In 1863, abolitionist Harriet Tubman guided a raid that liberated nearly 760 enslaved people working on rice plantations ...

Acclaimed Civil War reenactor and historian Curt Fields ... Arkansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, Mississippi and Tennessee; the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln; the repatriation ...

Legendary documentary film director Ken Burns this week said South Carolina was one of two violent colonies where it would ...

The Charlotte Museum of History Meck Dec 250 exhibit open to the public May 20 and runs through March. Admission to the museum at 3500 Shamrock Drive also includes a guided tour of the historic 1774 ...

Carnegie Mellon University professor Edda Fields-Black provided an introduction to her lecture about Harriet Tubman's role in the 1863 Combahee River raid, a secret military mission against ...

Throughout 2025, the Herald-Leader will showcase Lexington’s 250-year history, such as the Lexington Rifles, a Civil War militia that was formed in 1857.

After peaceful attempts at alliance-building stalled, the Continental Army launched an ill-fated invasion of Quebec in June ...

PRESIDENT TRUMP IS MEETING WITH THE COUNTRY’S LEADER TO TALK ABOUT THE IRAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM, OIL PRICES AND THE WAR IN GAZA ... NBA LEGEND AND NORTH CAROLINA NATIVE MICHAEL JORDAN WILL HAVE ...

Elisha Wiggins, born about 1790 in North Carolina, was likely emancipated in 1833 in Trigg County — and several years later ...

Fields-Black has won the Pulitzer Prize for History for her book "Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War.” The book explores how Tubman ventured into ...

Hollie Chastain In Goldsboro, North Carolina ... World War I Army training camp. National Archives Stricken soldiers receive care in November 1918 in Mare Island. U.S. Navy Medicine During ...