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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)

Antebellum homes and plantations: A tour of some of North Carolina's historic houses and farms — big and small, rich and poor — from before the Civil War.; Format: slideshow (multiple pages)

Hurricanes on sandy shorelines: Lessons for development: A Carolina Environmental Diversity Explorations “virtual field trip” that examines the sand sharing system of sedimentary coastlines and the impact of hurricanes on those coastlines and on human development.; Format: slideshow (multiple pages)

Cape Fear estuaries: From river to sea: A “virtual field trip” down the estuaries of the Cape Fear River from zero salinity to the ocean, with discussion of how local ecology changes along the way.; Format: slideshow (multiple pages)

A blackwater river from sea to source: The White Oak River transect: A “virtual field trip” up the White Oak River in southeastern North Carolina, with discussion of how local ecology changes along the way due to decreasing salinity.; Format: slideshow (multiple pages)

Reading primary sources: Newspaper advertisements: This interactive guide to reading classified advertisements in a 19th-century newspaper editorial steps through layers of questions, guiding the reader through the process of historical inquiry. This edition is one in a series of guides on reading historical primary sources.; Format: newspaper (multiple pages)

Lonely mountains: The monadnocks of the inner Piedmont: This Carolina Environmental Diversity Explorations “virtual field trip” explores the geology of North Carolina's monadnocks, mountains that rise individually above the surrounding topogaphy.; Format: slideshow (multiple pages)

Child labor in North Carolina's textile mills: The photographs of Lewis Hine show the lives and work of children in North Carolina's textile mill villages in the first decades of the twentieth century.; Format: slideshow (multiple pages)

North Carolina maps: A collection of lesson plans for grades K-12 centered on historic maps of North Carolina; Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)

Forests and fires: The longleaf pine savanna: This Carolina Environmental Diversity Explorations “virtual field trip” examines the role of fire in maintaining the longleaf pine savanna as well as other rare plant communities found in Camp Lejune, North Carolina.; Format: slideshow (multiple pages)

Elevations and forest types along the Blue Ridge Parkway: A Carolina Environmental Diversity Explorations “virtual field trip” that explores the great diversity of forests in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains.; Format: slideshow (multiple pages)

Large sand volume barrier islands: Environmental processes and development risks: This Carolina Environmental Diversity Explorations “virtual field trip” explores the nature and structure of barrier islands with large sand volume, on which built structures are relatively well insulated from hurricane damage.; Format: slideshow (multiple pages)

Roan Mountain Highlands: This Carolina Environmental Diversity Explorations “virtual field trip” explores the natural beauty and geological and ecological diversity of the Roan Mountain Highlands that straddle the border between North Carolina and Tennesee.; Format: slideshow (multiple pages)

North Carolina political parties: In Election 2012, page 2.2; Only those parties expected to field candidates on North Carolina ballots in 2012 are listed here. For additional political parties, see the list provided by Politics1.com. Wikipedia also offers a list...; Format: bibliography

Colonial and state records of North Carolina: Lessons developed using the Colonial State Records of North Carolina collection from Documenting the American South; Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)

Jocassee Gorges: Temperate rain forests of the Blue Ridge: A Carolina Environmental Diversity Explorations “virtual field trip” that explores the geology and botanical diversity of the Jocassee Gorges region of North Carolina's mountains.; Format: slideshow (multiple pages)

Excavating Occaneechi Town: An archaeology primer: Republished with permission from the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, the Archaeology Primer uses photographs of the excavations at Occaneechi Town to introduce fundamental concepts of archaeology. The primer provides an introduction to the methods of archaeology and to some common types of artifacts, and prepares students to participate in an electronic archaeological dig.; Format: slideshow (multiple pages)

Wetlands of the coastal plains: This Carolina Environmental Diversity Explorations “virtual field trip” explores the various wetlands of North Carolina's coastal plain and the plant communities found there.; Format: slideshow (multiple pages)

North Carolina political parties: In Election 2008, page 2.2; Only those parties expected to field candidates on North Carolina ballots in 2008 are listed here. For additional political parties, see the list provided by Politics1.com. Wikipedia also offers a list...; Format: bibliography

Report of Vice-Consul R. E. Heide on the Resources, Trade and Commerce of North Carolina (1875): An 1875 report on the population, geography, industry, and natural resources of North Carolina, with particular attention to shipping, navigation, and the production of naval stores.; Format: book (multiple pages)

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