The General Assembly’s Semiquincentennial Committee held its third meeting Thursday to discuss ongoing plans to commemorate North Carolina’s role in America’s founding during 250th Anniversary celebrations in 2026. Invited speakers included Michael Leonard, from The Conservation Fund, and Rep. Edward Goodwin (R) from North Carolina’s 1st District, which includes the historic town of Edenton. Leonard began his remarks by...
As the United States marks the 236th anniversary of the signing of the US Constitution in Philadelphia, a rare copy of it is getting ready to be auctioned off in Asheville.
The first NC convention to vote on the Constitution was held in Hillsborough, in July and August of 1788. The delegates voted 184–84 to neither ratify nor reject, but wait.
Legislative committee convenes to make plans for the upcoming 250th celebration.
Those who tear down pictures of our kidnapped Tar Heel neighbor Keith Siegel are siding, not with the noble victims of colonization, but with a generations-long effort to eliminate the Jewish people.
Neither the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence nor the Halifax Resolves constitutes the first formal act by North Carolinians against British tyranny.
The NC black regiments, formed after the victory, also helped win a key Union battle at the war’s end, the capture of Wilmington by taking Fort Fisher.
Jewish senior who was assaulted by pro-Palestine mob in Asheville receives threatening letter, demanding he quit speaking out "before it's too late."
Many privileges we have are simply due to people building good things for their families and communities to set them up for success. And we'd be dishonoring their efforts by trampling on what they've handed us.
In early 1776, battle lines in NC had already been drawn between loyalists to the British crown and American patriots. At the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge, these lines burst into the open.
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson joined forces with the Moms for Liberty group outside the North Carolina legislative building in Raleigh on Wednesday morning to call for various school system reforms.
