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One of the North Carolina Museum of History's best known outreach programs is the Tar Heel Junior Historian Association (THJHA). [5]Authorized by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1953, THJHA is a network of free clubs across the state, with members in grades 4–12 and at least one adult adviser.
Dr. Gael Graham, Western Carolina University faculty and peer-review editor of The Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians, observed that "…the irony of the case ["the search for her killer, and the rapid identification, trial, and execution of the African American accused"] lay in Clevenger membership in the Bahai’i(sic ...
The earliest predecessor of the State Archives was the North Carolina Historical Commission, founded in 1903 by the General Assembly in response to a request by the State Literary and Historical Association. [2] North Carolina's Historical Commission was the third state historical agency founded in the U.S., following the 1901 founding of the ...
The earliest English attempt at colonization was the Roanoke Colony in 1585, the famed "Lost Colony" of Sir Walter Raleigh. The Province of Carolina would come about in 1629, however it was not an official province until 1663. It would later split in 1712, helping form the Province of North Carolina.
Tuscarora War. The execution of John Lawson on September 16, 1711. The Tuscarora War was fought in North Carolina from September 10, 1711, until February 11, 1715, between the Tuscarora people and their allies on one side and European American settlers, the Yamasee, and other allies on the other. This was considered the bloodiest colonial war ...
This is a list of structures, sites, districts, and objects on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina: . As of May 1, 2015, there are more than 2,900 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in all 100 North Carolina counties, including 39 National Historic Landmarks, two National Historic Sites, one National Military Park, one National ...
John Lawson (27 December 1674 – 16 September 1711) was an English explorer, naturalist and writer. He played an important role in exploring the frontier regions of the Carolinas, publicising his expeditions in a book. He founded two settlements in North Carolina, Bath and New Bern, both located on rivers in the coastal plain.
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall (born 1943) is an American historian and Julia Cherry Spruill Professor Emerita at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [1] Her scholarship and teaching forwarded the emergence of U.S. women's history in the 1960s and 1970s, [2] helped to inspire new research on Southern labor history and the long civil rights movement, and encouraged the use of oral history ...