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- Surrender of Lord Cornwallis
- John Trumbull's painting Surrender of Lord Cornwallis was commissioned in 1817. The painting depicts the surrender of the British at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781 — an event that ended the Revolutionary War. American General...
- Format: image/painting
- American Military Museum of Gastonia
- A visit to this museum will help to bring understanding to students who are studying the United State history.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- "The Southern Cross"
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 1.9
- George Tucker's adaptation of the Star Spangled Banner to the Confederate cause. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: music
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Highland Pines Inn (postcard)
- View of an inn flying an American flag, and a few people on horseback. Caption reads "Highland Pines Inn, Southern Pines, N.C."
- Format: image/ephemera
- Col. Fremont planting the American standard on the Rocky Mountains
- Proof for a large woodcut campaign banner or poster for John C. Fremont, Republican presidential contender in 1856. Fremont is shown in full-length on a mountain peak, planting an American flag. He is clad in fringed trousers and military coat and waves a...
- Format: image/poster
- Capture of trenches at Candaba
- “Moving pictures” were brand-new technology in 1898, and films of the Spanish-American War gave most Americans their first “live” look at battle. But this film, of course, was only a reenactment, shot in New Jersey the following year by Thomas Edison’s...
- Format: video/video
- A call for independence
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 3.9
- After the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, North Carolina's fourth Provincial Congress met at Halifax in April 1776, and resolved that the colony's delegates to the Continental Congress should support a move to declare independence.
- Format: article
- A UNC student asks to sign up
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 1.6
- Letter from Edward Hall Armstrong to his father in April 1861, asking permission to volunteer for the Confederate army. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: letter
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Mapping life in a colonial town
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.14
- From a detailed map of colonial Edenton, North Carolina, we can learn a great deal about daily life and community life on the eve of the Revolution.
- Format: activity
- By L. Maren Wood.
- Women advertising for milk
- The young women in this 1930s black and white photograph are posing in 3 connecting storefront windows to advertise drinking milk. The first window has two women sitting in school desks, one in front of the other. An American flag stands next to the front...
- Format: image/photograph
- The Battle of Kings Mountain
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 5.3
- At the Battle of King's Mountain, fought in October 1780 in South Carolina, Patriot militias defeated Loyalists under the command of a British Army officer.
- Vietnamese family: Young girl sings
- In this excerpt, I record introductions with a Vietnamese family who entertained me and a friend during Tet, or Vietnamese New Year. Some of the conversation is in Vietnamese. At first, we are getting introductions, and they are discussing names for raisins...
- Format: audio
- "The duty of colored citizens to their country"
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 6.3
- Sermon urging African Americans to support the war effort against Spain and to enroll in the U.S. army, thereby making a good statement for themselves and demonstrating their loyalty, even the face of continued suffering.
- Format: speech
- The Third North Carolina Regiment
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 6.4
- In the Spanish-American War, North Carolina raised an all-black regiment under black command. The soldiers faced racism and violence from whites both in and out of the military, and white Democrats campaigned against the regiment in 1898.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- The War of 1812
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 8.3
- During its wars with France in the 1790s and early 1800s, Great Britain refused to respect the rights of U.S. ships and sailors on the high seas. When diplomacy and trade restrictions failed, President James Madison declared war. The two nations fought for two years before agreeing to a treaty, and historians debate who really "won" the war.
- Format: article
- North Carolina secedes
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 1.7
- Ordinance of secession passed by a convention of delegates from North Carolina counties on May 20, 1861. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: legislation
- Rock art
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 5.3
- Students will use art materials, drawings, and rock art examples to differentiate between symbol, petroglyph, pictograph, and rock art. They will also interpret rock art to illustrate its importance in the cultural heritage of a people and as a tool for learning about the past.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)
- Timeline of the Revolution, 1775–1779
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 3.1
- Timeline of events of the American Revolution from the outbreak of war in 1775 to the end of 1779.
- Format: article
- The Halifax Resolves
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 3.10
- After the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, North Carolina's fourth Provincial Congress met at Halifax in April 1776, and resolved that the colony's delegates to the Continental Congress should support a move to declare independence. Primary source includes historical commentary.
- Format: proclamation
- The assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 7.10
- President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated April 14, 1865, five days after Lee's surrender at Appomattox and two weeks before Johnston's final surrender at Bennett Place.
- Format: article
