Political, social, and demographic forces in the battleground of North Carolina promise a reckoning with its Jim Crow past.
After investigating 387 reports of sexual misconduct, the Department of Education determined that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill failed survivors of sexual assault. One of the alumni behind
Battle of Bentonville, a Decisive Union Victory The Battle of Bentonville was fought from March 19th to 21st, 1865 in Bentonville, North Carolina, near the town of Four Oaks. This crucial battle turned out to be the last battle between the armies of Union Major General William T. Sherman and Confederate Genneral Joseph E. Johnston. As the right wing of the army of Sherman commanded by Major General Oliver O. Howard marched toward Goldsborough, the left wing under command of Major General H. W. Slocum came upon the army of Johnston in trenches. During the first day of the battle, however, the Confederates routed two of the divisions of the Union army. Meanwhile, as General Sherman defended its other positions and sent reinforcements into the battlefield the following day, General Johnston withdrew into a skirmishing maneuver. The third day, as the skirmishing continued, the division commanded by Major General Joseph A. Mower approached the Confederate rear and attacked, but the Confederates successfully repulsed the attack while Sherman was ordering Mower to rejoin his own troops. That evening, however, General Johnston decided to withdraw from the battlefield, only to surrender to Sherman a month later at Bennett Place and Durham Station. General Robert E. Lee had already surrendered, and this ended the war. Find your Ancestors Records on North Carolina Pioneers SUBSCRIBE HERE
Political, social, and demographic forces in the battleground of North Carolina promise a reckoning with its Jim Crow past.
The Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge was fought between the United Colonies and Great Britain on February 27, 1776, near Wilmington, North Carolina, during the American...
The Battle of Hart's Mill During February of 1781, Cornwallis was chasing the retreat of General Nathanael Greene and his Continental Army to the Dan River. But Greene split off a small division of men to distract the British forces while the Continental army retreated. Thus, when Lord Cornwallis reached the river, the patriots had already crossed. With no ferries available and the Dan too deep to wade, Cornwallis and his army retreated to Hillsborough. On February 17th, Captain Joseph Graham with twenty North Carolina Cavalry and Captain Richard Simmons with twenty Mounted North Carolina Militia, both acting under General Pickens, attacked and set an ambush for a British lieutenant, sergeant, twenty four privates and two loyalists at Harts Mill on Stoney Creek three miles West of Hillsborough. The British, states Graham, lost nine killed and wounded, while the remainder were taken prisoners. Find your Ancestors Records on North Carolina Pioneers SUBSCRIBE HERE
The battle over teaching race in North Carolina schools prompts an ideological role reversal on both antidiscrimination and speech.
The law is under review by the DOJ.
Updated: 1:53 p.m. Monday, Feb. 27, 2017.The Pittsburgh Public Schools District says it is committed to supporting transgender students and has not…
NRL star Luke Davico has come clean about one of the most incredible grand final stories ever, admitting he wasn't exactly in tip-top shape when he ran out in jersey 47 for Canberra in the 1994 decider.
With or without Donald Trump's help, the municipality of Boone is calling on the whole state to encourage green jobs and transition to 100 percent clean energy
Republicans and Democrats in North Carolina are locked in a battle over which party inherits the shame of Jim Crow.
The Battle of Bentonville, fought March 19-21, 1865, was the last full-scale action of the Civil War in which a Confederate army was able to mount a...
The Battle of Guilford Courthouse resulted in a tactical victory but significant troop losses for the British late in the American Revolutionary War.
Hundreds of women concealed their identities so they could battle alongside their Union and Confederate counterparts
Last summer, after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturned the federal right to have an abortion, much ink was spilled on the possibility that Republ
On October 9, 1874, Mary Heaton Vorse was born in New York. She became a muckraking labor journalist and wrote eyewitness accounts of many important labor battles of her day.
