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Lesson Plans
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North Carolina History Lesson Plans from the Southern Appalachian Archives
- North Carolina History Lesson Plans: Precolonial
- North Carolina Era 2 – Colonial 1600 - 1763: Migration Push/Pull Lesson
- North Carolina Era 3 – Revolution 1763 - 1789: Regulator Songs Lesson Plan
- North Carolina Era 4: Early National – 1789-1836: Family Histories Lesson Plan
- North Carolina Era 5: Antebellum - 1836 - 1860: Rip Van Winkle in contemporary writing lesson plan
- North Carolina Era 6: Civil War and Reconstruction - 1860 - 1876: Views of the Civil War Lesson Plan
- North Carolina Era 7: New South – 1876 - 1900: Subscription Schools in Western North Carolina Lesson Plan
- North Carolina Era 8: Early 20th Century – 1900 - 1929 Lesson Plans
- North Carolina Era 9: Depression and War (1929-1945)
- North Carolina Era 10: Postwar (1945-1975): Post-War Political Cartoons Lesson Plan
- North Carolina Era 11: Recent (1975-2010) Lesson Plans
- Land Use in Western North Carolina Lesson Plans from the Southern Appalachian Archives
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North Carolina History Lesson Plans from the Southern Appalachian Archives
- "Feast and Farmin': A Celebration of Western North Carolina Agricultural History"
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The Southern Appalachian Archives is a rich storehouse of manuscripts and collections that document local and regional history. Notable among the treasures held in the Southern Appalachian Archives are:
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the Bascom Lamar Lunsford Collection, which includes an oversized scrapbook, photographs, sound recordings, transcribed ballads, and other memorabilia (Lunsford Collection Brochure);
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the James G. K. McClure Collection, which includes over 3,000 photographs documenting western North Carolina agriculture from the 1920s to the early 1950s and a vast array of materials from the Farmers Federation and the Lord's Acre Initiatives, including recordings of several Farmers Federation Picnics;
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a variety of collections featuring western North Carolina mountain musicians--the Byard Ray Festival Collection, the Jackie Ward Collection featuring selected materials from the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival and Shindig on the Green, the Bascom Lamar Lunsford Minstrel of Appalachia Festival Collection, the Madison County Heritage Festival Ballad and Story Swap Collection, the Obray Ramsey Memory Collection, The Tommy Hunter Memory Collection, and the Dellie Norton Collection.
Other special collections include:
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the Southern Appalachian Photographic Archives;
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the Gertrude M. Ruskin Collection of Cherokee objects and materials;
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the Evelyn Underwood Collection of important Madison County early documents, photographs, and oral histories;
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and the university archives, including papers and photographs relating to the history of Mars Hill University.
In addition to the non-circulating special collections, other Appalachian-related materials can be accessed through the Renfro Library catalog and are available for circulation.
An endowment in support of the Ramsey Center's Southern Appalachian Archives has been made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities : Exploring the human endeavor.
Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this Web resource do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
