In 1960, a shy, taciturn law professor from the hamlet of Wake Forest threatened to upend North Carolina. I. Beverly Lake was a segregationist. Articulating as much anger as he could muster, the ...

The USS North Carolina was the nation’s most lethal battleship, but by the 1960s, the Navy had moved past them and was ...

On the first day of winter, people in the North Carolina mountains often brace for snow. Tar Heel Traveler Scott Mason travels to Ashe County to reminisce with residents about a snowstorm that ...

Two nuclear bombs plummeted from a splintering B-52 bomber in January 1961 and plopped down outside Goldsboro, North Carolina, according to newly-declassified government documents. And though the ...

Since 1924, the North Carolina Historical Review has been the definitive source for the study and understanding of North Carolina History. The journal is issued quarterly in January, April, July, and ...

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the state's first Black lieutenant governor and the GOP front-runner for the 2024 gubernatorial race, repeatedly lambasted the "so-called" 1960s civil rights ...

In the pre-mobile device days of 911, systems could identify the address of a caller and that was enough. There was a physical location tied to every call made from a landline telephone. But today, ...

Salisbury resident William Paul Sharp Jr. died at 76 on Dec. 5. Sharp was rated as one of the state’s best high school ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. — Musician Billy Joe ...