Following the American Civil War, a group of freed people fled violence and bought land in Western North Carolina. In the ...

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

(Sydney Haulenbeek/Courthouse News) (CN) — A Fourth Circuit panel appears ready to strike down a Reconstruction-era voting law its opponents say discriminates against Black voters in North Carolina ..

Year of North Carolina'. In an effort to celebrate the state's character, lawmakers decided to celebrate all existing state ...

Carnegie Mellon University Professor Edda L. Fields-Black on Monday won a 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History for her book “Combee ...

We look back at the Civil Rights Movement ... Beatrice] The historian, the war hero, the educator, each with their own story about Charlotte's experiences during the '60s, and the impact of ...

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

As this week’s deadline looms for a report ordered by President Donald Trump, many Lumbee people believe the federal government is on the cusp of righting a wrong Congress made 69 years ago.

Several states in the south still observe Confederate Memorial Day in April as an official holiday, giving state workers the day off to pay homage to the those died during the Civil War.

By John Hood Our state’s official seal presents North Carolina as a series of dualities. In the background of the circular emblem are green-topped mountains to the west and crystal-blue water to the ...