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My recent column about North Carolina’s “First in Freedom” claim established the events leading up to the Revolutionary War. But now, as legendary broadcaster Paul Harvey frequently said, you’re going to hear “the rest of the story.”
Published: Friday, March 1st, 2024 @ 11:26 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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"Can you believe I have to defend myself against this woman's fake story?"
Published: Saturday, January 27th, 2024 @ 8:47 am
By: Daily Wire
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Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson laid into President Joe Biden’s administration on Saturday, mocking the White House over the recent discovery of cocaine near the Situation Room — and the subsequent “failure” to find the culprit.
Published: Thursday, August 3rd, 2023 @ 12:48 am
By: Daily Wire
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America in 1944 was vastly different from the nation we are today.
Published: Wednesday, June 14th, 2023 @ 5:19 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Recently we had the opportunity to spend nearly two weeks in France. From Paris, we sailed on the Seine to Caen and the United States Cemetery in Normandy.
Published: Sunday, June 11th, 2023 @ 10:05 am
By: Lib Campbell
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Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman made his feelings about Black History Month clear during a recent interview.
Published: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 12:13 am
By: Daily Wire
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The Academy Awards has continued efforts to address its history of white overrepresentation, tabbing black comedian Jimmy Kimmel to host the 95th edition of the Oscars.
Published: Sunday, March 19th, 2023 @ 3:57 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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President Joe Biden will likely present an optimistic picture of the economy during his second State of the Union address on Tuesday night, even as experts say many of the wins he may claim will be based upon misrepresentations or distortions of reality.
Published: Saturday, February 11th, 2023 @ 6:42 am
By: Daily Wire
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Pew Research reports that since the 19th Amendment passed nearly 100 years ago, about half of the population says that giving women the right to vote has been “the most important milestone in the advancing of the position of women” in history
Published: Monday, November 7th, 2022 @ 12:22 am
By: Lib Campbell
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My guitar is my one hobby, which I started about 4 years ago (now nearly 5 and 3/4 years), my analyzation of politics, the history of government, and my knowledge of that application is not a hobby. It is another job that I do, and one that I am very serious about.
Published: Sunday, August 28th, 2022 @ 10:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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By signing the Inflation Reduction Act, President Biden is delivering on his promise to build an economy that works for working families. President Biden is the most pro-worker, pro-union President in history, and the Inflation Reduction Act builds on that legacy.
Published: Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022 @ 1:46 am
By: ENC NOW
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Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis slammed Democrat President Joe Biden in an interview this week, saying that former President Jimmy Carter, who is widely considered to be one of the worst presidents in modern history, was more successful than Biden.
Published: Friday, March 4th, 2022 @ 11:13 am
By: Daily Wire
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My husband is passionate about WWII history and holds veterans from that war in the highest esteem.
Published: Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021 @ 5:04 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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A new wave of legislation emerged across the country following the publication of the New York Times series, The 1619 Project
Published: Monday, May 31st, 2021 @ 8:32 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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My plan, when I started this one, was to share one insane story from each of my main jobs throughout my life.
Published: Wednesday, May 12th, 2021 @ 11:25 am
By: Jeff Kay
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Am I alone or did it strike you as ironic that our State Board of Education met during Black History Month to determine how to characterize slavery and racism in social studies classes?
Published: Saturday, February 13th, 2021 @ 1:31 am
By: Tom Campbell
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My Administration has initiated the single greatest mobilization in U.S. history - pioneering, developing, and manufacturing therapies and vaccines in record time.
Published: Wednesday, December 9th, 2020 @ 5:32 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Thank you very much. And today it's my privilege to present our nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to one of the greatest wrestlers in American history.
Published: Tuesday, December 8th, 2020 @ 2:45 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today it's my privilege to present our nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to one of the greatest coaches in American history: the legendary Lou Holtz - a friend of mine. Great gentleman.
Published: Friday, December 4th, 2020 @ 11:08 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The uncooperative attitudes some are currently exhibiting brings back memories of North Carolina’s history of recalcitrance.
