Almost as soon as World War II had ended, the United States found itself in another global conflict. The Soviet Union wanted to expand its influence into Europe and Asia to protect itself from another disastrous invasion, while the United States wanted to promote and protect democracy. In this chapter, we’ll explore the causes of the Cold War, its major events, and its impact on North Carolinians.
- ANCHOR
- Introduction to NC Digital History
- Two Worlds: Prehistory, Contact, and the Lost Colony (to 1600)
- Colonial North Carolina (1600-1763)
- Introduction to Colonial North Carolina (1600-1763)
- Planting a Colony
- The Founding of Virginia
- Supplies for Virginia Colonists, 1622
- A Little Kingdom in Carolina
- The Charter of Carolina (1663)
- The Lords Proprietors
- Primary Source: A Declaration and Proposals of the Lords Proprietors of Carolina (1663)
- William Hilton Explores the Cape Fear River
- A Brief Description of the Province of Carolina
- Land Ownership and Labor in Carolina
- Primary Source: The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1669)
- Culpeper's Rebellion
- Settling the Coastal Plain
- The Tuscarora War and Cary's Rebellion
- Cary's Rebellion
- The Tuscarora War
- Who Owns the Land?
- John Lawson's Assessment of the Tuscarora
- The Tuscarora Ask Pennsylvania for Aid
- Primary Source: A Letter from Major Christopher Gale, November 2, 1711
- Primary Source: Christoph von Graffenried's Account of the Tuscarora War
- The Fate of North Carolina's Native Peoples
- Carolina Becomes North and South Carolina
- From Africa to America
- Settling the Piedmont
- Expanding to the West: Settlement of the Piedmont Region, 1730 to 1775
- Mapping the Great Wagon Road
- The Moravians: From Europe to North America
- Summary of a Report Sent to Bethlehem
- From Caledonia to Carolina: The Highland Scots
- William Byrd on the People and Environment of North Carolina
- Governing the Piedmont
- Daily Life and Work
- The Importance of Rice to North Carolina
- Janet Schaw on American Agriculture
- Naval Stores and the Longleaf Pine
- The Value of Money in Colonial America
- Marriage in Colonial North Carolina
- Families in Colonial North Carolina
- Learning in Colonial Carolina
- Primary Source: Jesse Cook's Orphan Apprenticeship
- Benjamin Wadsworth on Children's Duties to Their Parents
- North Carolina's First Newspaper
- Poor Richard's Almanack
- Nathan Cole and the First Great Awakening
- Mapping Life in a Colonial Town
- Colonial Cooking and Foodways
- Work in Colonial America: Blacksmithing
- Material Culture: Exploring Wills and Inventories
- About Wills and Probate Inventories
- Probate Inventory of Valentine Bird, 1680
- Will of Susanna Robisson, 1709
- Probate Inventory of Darby O'Brian, 1725
- Will of Samuel Nicholson, 1727
- Will of William Cartright, Sr., 1733
- Probate Inventory of James and Anne Pollard, Tyrrell County, 1750
- Primary Source: Will of Richard Blackledge, Craven County, 1776
- Probate Inventory of Richard Blackledge, Craven County, 1777
- Inventories
- The French and Indian War (Intro)
- Revolutionary North Carolina (1763-1790)
- The Regulators: Introduction
- The Regulators
- An Address to the People of Granville County
- The Regulators Organize
- Primary Source: Herman Husband and "Some grievous oppressions"
- Edmund Fanning Reports to Governor Tryon
- Orange County Inhabitants Petition Governor Tryon
- Songs of the Regulators
- The Cost of Tryon Palace
- Chaos in Hillsborough 1770
- An Act for Preventing Tumultuous and Riotous Assemblies
- An Authentick Relation of the Battle of Alamance
- Aftermath of the Battle of Alamance
- Beginnings of the American Revolution: Resistance and Revolution
- Timeline of Resistance, 1763–1774
- Dashed Hopes for the Frontier
- Taxes, Trade, and Resistance
- The Stamp Act Crisis in North Carolina
- A Pledge to Violate the Stamp Act
- Primary Source: The First Provincial Congress
- The "Edenton Tea Party"
- Political Cartoon: A Society of Patriotic Ladies
- Primary Source: Backcountry Residents Proclaim Their Loyalty
- The Committees of Safety
- Loyalist Perspective: Violence in Wilmington
- War and Independence
- Timeline of the Revolution 1775–1779
- Which Side to Take: Revolutionary or Loyalist?
