In the port city of Wilmington, the “Daily Record,” a black-owned newspaper, was burned by an angry white mob Nov. 10, 1898.
The secrets or celebrations of families are a thread running through the 2019 North Carolina Book Awards that will be presented to recipients Thursday, Nov. 7 at the DoubleTree Hotel Raleigh on Hillsborough Street in Raleigh.
The North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources is pleased to announce that seven individual properties across the state have been added to the National Register of Historic Places.
The North Carolina Historical Commission will meet at 10 a.m. Wed., Oct. 30 in the Administrative Conference Room of the North Carolina Museum of History, 5 East Edenton St., Raleigh. The meeting is open to the public.
The North Carolina Arts Council will offer a series of free readings across the state to spotlight the talents of literary artists who work in fiction, poetry, playwriting, screenwriting and creative non-fiction.
Celebrate some of the brightest, most creative and giving of North Carolina citizens at the North Carolina Awards ceremony Saturday, Nov. 16 at the Raleigh Convention Center.
Governor Roy Cooper has proclaimed October 2019 as Archives Month in North Carolina, recognizing those who preserve and provide access to public records and archival materials in North Carolina’s archive repositories throughout the state.
The North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources has been awarded a grant by the National Park Service to renovate a 1920s rail car built to comply with Jim Crow laws that is now at the N.C. Transportation Museum in Spencer.
The state’s highest civilian honor, the North Carolina Award, will be presented to six distinguished North Carolinians Saturday, Nov. 16, at the Raleigh Convention Center. Governor Roy Cooper will present the award at a 7 p.m. banquet and ceremony.
The Queen Anne’s Revenge Conservation Lab is celebrating Archaeology Month in North Carolina by taking over the National Science Olympiad’s October Wonder Challenge.