Anson County Historical Society
The Anson County Historical Society was formed in the 1950’s by a group of Ansonians interested in preserving the heritage of Anson County. Site includes pictures and discussion on historic buildings in Anson County.
Artifacts and Stories of Historical Interest from the Cizewski, Lovetere, Musbach, and Robinson Families
Artifacts and Stories of Historical Interest from the Cizewski, Lovetere, Musbach, & Robinson Families. This is a collection from the military service of Anson Croman (Union) and the American Civil War, Philip Lovetere and World War One, Felix A. Cizewski (Europe) and Ralph E. Robinson (Pacific) and World War Two, and the immigrant experiences of Angelina and Leonardo Giordano and Philip Lovetere (from Sicily), and Felix J. Cizewski (from Poland then part of Tsarist Russia). The collection includes original primary source documents and personal stories.
Battleship U.S.S. Arizona
This site is dedicated to preserving the history of the great naval ship Arizona which was destroyed during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Broken Arrow: Goldsboro, NC
On Tuesday, 24 January 1961, at about 12:30 a.m., two hydrogen bombs fell to earth near the tiny farming village of Faro, NC. Obviously, neither bomb yielded its awful potential, or the world would today be mourning an infamous catastrophe. An on-going environmental concern centers on the portion or portions of one bomb still buried, sunk in a boggy farm field.
Chapel Hill Historical Society
The name Chapel Hill Historical Society suggests a focus upon the town of Chapel Hill, but the organization actually is equally concerned with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for the two are inseparable.
Excavating Occaneechi Town
Segments of the cd published by UNC Press: Excavating Occaneechi Town - Archaeology of an Eighteenth-Century Indian Village in North Carolina. Online access to: An Archaeology Primer, and Electronic Dig Tutorial, as well as related links and background information
Excavating Occaneechi Town
Electronic monograph (published by UNC Press) that describes the history and archaeology of Occaneechi Town, an Indian village near present-day Hillsborough, North Carolina, that was visited by explorer John Lawson in 1702.
Excavating Occaneechi Town: Archaeology of an Eighteenth-Century Indian Village in North Carolina
This is an online version of Excavating Occaneechi Town, a CD-ROM published by UNC Press with the Research Laboratories of Archaeology at UNC - Chapel Hill. This electronic site report describes and interprets the buried remains of a small but important village of the Occaneechi tribe in North Carolina at the beginning of the eighteenth century. This online version, like the CD-ROM, contains a wealth of visual and descriptive information not usually available in an archaeological site report, including an archaeological teaching tool, called the "electronic dig" which allows student to design their own research strategies and re-excavate Occaneechi Town.
Flash Based multimedia, audio and photo documentaries by Brad Horn
photos and audio transcript of Agustin Chavez a bread baker, a chef, and a Mexican immigrant to the United States. Recorded and produced 2004.
Folkstreams
Folkstreams logo A National Preserve of Documentary Films about American Roots Cultures streamed with essays about the traditions and filmmaking. The site includes transcriptions, study and teaching guides, suggested readings, and links to related websites.
Gaston County Museum of Art and History
Located in a National Register of Historic Places District, the museum is housed in an elegantly simple Greek Revival building. Other museum buildings include the Old Jail (1848), Train Depot (1901) and a modern Carriage House.
At GCM, you will see period rooms and permanent exhibits, including the new Carolinas Textile Exhibit and NC's largest exhibit of horse-drawn vehicles. Changing exhibits illuminate regional history and visual arts.
Hyperwar - a collection of the Second World War
A multimedia collection of material related to the history of the Second World War, completely cross-referenced via hypertext links. Topics include: Diplomatic & Political Documents of WWII Military/Service Histories Pacific Theater of Operations World War II Acronyms, Codewords, & Terms
Like A Family: Making of A Southern Cotton Mill World
This site, created by Dr. James Leloudis and Dr. Kathryn Walbert as a part of the American Historical Association's program Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, makes available some of the stories told in Like a Family, the oral histories of the people who made up the world of a southern cotton mill town and their historical contexts including strikes, unions, and life in a mill village.
Lower Cape Fear Photograph Collection
A growing collection of historic photographs, dating from 1850 through today, from the archives of the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society portraying the culture, architecture, people, and environment of Wilmington and its surroundings. Currently this collection contains over 1,200 photographs.
NAGPRA Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
This website is for students, faculty and community members who are interested in locating information related to repatriation issues. More specifically, this website's goal is to provide information about NAGPRA as it relates to California colleges and universities. (Links are still being built & gathered)
Norfolk Southern Railway Historical Society
This Historical Society website is for the original Norfolk & Southern Railway that ran from Norfolk, VA to Charlotte, NC with
various branches (Aberdeen, Asheboro, Beaufort, Belhaven, Carthage, Columbia, Durham, Ellerbe, Fayetteville, Goldsboro (A&EC), Jackson Springs, Lee Creek, Oriental, Snow Hill (A&EC), Suffolk and Virginia Beach, VA).
It merged into the Southern Railway system on Jan. 1st, 1974.
North Carolina Archaeological Collection
An Interactive Online Database of Artifacts at the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
Site offers the history, layout, pictures, and detailed descriptions of the Chapel Hill Cemetery located on the UNC campus.
