What would it have been like to live in North Carolina in a different era? Journey into the past to find out what other teens think. Here are some examples of what North Carolina students think about the past of their state.
North Carolina's history is frequently divided into these time periods:
- Early History (when Native Americans controlled the land currently called North Carolina)
- The War of the Indians by Michael Lin
- Exploration and Settlement
- Colonial Period
- Revolutionary Period
- Early Statehood
- NC as the Rip Van Winkle state 1776-1835
- Age of Progress 1835-1869
- Civil War 1861-1865
- The Battle of Roanoke Island by Andy Fuller and Ben Schmidt
- The Diary of Harvey Jones by Justin Harmon and Rafeal Rivera
- Fort Fisher by Satish Misrah and Kelly Parrish
- Journal of a Confederate Soldier by Andrew Hobbs
- Rainy Days by Megan Liddle and Whitney Swink
- Walter McKenzie by Mark Chua
- The War Between the States by Igor Gorodezky and Alex Fang
- Reconstruction
- The Cotton Mill by Halle Finan
- Age of Slow Progress
- New Age of Progress 1900
- The Biltmore Butler by Austin Duke
- The Day I Taught Them to Fly by Shannon Fyfe
- The Wright Brothers by Matt Gromadzki
- World War I Era
- A Pilot in World War I by Gary Harwell
- World War II Era
- The Battleship U.S.S. North Carolina, BB-55 by Robert Navarro and Ken Winters
- The Marketeer by Mark Sumnet
- World War II by Tim Stallmann
- Post World War II
- The Age of Technology (establishment and impact of the Research Triangle Park in NC
- How RTP Got Involved in the Nagano, Japan, Olympics in 1998 by Fulton Ford
- Research Triangle Park by Michael Robertson
- Directions for creating an As We Were Then Project
- Grading Rubric for Teachers
Directions for submission of a project