NC History

Did you know Blackbeard lived in North Carolina? Bath Fest, set for Sept. 18, 2021, celebrates the golden age of piracy. And Sept. 19 is Talk Like a Pirate Day.

The Wake County Register of Deeds office, Shaw University and other professional and volunteer historians are now working to decipher more than 30 deed books that have been digitized and put online to glean information about enslaved people who lived in North Carolina. Similar work, begun as a three-year grant-funded project at UNC Greensboro and the North Carolina Division of Archives and Records, is underway in 26 North Carolina counties.

Members of the state Board of Education say they’ve gotten thousands of emails about proposed new social studies standards. The debate over how to address racism, oppression and gender identity is clearly striking a nerve.

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…