Connecting the Docs: True Stories from the Old North State

["Black Mountain College ran from 1933 to 1956 in the western mountains of North Carolina, and Amelia Gant says only a handful of students graduated even as the school connected to many famous avant-garde artists and educators.", "Host John Horan, Annabeth Poe, Aaron Templeton, and Amelia Gant focus on Lewis Ademic's 1936 Harper's article \"Education on a Mountain\" and the college's idea that art, labor, and schooling should work together.", "The episode traces progressive education's rejection of rote memorization, the 48-student and 20-professor campus Ademic saw, and the Board of Fellows model that gave students a real voice.", "Wartime pressure, Gisela Cronenberg's letters, Eleanor Roosevelt's March 1936 praise, and Charles P.

Unto These Hills: Behind the Scenes traces how Cherokee Historical Association built a 1950 outdoor drama from the Lost Colony model and kept revising it over 75 seasons.

Connecting the Docs opens with a 1943 Health Bulletin line calling American food 'the deadliest weapon of all,' then traces World War II rationing through State Archives of North Carolina materials.

Connecting the Docs uses World War II letters from the State Archives of North Carolina to compare early courtship, wartime separation, and married correspondence.

North Carolina's World War II nursing story is built from State Archives posters, Fort Bragg newsletters, and North Carolina Nursing Association letters.

Connecting the Docs examines V-J Day through At Ease, Camp Butner News, and Camp Lejeune Globe, three military publications from North Carolina installations.

Connecting the Docs: True Stories from the Old North State examines 1839 letters from Melinda Rex and Sarah Capehart about formerly enslaved North Carolinians sent to Liberia.

Connecting the Docs examines Black Mountain College near Asheville through State Archives of North Carolina materials, covering education, visual arts, music, and poetry.

Connecting the Docs: True Stories from the Old North State examines North Carolina’s War of Regulation, a movement of central Piedmont farmers seeking reforms over taxation, currency, voting rights, and property rights from the mid-1760s to May 16, 1771.

Josh Hager leads Shanakar, Annabeth Poe, and Katie Crickmore through a random Department of Cultural Resources box from the America's 400th Anniversary Commission.

This episode explores the Year of the Trail campaign celebrating North Carolina's state trails, featuring an interview with the Secretary of Natural and Cultural Resources.

This episode showcases the work of an oral history intern and features an interview about Abraham Galloway, a former slave and Union spy during the Civil War.