Tag Archives: North Carolina Museum of History

Historian Re-Examines Number of Deaths of State’s Civil War Soldiers

Posted on July 26, 2011 by

[This blog post comes from a N.C. Museum of History press release - you can find other news related to North Carolina Museum of History here.] Historian Re-Examines Number of Deaths of State’s Civil War Soldiers New research reveals surprising … Continue reading →

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The Presentation, the newspaper and the TV show …(part three): the pedestal.

Posted on June 1, 2011 by

Quite by accident I ran across a newspaper article which led me to a testament in our holdings.  The testament belonged to H.A. Sledge and was taken as a war-trophy in the aftermath of the battle of Fort Fisher on … Continue reading →

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Video from the Contested Past Symposium

Posted on May 26, 2011 by

Video from parts of the symposium “Contested Past: Memories and Legacies of the Civil War: A Conference to Commemorate the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War in North Carolina” held at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh, North Carolina … Continue reading →

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Upcoming Civil War Sesquicentennial Events in North Carolina

Posted on May 16, 2011 by

[This blog post comes from a Dept. of Cultural Resources press release - you can find other news related to NC Cultural Resources here.] [Updated, 5/31/2011: for a list of currently available video/audio from the “Contested Past: Memories and Legacies … Continue reading →

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Freedom, Sacrifice, Memory: Civil War Sesquicentennial Photo Exhibit

Posted on April 1, 2011 by

[This blog post comes from a Dept. of Cultural Resources press release - you can find other news related to NC Cultural Resources here.] RALEIGH – It is called a brother’s war, and nowhere was that more true than in … Continue reading →

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Contested Past: Memories and Legacies of the Civil War

Posted on March 3, 2011 by

Announcing Contested Past: Memories and Legacies of the Civil War: A Conference to Commemorate the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War in North Carolina, to be held at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh, North Carolina on May 20, … Continue reading →

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“Poetry and Journalism in the U.S. Civil War” Lecture at the NC Museum of History

Posted on February 1, 2011 by

The complete version of this announcement of events at one of our sister institutions is available on our main blog, but I thought I’d pass along this information here: Correspondent Lines: Poetry and Journalism in the U.S. Civil War Sunday, … Continue reading →

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