- Primary Source: The Mecklenburg Resolves
- The Mecklenburg Declaration
- Josiah Martin and His Exit from New Bern
- "Liberty to Slaves": The Response of Free and Enslaved Black People to Revolution
- Primary Source: Lord Dunmore's Proclamation
- Primary Source: A Virginian Responds to Dunmore's Proclamation
- The Battle of Moores Creek Bridge
- Mary Slocumb at Moores Creek Bridge: The Birth of a Legend
- A Call for Independence
- Primary Source: Minutes on The Halifax Resolves
- Primary Source: The Declaration of Independence
- North Carolina’s Signers of the Declaration of Independence
- Primary Source: Plans for Democracy
- Primary Source: "Creed of a Rioter"
- Primary Source: The North Carolina Constitution and Declaration of Rights
- The Rutherford Expedition (Intro)
- The War in the South
- Timeline of the Revolution, 1780–1783
- Backcountry Loyalists in North Carolina
- The Southern Campaign
- The Battle of Kings Mountain
- The Overmountain Men and the Battle of Kings Mountain
- Primary Source: Diary Reporting Chaos in Salem
- The Battle of Guilford Courthouse
- David Fanning and the Tory War of 1781
- Skirmish at the House in the Horseshoe
- Primary Source: A Petition to Protect Loyalist Families
- A New National Government
- The Regulators: Introduction
- Early National (1790-1836)
- Creating a State
- An Agricultural State
- Christian Revival
- The Second Great Awakening
- Into the Wilderness: Circuit Riders Take Religion to the People
- A Camp Meeting Scene
- What a Religious Revival Is
- Description of a Nineteenth Century Revival
- Rock Springs Camp Meeting
- "Be saved from the jaws of an angry hell"
- Primary Source: John Jea's Narrative on Slavery and Christianity
- Primary Source: Excerpt from "Elizabeth, a Colored Minister of the Gospel, Born in Slavery"
- John Chavis
- The Development of Sacred Singing
- The Rip Van Winkle State
- Searching for Greener Pastures: Out-Migration in the 1800s
- Migration Into and Out of North Carolina: Exploring Census Data
- North Carolina's Leaders Speak Out on Emigration
- Archibald Murphey
- "A poor, ignorant, squalid population"
- Archibald Murphey Proposes a System of Public Education
- Archibald Murphey Calls for Better Inland Navigation
- Canova's Statue of Washington
- Education
- Primary Source: A Free School in Beaufort
- Primary Source: Rules for Students and Teachers
- John Chavis Opens a School for White and Black Students
- Education and Literacy in Edgecombe County, 1810
- "For What Is a Mother Responsible?"
