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- 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
- An American hero: Harriet Tubman
- In this lesson, the school librarian and classroom teacher should work together to teach students about the life of Harriet Tubman in recognition of African-American History and Cultural Heritage Month.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Information Skills and Social Studies)
- By Floanna Long.
- Food Helped Make the Difference
- These x-rays from the 1920s demonstrate the differences between children developing normally and those who develop rickets. The title of the black and white image is “Food Helped to Make the Difference.” There are four x-rays. The top set shows...
- Format: image/article
- Alternatives to the famous person report
- In Rethinking Reports, page 3.1
- This "rethinking reports" series of articles provides alternative research assignments that challenge students to think critically about historical actors.
- By David Walbert and Melissa Thibault.
- The African American State Fair
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 1.10
- For several years in the late nineteenth century, African American farmers held their own state fair in Raleigh to showcase improvements in agriculture.
- Format: article
- By Jim L. Sumner.
- Beyond Black History Month
- Go beyond approaches that marginalize African American history by "shifting the lens" to look at events from new perspectives.
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- African American history
- A guide to lesson plans, articles, and websites to help bring African American history alive in your classroom.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Women's history
- LEARN NC has selected several resources from our collections to help your students learn about women's history. Find lesson plans, websites, and articles to help your students learn about the achievements and experiences of women.
- Format: bibliography/help
- The George Moses Horton Project: Celebrating a triumph of literacy
- The only American poet to publish books of poems while living in slavery, George Moses Horton is an inspiration for the power of literacy in our lives.
- By Marjorie Hudson.
- The compromise of 1877
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 10.8
- After the disputed presidential election of 1876, Democrats in Congress agreed to certify a majority vote for Republican Rutherford B. Hayes if Republicans agreed to end military reconstruction.
- Format: article
- "A sickening state of things"
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 9.9
- Letter from Rachel Lazarus of Wilmington, North Carolina, to Eliza Mordecai of Mobile, Alabama. The writer describes the supposed plot of a slave insurrection in southeastern North Carolina and concludes that whites must live in fear until slavery is ended. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: letter
- The life and death of Blackbeard the Pirate
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 2.8
- Captain Blackbeard (born Edward Teach) was one of the most notorious pirates of the Atlantic Ocean in the 1710s. As captain of the ship "Queen Anne's Revenge," Blackbeard gained a reuptation for his frightening appearance as much as for his violence and cruelty. Between his adventures at sea, Blackbeard often returned to North Carolina and was rumored to have a house in Ocracoke. He enjoyed the tolerance of the North Carolina governor who did little to protect the people of the state from Blackbeard's attacks. Exasperated, North Carolinians appealed to the governor of Virginia, who sent a crew of British Naval officers to fight the pirate. On November 22, 1718, the crew succeeded in killing the infamous Blackbeard.
- Format: article
- "Liberty to slaves": The black response
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 3.4
- During the American Revolution, some black people living in the colonies fought for the British and some fought for the revolutionaries. Their actions during the war were often decided by what they believed would best help them throw off the shackles of slavery. Most believed that victory by the British would bring an end to their enslavement.
- Format: article
- By Jeffrey J. Crow.
- Back to the future!
- In this lesson plan, students research the history of an important invention and present what they've learned through an annotated timeline, historical fiction journal accounts, and VoiceThread technology.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Information Skills)
- By Diane Ruby.
- The Colored State Normal Schools
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 4.6
- Excerpt from the catalog of the North Carolina Colored State Normal Schools (now Winston-Salem State University, Fayetteville State University, and Elizabeth City State University), 1906. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: book
- Deficit thinking
- In Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools, page 4.2
- Teachers frequently attribute the academic struggles of English language learners to the students' inability or unwillingness to learn English, but this "deficit thinking" can better be replaced by a focus on what immigrant students bring to the classroom.
- By Buck Cooper.
- The Mexican Day of the Dead
- In The Changing Face of Mexico, page 1.1
- Slideshow View a slideshow of photographs from Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico and the United States....
- Format: article
- Rules for students and teachers
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 5.2
- Fictional description by Calvin Wiley (1819–1887) of the "Old Field School," a typical rural school of the late eighteenth century. The author lists rules that students were expected to obey, with punshments for disobedience. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: book
- The Battle of Bentonville
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 7.9
- Memoir of a Confederate soldier describing the march to Bentonville and the battle there on March 19, 1865. He describes the desperate state of the Confederate army by the end of the war. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: book
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Poor Richard's Almanack
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.12
- Excerpts from the alamanc published by Benjamin Franklin show what colonial Americans read and what topics interested them, including weather predictions, religion, history, astrology, and schedules of court dates. Includes both images of the original almanacs and transcriptions as well as historical commentary.
- Format: magazine
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood and David Walbert.
