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Living the pioneer life: In this lesson, students will use photographs of Appalachian log dwellings to understand how advances in technology, the desire to own land, and political incentives have resulted in economic and social changes over time for the people of North Carolina. The students will examine text and historical documents to assess the time period in which log cabin structures were built, the reasons for constructing them, and the lives of the people who built these houses.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies); By Sonna Jamerson.

From stringbands to bluesmen: African American music in the Piedmont: This article from Carolina Music Ways discusses the transition in African American music from stringband to blues in the North Carolina Piedmont between 1860 and 1940, with a focus on Preston Fulp, a blues musician who gained prominence in Winston-Salem in the 1930s.; 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.

The Cherokee and the Trail of Tears: In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 10.1; In 1836, years of increasing tension between Cherokees in the southeastern U.S. and white settlers eager to encroach on Cherokee land culminated in the Treaty of New Echota, which called for the forcible removal of Cherokees to the western Indian Territory. Two years later, federal troops and state militias enforced the treaty, sending large groups of Indians west with inadequate supplies. Many died along the way. The forced removal of the Indians from their land has become known as the Trail of Tears.; Format: article

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