North Carolina Digital History update

Part 4 of our “digital textbook” for North Carolina history, on the early national period (1790–1836), is now published, in a new template designed to improve readability and usability. It combines primary sources with articles from a variety of perspectives, maps, photographs, and audio recordings to tell the many stories of North Carolina in the early 19th century:

• the establishment of a new capital, the growth of political parties, and the new state’s conflicts with its neighbors
• the side-by-side development of agriculture and slavery
• the Second Great Awakening or “Great Revival” and its impact on society
• North Carolina’s stagnation as the “Rip Van Winkle state” and the efforts of reformers
• education and the experiences of students
• the North Carolina Gold Rush
• transportation and the need for internal improvements
• North Carolina’s role in national events
• the reactions in North Carolina to Nat Turner’s Rebellion
• the Cherokee, Indian removal, and the Trail of Tears
• the success of reformers in the 1830s

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. The entire textbook will be ready to teach in the 2009-10 school year, so if you’re planning to teach 8th-grade history, 4th- or 5th-grade social studies, or high school U.S. history, you’ll have the resources when you need them. Five more modules will be available by the end of the summer, and the rest will be published this fall.