across the state from South Carolina to Virginia. In many places it is steep enough to rise over 1,500 feet...
- By Dirk Frankenberg and Stephanie Walters.
- Accessing the American Memory collection: Browse by subject, chronology, and geography
- In American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide, page 3
- Browsing the collections gives anyone new to American Memory a chance to get a sense of the scope and variety of its materials. For the experienced user, browsing allows you to unearth previously undiscovered resources—with...
- By Melissa Thibault.
- The pathfinders
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.2
- An essay covering the pathfinders of the Paleoindian Period. Learn about the trek across Beringia and the lifeways of these early American Indians.
- The pottery makers
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.4
- Archaeologists do a bit of shrugging when asked about the Woodland—that time and lifeway tucked between 1000 BC and AD 1000. Some things they readily understand, but others leave them wondering.
- The village farmers
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.5
- North Carolina sat on a crossroads by AD 1000. Cultural ideas from other places breezed through it and around it: how to decorate pottery, how to orient political and social life, how to honor the dead, how to structure towns.
- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
- In Brown versus Board of Education: Rhetoric and realities, page 2.5
- The text of the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, that the segregation of public schools was in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
- Satellite image and map of the North Carolina coast
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- 1861 map of North Carolina and South Carolina
- An 1861 color map of North and South Carolina, shaded by county and showing the locations of major roadways and railroads.
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- 1736 map of Carolina
- 1736 map of the Carolinas, from southern Virginia to northern Florida. Major ports, barrier islands, and coastal counties are labeled by name, and western regions are labeled according to natural resources and the names and locations of Indian groups. The...
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- 1833 map of North Carolina and South Carolina
- 1833 map of North and South Carolina, showing major roads and towns, with county borders highlighted in color. The western part of both states is cropped off.
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- 1875 railroad map of North Carolina and South Carolina
- This 1875 railroad map of North and South Carolina is shaded by county. While the names of some of the railroad lines are difficult to read, the routes and major destinations are clearly visible.
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- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, affirmed and remanded (1955)
- In Brown II the court delegated the task of carrying out the desegregation to district courts with orders that desegregation occur “with all deliberate speed.”
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- Flooded rice fields
- Flooded rice fields at Middleton Place Plantation near Charleston, South Carolina.
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- 1676 map of Carolina
- 1676 map of Carolina drawn by British cartographer John Speed. This is one of the earliest published maps of the colony, and it reflects the colonists' limited understanding of the territory, as well as some amount of wishful thinking. The map appears to be...
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- 1696 map of Carolina
- This French map of Carolina from 1696 shows major inlets and rivers. An inset of the Cooper and Ashley Rivers in what is now South Carolina shows the names and locations of settlers in the area.
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- 1765 map of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
- This 1765 map depicts the southeastern colonies from southern Virginia to northern Florida (which was, at the time, East and West Florida.) When this map was drawn, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia extended as far west as the Mississippi River....
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