- The University of North Carolina Opens
- Student Life at UNC
- Cherokee Mission Schools
- A Bill to Prevent All Persons from Teaching Slaves to Read or Write, the Use of Figures Excepted (1830)
- Academies for Boys and Girls
- First Year at New Garden Boarding School
- A Timeline of North Carolina Colleges (1766–1861)
- Gold Rush
- Traveling the State
- State and National Politics
- Nat Turner's Rebellion (Intro)
- Nat Turner's Rebellion
- Mapping Rumors of Nat Turner's Rebellion
- "Fear of Insurrection"
- Reporting on Nat Turner: The North Carolina Star, Sept. 1
- Reporting on Nat Turner: The Raleigh Register, Sept. 1
- Reporting on Nat Turner: The Raleigh Register, Sept. 15
- News Reporting of Insurrections in North Carolina
- Hysteria in Wilmington
- Primary Source: Letter Concerning Nat Turner's Rebellion
- Remembering Nat Turner
- Cherokee Removal and the Trail of Tears
- The Cherokee and the Trail of Tears
- The Cherokee Language and Syllabary
- Andrew Jackson Calls for Indian Removal
- "We have unexpectedly become civilized"
- The Indian Removal Act of 1830
- Cherokee Nation v. the State of Georgia, 1831
- Chief John Ross Protests the Treaty of New Echota
- A Soldier Recalls the Trail of Tears
- The Legend of Tsali
- Reform
- Whigs and Democrats
- Reform Movements Across the United States
- 1835 Amendments to the North Carolina Constitution
- Ratifying the Amendments
- North Carolina's First Public School Opens
- Criminal Law and Reform
- Dorothea Dix Hospital
- Primary Source: Dorothea Dix Pleads for a State Mental Hospital
- The Raleigh Female Benevolent Society
- Antebellum (1836–1860)
- A Slave State
- Distribution of Land and Slaves
- Social Divisions in Antebellum North Carolina
- Primary Source: North Carolina v. Mann
- The Quakers and Anti-Slavery
- Levi Coffin and the Underground Railroad
- Negotiated Segregation in Salem
- Primary Source: Ned Hyman's Appeal for Manumission
- A Petition to Free a White Slave
- Primary Source: A Sampling of Black Codes
- Primary Sources: Advertising Recapture and Sale of Enslaved People
- Primary Source: Freedom-Seekers and the Great Dismal Swamp
- Antislavery Feeling in the Mountains
- Farms and Plantations
- Crops and Livestock
- Seasons on a Farm
- Primary Source: Henry William Harrington Jr.'s Diary
- Primary Source: Diary of a Farm Wife
- The Duties of a Young Woman
- Primary Source: Southern Cooking and Housekeeping Book, 1824
- Southern Honor
- Court Days
- A Bilious Fever
- Bright Leaf Tobacco
- Primary Source: Frederick Law Olmstead on Naval Stores in Antebellum North Carolina
- Primary Source: Stagville Plantation Expenses Records
- Plantation Records: Property
- Primary Source: Stagville Plantation Expansion Records
- Antebellum Homes and Plantations
- Life in Slavery
- The Life of a Slave
- Primary Source: Excerpt from James Curry's Autobiography
- Primary Source: Interview with Fountain Hughes
- Primary Source: Harriet Jacobs Book Excerpt
- Primary Source: Lunsford Lane Buys His Freedom
- Primary Source: James Curry Escapes from Slavery
- Jonkonnu in North Carolina
- Primary Source: Cameron Family Plantation Records
- Business and Industry
- Technology and Transportation
- Music and the Arts
- Joining Together in Song: Piedmont Music in Black and White
- African American Spirituals
- The Gospel Train
- I'm Gwine Home on de Mornin' Train
- Long Way to Travel
- Frankie Silver: Female Folklore Legend
- The Ballad of Frankie Silver
- All Hail to Thee, Thou Good Old State
- The Old North State
- George Moses Horton
- Death of an Old Carriage Horse
- Towards Secession
- A Slave State
- Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1876)
- Secession
- The War Begins, 1861
- The Burnside Expedition, 1862
- The War Continues, 1862–1864
- North Carolina as a Civil War Battlefield, May 1862–November 1864
- The Raleigh Standard Protests Conscription
- Running the Blockade
- Cargo Manifests of Confederate Blockade Runners
