Looking for the Confederate War

Seeing that I’m speaking at the opening of a new Civil War exhibit at the Wilkes County Museum this week, I thought maybe we could turn our ...

The Rockingham County Historical Society Museum and Archives, the Eden Preservation Society, and the Eden Historical Museum are presenting a...

Folks, I’ll be at the McDowell County Public Library this afternoon, signing books, and speaking before the McDowell County Historical Socie...

Folks, I’ll be at the McDowell County Public Library this afternoon, signing books, and speaking before the McDowell County Historical Socie...

In about a week, I need to submit the paper I am presenting at the Civil War Memory Symposium that is taking place in Raleigh in May at the ...

I’ve probably said this before, and I’m sure I’ll say it again: I believe that every soldier’s grave should be marked by a tombstone. This p...

RALEIGH – Over the next four years, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources historian LeRae Umfleet will use new technology to tell ...

Have you heard about the efforts of a Raleigh attorney to get a pardon for William Woods Holden, the North Carolina reconstruction governor ...

I’ll be speaking and signing books tonight (March 14) at the Caldwell Heritage Museum in Lenoir at 7:00 pm. Come on out and join us! Tomor...

DURHAM – Christianity is often cited as a foundation of hope for the enslaved in the South. Historic Stagville will present a free program o...

RALEIGH – Heroic tales and valiant feats are depicted in images that reflect North Carolina ’s dedication to the war in the Freedom, Sacrifi...

Cumberland County Public Library and Museum of the Cape Fear Will Display Civil War Sesquicentennial Photography Exhibit in April RALEIGH ...

Got an email a couple of days ago from the Civil War Trust about their latest battlefield preservation campaign. They are raising funds to p...

Recently, I’ve been working through several volumes of published letters from North Carolina Confederate soldiers. One thing I have noticed ...

At times it is amazing how long bits and pieces of projects lie about before they come together to make a book or an article. Back when I st...

A little off topic, but important nevertheless. Avery County, the place I call home, was created 100 years ago by the General Assembly. We a...

Time to look around the Old North State and see what’s going on. A very interesting article on slave and free blacks in the Winston-Salem...

DURHAM - A lecture, “Red Strings: Unionist Sentiment in Piedmont , North Carolina ,” presented by N.C. Division of State Historic Sites Assi...

I am one of those people who believes every soldier who fought in the Civil War, whether Confederate or Union, needs to have his grave marke...

RALEIGH – The American Civil War wrought great hardship upon the state and nation. North Carolina suffered at least 35,000 deaths, one-quart...