Students chatted in the lobby of the Hayti Heritage Center in Durham last week, waiting for class to begin. Their subject? The Civil War. Michael McElreath called them to attention. McElreath works ...

In Richlands, Civil War History Center Educational director, Dr. Michael McElreath and history professors from Appalachian ...

More than 80 years ago, Nazi collaborators took a painting from a Jewish family during WWII. This year, right here in a North Carolina museum, the painting was returned to its rightful heirs. More ...

Big plans are in the works for the North Carolina Museum of History, currently undergoing a years-long renovation. The Museum of History at 5 E. Edenton St., directly adjacent to the N.C. Museum of ...

UNC-Chapel Hill's Ackland Art Museum returned a painting to the descendants of Armand Dorville, which Ackland director Katie Ziglar described as a great honor. Raphaël Falk, Dorville's great nephew, ...

A moonshiner tinkered with gun parts in prison, then made weapons that helped the Allies win World War II. David “Carbine” Williams of North Carolina died Jan. 8, 1975, leaving behind a complicated ...

The Battleship North Carolina, a museum and National Historic Landmark, is in the running for USA TODAY 10Best Readers' Choice 2025. The battleship was commissioned in 1941, decommissioned in 1947, ...

THE WORLD WAR TWO MUSEUM, WELCOMING ONE OF THE LAST GROUP TRIPS FOR VETERANS WHO FOUGHT FOR OUR COUNTRY BACK IN THE 40S. VETERANS LIVING IN CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA, WERE FLOWN HERE THROUGH THE GARY ...

Next weekend, nearly 30 North Carolina teachers will take a trip to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Fully funded by the North Carolina Holocaust Foundation and the Jewish Federation ...

David “Carbine” Williams, a gunsmith who served time in prison for murder, left behind a complicated legacy. North Carolina State Archives A moonshiner tinkered with gun parts in prison, then made ...