Opinion
The Declaration of Independence was just the beginning
The events that ensued from July 1776 into the early 1780s when the victory was won are worth continuing to remember and celebrate.
Opinion
When Cherokees made a fateful choice
The American Revolution was actually an epic sprawling across multiple decades, regions, peoples, and political factions.
Opinion
When Carolina ladies made history
Americans insisted the power to tax lay with their own legislatures. Allowing faraway politicians to fund royal governors would make them vassals, not citizens.
Opinion
Carolina dispute helped provoke revolution
Did you know that a legal dispute between North Carolina’s elected legislature and the British government helped provoke the American revolution?
Opinion
The Tea: How NC women stirred revolution in Edenton
This week I spent some time in Edenton, North Carolina. While the scenery is amazing on a spring afternoon, the town’s history intrigues me more. This quaint harbor was the setting of one of our nation’s first revolutions organized completely by women. In 1774, the Edenton Tea Party served as a rallying cry for independence...
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Judicial Activism Gaining Adherents on the Right
RALEIGH — Right-leaning lawyers and legal analysts agree that the courts are a vital venue for preserving constitutional rights. But they note a surprising trend of conservative support for using judicial activism to achieve that aim rather than the traditional conservative deference to state and federal legislative decisions. Supporters of judicial activism note that, in The Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton envisioned an active role for judicial review.
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Friday Interview: Edenton’s Role in American History
RALEIGH — Today many of us think of Edenton as a beautiful, quaint vacation town along the Albemarle Sound. But Edenton was a political and intellectual hub in North Carolina in the early days of the United States. Edenton’s fascinating early history is chronicled in a book called The King’s Trouble Makers: Edenton’s Role in Creating a Nation and State. The author of this book is Dr. Troy Kickler, founding director of the North Carolina History Project. Kickler discussed the book with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.
Opinion
James Iredell and the Nobility of Fighting for Freedom
RALEIGH -- North Carolinian James Iredell reminds us why American colonists refused to be considered subjects of the crown and insisted on being recognized as free men and women.
Opinion
No. 119: Guns and Violence: Malcolm Disarms Britain
In Guns and Violence: The English Experience, author Joyce Lee Malcolm retraces Britain's legal history of the right to bear arms.
Opinion
Foreign Country, Familiar Issues
Over in England, the news sounds awfully familiar: there are traffic problems, debates about “urban sprawl” and standardized testing, out-of-control medical spending, and silly protests about globalization and the Middle East.
