Born on Christmas Day 200 years ago, in North Oxford, Massachusetts, Clara was a timid child. “In the earlier years of my life I remember nothing but fear,” she wrote in her 1907 autobiography.

One of North Carolina’s “most storied buildings,” a pre-Civil War hotel saved from demolition and restored as a four-bedroom home, is for sale for $700,000, according to Premier Sotheby’s ...

One of North Carolina’s most storied buildings, a pre-Civil War hotel restored as a home, is for sale by Premier Sotheby’s International Realty.

Three years post-Civil War, in 1868, Memorial Day was formalized by Union General John A. Logan in his General Order No. 11, with the annual floral decoration of the graves as the highlight. **FILE** ...

A community forum at the W.E. Skelton 4-H Educational Conference Center in Wirtz will dig deeper into the stories of the 70 Black men from Franklin County who fought for the Union during the Civil ...

The voting rights organizations North Carolina A. Philip Randolph Institute and Action NC argued Friday at oral arguments in Richmond, Virginia, that the state’s felony voter law was enacted in 1877 ...

Edda Fields-Black is a Carnegie Mellon University historian, author, librettist and — now — a Pulitzer Prize winner.. Fields-Black’s book “ COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid and Black ...

North Carolina State University professor Stephen Porter is celebrating after his university ditched DEI in its strategic plan following his formal complaint. Porter has taught applied statistics ...

Among the Union soldiers blocking Lee’s escape into North Carolina was a young private from Allegheny City named William Montgomery. Called Willy by his fellow soldiers, he was a member of Company I ...

The Kappa Alpha chapter at North Carolina’s Wake Forest University stopped allowing members to wear Confederate uniform and display the Confederate flag in 1987. But other chapters held on longer.