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Collections · Civil War Era NC
Collections
Collections on prewar, wartime, and postwar North Carolina contain digitized primary sources, like letters, diaries, and newspapers written by historical actors, such as slaves, slaveholde...
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Activities · Civil War Era NC
Activities
Learning about the past isn't just a process of memorizing dates and facts. Instead, history is about inquiry, imagination, and interpretation. Re-enactments, like the one pictured to the l...
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About · Civil War Era NC
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Prewar North Carolina · Civil War Era NC
In the Senate, on the 23d ult., Mr. DOUGLAS, from the Committee on Territories, reported a substitute for the bill which was brought forward by him a short time since for the organization of Nebraska ...
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Tutorials · Civil War Era NC
Tutorials
North Carolina prohibited teaching slaves to read and write in 1818 and again in 1830 because such education "has a tendency to excite dissatisfaction in their minds and to produce insurrect...
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Wartime North Carolina · Civil War Era NC
Description
Learn about the Civil War in North Carolina from the people who witnessed it. This collection contains primary sources, mostly documents and still images, related to the Civil War in North...