You say you want a revolution?

Part 3 of our “digital textbook” for North Carolina history, on the era of the American Revolution, is now published. It combines primary sources with articles from a variety of perspectives, maps, photographs, slideshows, and video to tell the many stories of Revolutionary North Carolina:

• the uprisings of Regulators, backcountry farmers angry with unfair taxes, illegal fees, and corrupt officials
• the responses of North Carolinians and other colonists to Great Britain’s taxes and trade regulations
• the path from resistance to armed revolution
• the bloody civil war in the Carolina backcountry
• the creation of independent governments for North Carolina and the United States

As with the previous modules of the digital textbook, we’ve relied primarily on materials already digitized by libraries and museums, but we’ve added newly digitized primary sources and original photographs and video. You can read famous documents such as the Halifax Resolves as well as less famous documents such as diaries of harassed Moravians and a petition from Patriot women asking leniency for families of Loyalists. Or, if you’re a visual learner (wink, nudge), you can go straight for the video of reenactors firing an eighteenth-century cannon. It’s your Revolution, and it’s all in one place.

You can browse other modules and search our entire collection of resources for teaching and learning about North Carolina history at the newly redesigned digital textbook home page. And hang onto your tricornes, because six more modules (including some 400 pages of primary and secondary sources) are coming this spring and summer.