Gilded Age North Carolina
Posted September 23, 2009 · by David · in New on the website
Part seven of our digital textbook for North Carolina history is now published! North Carolina in the New South covers the period from about 1870 to 1900, with topics including industrialization, changes in agriculture, Gilded Age culture, expanding opportunities, Populism, and the Wilmington Race Riot. This section also includes some early motion picture footage, along with video of junior reenactors from Duke Homestead State Historic Site. (More video on growing, harvesting, and selling tobacco is coming soon.) There are also excerpts from oral history interviews with men and women who grew up at the end of the nineteenth century. And for the quantitatively inclined, there are a couple of activities that integrate mathematics by asking students to analyze census and economic data.
The remaining four parts of the textbook, covering the twentieth century, will be published in the coming months. And remember that you can search or browse the entire textbook and all its primary sources and media from the cover page.
