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- Greenville Museum of Art
- Permanent exhibits include 19th and 20th century art, North Carolina art and an impressive collection of Jugtown pottery.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park
- A memorial honoring North Carolinians who were killed in the Vietnam War. Each name is engraved in a free-standing monolith in a 230-foot wide basin scooped out of the earth.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- John C. Campbell Folk School
- The Folk School offers visitors a chance to experience a special blend of history, art, and natural beauty in the mountains of Western North Carolina.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Hickory Ridge Homestead
- Visitors get insight into the lifestyle of early mountain settlers, how they lived, and what constituted a 'typical' mountain homestead at this eighteenth-century living history museum.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Equestrian statue from King William's War and Queen Anne's War
- Located in Walpole, Massachusetts, United States, this equestrian statue is of early 20th century construction and has a green verdigris patina. The granite base of the monument (which is carved in capital letters) describes the figure as "LIEUT. LEWIS" and...
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- Old Burke County Courthouse and Heritage Museum
- Students can learn about the history of Burke County and the sessions of the NC Supreme Court held on this site in the mid-19th century when visiting the Old Burke County Courthouse.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Tobacco Farm Life Museum
- This history museum provides "an informative insight into early 20th century farm family life."
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Japanese enter Nanking
- Japanese soldiers carrying rifles on their shoulders walk across a bridge, through a pillared gate, into the walled city of Nanking, China.
- Format: image/photograph
- Historic Edenton
- The Historic Edenton website is provided by North Carolina Historic Sites and contains a brief introduction and history of the town as well as a listing of special events.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Teaching about North Carolina American Indians
- This web edition is drawn from a teachers institute curriculum enrichment project on North Carolina American Indian Studies conducted by the North Carolina Humanities Council. Resources include best practices for teaching about American Indians, suggestions for curriculum integration, webliographies, and lesson plans about North Carolina American Indians.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
- Mint Hill Country Doctor's Museum and Country Store
- This museum takes the visitor back to the early years of medical practice and the "daily lives and routines of Southern people living in rural areas from the late 1800's to the 1930's."
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Inca walls near Otavalo, Ecuador
- A ruined Inca wall is covered in moss and flowers near Otavalo, Ecuador. The Inca rulers were relative latecomers to Ecuador. Ecuador had been settled for a thousand years or more before the Incas invaded from Peru in the mid 15th century. The Inca rulers...
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- Invasion of Poland
- A Polish Bofors anti-aircraft gun can be seen in this black and white photograph which as taken after an air attack on the Polish Army in the Battle of Bzura. In the distance, a dead horse and destroyed vehicles can be seen.
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- Kristallnacht
- Passersby look at the broken windows of a shop that was vandalized during Kristallnacht, "Night of Broken Glass." A flag with a swastika hangs down in front of a window next door. On November 9th and 10th in 1938, more that 7,000 Jewish shops and 1,600 synagogues...
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- The Charlotte Museum of History
- Permanent exhibits in the Charlotte Museum of History include Native American artifacts, representations of the colonial settlers, interactive dioramas of how the town of Charlotte looked in 1775, gold mining, the Civil War, and 2oth century topics. There are also temporary exhibits.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Historic Johnson Farm
- Students will feel as if they have gone back in time when they take a tour of this 19th century tobacco farm located near Hendersonville.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- East Carolina Village of Yesteryear
- The museum displays depict one hundred years of North Carolina history. With nineteen buildings, and over two thousand artifacts, the village promotes NC life from 1840 to 1940.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Soviet soldiers advance through the rubble in Stalingrad
- Four Soviet soldiers carefully climb over the rubble of bombed buildings in Stalingrad. One soldier crawls over the top of a pile of rubble while another takes cover behind a wall of a building. Two other soldiers follow them.
- Format: image/photograph
- Blue Ridge Parkway Folk Art Center
- Students will enjoy visiting the folk art center and learning about the heritage of the southern Appalachian mountain people.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany
- Adolph Hitler is seen standing in a second-story window and speaking to a large crowd after being appointed Chancellor of Germany. One man stands above the others on a light pole and takes a picture of Hitler.
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