A summer of change, a long winter of resistance

Jun 28, 2017 | News, Reconstruction

A summer of change, a long winter of resistance As hopes and honeysuckle bloomed, a century and a half ago, forces were massing to ensure that the dreams of newly liberated slaves and their white supporters would never take root. At the federal level, slavery had been...

Our Latest Newsletter!

Mar 15, 2017 | News

Our Latest Newsletter! March 2017 Dear Friends, The North Carolina Civil War History Center has been making great progress! In this newsletter are some of our recent and upcoming activities. We thank you for your continued support and, as always, we encourage you to...

Reconstruction: the insurgency that followed the war

Aug 17, 2016 | News, Reconstruction

Reconstruction: the insurgency that followed the war  This is the sesquicentennial of Reconstruction, an ugly but historically important period in which the Union, having won a long and ghastly Civil War, lost the peace to the same set of antagonists. That realization...

Aunt Janie vs. the Yankees — and me

Jul 17, 2016 | News

Aunt Janie vs. the Yankees — and me My great-grandfather’s youngest sister has been dead for more than 130 years, but she’s still driving me crazy. In fairness, she’s had a lot of help. Janie Smith, who was living in the house I now occupy when...

What Lee and Grant didn’t bother to debate

Jul 17, 2016 | News

What Lee and Grant didn’t bother to debate Lee. Grant. Appomattox. The three names have become almost shorthand for an end to four ghastly years of a war, all of whose casualties were Americans turned against one another. It is worth revisiting the...

A few Southern perspectives on the Civil War

Jul 17, 2016 | News

A few Southern perspectives on the Civil War Near the end of the 19th century, author-journalist Cornelia Ann Phillips Spencer lost patience with what she considered Yankee revisionist history and decided to set the record straight. The result was a North Carolina...