- Freed People at New Bern
- The Emancipation Proclamation
- Iowa Royster on the March into Pennsylvania
- African American Soldiers
- The Thomas Legion
- The Capture of Plymouth
- Civil War Casualties
- A Soldier's Life
- The Life of a Civil War Soldier
- Small Arms in the Civil War
- Civil War Uniforms
- Soldiers' Food
- Rose O'Neal Greenhow to Jefferson Davis
- "My dear little darling"
- Life in Camp
- A Plea for Supplies
- Civil War Army Hospitals
- Enduring Amputation
- Salisbury Prison
- Vance's Proclamation Against Deserters
- "I am sorry to tell that some of our brave boys has got killed"
- The Home Front
- "My dear I ha'n't forgot you"
- Zebulon Vance
- The Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony
- Paper Money in the Civil War
- Pleading for Corn
- A Female Raid
- "No one has anything to sell"
- The Shelton Laurel Massacre
- The Home Guard
- A Civil War at Home: Treatment of Unionists
- The Lowry War
- Life Under Union Occupation
- The War Comes to an End, 1864–1865
- Timeline of the Civil War, August 1864–May 1865
- North Carolina as a Civil War Battlefield, November 1864–May 1865
- The Destruction of the CSS Albemarle
- Wilmington, Fort Fisher, and the Lifeline of the Confederacy
- Lincoln's Plans for Reconstruction
- An Account of Stoneman's Raid
- Sherman's March Through North Carolina
- "Where Home Used to Be"
- The Battle of Bentonville
- The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Johnston Surrenders
- Mustering Out of the Confederate Army
- Parole Signed by the Officers and Men in Johnston's Army
- "For us the War is Ended"
- Primary Source: Catherine Anne Devereux Edmondston and the Collapse of the Confederacy
- May 1865 Advertisements
- Freedom
- What Justice Entitles Us To
- Character of Men Employed as Scouts
- Early Schools for Freed People
- Freedmen's Schools: The school houses are crowded, and the people are clamorous for more
- Louisa Jacobs on Freedmen
- Address of The Raleigh Freedmen's Convention
- Reuniting Families
- Making Marriages Legal
- Charges of Abuse
- Reconstruction (Intro)
- Reconstruction
- Timeline of Reconstruction in North Carolina
- Reconstruction in North Carolina
- Primary Source: Johnson's Amnesty Proclamation
- Primary Source: Amnesty Letters
- Primary Source: Black Codes in North Carolina, 1866
- Primary Source: Catherine Edmondston and Reconstruction
- Primary Source: Amending the U.S. Constitution
- African Americans Get the Vote in Eastern North Carolina
- Primary Source: Military Reconstruction Act
- Carpetbaggers
- John Adams Hyman
- The 1868 Constitution
- Jim Crow
- "Redemption" and the End of Reconstruction
- Redemption and Redeemers in the South
- Republican Rule
- Conservative Opposition
- Primary Source: The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan
- Primary Source: Governor Holden Speaks Out Against the Ku Klux Klan
- The Kirk-Holden War
- Primary Source: The Murder of "Chicken" Stephens
- Primary Source: "Address to the Colored People of North Carolina"
- The Compromise of 1877
- The Lost Cause
- North Carolina in the New South (1870-1900)
- Changes in Agriculture
- Life on the Land: The Piedmont Before Industrialization
- A Revolution in Agriculture
- Sharecropping and Tenant Farming
- Life on the Land: Voices
- Primary Source: A Sharecropper's Contract
- The Struggles of a Tenant Farmer
- The Evils of the Crop Lien System
- Tobacco Farming the Old Way
- The History of the State Fair
- The African American State Fair
- Cities and Industry
- Growth and Transformation: the United States in the Gilded Age
- Henry Grady and the "New South"
- Industrialization in North Carolina
- The Growth of Cities
- Immigration in U.S. History
- Railroads in Western North Carolina
- The Dukes of Durham
- The Tobacco Industry and Winston-Salem
- The Textile Industry and Winston-Salem
- Small-Town Businesses, 1903
- New Machine Shop in Plymouth, N.C.
