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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"
Browse Exhibits (10 total)
A Western North Carolina Farm: Virtual Tour
Please wander around our virtual farm. Like an actual farm, this virtual one continues to develop over time, so we don't think of it as being finished. But we do hope that you will explore the pages on gardens, forests, soil, tobacco, poultry, draft animals, bees, orchards, and water using the tabs.
You can also Return to the Virtual Tour Map.
Or go on a guided tour developed and recorded by Chloe Metcalf.
Appalachian Studies 344: Creative Traditions in Southern Appalachia
This exhibition is a project of AS 344: Creative Traditions in Southern Appalachia. Students in the course spend the semester exploring the creativity that thrives all around Mars Hill University, and they then create online exhibitions about relevant topics. The exhibitions you see here were created by students in fall 2023, taught by Leila Weinstein.
Madison County Cemetery Remembrance Project (the Periwinkle Project)
The Madison County Cemetery Remembrance Project is part of a larger western North Carolina cemetery remembrance project sponsored by a grant from Land of Sky Regional Council. It was started in the summer of 2024.
We are a group of Mars Hill University students and professors who care deeply about the Appalachian region. Working with archival sources and local historians and community members, we pieced together a narrative for three local African-American cemeteries. Through this, we learned the stories of the folks who live here, who are buried here, and who will continue the stories of the people in these cemeteries.
According to local historians, periwinkle was sometimes used as a decorative flower in the cemeteries of the region. Inspired by the vast and beautiful amount of periwinkle we saw in our journey, we called ourselves The Periwinkle Project.
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MHU Students in AS 327: Beau Barrera-Hernandez, Brogan Heavner, Jennifer Miranda-Piñeda, Darian Smathers, Nicolas Varner, Megan Walters, and Taylor Zima, with instructor Leila Weinstein.
The Leonidas Bryant Correspondence, 1861-1864
Follow Private Leonidas Bryant's journey through the American Civil War.
