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Wilmington

Battleship North Carolina: From the Brooklyn Navy Yard to the Cape Fear River

A battleship built in Brooklyn survived a torpedo hit and the Pacific war, then escaped the scrapyard thanks to a state that refused to let her go.

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Civil Rights

The Wilmington Coup of 1898: When a Multiracial Government Was Overthrown

In November 1898, armed white men in Wilmington, North Carolina, burned a Black newspaper, killed residents and forced out the elected city government.

Civil War

The Fall of Fort Fisher, 1865: Closing the Confederacy’s Last Major Port

A powder ship that fizzled, a general who turned back, and a brutal night fight: how the Union took the sandy fortress guarding Wilmington, North Carolina.