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- American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide
- Each article in this series features an in-depth look at one aspect of the Library of Congress' American Memory with a special focus on North Carolina materials.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- 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 Learning Page: Community Center
- In American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide, page 8
- This installment of the American Memory Guide explores the Learning Page's Community Center, highlighting features of particular interest to teachers.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Today in History
- In American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide, page 1
- In this first installment to the American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide discover the in and outs of making calendar connections to primary source materials using the Today in History feature.
- By Melissa Thibault.
- African American soldiers
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 4.10
- After Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, some 180,000 African American soldiers fought for the Union cause in the Civil War.
- Format: article
- The election process
- In Election 2008, page 3.3
- Resources that examine the various aspects of the American election process from contemporary and historical perspectives.
- Format: bibliography
- The Learning Page: Activities and features
- In American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide, page 6
- In this installment of the American Memory Guide, learn to easily locate activities and features specially designed for students and your classroom.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Accessing the American Memory collection: Searching
- In American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide, page 2
- Take a look at the second installment in the American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide and find out how to search the collections with success. You'll learn all kinds of tricks and techniques, and even explore the Library of Congress's latest search tool.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault.
- The Learning Page: Getting started with primary sources
- In American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide, page 5
- Introduces a primary sources guide made available through the Library of Congress's The Learning Page. You'll also get an introduction to some of the LOC's lessons that will help your students use primary source materials.
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Collection Connections
- In American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide, page 7
- In this installment of the American Memory Guide, learn to find teaching resources associated with the Library of Congress's primary source collections.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault.
- A picture is worth a thousand words
- An example of how a single image can provoke discussions at all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.
- By Bobby Hobgood and David Walbert.
- Accessing the American Memory collection: Multimedia formats and offline-use tips
- In American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide, page 4
- The American Memory collection contains a wide variety of formats including motion pictures, sound recordings, sheet music, maps, and photos. First, learn how to find them, then explore options for use in your classroom.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Gravestone style monument in memory of the massacre at My Lai
- This gravestone-style monument was erected in memory of the massacre of Vietnamese at My Lai. The plaque on the stone, written in both Vietnamese and English, states that the monument is a reminder that "on March 16, 1968, the G.I.s killed 170 villagers."...
- Format: image/photograph
- Ensign Worth Bagley
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 6.5
- Worth Bagley of Raleigh, North Carolina, was the only U.S. naval officer killed in the Spanish-American War.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Museum of the Waxhaws and Andrew Jackson Memorial
- The museum has numerous artifacts as well as a film that details the Waxhaws area's history.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Oral history links and resources
- In Oral history in the classroom, page 6
- Guides, tips, lesson plans, and examples of student projects on the web.
- Format: article
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- Women's Monument at Moores Creek National Battlefield
- The Women's Monument at Moores Creek National Battlefield commemorates the actions of Mary (Polly) Slocum, the wife of Lt. Ezekiel Slocum, who fought in the battle. According to legend, she rode 65 miles alone at night to tend to the Patriot wounded. The monument...
- Format: image/photograph
- Tobacco bag stringing: Secondary activity six
- In this activity for grades 7–12, students will read and evaluate primary source stories from the Federal Writer’s Project.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- Web Publishing & Collaboration Guide
- LEARN NC works collaboratively with educators and other individuals from a variety of backgrounds to develop web-based resources for teachers and students. This manual guides educators through the process of developing content for publication on the web, including writing, design, technical guidelines, and copyright.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
- Presidential inaugurations in historical perspective
- A guide to online resources about the history of American presidential inaugurations.
- Format: bibliography
