U.S. History, Meet the Present There’s no shortage of innocent assumptions, sneering one-liners, pseudohistory, off-topic diversions and mindless loops regarding the causes and conduct of the Civil War. If you’ve had enough of that cheap beer, then buy,...
High hopes and hard war A Texas soldier stationed in Arkansas, one of eight Reb brothers born and reared on the same Cape Fear River plantation, was reservedly optimistic as the Civil War passed its first anniversary.”If I am still blessed with good...
Become a Charter Member of the Friends of the History Center! On Thursday, May 8, from 7:30 – 9:30 PM, the History Center will launch its Friends program at a special gathering at SkyView on Hay in downtown Fayetteville. We will be premiering a special video about...
Community Foundation Announces $500,000 Grant Investment Leaders of Cumberland Community Foundation announced a major gift to the proposed North Carolina Civil War History Center. Plans call for the education center to be built on the grounds of the existing...
There’s no script for war Abolish the unthinkable and you can have no more wars. Is there even a remote chance that Alexander McRae, a U.S. Army officer from Fayetteville, idly wondered during his time as a West Point cadet if he would die in New Mexico...
The Assembly NC has recently published an article highlighting the efforts the North Carolina History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation & Reconstruction has made these last two years with the NC Educators’ Symposium program. Under the leadership of the center’s education initiatives director, Michael McElreath, the center has held …Read More »