- The Belk Brothers' Department Stores
- Factories and Mill Villages
- Work in a Textile Mill
- Working in a Tobacco Factory
- Life in the Mill Villages
- Mill Villages
- Mill Village and Factory: Voices
- Inventions in the Tobacco Industry
- The Bonsack Machine and Labor Unrest
- Workers' Pay and the Cost of Living
- The Struggles of Labor and the Rise of Labor Unions
- The Knights of Labor
- Opposition to the Knights of Labor
- Tobacco Workers Strike
- Education and Opportunity
- Timeline of North Carolina Colleges and Universities, 1865–1900
- North Carolina State University
- A Women's College
- Student Life at the Normal and Industrial School
- Wealth and Education by the Numbers, North Carolina 1900
- The Colored State Normal Schools
- African American College Students, 1906
- The Biltmore Forest School
- Athletics
- Life in the Gilded Age
- Biltmore Estate
- Charles Waddell Chesnutt's "The Bouquet"
- Primary Source: Southern Women and the Bicycle
- Primary Source: Bicycles and the Public
- The Roller Skate Craze
- Advertising New Products
- Cities and Public Architecture
- Sanitariums
- Primary Source: Warm Springs Hotel Advertisement
- Primary Source: Tourism Advertisement for Southern Pines, NC
- Richard Etheridge
- North Carolina in an American Empire
- Politics and Populism
- 1898 and White Supremacy
- The Wilmington Record Editorial
- The Democrats Appeal to Voters
- The Wilmington Coup
- The "Revolutionary Mayor" of Wilmington
- Letter from an African American Citizen of Wilmington to the President
- J. Allen Kirk on the 1898 Wilmington Coup
- The Suffrage Amendment
- Voter Registration Cards
- Governor Aycock on "The Negro Problem"
- Wilmington Massacre November 1898
- Changes in Agriculture
- North Carolina in the Early 20th Century (1900–1929)
- Turn of the 20th Century Technology and Transportation
- Primary Source: New Bern Daily Journal on Municipal Electric Services
- Electric Streetcars
- Idol’s Dam and Power Plant
- Primary Source: Max Bennet Thrasher on Rural Free Delivery
- Primary Source: Consequences of the Telephone
- The Road to the First Flight
- Announcing the First Flight
- Primary Source: Newspaper Coverage of the First Flight
- Henry Ford and the Model T
- Primary Source: Women and the Automobile
- Primary Source: Letter Promoting the Good Roads Movement
- WBT Charlotte in the Golden Age of Radio
- Sour Stomachs and Galloping Headaches
- The Progressive Era
- Reform and a New Era
- Primary Source: History of Women's Clubs
- Primary Source: Charles Brantley Aycock and His Views on Education
- Primary Source: Woman's Association for Improving School Houses
- Statewide Prohibition
- Primary Source: Railroad Quarantines
- Winston-Salem's Early Hospitals
- Primary Source: Food Adulteration
- Primary Source: Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
- Primary Source: Bulletin on Sanitation and Privies
- World War I
- Timeline of World War I
- The United States and World War I
- Propaganda and Public Opinion in the First World War
- "Over There"
- The War and German Americans
- The Increasing Power of Destruction: military technology in World War I
- Primary Source: The Importance of Camp Bragg
- Primary Source: Speech on Conditions at Camp Greene
- Primary Source: Diary of a Doughboy
- Primary Source: Letter Home from the American Expeditionary Force
- Primary Source: Governor Bickett's speech to the Deserters of Ashe County
- Rescue at Sea
- North Carolina and the "Blue Death": The Flu Epidemic of 1918
- Primary Source: Bulletin on Stopping the Spread of Influenza
- Primary Source: Speech on Nationalism from Warren Harding
- African American Involvement in World War I
- The Treaty of Versailles
- Women's Suffrage
- Timeline of Women's Suffrage
- The Long Struggle for Women's Suffrage
- Primary Source: Equal Pay for Equal Work
