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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)
Presidents pathfinder
In Rethinking Reports, page 1.5
Presidents and the Presidency The American Presidency Grolier's family of encyclopedias provides three levels of biographical material on presidents...
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
Woman outside of Fayetteville, North Carolina
Woman outside of Fayetteville, North Carolina
A woman leans out of the door frame of a street car on the outskirts of Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1941. This photograph comes from the Farm Security Administration -- Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress. The caption...
Format: image/photograph
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
General Taylor Storming Monterey
From the Library of Congress: On September 27, 1974, the Music Division of the Library of Congress recreated a typical concert of brass-band and vocal music from mid-nineteenth-century America. Recorded selections from that concert are presented...
Format: audio/music
Inauguaration of Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1861
Inauguaration of Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1861
Format: image/photograph
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.
Thomas Jefferson's design for a plow
Thomas Jefferson's design for a plow
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), one of Virginia's largest planters, considered agriculture to be "a science of the very first order," and he studied it with great zeal and commitment. Jefferson introduced numerous plants to the United States, and he frequently...
Format: image/illustration
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.
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.
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.
Presidential inaugurations in historical perspective
A guide to online resources about the history of American presidential inaugurations.
Format: bibliography
Handmade hoes
Handmade hoes
Handmade hoes from twentieth-century West Virginia. The center hoe was made to be used in the raised areas in which sweet potatoes are grown, and the smallest hoe is used between rows of beets and onions.
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)
General Burnside
General Burnside
Portrait of General Ambrose Burnside, a Union Army general in the Civil War.
Format: image/photograph
Little Rock, 1959. Mob marching from capitol to Central High
Little Rock, 1959. Mob marching from capitol to Central High
Photograph shows a young African American boy watching a group of people, some carrying American flags, march past to protest the admission of the "Little Rock Nine" to Central High School.
Format: image/photograph
Civil War field hospital
Civil War field hospital
A field hospital in Savage Station, Virginia, during the Peninsular Campaign of May–August 1862.
Format: image/photograph
North Carolina State Capitol, 1937
North Carolina State Capitol, 1937
Format: image/photograph
The Lumbee: Who are they?
In Teaching about North Carolina American Indians, page 3.4
Introduction This activity for middle school grades allows students to survey the various theories concerning the ancestry of the Lumbee. Students will read and analyze four threads that seek to chronicle the ancestry of North Carolina’s largest...
Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
By Gazelia Carter.