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Produce market: In Contemporary life in Vietnam, page 10; The produce vendors have their wares displayed in baskets or on mats, and they sit shaded by broad-brimmed, palm-leaf sunhats in front of storefronts with upper story apartments. Customers on foot or on motorcycles circulate through the street. Centralized...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Animals for transportation: In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 9; Open-backed and slat-sided buses such as the one shown here usually serve medium distance links between towns. Passengers crowd together inside, while luggage, produce, and sometimes even livestock are tied on the roof of the bus. Rural farmers often move...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Fish market: In Northern and coastal Vietnam: Waterway settlements and Chinese influences, page 6; Women in Southeast Asia often work as food merchants in centralized outdoor markets where regional farm produce is collected for sale to surrounding town residents. Typically vendors selling similar items in adjacent spots are both cooperating and competing...; By Lorraine Aragon.

A produce vendor the market of Saquisili, Ecuador: A man is carrying large bundles of produce in an open-air market. Green leafy vegetables are strapped to the back and front of the man as walks among the produce stalls. A young child can be seen in the foreground near a bag of grain. Saquisilí has one of...; Format: image/photograph

Elevated view of vendors, pedestrians, and motorcycles at urban market in Dalat: Dozens of seated produce vendors, pedestrians, and motorcycles can be seen in this elevated view of an urban outdoor market in Dalat. The produce vendors have their wares displayed in baskets or on mats, and they sit shaded by broad-brimmed, palm-leaf sunhats...; Format: image/photograph

Grain for sale in Saquisili, Ecuador: A few shoppers examine sacks of grain at an open-air market. Several different types of grain are visible. Saquisilí has one of the largest daily markets in Ecuador. Everything from agricultural products to livestock to handcrafted goods can be found in Saquisilí....; Format: image/photograph

Woman sewing shut large sacks of produce in Ho Chi Minh City: A woman is sewing shut large burlap sacks of produce in Ho Chi Minh City. The woman's short, styled hair, earrings, and stylish clothes suggest that she is a merchant in charge of sealing sacks of farm produce before they are delivered elsewhere.; Format: image/photograph

Women as merchants: In Contemporary life in Vietnam, page 9; Women throughout Southeast Asia regularly work in outdoor markets, both as preparers and sellers of food items. This woman, at an outdoor market in Hanoi, sells variously colored noodles from large trays. Noodle-making is a fine art in Vietnam, where ingredients...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam: Photographs and text tell the story of rice and rural life in Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on the highlanders, or Montagnards.; Format: slideshow (multiple pages)

A woman in sunhat holds out bag of produce at market in Cat Ba: A woman wearing a traditional conical sunhat holds out a plastic bag of produce, perhaps bananas, to a customer at an outdoor market in Cat Ba. She smiles gently as she offers the bag from her right hand. Throughout Southeast Asia (as well as most areas of...; Format: image/photograph

Rows of women in sunhats squatting and selling fish at Cat Ba outdoor market: Rows of women in sunhats squat before piles of small silver fish they are selling at an outdoor market in Cat Ba. In the row behind them, pails of vegetables are on sale from other vendors. Women in Southeast Asia often work as food merchants in centralized...; Format: image/photograph

Two men in oxcart with bananas pass a bus on the road from Nha Trang to Dalat: Two men transport freshly harvested stalks of bananas in an oxcart on the road from Nha Trang to Dalat. Visible behind them is a crowded passenger bus with boxes and baskets of cargo tied on the roof of the bus. The driver's assistant, who negotiates with...; Format: image/photograph

Indoor market in Irapuato, Mexico: Red, white, and green garland adorns a large covered market. Multiple products are on display, including seafood and canned goods. Irapuato is a large town in the Mexican state of Guanajuato known for its agricultural produce. The town was originally settled...; Format: image/photograph

Traditional clothing in Otavalo, Ecuador: A man wearing traditional Andean garb walks through an open-air market. He is wearing a blue woolen poncho and a felt fedora hat. Behind him sacks of produce are for sale in a market stall. Otavalo is in the highlands of Ecuador, between the rainforest and...; Format: image/photograph

Woman selling noodles at outdoor market in Hanoi: A woman sits at a stall selling piles of noodles from three large trays displayed at an outdoor market in Hanoi. The front pile is brown, the middle one is white, and the rear one is orange. The vendor wears a yellow-striped blouse and her hair is tied back....; Format: image/photograph

To market we will go: In a market simulation, students will experience the roles of producers and consumers. The crafts in this market may be easily tied in with winter multicultural holidays (Christmas, Kwaanza, Hanukkah, Hmong New Year, Las Posadas, etc.) Students can purchase gifts for their family members at the market.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Development and Social Studies); By Ellen Douglas and Melissa Park.

The Dismal Swamp Canal: In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 7.2; Transportation in northeastern North Carolina was extremely difficult in the eighteenth century. The Dismal Swamp Canal, which opened in 1805, enabled passage between the Pasquotank River in North Carolina wih the Elizabeth River in Virginia. Over time the canal was rebuilt and expanded, and today it is part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.; Format: article; By David Walbert.

Archibald Murphey calls for better inland navigation: In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 4.7; Excerpt from Archibald Murphey’s Report to the Committee on Inland Navigation in which he calls for the government to invest in the state’s internal transportation system as a way to break their dependency on neighboring states and to increase land values, population and state revenue.; Format: report; Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert and L. Maren Wood.

The Union blockade: In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 2.5; At the beginning of the U.S. Civil War, Union forces blockaded Confederate ports to stop exports of cotton and imports of war supplies.; Format: article

Expanding to the west: Settlement of the Piedmont region, 1730 to 1775: In Colonial North Carolina, page 5.1; The population of North Carolina's Piedmont region more than doubled in the decade from 1765 to 1775. Most of the settlers who arrived during that time were European Americans traveling from the North via the Great Indian Trading Path and the Great Wagon Road.; Format: article; By Christopher E. Hendricks and J. Edwin Hendricks.

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