- Gertrude Weil
- Primary Source: Proceedings from the North Carolina Equal Suffrage League
- Primary Source: Alice Duer Miller's "Why We Oppose Votes for Men"
- Our Idea of Nothing at All
- Votes for Women
- Gertrude Weil Urges Suffragists to Action
- North Carolina and the Women's Suffrage Amendment
- Gertrude Weil Congratulates — and Consoles — Suffragists
- Lillian Exum Clement
- Jim Crow and Black Wall Street
- The Birth of "Jim Crow"
- A Sampling of Jim Crow Laws
- Primary Source: Letter Detailing Triracial Segregation in Robeson County
- Primary Source: George White Speaks Out Against Lynchings
- The Great Migration and North Carolina
- Durham's "Black Wall Street"
- W. E. B. Du Bois on Black Businesses in Durham
- The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company
- Charlotte Hawkins Brown
- Primary Source: Charlotte Hawkins Brown's Rules for School
- Primary Source: 1912 Winston Salem Segregation Ordinance Enacted
- Rosenwald Schools in North Carolina
- Black Student Activism in the 1920s and 1930s
- The Roaring Twenties
- The Booming Twenties
- How the Twenties Roared in North Carolina
- "Eastern North Carolina for the farmer"
- "Home folks and neighbor people"
- North Carolina Debates Evolution
- Thomas Wolfe
- Asheville Reacts to Look Homeward, Angel
- From Stringbands to Bluesmen: African American Music in the Piedmont
- Hillbillies and Mountain Folk: Early Stringband Recordings
- Jubilee Quartets and the Five Royales: From Gospel to Rhythm & Blues
- The "Flapper"
- Going to the Movies
- Industry and Labor
- The Gastonia Strike (Intro)
- Turn of the 20th Century Technology and Transportation
- The Great Depression and World War II (1929 and 1945)
- Understanding the Great Depression
- Relief, Recovery, and Reform
- Ending Child Labor in North Carolina
- Primary Source: Excerpt of Child Labor Laws in North Carolina
- Primary Source: Statute on Workplace Safety
- The Fair Labor Standards Act
- Tobacco Bag Stringing: Life and Labor in the Depression
- Primary Source: Interviews on Rural Electrification
- Primary Source: Mary Allen Discusses a Farm Family in Sampson County
- The Live at Home Program
- 4-H and Home Demonstration During the Great Depression
- Eugenics in North Carolina
- Primary Source: Records of Eugenical Sterilization in North Carolina
- The Blue Ridge Parkway
- Roads Taken and Not Taken: Images and the Story of the Blue Ridge Parkway “Missing Link"
- The Great Smoky Mountains National Park
- Life During the Depression
- Primary Source: Louella Odessa Saunders on Self-Sufficient Farming
- Primary Source: A Textile Mill Worker's Family
- Primary Source: Juanita Hinson and the East Durham Mill Village
- Primary Source: Begging Reduced to a System
- Primary Source: Working as a Waitress
- Health and Beauty in the 1930s
- Paul Green
- Paul Green's The Lost Colony
- Krispy Kreme
- Primary Source: Lasting Impacts of the Great Depression
- War Begins
- Fighting the War
- The United States in World War II
- Timeline of World War II: 1942–1945
- The Science and Technology of World War II
- The USS North Carolina
- Midway
- D-Day
- Primary Source: Landing in Europe, Through the Eyes of the Cape Fear
- Liberating France
- Primary Source: Soldier Interview on Battle of the Bulge
- Iwo Jima
- The Soldier's Experience
- Primary Source: Enlisting for Service in World War II
- Primary Source: Basic Training in World War II
- Face to Face with Segregation: African American marines at Camp Lejune
- Primary Source: Black Soldiers on Racial Discrimination in the Army
- Music and Morale
- Primary Source: The Story of a B-17 crew
- Primary Source: Richard Daughtry on Surviving the Blitz
- Primary Source: James Wall on Serving in the Air Force
- Primary Source: Norma Shaver and Serving in the Pacific
- The War at Home
- Primary Source: Roosevelt's Fireside Chat 21
