Containing more than 50 articles from the award-winning Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine and over 40 lesson plans, this multidisciplinary Educator Notebook will enrich your exploration of North Carolina and American history with diverse perspectives. This resource's link takes you to a very short form that gives you free downloadable access to the complete PDF book.

With this digital collection, students will review maps, drawings, and paintings that exemplify nineteenth-century America and Mexico, from the first expeditions up the Missouri River, to the development of everyday life along the Mississippi, to the discovery of Yellowstone and the establishment of the national park, to representations of the people and natural resources of Mexico.

With this digital collection, students will explore the relationships that existed between representations of American Indians in art and the histories of U.S. settlement.

In this interactive online lesson, students will examine primary sources to help them understand relationships among events. After each document or set of documents that relate to the Homestead Act of 1862, students will be asked to make the connection between the documents.

In this interactive online lesson, students will examine primary sources to help them understand relationships among events. After each document or set of documents that relate to the Homestead Act of 1862, students will be asked to make the connection between the documents.

Students will create an historic atlas of Oklahoma. By examining historical maps, students will explain how the discovery and development of resources in an area attracts settlement and the role of geography in causing forced and voluntary migration of people.

In this lesson, students will analyze the United States' relations with Native Americans, including treaty relations, land acquisition, the policy of Indian Removal, and the Trail of Tears by close reading and sourcing primary source images, documents, and journals analyzing maps, and watching videos in order to evaluate if the treatment of the Cherokee supported democratic actions by writing a five paragraph essay.

A chapter from The American Yawp open source history textbook focusing on, "Colliding Cultures."

Students will identify the major transcontinental railroad routes planned in the 1850s and subsequently constructed. They will also identify and weigh the relative importance of the major geographic, economic, and political factors that influenced transcontinental railroad construction.

Students will explore the differences among the three colonial regions of New England, Mid-Atlantic / Middle, and the Southern colonies. In small groups for each region, students will observe and note details of pictures, maps, and advertisements in order to describe each region.

In this lesson students will examine the various visions of three active agents in the creation and management of Great Britain's empire in North America: British colonial leaders and administrators, North American British colonists, and Native Americans.

Students learn about the Erie Canal, the people who used it, and its economic impact. Students participate in a simulation activity to model how the canal impacted the people who used it.

What can passenger lists from ships arriving in North American colonies tell us about those who immigrated? And what can those characteristics tell us about life in the colonies themselves? In this lesson, students critically examine the passenger lists of ships headed to New England and Virginia to better understand English colonial life in the 1630s.

Students will learn about westward movement after the Civil War and the economic opportunities offered to people who moved. The focus of the primary source activity is the Homestead Act and how it changed our nation and the lives of the people during that time.

In this lesson students read diary entries and analyze works of art to develop generalizations about the influence of physical features on westward settlement patterns in the mid-1800s.

Students will explore, the development of the textile industry in Great Britain, focusing on the invention of various machines. They will understand the link between rapid growth in both the textile industry and in coal mining in Great Britain to the development of social ills and the political push to alleviate some of the atrocious conditions under which people worked. Lastly, students will connect the process of industrialization to the expansion of male suffrage through the various reform bills of the 1800s in Great Britain.

This inquiry leads students through an investigation of western expansion in America as an example of how nations often develop policies that help to expand and organize their land and how expansion sometimes leads to war.  Through an examination of primary and secondary sources, students will learn how to develop arguments supported by evidence that answer the compelling question “Did Americans achieve the American Dream through Manifest Destiny?”

Discover the stories of the men, women, and children that were enslaved and lived at Vance Birthplace in the mountains of North Carolina from 1795-1865. This audio tour was completed in partnership with the North Carolina African American Heritage Commission.

In this lesson, students will use videos, text, and images of the murals themselves to explore the history of La Amistad and Woodruff’s murals.