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- Mrs. Emma Cleary, Wilkes County, N.C.
- The Cleary family is pictured standing in front of a stone wall. All of the family members hold tobacco bags.
- Format: image/photograph
- Family members bathe and do laundry at stream embankment
- Family members bathe and do laundry at a stream embankment. On the right, a mother, her hair wrapped in a towel, and child wash clothes in the running water. They use a concrete ledge as their work table. On the left, one girl helps wash another's hair. Other...
- Format: image/photograph
- Wills and inventories: A process guide
- Guiding questions for students investigating daily life in the past through wills, inventories, and probate records.
- Format: article/learner's guide
- By David Walbert.
- My Lai
- In French colonization and Vietnam wars, page 9
- In 1968, U.S. forces considered the My Lai area to be a stronghold of Communist Vietnamese fighters (known as Vietcong) and their sympathizers. Repeated bombing of the region only increased the support of local civilians for the Communist fighters. After an...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Surviving those scholarship interviews!
- This activity is designed to provide an opportunity for students to practice interviewing skills. It is particularly geared toward those students who will be facing competitive scholarship interviews (Teaching Fellows, Moreheads, civic organizations, etc.).
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Guidance)
- By Sharon Waugh.
- 4-H Club family in their garden
- In this black and white photograph, three members of the Sauls family, two older girls dressed in skirts and a young boy in overalls, are seen planting a field in Wake County, North Carolina. The boy is shown making holes in the soil with a hoe. One of the...
- Format: image/article
- Who's Your Mama?: A Family Who's Who
- This is the first of two lessons that can be used with Cynthia Rylant's book, The Relatives Came. Students will read, draw, role-play and sing about family roles and titles.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Social Studies)
- By Laura Bahlmann and Mary Lail.
- Comparing proverbs
- The lesson will feature comparisons of American and African proverbs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Pat Chancer.
- Reuniting families
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 8.7
- Letters from Freedmen's Bureau agents seeking information on the whereabouts of family members of freed slaves. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: letter
- Hanoi girl tends a toddler sitting in the front basket of a motorcycle
- A pre-adolescent girl tends a toddler who sits perched in the front basket of a motorcycle parked outside a storefront in Hanoi. The children are both wearing sleeveless pink pajamas. Older sisters and brothers in Asia generally are expected to be responsible...
- Format: image/photograph
- Life on the land: Voices
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 1.4
- Excerpts of oral history interviews with men and women who grew up on farms in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century North Carolina.
- Format: interview
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- The Wright Tavern
- Built in 1816, the Wright Tavern was in operation for over a century. It is a "rare example of a frame construction dog-run building and the finest existing example of this plan in North Carolina." It is open for tours by appointment only.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Family budget activity
- This activity is designed to provide students with real-world application of classroom curriculum. Students will be required to make budgeting decisions in the light of inflation, unemployment, and other unforeseen additions or strains to the family budget.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 Social Studies)
- By beth carroll.
- Crowd watches as offerings are placed with corpse in hollow bull figure at cremation
- A large crowd in the foreground watches as offerings are placed with a Brahman's corpse into the hollow bull figure at a high-status cremation held on July 23, 1986. In the rear right, several family members are seen standing on a decorated cremation platform,...
- Format: image/photograph
- Letter activity one
- In Tobacco bag stringing: Secondary activity two, page 2
- The following excerpt is from a letter from Mr. Sherlock Bronson, a lawyer and president of Virginia-Carolina Service Corporation, to the Honorable Graham Braden, a member of the U. S. House of Representatives. It was written March 16, 1939. The...
- Format: lesson plan
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Into the wilderness: Circuit riders take religion to the people
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 3.2
- In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, "circuit riders" preached to residents of the backcountry who were too scattered to be served by established churches.
- Format: article
- By N. Fred Jordan Jr. .
- Cherokee women
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 2.8
- Before the arrival of Europeans in North America, women enjoyed a major role in the family life, economy, and government of the Cherokee Indians. Cherokee society was organized according to a matrilineal kinship system, and women were the heads of households. Women also did most of the farming and had a voice in government.
- Format: article
- By Theda Perdue.
- Stone monument on house foundation of family killed at My Lai
- A grey stone monument rests on a house foundation of a local family killed at My Lai on March 16, 1968. The inscription on the monument, written in both Vietnamese and English reads, "Foundation of Mr. Lè Lý's house burnt by U.S. soldiers - 7 of his family...
- Format: image/photograph
- Letter books
- Kindergarten children are usually familiar with beginning sound "ABC" books with texts such as "A is for apple." In this activity, repeated for each consonant letter, art, writing, conventional spelling, and reading are combined to create a personal "Letter Book" for each child.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
- By Clara McKenzie.
- Older stone and newly painted white walled graves on hillside at Hue
- Older stone and newly painted white walled graves are surrounded by low vegetation on a hillside at Hué. Traditionally the graves of wealthy family members have been surrounded by these low walls with posts set at cardinal directions. Such walled graves are...
- Format: image/photograph
