/tags/civil-war Civil War en-US Copyright Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:21:50 GMT /show/due-south/2024-06-19/formerly-enslaved-people-given-land-taken-back-reparations-civil-war-emancipation Reveal’s newest series uncovers the government program that gave formerly enslaved people land titles, only to take the land back. “Forty acres and a mule” is more than reparations that didn’t happen. Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:21:50 GMT /show/due-south/2024-06-19/formerly-enslaved-people-given-land-taken-back-reparations-civil-war-emancipation Leoneda Inge, Cole del Charco /news/2023-03-25/goldsboro-to-unveil-civil-war-trail-marker-in-honor-of-all-black-infantry-regiment Civil rights activists and community leaders will celebrate the 158th anniversary of the 135th U.S Army Colored Infantry regiment, which was part of the Union Army formed in Goldsboro in 1865. Sat, 25 Mar 2023 13:30:39 GMT /news/2023-03-25/goldsboro-to-unveil-civil-war-trail-marker-in-honor-of-all-black-infantry-regiment Sharryse Piggott /news/2022-06-06/historic-civil-war-ship-sunk-off-nc-coast-in-astounding-shape-experts-say The USS Monitor sank on New Year’s Eve in 1862, in a region off North Carolina known as The USS the Graveyard of the Atlantic, due to an estimated 2,000 shipwrecks. Sixteen sailors were lost in the sinking, historians say. Mon, 06 Jun 2022 18:39:45 GMT /news/2022-06-06/historic-civil-war-ship-sunk-off-nc-coast-in-astounding-shape-experts-say Associated Press /news/2022-03-31/fort-bragg-roads-restaurant-could-get-new-names-in-effort-to-remove-confederate-monikers Some of Bragg’s most prominent streets — including Bragg Boulevard and Reilly Road — are on the list. Thu, 31 Mar 2022 20:31:19 GMT /news/2022-03-31/fort-bragg-roads-restaurant-could-get-new-names-in-effort-to-remove-confederate-monikers Jay Price /race-demographics/2021-06-18/seeking-justice-juneteenth-commemorated-reenactment-warren-county In Warrenton, North Carolina, this Juneteenth is commemorated by a dramatic production. The community came together, not to tell the story of the end of slavery, but the end of Reconstruction, some 50 years later. Fri, 18 Jun 2021 13:33:41 GMT /race-demographics/2021-06-18/seeking-justice-juneteenth-commemorated-reenactment-warren-county Leoneda Inge /race-demographics/2021-01-28/nc-shopping-center-drops-link-to-slaveholder An iconic North Carolina shopping center is changing its name to drop the connection to a family whose patriarch was a slaveholder before the Civil… Thu, 28 Jan 2021 21:29:06 GMT /race-demographics/2021-01-28/nc-shopping-center-drops-link-to-slaveholder Associated Press /arts-culture/2020-08-26/civil-war-and-southern-charm-how-hollywood-takes-on-the-south Some of the most popular films in our nation’s cinematic history are about the life, culture and customs of the American South. “Gone With the Wind” — the… Wed, 26 Aug 2020 15:46:13 GMT /arts-culture/2020-08-26/civil-war-and-southern-charm-how-hollywood-takes-on-the-south Kaia Findlay, Frank Stasio /show/the-state-of-things/2020-06-18/malinda-maynor-lowery-reincarnates-her-revolutionary-lumbee-ancestor As we work to gain perspective during this crisis, we may find ourselves searching our personal and collective memories for precedents, stories or myths… Thu, 18 Jun 2020 15:29:39 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2020-06-18/malinda-maynor-lowery-reincarnates-her-revolutionary-lumbee-ancestor Grant Holub-Moorman, Frank Stasio /arts-culture/2020-06-18/malinda-maynor-lowery-reincarnates-her-revolutionary-lumbee-ancestor As we work to gain perspective during this crisis, we may find ourselves searching our personal and collective memories for precedents, stories or myths… Thu, 18 Jun 2020 15:29:39 GMT /arts-culture/2020-06-18/malinda-maynor-lowery-reincarnates-her-revolutionary-lumbee-ancestor Grant Holub-Moorman, Frank Stasio /news/2019-05-21/will-fayettevilles-civil-war-history-center-educate-the-state-or-divide-the-city Organizers in Fayetteville want to transform a regional museum into a statewide history center focusing on the Civil War and Reconstruction. But critics… Tue, 21 May 2019 13:01:58 GMT /news/2019-05-21/will-fayettevilles-civil-war-history-center-educate-the-state-or-divide-the-city Elizabeth Friend