- Primary Source: Roosevelt's Fireside Chat 23
- North Carolina's Wartime Miracle: Defending the Nation
- Japanese-American Imprisonment: Introduction
- Japanese-American Imprisonment: WWII and Pearl Harbor
- Japanese-American Imprisonment: Executive Order 9066 and Imprisonment
- Japanese-American Imprisonment: Prison Camps
- Japanese-American Imprisonment: Legal Challenges
- Japanese-American Imprisonment: Closing Facilities and Life After
- Primary Source: Poster Announcing Japanese American Removal and Relocation
- Rosie the Riveter
- Germans Attack Off of North Carolina's Outer Banks
- Primary Source: Wartime Wilmington, Through the Eyes of the Cape Fear
- Primary Source: Margaret Rogers and Prisoners of War in North Carolina
- Rationing
- War Bonds
- Covering the Beat: UNC in the WWII Era
- Feed a Fighter
- Food for Fighters
- Victory Gardens
- 4-H and Home Demonstration Work during World War II
- Primary Source: 4-H Club Promotional Materials
- Primary Source: 4-H Club Instructions
- Primary Source: Joining a 4-H Club
- Primary Source: Report on 4-H club contributions to the war effort
- Primary Source: North Carolina's Feed a Fighter Contest
- Victory — and After
- Postwar North Carolina (1945-1975)
- Introduction
- The Cold War Begins
- Postwar Life
- The GI Bill
- The Interstate Highway System
- Interstate Highways from the Ground Up
- Changes in Agriculture 1860-
- Growing Tobacco
- The Influence of Radio
- The Grandfather Mountain Highland Games
- The Andy Griffith Show
- Selling North Carolina, One Image at a Time
- More than Tourism: Cherokee, North Carolina, in the Post-War Years
- The Singing on the Mountain
- Scottish Heritage at Linville
- The Harriet-Henderson Textile Workers Union Strike: Defeat for Struggling Southern Labor Unions
- W. Kerr Scott: From Dairy Farmer to Transforming North Carolina Business and Politics
- Governor Terry Sanford: Transforming the Tar Heel State with Progressive Politics and Policies
- The Struggle for Civil Rights, 1930–1959
- Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
- April 1947: Journey of Reconciliation
- The Piedmont Leaf Tobacco Plant Strike, 1946
- Desegregating the Armed Forces
- A Black Officer in an Integrated Army
- The 1950 Senate Campaign
- Alone but Not Afraid: Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company
- The Montgomery Bus Boycott
- The Lumbees Face the Klan
- Robert F. Williams and Black Power in North Carolina
- The NAACP in North Carolina: One Way or Another
- Pauli Murray and 20th Century Freedom Movements
- School Desegregation
- Brown v. Board of Education and School Desegregation
- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
- The Pupil Assignment Act: North Carolina's Response to Brown v. Board of Education
- With All Deliberate Speed: The Pearsall Plan
- Perspective on Desegregation in North Carolina: Harry Golden's Vertical Integration Plan
- Billy Graham and Civil Rights
- The Little Rock Nine
- Desegregation Pioneers
- Youth Protest: JoAnne Peerman
- A Teacher's Protest: William Culp
- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
- The Impact of Busing in Charlotte
- Opposition to Busing
- Perspectives on School Desegregation: Fran Jackson
- Perspectives on School Desegregation: Harriet Love
- Achieving Civil Rights, 1960–1965
- The Civil Rights Movement, 1960–1980
- Sit-Ins
- The Greensboro Sit-Ins
- Wanted: Picketers
- The Freedom Riders
- Desegregating Public Accommodations in Durham
- Desegregating Hospitals
- The March on Washington, 1963
- The Precursor: Desegregating the Armed Forces
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964
- The Struggle for Voting Rights
- The Selma-to-Montgomery March
- The Voting Rights Act of 1965
- The Lumbee Organize Against the Ku Klux Klan January 18, 1958: The Battle of Hayes Pond, Maxton, N.C.
