From the Statesman archives: Railroad, freedom colonies changed Austin after Civil War
The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...
Appomattox: Where America's Civil War Neared Its End
Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National ...
Hegseth renames North Carolina military base Fort Bragg
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday renamed the Army base Fort Liberty back to its original name of Fort Bragg.
Hegseth renames North Carolina military base Fort Roland L. Bragg and signals more change coming
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed an order restoring the name of a storied special operations forces base back to ...
Hegseth renames North Carolina military base back to Fort Roland L. Bragg
The base was renamed Fort Liberty in 2023 as part of a national effort to remove names that honored Confederate leaders.
Learn more about North Carolina’s rich Black history through these 10 iconic landmarks
From the site of Durham’s Black Wall Street, where Black-owned businesses thrived, to the site of the state’s oldest ...
North Carolina military base renamed after Maine war hero
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed an order restoring the name of a special operations forces base back to Fort Bragg.
Florida ghost town lay undisturbed for 55 years after a string of horrific tragedies... until now
One of Florida's many ghost towns was founded by its twelfth governor, who was also a magnate in the lumber business. The ...
EU civil war as pro-Trump leaders discuss plans to 'Make Europe Great Again'
Macron, Scholz and fellow European liberals have been warned they are "history" as right-wing leaders vow to "reconquest" the ...
At Mother Bethel, Villanova professor previews ‘Last Seen,’ her book about how Black families searched for relatives sold during slavery
One year after the Civil War ended, Hagar Outlaw, a formerly enslaved woman in North Carolina, was desperate to find eight of her children who had been sold during slavery. She turned to ...