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Commemorative Landscapes of North Carolina

"Commemorative Landscapes of North Carolina" offers an inventory of the state’s monuments, shrines, and commemorative public art...This digital collection contains information on roughly 1000 historical monuments scattered across the breadth of North Carolina. It does not claim to be definitive. It does not include state highway markers or historic homes sites. Its exclusive focus is on pieces of public art that either were intended to have or have acquired historical associations.
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A wonderful 'watch' here featuring author David Zucchino and former UNCA History Professor Darin Waters. Read on below for more pertinent information and then give the video a watch.
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Speakers: David Zucchino, Journalist and Author of the Pulitzer Prize–Winning Book Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy, and Dr. Darin Waters, Deputy Secretary, NC Office of Archives and History

By the 1890s, Wilmington was North Carolina’s largest city and a shining example of a mixed-race community. It was a bustling port city with a burgeoning African American middle class and a Fusionist government of Republicans and Populists that included Black aldermen, police officers, and magistrates. However, this model for the future of southern, and even American, politics would not last.

On November 10, 1898, the local government was violently overthrown, and dozens of Black citizens were killed in the culmination of an organized, months-long statewide campaign by white supremacists to halt gains made by Blacks and restore racism as official government policy, cementing White rule for another half century.

Join David Zucchino and Dr. Darin Waters for a conversation about this extraordinary event. A book signing will follow the presentation.

Dr. Darin Waters is Deputy Secretary for the North Carolina Office of Archives and History. He oversees the operations of the Divisions of State History and Maritime Museums, State Historic Sites and Properties, Archives and Records, Historical Resources, and commissions (including Roanoke Island Festival Park and Tryon Palace), as well as Education and Outreach. He is also the secretary of the North Carolina Historical Commission and serves as the State Historic Preservation Officer.

David Zucchino is a four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist who has 50 years of experience as a journalist and reporter. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he began his journalism career at the Raleigh News and Observer. He also has worked for the Detroit Free Press and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He is currently a contributing writer for the New York Times. In his latest book, Wilmington's Lie, Zucchino uses contemporary newspaper accounts, diaries, letters, and official communications to create a gripping and compelling narrative that weaves together individual stories of hate, fear, and brutality. This is a dramatic and definitive account of a remarkable but largely forgotten chapter of American history.


 
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www.digitalnc.org

DigitalNC Home

DigitalNC is a project of the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, a statewide digitization and digital publishing program that works with cultural heritage organizations of all sizes across North Carolina to digitize and publish historic …
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Sorrt of off topic but I played cosmic croquet with Zucchino. He sure done well.
 
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“North Carolina Family Records Online is comprised of North Carolina family history materials from the holdings of the State Archives of North Carolina and State Library of North Carolina. The searchable online collection currently contains

1. Nearly 1,500 Bible records (lists of birth, marriage, and death information written in North Carolina family Bibles) from the 2000+ copies of various donated family Bibles held by the State Archives of North Carolina

2. Indexed marriage and death announcements from five North Carolina newspapers (Raleigh Register, North Carolina State Gazette, Daily Sentinel, Raleigh Observer, and News & Observer) from 1799 to 1893

3. Photographs of headstones and general views of the Raleigh Hebrew Cemetery and the Hebrew section of Historic Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh

4. Copies of genealogical research donated to the Government and Heritage Library.”

Genealogy and Family History | SLNC
 
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A wonderful 'watch' here featuring author David Zucchino and former UNCA History Professor Darin Waters. Read on below for more pertinent information and then give the video a watch.
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Speakers: David Zucchino, Journalist and Author of the Pulitzer Prize–Winning Book Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy, and Dr. Darin Waters, Deputy Secretary, NC Office of Archives and History

By the 1890s, Wilmington was North Carolina’s largest city and a shining example of a mixed-race community. It was a bustling port city with a burgeoning African American middle class and a Fusionist government of Republicans and Populists that included Black aldermen, police officers, and magistrates. However, this model for the future of southern, and even American, politics would not last.

On November 10, 1898, the local government was violently overthrown, and dozens of Black citizens were killed in the culmination of an organized, months-long statewide campaign by white supremacists to halt gains made by Blacks and restore racism as official government policy, cementing White rule for another half century.

Join David Zucchino and Dr. Darin Waters for a conversation about this extraordinary event. A book signing will follow the presentation.

Dr. Darin Waters is Deputy Secretary for the North Carolina Office of Archives and History. He oversees the operations of the Divisions of State History and Maritime Museums, State Historic Sites and Properties, Archives and Records, Historical Resources, and commissions (including Roanoke Island Festival Park and Tryon Palace), as well as Education and Outreach. He is also the secretary of the North Carolina Historical Commission and serves as the State Historic Preservation Officer.

David Zucchino is a four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist who has 50 years of experience as a journalist and reporter. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he began his journalism career at the Raleigh News and Observer. He also has worked for the Detroit Free Press and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He is currently a contributing writer for the New York Times. In his latest book, Wilmington's Lie, Zucchino uses contemporary newspaper accounts, diaries, letters, and official communications to create a gripping and compelling narrative that weaves together individual stories of hate, fear, and brutality. This is a dramatic and definitive account of a remarkable but largely forgotten chapter of American history.


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Great book!
 
Generations of researchers are familiar with the ten-volume series The Colonial Records of North Carolina, edited by William L. Saunders and published from 1886 to 1890. This series was shortly followed by the twenty volumes of The State Records of North Carolina (1895-1911), edited by Walter Clark.

Thanks to funding from the State Library through the federal Library Services and Technology Act, much of this first series is available online via DocSouth at UNC-Chapel Hill.
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www.dncr.nc.gov

Colonial Records of North Carolina | NC DNCR

Learn more about the Colonial Records series we publish and browse related titles.
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