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- Address to the Colored People of North Carolina
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 10.7
- 1870 broadside urging African Americans to support Governor William Woods Holden, then facing impeachment for his use of the militia to stop Ku Klux Klan violence. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: poster
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert.
- Alexander Martin (1740–1807)
- Alexander Martin was a North Carolina delegate to the Constitutional Convention, fought in the American Revolution, and served as governor and in the state legislature.
- Format: biography
- Archibald Murphey
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 4.4
- Archibald Debow Murphey (1777–1832) was a North Carolina state senator and later a Superior Court judge who fought for a comprehensive system of public education, construction of canals and roads, and other progressive reforms.
- Format: biography
- 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.
- A call for independence
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 3.9
- After the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, North Carolina's fourth Provincial Congress met at Halifax in April 1776, and resolved that the colony's delegates to the Continental Congress should support a move to declare independence.
- Format: article
- Canova's statue of Washington
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 4.8
- In 1815, at a time when the state of North Carolina was unwilling to spend money on roads or schools, the General Assembly spent as much as $60,000 on a statue of George Washington for the State Capitol.
- Format: book
- Commentary and sidebar notes by Pauline S. Johnson.
- Cape Fear estuaries: Introduction
- In Cape Fear estuaries: From river to sea, page 1
- A quiet afternoon on the dock overlooking the Cape Fear estuary, fishing with friends. A gentle breeze clatters the marsh reeds and sends ripples floating across the water. A vision of stability and tranquility. Unfortunately, this vision is entirely misleading....
- By Steve Keith.
- A capital in the "wilderness"
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 1.4
- In 1792, the North Carolina General Assembly voted to place a permanent state capital in Wake County. Joel Lane sold 1,000 acres of land to the state, and in the years that followed, the city of Raleigh was planned and built.
- Format: article
- Col. Fremont planting the American standard on the Rocky Mountains
- Proof for a large woodcut campaign banner or poster for John C. Fremont, Republican presidential contender in 1856. Fremont is shown in full-length on a mountain peak, planting an American flag. He is clad in fringed trousers and military coat and waves a...
- Format: image/poster
- The compromise of 1877
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 10.8
- After the disputed presidential election of 1876, Democrats in Congress agreed to certify a majority vote for Republican Rutherford B. Hayes if Republicans agreed to end military reconstruction.
- Format: article
- Conservative opposition
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 10.2
- Newspaper editorial attacking the Reconstruction-era Republican majority in North Carolina as incompetent and corrupt. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: newspaper
- The cost of Tryon Palace
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 1.8
- Table detailing the expenses of building Tryon Palace, the residence of the colonial governor at New Bern, North Carolina, in 1770. Includes historical commentary about why these expenses infuriated many colonists.
- Format: document
- Creed of a Rioter
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 3.13
- During the American Revolution, Patriots who supported the war and independence committed frequent acts of violence against Loyalists and suspected Loyalists. This satirical essay was written in 1776 by an anonymous North Carolina Patriot disturbed by the extent of the violence.
- Format: essay
- Debating war with Britain: Against the war
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 8.5
- Article from the Carolina Federal Republican of Raleigh, published just after Congress declared war on Great Britain in 1812, arguing against the war. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: newspaper
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Debating war with Britain: For the war
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 8.4
- Article from the Raleigh Star, published just after Congress declared war on Great Britain in 1812, arguing in support of the war. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: newspaper
- The Democrats appeal to voters
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 8.2
- Address from the North Carolina state Democratic Party chairman in the Raleigh News and Observer before the 1898 election, appealing to white voters to "redeem the state." Includes historical commentary.
- Format: newspaper
- Edmund Fanning reports to Governor Tryon
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 1.5
- Letter from Edmund Fanning to Governor William Tryon, April 23, 1768, reporting on the activities of the Regulators. Shows how the Regulators were seen by colonial leaders. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: letter
- Education and literacy in Edgecombe County, 1810
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 5.4
- In this 1810 letter, Jeremiah Battle of Edgecombe County describes the lack of education in eastern North Carolina and the consequences for society and politics. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: letter
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- The election of 1860: Results by state
- Table of electoral votes by state in the 1860 U.S. presidential election.
- Format: data set
- Expansion and empire, 1867–1914
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 6.1
- The United States expanded its economic influence and added overseas territory in the last decades of the nineteenth century, but the drive for empire was tempered by a strong anti-imperialist strain in American politics.
- Format: article
