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85,000 veterans and their family members are buried there; also fourteen recipients of the Medal of Honor.
Published: Friday, January 12th, 2024 @ 1:16 am
By: Daily Wire
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While every state in the Union is way better than France, each has its upsides and downsides. We at The Babylon Bee have collected for you the biggest pros and cons of living in all fifty of these United States:
Published: Wednesday, October 11th, 2023 @ 11:10 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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Nontraditional ECU mathematics graduate student continues family legacy of Pirate alumni
Published: Friday, December 16th, 2022 @ 6:21 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Mary Surratt may have been a loving mother, but it would eventually kill her. Regardless, President Lincoln was murdered and retribution must be exacted, irrespective of the accused's culpability.
Published: Tuesday, January 11th, 2022 @ 1:19 am
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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Gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson will move its headquarters from Massachusetts to Tennessee, citing the “changing business climate for firearms manufacturing in Massachusetts.”
Published: Sunday, November 7th, 2021 @ 11:37 am
By: Daily Wire
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A Virginia judge has thrown a wrench into Gov. Ralph Northam’s (D-VA) plans to remove the iconic statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from the state capital.
Published: Wednesday, June 10th, 2020 @ 4:36 am
By: Daily Wire
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On October 16, 2018, Francisco Gonzalez wrote an article, or more aptly, a book review, entitled " Why Open Borders Are Bad for America's Immigrants"; it was published by The Federalist.
Published: Friday, January 4th, 2019 @ 12:03 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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It's popular these days to talk about the potential outbreak of a second Civil War. I've not been immune to that sentiment - I've probably used that language in the past.
Published: Friday, August 3rd, 2018 @ 3:52 pm
By: Daily Wire
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He may be a flawed individual, but he is the RIGHT kind of individual for government. He is an unashamed, unapologetic, and undetered interposer against federal tyranny.
Published: Saturday, January 27th, 2018 @ 3:29 am
By: Diane Rufino
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William Ellison Jr., born April Ellison, (c. April 1790 - December 5, 1861) was a cotton gin maker and blacksmith in South Carolina, a free Negro and former slave who achieved considerable success in business before the American Civil War.
Published: Friday, June 2nd, 2017 @ 12:48 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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The 150th anniversary of the American Civil War has generated quite a bit of scholarship about a key event in the nation’s history.
Published: Saturday, September 5th, 2015 @ 1:52 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Tuesday, July 28th, 2015 @ 3:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This is the time of the year when Autumn unfurls its brilliant colors. There is a chill in the air, and often that change of seasons can be breathtaking. be
Published: Thursday, December 11th, 2014 @ 8:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Shenandoah Valley exists as a long, fertile, and largely agrarian, stretch of land framed by the Potomac River to the north and the James River to the south, as well as being buttressed by the Blue Ridge Mountains to the East and the Appalachian Ridge and Valley ranges to the west.
Published: Saturday, December 6th, 2014 @ 6:17 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today
Published: Saturday, May 3rd, 2014 @ 12:32 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The last commander of Fort Fisher before its surrender to occupying Union forces, James Reilly's postwar years reveals the bond that many former Confederate and Union soldiers exhibited during the 1880s and 1890s.
Published: Saturday, December 14th, 2013 @ 12:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Formed out of Moravian musical societies and community bands that exemplified the traditional importance of brass instruments, particularly the trombone, the Salem Brass Band served the Confederacy from the first days of the Civil War until June 1865, when members were finally released from prison.
Published: Wednesday, September 18th, 2013 @ 9:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A former North Carolina slave turned abolitionist and author, Harriet Jacobs was born in bondage in Edenton. Her father was a white farmer and her mother a mulatto house slave.
Published: Monday, September 16th, 2013 @ 5:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Commercial restrictions through tariffs have been an integral part of American history. The federal government has used forms of commercial restriction as a source of revenue and to protect American industry and labor.
Published: Monday, August 19th, 2013 @ 12:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Jonathan Worth served as general superintendent of the Fayetteville and Western Plank road beginning in 1856.
Published: Tuesday, March 19th, 2013 @ 9:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This month, East Carolina University will solemnly mark a Colonial era battle that redefined North Carolina and changed the direction of American history with a three-day event, "Nooherooka 300."
Published: Saturday, March 16th, 2013 @ 2:22 pm
By: ECU News Services
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On October 17, 1862 the Confederate Navy Department signed a contract with the shipbuilding firm of Thomas Howard and Elijah Ellis of New Bern to construct an ironclad gunboat on the Neuse River: the CSS Neuse.
Published: Monday, March 11th, 2013 @ 12:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Bragg, a West Point graduate, was an army full general during the American Civil War. Image courtesy of the North Carolina Office of Archives and History, Raleigh, NC.
Published: Monday, February 18th, 2013 @ 12:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In the midst of the Civil War, the Confederate army succeeded capturing the county seat of Washington County in April of 1864.
Published: Saturday, February 2nd, 2013 @ 6:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Although one of the smallest counties in North Carolina, New Hanover County, located in the southeastern section of the state, serves as an important tourist attraction, trading center, and cultural trademark.
Published: Saturday, December 29th, 2012 @ 3:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Until its capture by the Union army in 1865, Fort Fisher was the largest earthwork fortification in the world.
Published: Monday, December 3rd, 2012 @ 4:52 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Named in honor of Nathaniel Macon, a U.S. congressman and senator and a leading early-republic statesman from North Carolina, Fort Macon was built after the War of 1812 to defend America and North Carolina from foreign invasion.
Published: Saturday, December 1st, 2012 @ 9:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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But I have serious problems in his (Abraham Lincoln) legal and Constitutional justifications for the Civil War.
Published: Monday, November 19th, 2012 @ 3:46 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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It is easy to see how our Founder's were influenced by John Locke when designing our government and drafting our founding documents.
Published: Sunday, November 18th, 2012 @ 1:44 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Last year, I taught classes on the Constitution, Our Founding Fathers, Our Founding Principles, The Federal Court System, The Supreme Court, and Judicial Activism.
Published: Saturday, November 17th, 2012 @ 6:53 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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