Civil War

Reveal’s newest series uncovers the government program that gave formerly enslaved people land titles, only to take the land back. “Forty acres and a mule” is more than reparations that didn’t happen.

Civil rights activists and community leaders will celebrate the 158th anniversary of the 135th U.S Army Colored Infantry regiment, which was part of the Union Army formed in Goldsboro in 1865.

The USS Monitor sank on New Year’s Eve in 1862, in a region off North Carolina known as The USS the Graveyard of the Atlantic, due to an estimated 2,000 shipwrecks. Sixteen sailors were lost in the sinking, historians say.

Some of Bragg’s most prominent streets — including Bragg Boulevard and Reilly Road — are on the list.

In Warrenton, North Carolina, this Juneteenth is commemorated by a dramatic production. The community came together, not to tell the story of the end of slavery, but the end of Reconstruction, some 50 years later.

An iconic North Carolina shopping center is changing its name to drop the connection to a family whose patriarch was a slaveholder before the Civil…

Some of the most popular films in our nation’s cinematic history are about the life, culture and customs of the American South. “Gone With the Wind” — the…

As we work to gain perspective during this crisis, we may find ourselves searching our personal and collective memories for precedents, stories or myths…

As we work to gain perspective during this crisis, we may find ourselves searching our personal and collective memories for precedents, stories or myths…

Organizers in Fayetteville want to transform a regional museum into a statewide history center focusing on the Civil War and Reconstruction. But critics…