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Debating war with Britain: For the war: In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 8.4; Article from the Raleigh Star, published just after Congress declared war on Great Britain in 1812, arguing in support of the war. Includes historical commentary.; Format: newspaper

Debating war with Britain: Against the war: In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 8.5; Article from the Carolina Federal Republican of Raleigh, published just after Congress declared war on Great Britain in 1812, arguing against the war. Includes historical commentary.; Format: newspaper; Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.

The Stamp Act crisis in North Carolina: In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 2.4; In 1765, North Carolinians joined their fellow American colonists in protesting the Stamp Act, passed by Parliament that year, which taxed various kinds of public papers. Protesters, arguing that the tax was illegal without the consent of colonial assemblies, marched to the home of the tax collector and forced him to resign.; Format: article

Timeline of the Revolution, 1780–1783: In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 5.1; Timeline of events of the American Revolution from the beginning of the Southern Campaign in 1780 to the 1783 Treaty of Paris that ended the war.; Format: article

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

Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use: A “virtual field trip” through the North Carolina Piedmont and thousands of years of history explains the origin of Piedmont clays and how clay is made into pottery. With high-resolution photographs.; Format: slideshow (multiple pages)

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

The Battle of Lake Erie: This 1865 painting depicts Oliver Hazard Perry transferring between ships during the Battle of Lake Erie, fought in 1813 during the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain.; Format: image/painting

Colonial restrictions on pottery: In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 8; European colonists recognized clay as an important resource in developing their agricultural economy. Surprisingly, the king's governors restricted the manufacture of pottery because the British economic model for the empire (called mercantilism)...; By Dirk Frankenberg.

The French and Indian War: In Colonial North Carolina, page 8.1; The French and Indian War was the North American conflict that was part of a larger imperial conflict between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War. The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war’s expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American revolution.; 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 Union blockade: In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 2.5; At the beginning of the U.S. Civil War, Union forces blockaded Confederate ports to stop exports of cotton and imports of war supplies.; Format: article

The Regulation in Anson County: Rules and Resolves entered into by the Anson Mob. Vizt Whereas the Tax for the present year is very high part of which, unseen seem to many unlawful and unnecessary, that together with the great scarcity of Money that have put it out of our power...; Format: letter

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 Mecklenburg Resolves: In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 3.3; On receiving news of Lexington and Concord in May 1775, the Mecklenburg County Committee of Safety adopted these "resolves," or resolutions, declaring all royal authority to be suspended. Includes historical commentary.; Format: document

The Yalta Conference: Winston Churchill, President Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin met in Yalta to discuss the reorganization of post-war Europe in February, 1945. In this photograph, the three men are wearing heavy overcoats and are seated outside.Persian rugs are scattered...; Format: image/photograph

"A Society of Patriotic Ladies": In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 2.8; 1775 cartoon, published in a London newspaper, satirizing the "Edenton Tea Party" at which prominent North Carolina women signed a petition supporting the American cause. Includes historical commentary.; Format: cartoon

Creed of a Rioter: In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 3.13; During the American Revolution, Patriots who supported the war and independence committed frequent acts of violence against Loyalists and suspected Loyalists. This satirical essay was written in 1776 by an anonymous North Carolina Patriot disturbed by the extent of the violence.; Format: essay

The Committees of Safety: In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 2.9; Excerpts from the minutes of the Committees of Safety set up in North Carolina towns and counties, 1775, for the purpose of enforcing the trade boycott against Britain. Includes historical commentary.; Format: document

The first national government: The Articles of Confederation: In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 6.1; The Articles of Confederation served as the written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain. It established a weak central government that mostly, but not entirely, prevented the individual states from conducting their own foreign diplomacy.; Format: article

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