Wilmington, CSS

Wilmington & Weldon Railroad

Wilmington, Brunswick, and Southern Railroad

Wilmington Campaign of 1781

Wilmington Sea Coast Railroad

Wilmington Star

Wilmington Ten

Wilson Collegiate Institute

Windmills

Windsurfing

Wine and Wine Making

Wingate University

Winston-Salem Bible College

Winston-Salem

Winston-Salem Journal

Winston-Salem State University

Winton, Burning of

Wireless Experiments

Witchcraft

Womanless Weddings

Furniture Industry

Part VI: References and Resources

Women's Association for the Betterment of Public Schoolhouses

Women's Suffrage in North Carolina

Woodcarving

Woodmen of the World

Woolly Worm

Work Songs

World's Columbian Exposition

World War I

Part I: Introduction

World War II

Part I: Introduction

Wreath from the Woods of Carolina

Wright Brothers National Memorial

Battle of Wyse Fork

X-Ray Experiments

Yadkin College

Yadkin-Pee Dee River

Yadkin River Navigation Company

Yamassee War

Yaupon

Year without a Summer

Yellow-Dog Democrat

Yeomen

YMCA and YWCA

Young Men's Institute

Zebulon B. Vance, USS

Zebulon B. Vance Birthplace

Zion-Parnassus Academy

Zoning

Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation

Reconstruction

Part II: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Beginning of Congressional Reconstruction

Reconstruction

Part III: Statewide Changes and Achievements during Reconstruction

Reconstruction

Part IV: The End of Reconstruction and the Return of Democratic Control

Reconstruction

Part V: References

Civil War campaigns and battles.

African American People in North Carolina

Part II: Life Under Slavery and the Achievements of Free Black People

African American People in North Carolina

Part III: Emancipation and the Freedmen's Fight for Civil Rights

African American People in North Carolina

Part IV: Segregation and the Struggle for Equality

African American People in North Carolina

Part V: Emerging Roles and New Challenges

African American People in North Carolina

Part VI: References

Agriculture

Part II: Improvements in Farming Technology and the Burgeoning of "Mega Farms"

Agriculture

Part III: Changes in the Agricultural Labor Force

Agriculture

Part IV: Field Crops, Livestock, and Other Agricultural Products

Agriculture

Part V: References

Cherokee People in North Carolina

Part II: Cherokee Origins and First European Contact

Cherokee People in North Carolina

Part III: Disease, Destruction, and the Loss of Cherokee Land

Cherokee People in North Carolina

Part IV: The Revolutionary War, Cherokee Defeat, and Additional Land Cessions

Cherokee People in North Carolina

Part V: The Trail of Tears and the Creation of the Eastern Band of Cherokees

Cherokee People in North Carolina

Part VI: Federal Recognition and the Fight for Cherokee Rights

Cherokee People in North Carolina

Part VII: Modern-Day Cherokee Life and Culture

Women

Part I: Introduction

Women

Part II: Women's Roles in Precolonial and Colonial North Carolina

Women

Part III: Women in the Revolutionary Era and Early Statehood

Cherokee People in North Carolina

Part VIII: References and Additional Resources

Women

Part IV: Life in Antebellum North Carolina

Women

Part V: Secession and Civil War

Women

Part VI: Women Help Shape the New South

Women

Part VII: Women Earn the Right to Vote

Women

Part VIII: Activism and the Expansion of Women's Opportunities and Public Influence

Women

Part IX: References

Furniture Industry

Part II: Furniture as Product and Craft from the Colonial Era to the Civil War

Furniture Industry

Part III: Furniture Production in the Industrial Age

Furniture industry

Part IV: Birth and Development of the Modern Furniture Industry

Furniture Industry

Part V: North Carolina's Largest-Grossing Furniture Companies (2004)

American Revolution

Part II: First North Carolina Conflicts and the Establishment of a Provincial Government

American Revolution

Part III: North Carolina's Role in the Continental Congresses

American Revolution

Part IV: Conflict with the Cherokees and British Invasion of the South

American Revolution

Part V: Gen. Nathanael Greene and the Battle of Guilford Courthouse

American Revolution

Part VI: A Troubled Aftermath

American Revolution

Part VII: References

Loyalists

Part II: Loyalists' Role in the War

Loyalists

Part III: African American Loyalists

Loyalists

Part IV: Loyalist Fate at War's End

Loyalists

Part V: References

Civil War

Part II: Secession and First North Carolina Enlistments and Casualties

Civil War

Part III: Political and Social Turmoil during the War

Civil War

Part IV: Unionism and Violence in the Western Counties

Pearsall Plan

Peddlers

Peerage

Penderlea Homesteads