History

The biggest obstacle to presenting a full picture of Raleigh’s LGBTQ history is the lack of documentation in the decades before the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion, the starting point of the modern gay and trans rights movements.

Scene on Radio host and producer John Biewen and film studies professor Michael A. Betts II talk with Leoneda Inge about their new podcast series “Echoes of a Coup" and the reverberations felt today from the 1898 Wilmington massacre and coup d’état. And we talk with Dr. LaGarrett King about how to teach traumatic incidents in Black history to K-12 students.

The start of the end of Reconstruction in the South happened during the 1874 election season. That’s what an author argues in a deeply-researched new book “Sheridan's Secret Mission: How the South Won the War After the Civil War.” It includes the story of a Union General who helped stop a group of white men attempting to overthrow the fairly elected Louisiana state government when the new legislators were to be installed in January 1875.

Two buildings on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill that had previously been named after white supremacists will now honor the school's first Black professor, Hortense McClinton, and the first American Indian student, Henry Owl.

About 70 people gathered in Cornelius on Wednesday night for a rally calling for the removal of a Confederate monument in downtown. It’s been there for 111 years. Protesters marched from the Cornelius Town Hall to Mount Zion United Methodist Church.

On Thursday, the North Carolina Board of Education narrowly approved guidance on teaching history and civics in public schools. The latest documents include details on how to incorporate new perspectives on racism and multiculturalism.

According to the United Nations, more people are living with HIV than have died since the epidemic began in the 1980s. There have been large medical and…

According to the United Nations, more people are living with HIV than have died since the epidemic began in the 1980s. There have been large medical and…

During the Cold War, U.S. planes accidentally dropped nuclear bombs on the east coast, in Europe, and elsewhere. "Dumb luck" prevented a historic…

The history of North Carolina goes back centuries, so how have the history books shaped our understanding of the state and its residents? The new book…