Civil War
Bennett Place, April 1865: The Largest Surrender of the Civil War
In a small North Carolina farmhouse, Sherman and Johnston settled the largest surrender of the Civil War, but only after Washington threw out their first deal.
North Carolina
Civil War
Harriet Jacobs of Edenton: Seven Years in an Attic and the Making of a Freedom Narrative
Harriet Jacobs hid for nearly seven years in a space above a shed in Edenton, N.C., then wrote one of the most important slave narratives by a woman.
American Revolution
Kings Mountain, 1780: The Overmountain Men Who Turned the Southern War
After a threat from a British major, frontier riflemen crossed the Blue Ridge and wiped out his Loyalist force in about an hour, reviving the Patriot cause in the Carolinas.
Colonial America
The Tuscarora War, 1711: Attack on the Neuse and Tar-Pamlico Settlements
On September 22, 1711, Tuscarora warriors hit settlements in eastern Carolina. The two-year war that followed pushed a nation north to join the Iroquois.