The Exhibit
History is not always neat; it is often complicated and messy. It is about people, places, and events that are both admirable and shameful. The History Center takes an unflinching look at all sides of the Civil War and Reconstruction, for all North Carolinians.
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Featured Story
Cherokee Reservation Includes Part of Swain County
Written by Leisa Greathouse; Edited by Cheri Todd Molter Part of the Qualla Boundary of the Eastern Band of Cherokee is in Swain County, North Carolina. The reservation was formally established in 1876. In the 1840s and 1850s, after the Trail of Tears, a white man...
Honor
Unlike Virginia, the site of so many Civil War battles, North Carolina's wartime story centered on the home-front. It is important to document ...
Memory
Perhaps as a measure of the Civil War's trauma, our memories for no other period of America's history differ more widely. Scholars too have told ...
Sacrifice
To understand the sacrifice and service wrought by North Carolinians, the History Center will provide a deep interpretive experience...
Freedom
There is no concept more central to the examination of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras than that of Freedom. In 1860, one-third of North Carolina's population ...
Phone: 910-824-7282
Email: info@nccivilwarcenter.org
824 Branson Street
Post Office Box 53865
Fayetteville, NC 28305
Phone: 910-824-7282
Email: info@nccivilwarcenter.org
824 Branson Street
Post Office Box 53865
Fayetteville, NC 28305