Visual Stories

Overview

As part of our goal to collect, preserve, and make accessible unique and historical materials for learning and research, we are excited to launch Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) Visual Stories!

On this page, you will be able to explore different interactive visual storytelling modules, including timelines and StoryMaps. Each of these modules explores a different aspect of history connected to our major curatorial areas and outreach focus, from theatre and music, to cookery and North Carolina regions.

Our major curatorial areas are: rare books; cello music; manuscripts; children’s literature collections; university archives; women’s literature collections; photographs, prints, and poster collections; book art and book bindings; artifacts and textiles collections; and the women veterans historical project. We are expanding our collections in LGBTQ, African American history collections, and Latinx collections.

Click below to view some of our interactive visual storytelling modules!

General StoryMaps

• 1935 Campus Map
• Church Cookbooks of the North Carolina Cookbook Collection
• Historic Theatres of the Triad
• Where in the World is Anna Gove?
• North Carolina Community Cookbooks: From the Mountains to the Sea
• Poetry in Plain Sight

North Carolina literary StoryMaps

• Buncombe County Literary Tour
• Charlotte Literary Tour
• Durham County Literary Tour
• F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Tour
• Haunted North Carolina Tour
• Jan Karon’s At Home in Mitford Walking Tour
• Latinx and Hispanic Authors in North Carolina Tour
• Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song Tour
• North Carolina Folklore and Legends Tour
• North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame Quarantine Tour
• North Carolina Pirates Tour
• North Carolina Storytellers and Their Tales
• O. Henry Walking Tour
• Randall Jarrell Tour
• Thomas Wolfe Walking Tour
• Wilson Walking Tour