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The Lowry War

In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 6.12

Many Lumbee Indians in Robeson County resented the demands of the Confederate army. In 1864, members of the Lowry family raided the homes of wealthy slaveholders. The Home Guard executed Allen Lowry and his son William, but another son, Henry Berry Lowry, hid in the woods for years as outlaws, becoming folk heroes.

Format: article

The North Carolina Writers' Network: Literary Hall of Fame

Find biographical information about North Carolina writers who have been inducted into the Literary Hall of Fame. Periodically, this organization holds teacher workshops, check back often to learn more.

Format: article/field trip opportunity

Henry Grady and the "New South"

In North Carolina in the New South, page 2.2

Excerpt from a speech by Atlanta journalist and editor Henry Grady, praising the South's recovery from the Civil War, advocating industrial development, and inviting cooperation between North and South. Includes historical commentary.

Format: speech

Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood and David Walbert.

Reform movements across the United States

In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 11.2

In the 1830s and 1840s, a wave of social and political reform swept the United States. Various groups of reformers, often inspired by religion, worked to expand the vote, promote equal rights for women, improve labor conditions, build free public schools, limit alcohol use, and improve treatment of criminals and the insane.

Format: article

The Wilmington Record editorial

In North Carolina in the New South, page 8.1

Editorial by Alex Manly in the Wilmington (North Carolina) Record, an African American newspaper, 1898, that fueled the white anger against blacks that led to the Wilmington Race Riot. Includes historical commentary.

Format: newspaper

Naval stores and the longleaf pine

In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.4

North Carolina's extensive longleaf pine forests provided the natural resources needed to produce materials needed to build and maintain ships -- not only timber but tar, pitch, and rosin. These "naval stores" became North Carolina's most important indusstry in the eighteenth century, but today, the longleaf pine forests are nearly gone.

Format: article

By David Walbert.

The Dukes of Durham

In North Carolina in the New South, page 2.7

After the Civil War, Orange County farmer Washington Duke put everything he had into growing tobacco. From farming he quickly expanded into manufacturing, and by the end of the nineteenth century, his son controlled the largest tobacco industry in the world.

Format: article

"For What Is a Mother Responsible?" -- Idealized motherhood vs. the realities of motherhood in antebellum North Carolina

In this lesson for grade 8, students analyze a newspaper article about motherhood from a North Carolina newspaper in 1845 and compare it to descriptions of motherhood from other contemporary sources. Students will also compare these antebellum descriptions to the modern debates over mothers' roles in American society.

Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)

By Kathryn Walbert.

Resources on the web

Beginning Reporting

A readable collection of advice for the beginning journalist that address such topics as the art of interviewing, story structure, and ethics. (Learn more)

Format: website/general

Provided by: Jim Hall

PEARL World Youth News

Secondary students can become international news correspondents by writing and publishing articles on issues that are important to them. (Learn more)

Format: website/general

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The Lost King of the Mayas

Discover the lost kingdom of the Mayans! Watch video clips of some of this civilization's greatest treasures; read a field journal from 1839 documenting the American discovery of a Mayan city; explore an interactive map; and try your hand at deciphering hieroglyphs. (Learn more)

Format: website/activity

Provided by: PBS

Radio Fights Jim Crow

A look at race during the World War II years though the radio programs which were aired at that time in an effort to educate audiences in the United States. (Learn more)

Format: website/general

Provided by: American Radio Works and Minnesota Public Radio