Published: Wednesday, July 1st, 2020 @ 4:18 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Most people don’t know that I attended seven different schools during my K-12 years. It’s certainly no world record or even a story of pity.
Published: Saturday, February 8th, 2020 @ 12:45 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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One of my Standard Operating Procedures when I hear of a Vietnam Veteran in the news is to research them to find the 'Story behind the Story.
Published: Friday, March 2nd, 2018 @ 1:56 am
By: Bobby Tony
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While the Salvation Army is best known for ringing bells and red kettles, the organization does much more than collect spare change during the holiday season
Published: Thursday, January 4th, 2018 @ 8:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I wrote this Father's Day column in May, as I knew I'd be vacationing in Greece the early part of June and might be writing in my journal but certainly not writing a column.
Published: Sunday, June 18th, 2017 @ 6:38 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Recent DNA testing debunked my family history story of American Indian heritage. This brought to mind that most history is modified by what is omitted or included.
Published: Saturday, April 8th, 2017 @ 12:04 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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The title of a recent Raleigh News and Observer article — “Economy in North Carolina is a Mixed Bag” — gives away the story’s conclusion. Of course, this conclusion is a rather trivial one that probably could be reached for every state in the union at any period in history.
Published: Wednesday, October 19th, 2016 @ 4:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Song lyrics and Poetry are short stories in my mind and a photo is worth a thousand words. However, a word warrior can make a grown man cry with a long story.
Published: Monday, October 3rd, 2016 @ 9:33 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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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
By: John Locke Foundation
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My youngest grandkid and her pre-teen friends just need a taxi. They have no interest in politics and history and I am interested in watching her play not teaching
Published: Saturday, April 30th, 2016 @ 4:13 am
By: Ted McDonald
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He was not one of my old drinking buddies, but I shared a few drinks with him over the years.
Published: Thursday, January 28th, 2016 @ 2:50 am
By: Bobby Tony
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I have an old musket in my trophy room from my dad's family. It hung in the basement of our house all my life. After my parents passed, my brother hung it in his garage for a few years. It eventually ended up in my son's collection. It came back to me after he a few years when my son sold his hou
Published: Friday, October 2nd, 2015 @ 5:05 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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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
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of my favorite modern historians, the late Rufus Fears at the University of Oklahoma, was fond of saying that “ideas make history.”
Published: Friday, October 10th, 2014 @ 7:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Over the last couple of days two articles have come across my desk, one dated September 30, 2014, and the other dated June 11, 1986. Together, these two articles tell an interesting story about just how incredibly wrong the radical global warming alarmists have been.
Published: Thursday, October 9th, 2014 @ 10:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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When I’m not reading public-policy tomes for work or escapist science fiction for play, any book you’ll find in my hands will probably be a work of history.
Published: Wednesday, August 20th, 2014 @ 9:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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For its 2014 print issue, North Carolina Literary Review devotes its special feature section to "War in North Carolina Literature." This in-depth exploration includes an interview with author Robert Morgan, who points out, "It is one of the mysteries of human life, and human history that...
Published: Friday, July 11th, 2014 @ 3:15 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Delmar's cynicism is earned, in my view. Let me quickly tell you of another story which had a better outcome.
Published: Sunday, May 11th, 2014 @ 11:05 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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I've had my disagreements with Duke Energy, both historically and recently. But the company got a bum rap in a new story stumbling its way through media circles: that Duke Energy uses abusive tax loopholes to avoid paying its fair share of federal income taxes.
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 1:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I like field trips so much that my boys go not just on their regular school-organized trips but also on Hood Academy field trips of my own design. Over the years, we've visited the State Capitol and state museums of natural science and history in Raleigh, the Moore's Creek National Battlefield...
Published: Wednesday, December 18th, 2013 @ 4:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I take this opportunity to express my thanks to all of the many people who have worked the last two years to help us promote the agenda of the Republican Party and to bring you up to date on some of the recent history of our County party.
Published: Friday, March 29th, 2013 @ 12:44 pm
By: Buzz Cayton
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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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