NC History

A new book by the founding director of North Carolina African American Heritage Commission teaches children about the history of African Americans’…

RALEIGH — North Carolina’s online archival military collection now includes installation camp newsletters and newspapers that contain little-known…

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is wrestling with a modern-day dispute involving the pirate Blackbeard's ship that went down off North Carolina's coast…

Seven North Carolina properties have been added to the National Register of Historic Places, including a movie theater in Kannapolis.The Gem Theatre has…

The Great Smoky Mountain National Park is the most visited park in the country. But all those visitors are not seeing its full history according to the…

A North Carolina Historical Highway Marker was unveiled Thursday, celebrating the all-black Algonquin Tennis Club. Tennis fans of all ages stood in...

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library is getting its first-ever historian-in-residence. Tom Hanchett, a community historian in Charlotte, started the one-year…

Winter weather is in the forecast for the next couple of days, including some of the coldest temperatures in recent memory. Cold arctic air will swing…

Today, we're turning back to the very distant past: a state historic site in Mount Gilead that includes a reconstructed Native American village and burial…

Part One: Old Salem. Just as our country was being forged in the halls of the Continental Congress and birthed in the Revolutionary war, a group of hardy…