- Protest, Change, and Backlash: the 1960s
- Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
- The North Carolina Fund
- Primary Source: Billy Barnes on Fighting Poverty
- Harold Cooley, Jim Gardner, and the Rise of the Republican Party in the South
- Primary Source: UNC Students Against The Speaker Ban
- Primary Source: Jesse Helms' Viewpoint on the Speaker Ban
- The Women's Movement
- Primary Sources: Segregated Employment Ads
- Primary Source: Bill Hull on Gay Life in Midcentury North Carolina
- The Aftermath of Martin Luther King's Assassination
- Interpreting Historical Figures: Howard Lee
- Interpreting Historical Figures: Senator Sam Ervin
- The Vietnam War
- Outline of the Vietnam War
- The Vietnam War: A Timeline
- Something He Couldn't Write About: Telling My Daddy's Story of Vietnam
- A Soldier's Experience in Vietnam: Herbert Rhodes
- A Soldier's Experience in Vietnam: Tex Howard
- A Soldier's Experience in Vietnam: John Luckey
- A Soldier's Experience in Vietnam: Robert L. Jones
- A Soldier's Experience in Vietnam: Johnas Freeman
- Anti-War Demonstrations
- Campus Protests
- The Limits of Change: The 1970s
- A Lifetime of Change
- Recent North Carolina
- Introduction
- From Carter to G.W. Bush: U.S. Politics of the Turn of the 20th Century
- Politics, Personalities, and Issues
- The Changing Economy
- The Environment
- The Environmental Justice Movement
- Moving Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
- Coastal Erosion and the Ban on Hard Structures
- The Impact of Hog Farms
- Regulating Hog Farms
- Cane Creek Reservoir
- Air Pollution
- Drought and Development
- The Mountains-to-Sea Trail
- Hugh Morton and North Carolina's Native Plants
- Grandfather Mountain: Commerce and Tourism in the Appalachian Environment
- Hurricane Floyd
- Ten years Later: Remembering Hurricane Floyd's Wave of Destruction
- Hurricane Floyd's Lasting Legacy
- How Does a Hurricane Form?
- Understanding Floods
- Mapping Rainfall and Flooding
- The Evacuation
- Rising Waters
- Damage from Hurricane Floyd
- Floyd and Agriculture
- Cleaning Up After the Flood
- The Problems of Flood Relief
- Preventing Future Floods
- Reclaiming Sacred Ground: How Princeville is Recovering from the Flood of 1999
- Natural Disasters and North Carolina in the second half of the 20th Century
- New North Carolinians
- Appendixes
- Appendix A. Reading Primary Sources: an introduction for students
- Appendix B. Wills and inventories: a process guide
- Appendix C. John Lawson
- Appendix D: Rip Van Winkle
- Appendix E: The Confessions of Nat Turner
- Appendix F: Political Parties in the United States
- Appendix G: North Carolina's Governors
- Appendix H. The Election of 1860: Results by State
- Appendix I: Remembering the Revolution
- Appendix J: Reading Narratives of Enslaved People from the WPA interviews
- Appendix K: Organization of Civil War armies
- Appendix L: A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown
- Appendix M: Memorial Day
- Appendix N: Pilot Training Manual for the B-17 Flying Fortress
- Guides for Reading Primary Sources
- Reading Primary Sources: thinking about thinking
- Reading Primary Sources: Letters
- Reading Primary Sources: Newspaper Advertisements
- Reading Primary Sources: Newspaper Editorials
- Reading Primary Sources: Narratives of Enslaved People
- Reading Newspapers: Reader Contributions
- Reading Newspapers: Factual Reporting
- Analyzing Political Cartoons
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Table of Contents
- Introduction to NC Digital History
- Two Worlds: Prehistory, Contact, and the Lost Colony (to 1600)
- Colonial North Carolina (1600-1763)
- Revolutionary North Carolina (1763-1790)
- Early National (1790-1836)
- Antebellum (1836–1860)
- Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1876)
- North Carolina in the New South (1870-1900)
- North Carolina in the Early 20th Century (1900–1929)
- The Great Depression and World War II (1929 and 1945)
- Postwar North Carolina (1945-1975)
- Recent North Carolina
- Appendixes
- Guides for Reading Primary Sources
- About ANCHOR
The Cold War Begins
Related Topics
Table of Contents
- Introduction to NC Digital History
- Two Worlds: Prehistory, Contact, and the Lost Colony (to 1600)
- Colonial North Carolina (1600-1763)
- Revolutionary North Carolina (1763-1790)
- Early National (1790-1836)
- Antebellum (1836–1860)
- Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1876)
- North Carolina in the New South (1870-1900)
- North Carolina in the Early 20th Century (1900–1929)
- The Great Depression and World War II (1929 and 1945)
- Postwar North Carolina (1945-1975)
- Recent North Carolina
- Appendixes
- Guides for Reading Primary Sources
- About ANCHOR