Pearl Harbor History Associates, Inc. - Keeping the Record Straight
The Pearl Harbor History Associates (PHHA) is a non-profit corporation chartered by the Commonwealth of Virginia on July 2, 1985 for the purposes of "education, research, and promulgation of historical data". To honor the memory, to serve the truth, to protect the heritage, we are happy to host some of the best Pearl Harbor sites on the Web
Starr Report
The, unedited report by independent counsel Kenneth Starr's report to the House on President Clinton. WARNING: The report contains sexually explicit language. The following text was delivered by the Office of the Independent Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
On February 1, 1960, a group of black college students from North Carolina A&T University refused to leave a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina where they had been denied service. This sparked a wave of other sit-ins in college towns across the South. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC (pronounced "snick"), was created on the campus of Shaw University in Raleigh two months later to coordinate these sit-ins, support their leaders, and publicize their activities.
Textile Heritage Museum
The Textile Heritage Museum is located in the Company Store and Office Building in the Glencoe Mill Village. The building was purchased for the museum in February 2004 and is an ongoing restoration project as well as a museum highlighting the textile history of Alamance County. It features history and machinery of the textile industry from the cottage industry to the present, the family labor system, life in the mill villages, and a company store exhibit. The currently operating textile mills of Alamance County will be featured in a special room with their history and products on display.
The Antebellum United States Navy
Facts, figures and events related to the United States Navy between the War of 1812 and the American Civil War. The documents are drawn from the American States Papers and other Congressional Documents. Included are the "Register of the United States Navy" for every year available (Names, Ranks, Duty Station, etc.), the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy (including ships listing) and anti-slavery actions and events.
The B. B. King Archive
B.B. King is widely known as King of the Blues, with a career spanning approximately fifty years and as many albums. Born Riley B. King in 1925, he moved from Mississippi to Memphis in 1947 to pursue a music career. Local radio and live success quickly followed. By the mid-1950s, King was performing nationally more than 300 days per year. His music draws from many genres, including swing, jazz and pop, and his guitar style has influenced some of the world's top musicians. In recognition of his achievements, King was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 1984 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. He has also received five honorary doctorates. King still tours internationally more than 250 days per year, including gigs at the four B.B. King's Blues Clubs located throughout the country. This archive is comprised of the recordings and images of Dr. William Ferris, professor of history and Senior Associate Director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The majority of the items date from the mid-1970s, when Dr. Ferris first met King at Yale University. The two have maintained a relationship for three decades. More of Dr. Ferris's materials, as well as possible additions from other collections, will be added. The archive was created in April, 2004, and is an ongoing project of students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Ferris Collection is part of the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC Chapel Hill.
The Carter-Klan Documentary Project
The World's Oldest Living Second Lieutenant
The World War II Service of William L. Hurley, Intelligence Evaluation Officer, U.S. Army Air Corps. 1942-1946 by William Enestvedt, grandson April 3, 2003
United States Army and World War II
PDF versions of over forty of the official U.S. Army Histories of World War II (the "Green Books") including a chronology, all major theaters, pictorial histories, and "campaign brochures" for all major campaign.
White House 2001 Project
The White House 2001 Project is a two-part program designed to provide new staff members with information necessary to get off to a good start. WH2001 is a product of longtime ibiblio contributor Terry Sullivan of UNC Chapel Hill, Martha J. Kumar, an expert on presidential communications, and other presidency scholars working with the Presidency Research Group, a section of the American Political Science Association.
World War II Primary Source Document Collection and the Pearl Harbor Archives
A voluminous archive containing original documents regarding all aspects of the war. There are several complete books and several hundred individual documents, all original material relating to WWII. The Pearl Harbor Archives hold more than 5,000 pages of documents, exhibits, and testimonies surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor.
WWI Detainees in Hot Springs, NC
From 1917 through 1918, the grounds of the Mountain Park Hotel in Hot Springs, North Carolina housed German civilians who were in the United States during World War I. These civilians were comprised of the crews of the German commercial ships which had taken cover in American ports when Great Britain declared war on Germany in 1914. Included in the group were members of a German orchestra who fled Tsingtao (Qingdao today) China, and a photographer, Adolph Thierbach. They sought refuge in New York Harbor for three years before being designated "enemy aliens" and transported to Hot Springs for internment. Very little is known about Herr Thierbach other than what can be gleaned from the photographs he took during his incarceration at the detainee camp. He chronicled the detainees' stay in the Mountain Park Hotel, the building of the actual detainee camp, and the construction of the unique German village built on the grounds by the detainees. He photographed the “Tsingtao Orchestra” before and after concerts given for local residents, cricket games played on the grounds of the hotel, the reconstruction of a bridge destroyed by flooding, and detainees who served in the local fire department. Tragically, also included are photographs of the headstones marking the graves of the forty Germans who died during a typhoid epidemic. Eventually Herr Thierbach put all of his photographs into an album and captioned them. This project is a recreation of Herr Thierbach's photographs including translations of the original German captions. Many of the buildings in these photographs no longer exist, and those left are not known locally by the names in Herr Thierbach's album. Within this digital collection we have attempted to faithfully reproduce his work as he created it. The Madison County LIbrary, located in Marshall, North Carolina, created this website through a special grant and owns the photos in this archive.
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