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The simple narrative today of the southern secession in 1860 and 1861 is that the southern states believed that the ...

North Carolina and Kentucky are in a similar condition ... It is notorious that the secession movement is now controlled by the poor whites, who have nothing to lose, or by mobs of Vigilance ...

Founded on November 21, 1789, North Carolina was one of the US's thirteen original colonies. Its rich history at the beginning of American history makes it a core part of our nation, and it's ...

This Tuesday, marks 250 years since citizens of Mecklenburg County say they became the first American colonists to declare ...

The date was changed from the day North Carolina seceded from the union - May 20, 1775 known as the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, to April 12 1776, to honor the Halifax Resolves.