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Penderlea Homestead Museum: A Homestead Community of the Depression Era: Visit this Depression-era community built by President Roosevelt's New Deal progra, in 1934. The museum in Willard, North Carolina is open on Saturdays and by appointment.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Rethinking Reports: Creative research-based assignments provide alternatives to the President Report, Animal Report, and Famous Person Report that ask students to think about old topics in new ways, work collaboratively, and develop products that support a variety of learning styles.; Format: series (multiple pages)

Historic Stagville: Read about the history of the plantation, the Bennehan and Cameron families who owned the plantation, the slave community, the structures on the plantation, and the effect the Civil War had on Stagville Plantation.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

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.

Exploring the church in the southern black community: Students explore the Documenting the American South Collection titled, the “Church in the Southern Black Community.” Beginning with a historian's interpretation of the primary sources that make up the collection, students search the collection for evidence to describe the experiences of African Americans living in the south during the Antebellum through the Reconstruction Period centering on their community churches. The activity culminates in student presentations of a digital scrap book.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 11–12 Social Studies); By Meghan Mcglinn.

YMI Cultural Center: This cultural center was created to preserve the visual and performing arts heritages of African-Americans and other minorities. The Center has an art gallery with over 100 works of art from renowned artists such as Elizabeth Catlett, Romare Bearden, John Biggers. It also offers art classes to all age groups.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Norlina Train Museum: Go back in time and learn about the history of the town of Norlina at this museum which houses only local railroad memorabilia.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

The Cary Heritage Museum at the Page Walker Hotel: Learn about the heritage of the Town of Cary and see how it has grown from a railroad community to the city of today.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Work in Colonial America: Blacksmithing: In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.16; A reenactor demonstrates the work of a colonial blacksmith and explains his role in the community.; Format: video

Community and Government: This sampling of instructional resources will help students from elementary through high school learn about their communities, the federal, state, and local governments, and how to be responsible and effective citizens.; Format: bibliography/help

Belmont Historical Society Cultural and Heritage Learning Center: Step back in time and learn about the history of Belmont, North Carolina through photographs, artifacts and other exhibits.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Diary of a journey of Moravians: First-hand account of the journey of twelve Moravian brothers from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to Bethabara, North Carolina in 1753.; Format: diary (multiple pages)

Rockingham County Historical Village: An original tobacco factory, a barn, a one-room school house, and a corn crib have been restored and make up the Rockingham County Historical Village.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

The value of oral history: In Oral history in the classroom, page 1; Why use oral history with your students? Oral history has benefits that no other historical source provides.; By Kathryn Walbert.

Connecting with community through oral history: In Oral history in the classroom, page 5; Through interviews and photographs, Harnett County students learn about their community's agricultural past.; By Jean Sweeney Shawver.

Cleveland County Historical Museum: Students will learn about the early days of Cleveland County and will see artifacts and other exhibits at this historical museum.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Slave songs: This lesson plan allows students to learn more about the religious observances of slaves in the United States by presenting hymns from Slave Songs in the US digitized in the Documenting the American South Collection. This is a great lesson to introduce the intersection of religion and slavery in a US history or African American history class.; Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies); By Meghan Mcglinn.

Where do the Lumbee live?: In Teaching about North Carolina American Indians, page 3.6; Introduction Knowing the location of a community, city, state or nation is important. More important, however, is understanding of the personality of the location. Robeson County, home of the Lumbee Tribe, is more than a North Carolina county that...; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies); By Gazelia Carter.

The Davenport Homestead: See what everyday life was like over 200 years ago at the Davenport Homestead. The main house is the original home of Washington County's first state senator, Daniel Davenport.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

How did longleaf pine forests become dependent on fire?: In Forests and fires: The longleaf pine savanna, page 2; “Fire-dependent forest” seems like an oxymoron — a combination of apparently contradictory terms put together to produce what seems to be a paradox. For southeastern pine savannas, though, the term fire-dependent defines the dominant...; By Dirk Frankenberg.

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