In the Pines, a John Locke Foundation-produced short film based on the 1898 insurrection that toppled Wilmington's elected local government, recently won Best Film and two other awards at the Golden Hour Film Festival in Morganton.
( Published Tuesday, November 21st, 2023 @ 7:30 am )]]> Juneteenth is the fulfillment of the Declaration of Independence.
( Published Wednesday, June 14th, 2023 @ 8:13 am )]]> "What does the name James K. Polk mean to you?"
( Published Sunday, April 16th, 2023 @ 9:11 pm )]]> With its shallow inlets, North Carolina's Outer Banks became a haven for many pirates during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
( Published Wednesday, December 21st, 2022 @ 2:31 am )]]> How a coastal North Carolina city became the site of America's only coup d'etat
( Published Wednesday, December 7th, 2022 @ 4:58 am )]]> August 15, 1754 | Benjamin Hawkins was born in Warren County. He became one of North Carolina's first United States Senators.
( Published Saturday, August 20th, 2022 @ 2:25 pm )]]> When did North Carolina become known as North Carolina and acquire its modern shape?
( Published Saturday, January 7th, 2017 @ 1:44 am )]]> Located only a few minutes' drive from Statesville is Fort Dobbs - North Carolina's only frontier fort during the French and Indian War
( Published Tuesday, October 18th, 2016 @ 3:19 pm )]]> A reporter for the Western Carolinian of Salisbury in 1825 wrote, "The mining interest of the state is now only second to the farming interest."
( Published Saturday, October 1st, 2016 @ 5:42 pm )]]> Bath, North Carolina a long and cherished history
( Published Saturday, October 1st, 2016 @ 1:50 pm )]]> In history books, Anti-Federalists often are depicted as losers during the constitutional ratification debates. But in many ways, they were victorious
( Published Tuesday, September 6th, 2016 @ 8:22 am )]]> Governor McCrory announced today the lineup of programs that honor the 2016 Black History Month theme, "Hallowed Ground: African-American Memories."
( Published Wednesday, January 20th, 2016 @ 11:20 pm )]]> Recently I was thumbing through my copy of Scoundrels, Rogues and Heroes of the Old North State, an anthology of collected essays by noted historian H. G. Jones. (He wrote a weekly column from 1969-1986.) The editors Randell Jones and Caitlin Jones, unrelated to the history columnist, write that...
( Published Friday, July 3rd, 2015 @ 11:03 pm )]]> A poet and writer of many short stories, including the ones using the "Flim Flam Yarn" title, Guy Owen was launched into fame with comical and popular The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man.
( Published Monday, June 29th, 2015 @ 12:19 am )]]> Originally, the term "Federalist" referred to supporters of the federal constitution of 1787. The Federalist political party emerged during George Washington's presidency.
( Published Tuesday, April 28th, 2015 @ 8:05 pm )]]> William Blount, the eldest son of Jacob Blount, Sr., and Barbara Gray Blount, was born in Bertie County, North Carolina, on March 26, 1749.
( Published Saturday, April 18th, 2015 @ 2:24 pm )]]> Similar to many other coastal counties, Beaufort County (then known as Pamptecough Precinct) was formed out of the larger Bath County in 1705.
( Published Sunday, April 5th, 2015 @ 11:00 pm )]]> In the summer of 1918, five large German submarines (U-boats) crossed the Atlantic and operated against the lightly protected shipping off the North American coast.
( Published Saturday, March 21st, 2015 @ 4:25 am )]]> Born in the small town of Godwin (Cumberland County) in 1900, David Marshall "Carbine" Williams was the creator of the M-1 Carbine, the U.S. Army's favorite semi-automatic rifle during World War II.
( Published Monday, March 16th, 2015 @ 5:44 am )]]> Josiah Collins III was born in Edenton, North Carolina in March 1808.
( Published Monday, February 2nd, 2015 @ 1:14 am )]]> Well-known for his popular magazine columns later reprinted in collection form, including Grenadine Etching (1947) and The Old Man the Boy (1957), Robert Ruark became even more of a household name after Something of Value (1955) was turned into a popular 1957 movie.
( Published Tuesday, January 6th, 2015 @ 6:56 pm )]]> Born in Wilmington on December 29, 1915, Robert Chester Ruark was known as the "poor man's Hemingway" and he became one of North Carolina's most prominent twentieth-century writers.
( Published Saturday, November 29th, 2014 @ 8:16 am )]]> The Cherokee were the first Native American residents of present-day Buncombe County, and German, Scottish, and English settlers inhabited the area in the early to mid-1700s.
( Published Wednesday, October 8th, 2014 @ 12:22 am )]]> Found in Yancey County, Mount Mitchell is the largest mountain in North Carolina.
( Published Saturday, August 30th, 2014 @ 5:17 pm )]]> The August 24, 1587 baptism of Virginia Dare, the first English born Christian in the New World. Image courtesy of the North Carolina Office of Archives and History, Raleigh, NC.
( Published Sunday, June 15th, 2014 @ 1:51 pm )]]>