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The Old North State: Apex to Lockville

See photos from the area of Wake, Chatham, and Lee counties profiled in 1939 in the WPA's "Guide to the Old North State".

Words we like: antebellum

Tarheelia in all its forms: The North Carolina music mural at Pepper's Pizza

For the past few years, Birds of Avalon drummer Scott Nurkin has been working on a very cool art project on a wall of Pepper's Pizza in Chapel Hill -- the North Carolina Musicians Mural, which includes Kanapolis George Clinton and 16 other luminaries (with a dozen or so more still to come). There will be a story about this in Sunday's paper; meantime, check out our online photo gallery, which includes most of the portraits.

ADDENDUM (6/28/09): And here's the story.

The Smokies: Early 1900s

A collection of photographs of people and places in the Great Smoky Mountains during the early 1900s.

Portraits of Raleigh

Portraits of Raleigh

View some of the work by local photographers included in the Portraits of Raleigh exhibit.

Book Review - "Revolt of the Tar Heels" by James M. Beeby

Tags: history

By Rob Christensen
In the 1890s, North Carolina underwent a pitchfork rebellion unlike anything ever seen in Southern politics.

Book Review - "The Lincoln Anthology"

Tags: history

By John David Smith
In April 1865, soon after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, Ralph Waldo
Emerson eulogized the recently slain president as "thoroughly American
-- a quite native, aboriginal man, as an acorn from an oak, no aping of
foreigners, no frivolous accomplishments." Seventeen years later, Walt
Whitman lauded Lincoln as the American among Americans, "his times, his
death -- great as any, any age -- belong altogether to our own."

Book Review - "Sweet Land of Liberty" by Thomas J. Sugrue

Tags: history

By Lewis M. Steel
For generations, the North has given itself credit for being less racially biased than the South, and for being the better place for African- Americans to live.

Book review - "The Reagan I Knew" by William F. Buckley Jr.

Tags: history

By Gil Troy
William F. Buckley and Ronald Reagan were the conservative revolution's odd couple. Buckley was the movement's elitist prophet, scolding Americans polysyllabically. Reagan was its populist preacher, inspiring millions to join him in repudiating "big government."

Book review – "Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War" by Jacqueline Jones

Tags: history

By Michael Kenny
The Boston Globe
In early January 1865, some three weeks after the Union Army entered Savannah at the sweeping end of Sherman's March to the Sea, some 500 black children marched through the city to the old slave market that had been hastily converted into a large schoolroom.

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