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A Drum Major for History: Honoring Dr. William H. Cartwright

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Read about Dr. William H. Cartwright, one of the founders of the Tar Heel Junior Historian Association. This article appeared in the Spring 2005 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

A Snapshot in Time: How to Study a Photo

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Photographs from the past can teach us about people and events. This article uses a picture from the NC State Archives to demonstrate the process of analyzing a photo. This article originally appeared in the Spring 2009 Tar Heel Junior Historian Magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Analyzing an Artifact: What in the World is a Hogshead?

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. When you visit a historic site or a museum you may encounter artifacts that you can’t readily identify. In this article, the assistant site manager at Duke Homestead Historic Site discusses one such artifact in that site’s possession, a large hogshead (which was a type of barrel generally used to store tobacco). This article originally appeared in the Spring 2009 Tar Heel Junior Historian Magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Digging Deep: Primary Sources in Archaeology

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Archaeologists study the past by examining the material remains of previous people in order to determine how people from the past lived. This article gives an overview of the different people archaeologists study and how they go about unearthing artifacts. This article originally appeared in the Spring 2009 Tar Heel Junior Historian Magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Facts and Fiction: Looking for the Colonists

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. While stories abound about the possible fate of the 1587 Lost Colonists, little archaeological evidence remains to definitively reveal what happened. And why did colonies at Roanoke Island fail so quickly, when others such as Jamestown did not? This article appeared in the Fall 2007 Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

From Earth and Fire: North Carolina Pottery

History-in-a-Box. Create interdisciplinary lessons and encourage students to connect with history! Watch the video From Earth and Fire: North Carolina Pottery and use pieces of pottery and historical photographs to learn math, language arts, and science. This project was made possible through the support of the North Carolina Humanities Council and the North Carolina Arts Commission.   details

Have You Ever Read a Building?

Online. Buildings are artifacts too! By carefully examining a building and asking questions such as What is it made of?, Who made it?, How was it made?, How was it used?, and Who used it? you can discover clues about a building’s history. This article originally appeared in the Spring 2009 Tar Heel Junior Historian Magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Historian's Tools: Primary and Secondary Sources

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Historians learn about the past by studying both primary and secondary sources. This article explains what primary sources are and how historians use them to learn about the past. This article originally appeared in the Spring 2009 Tar Heel Junior Historian Magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Historians Piece It All Together

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Historians use all kinds of documents, including wills, to learn about the past. This article demonstrates how research on one particular will leads to greater knowledge about one colonial North Carolina family. This article originally appeared in the Spring 2009 Tar Heel Junior Historian Magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

How Did Yellow Fever Infect Wilmington in 1862?

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. In this article primary sources, such as newspapers, are used to investigate the mystery of how yellow fever spread to Wilmington in 1862—41 years since the last outbreak! This article originally appeared in the Spring 2009 Tar Heel Junior Historian Magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Hurricane Warning! The Storm of 1752

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. How do historians learn about hurricanes that affected North Carolina before the advent of modern technology like the internet and television? They study primary sources like county and state records as well as maps in order to reconstruct when and where hurricanes have occurred as well as their affect on the state. This article originally appeared in the Spring 2009 Tar Heel Junior Historian Magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Moccasins to Motorcars: A History of Transportation in North Carolina

Virtual Field Trip. Students will participate in interactive discussions and hands-on activities to discover how modes of transportation have changed over time and how these changes have affected North Carolinians.   details

North Carolina Rosenwald Schools

Professional Development, Online. Look into the compelling story of Julius Rosenwald and his efforts to improve education for African Americans in 15 southern states, including North Carolina. Advance registration is required. Courses are offered periodically throughout the year.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Object Lessons

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. North Carolina has millions of archaeological artifacts that it stores in various offices around the state. Many of these artifacts came from the work of people like Joffre L. Coe, who discovered artifacts at Morrow Mountain State Park and the Doerschuk site. This article appeared in the Fall 2005 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Phoebe: Spirit of the Past, Light to the Present

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Tracing the history of people of color, especially those that were enslaved, prior to 1870 is difficult since few legal documents exist because people of color were not allowed to own property or legally marry. Thus, researchers tracing the history of people of color prior to the end of the Civil War must rely on other documents such as diaries, birth and death records, and baptismal records to shed light on the lives of these people. This article explains how one researcher used primary sources to trace the life of one enslaved woman named Phoebe. This article originally appeared in the Spring 2009 Tar Heel Junior Historian Magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Sea Monsters, Railroads, and Modern Highways--Mapping Out History

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Maps are a primary source that reproduces, usually on a flat surface, selected features of a part or all of the earth. Historians may use maps to find out how a region has changed over time. This article originally appeared in the Spring 2009 Tar Heel Junior Historian Magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Stitching History Together: Using Artifacts as Primary Sources

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Curators at museums use artifacts in order to discover how people from the past lived. This article details how one type of artifact, a sewing sampler, can help a curator find out about the lives of historic women. This article originally appeared in the Spring 2009 Tar Heel Junior Historian Magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Studying and Applying Population Data

Classroom Activity, Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. North Carolina’s state demographer, Bill Tillman, studies the population data gathered in the state. Births, deaths, enrollments in elementary schools, and city growth are some of the facts he studies. This article appeared in the Spring 2006 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Studying the Remains of the Past

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. How do we know about early American Indians in North Carolina? They left no written records, and so we learn about them through archaeology. This article appeared in the Fall 2005 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

The Archaeology of Early North Carolina

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Archaeology helps us learn about the earliest American Indians in North Carolina. The first major period in the state's prehistory is the Paleo-Indian period, from which archaeologists have found stone spear points, called “fluted points.” This article appeared in the Fall 2005 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

There's History in Those Sticks and Stones!

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Gravemarkers can tell us information about the people buried in the cemetery including their religion, name, gender, and occupation. This article originally appeared in the Spring 2009 Tar Heel Junior Historian Magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Turning Ideas into Reality

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. North Carolinians of all races and genders have invented many different products, such as Pepsi-Cola, a cotton cultivator, and a radiographscope. These inventions help shape our daily lives. This article appeared in the Fall 2006 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Uncovering a Person's Story: Edward R. "Ned" Rawls

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Primary sources like documents and oral history can help historians put together the story of Edward R. “Ned” Rawls, one of North Carolina’s Reconstruction-era African American lawmakers. This article originally appeared in the Spring 2009 Tar Heel Junior Historian Magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Voices from the Past: Listening to History

Online. One great way to learn about a historical event is to ask someone who witnessed it! This article explains how to conduct oral histories which is the process of capturing a person’s life stories or recollections using a recording device. This article originally appeared in the Spring 2009 Tar Heel Junior Historian Magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Who Painted the Canteens?

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Museum curators are often called upon to research the artifacts that a museum acquires. Oftentimes, as is the case with this article, solid historical research using primary documents can help to solve mysteries surrounding an artifact. This article originally appeared in the Spring 2009 Tar Heel Junior Historian Magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

William R. Davie House: A Building Tells Its Story

Article, Online. In the field of historic preservation buildings themselves often become the primary source of information. Buildings can teach us a lot about the lives and accomplishments of the people who lived and worked in them.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).