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Full Description of North Carolina Experience, Beginnings to 1940

Collection Information

Title:
North Carolina Experience, Beginnings to 1940
Collection Home:
Description:
"The North Carolina Experience, Beginnings to 1940" is a collection that tells the story of the Tar Heel State as seen through representative histories, descriptive accounts, institutional reports, fiction, and other writing. It comprises digitized and encoded printed works, images, and oral history interviews and workplace songs.
Library of Congress Subject Headings:
North Carolina - History
North Carolina - African-Americans
North Carolina - Agriculture
North Carolina - Description
North Carolina - Economics and Business
North Carolina - Education
North Carolina - Fiction and Folk Culture
North Carolina - Medicine and Health
North Carolina - Native Americans
North Carolina - Politics and Government
North Carolina - Public Charities and Prisons
North Carolina - Religion and Reform
North Carolina - Slavery
North Carolina - War and Revolution
North Carolina - Women
Time Period:
1400s-1699
1700-1799
1800-1849
1850-1899
1900-1929
1930-1949
Format:
image/gif
image/jpeg
text/html
audio
text/xml
Language:
eng
Audience:
General public
Genealogists/History Enthusiasts
K-12 students
Undergraduate Students
K-12 teachers and administrators
Scholars/Researchers/Graduate Students
Interaction with Collection:
Search
Browse
Copyright & IP rights:
Collection Development Policy:
Size:
418 items
Frequency of additions:
Irregularly
Alternative Access:
Supplementary Materials:
Contextual information
Related web sites
Essay(s)
Teacher and student resources
Biographical information

Associated Collections

Subcollections:

Collection Home:
Description:
"North Carolinians and the Great War" examines how World War I shaped the lives of different North Carolinians on the battlefield and on the home front as well how the state and federal government responded to war-time demands. The collection focuses on the years of American involvement in the war between 1917 and 1919, but it also examines the legacies of the war in the 1920s.
Hosting Institution:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Libraries.

Complementary Digital Collections:

Description:
"The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865," documents Southern life during the Civil War, especially the unsuccessful attempt to create a viable nation state as evidenced in both private and public life. "Homefront" includes over four hundred digitized and encoded contemporary printed works and manuscripts, accompanied by ca. 1,000 images of currency, manuscript letters, maps, broadsides, title pages, illustrations, and photographs.
Hosting Institution:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Libraries.
Title:
Documenting the American South
Hosting Institution:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Libraries.

Associated Projects

IMLS Grant Type:
NLG
IMLS Grant Number:
ND-00031