Ranked #1
Ku-Klux and the Birth of the Klan
Ku-Klux and the Birth of the Klan
Historian Elaine Frantz discusses her book about the birth of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction.Historian Elaine Fr... Read more
28 Mar 2019
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Ranked #2
North Carolina and the Franklin Statehood Movement
North Carolina and the Franklin Statehood Movement
In 1782, a group of North Carolinians living in several far western counties began a secession movement with the goal to... Read more
29 Nov 2018
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Ranked #3
Lynching in North Carolina
Lynching in North Carolina
Dr. Vann Newkirk discusses his book Lynching in North Carolina: A History, 1865–1941, and the impact of lynching and mob... Read more
14 Jan 2013
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Ranked #4
Reconstruction and the Struggle for Racial Equality
Reconstruction and the Struggle for Racial Equality
Dr. Brooks Simpson’s edited collection of more than 120 speeches, newspaper and magazine articles, letters, and other pe... Read more
19 Jun 2019
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Ranked #5
Civil War Courts-Martial of North Carolina Troops
Civil War Courts-Martial of North Carolina Troops
During the Civil War, soldiers from North Carolina were sentenced to death in greater numbers than soldiers from any oth... Read more
2 Oct 2017
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Ranked #6
Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson
Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson
Historian Susan Burch discusses her 2007 book (which she coauthored with Hannah Joyner) about a deaf African American ma... Read more
1 Jul 2013
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Ranked #7
WWI's USS North Carolina
WWI's USS North Carolina
The third of four ships in the US Navy named for the state of North Carolina was commissioned in 1908: the USS North Car... Read more
28 Jul 2017
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Ranked #8
The Power and Popularity of Music in the Civil War
The Power and Popularity of Music in the Civil War
During the Civil War, music accompanied soldiers almost everywhere they went. Regardless of race or ethnicity, it affect... Read more
22 Aug 2013
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Ranked #9
North Carolina and World War One
North Carolina and World War One
After hearing his grandfather’s recollections of WWI, Jackson Marshall, deputy director of the North Carolina Museum of ... Read more
22 Jun 2017
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Ranked #10
History of the Emancipation Proclamation
History of the Emancipation Proclamation
Bruce Bustard, senior exhibits curator, at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C., discuss... Read more
5 Apr 2013
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Ranked #11
The Life and Times of Robert Rice Reynolds
The Life and Times of Robert Rice Reynolds
Robert Rice Reynolds was a colorful and suave Senator who represented North Carolina from 1933 to 1945 before his contro... Read more
26 Apr 2013
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Ranked #12
The Value and Legacy of Oral Histories
The Value and Legacy of Oral Histories
As director of the Southern Oral History Program, Dr. Rachel Seidman oversees a collection of more than 6,000 interviews... Read more
2 Feb 2018
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Ranked #13
Ernie Barnes and the Merger of Art and Athlete
Ernie Barnes and the Merger of Art and Athlete
An interview with Luz Rodriguez, trustee for the Ernie Barnes Estate,on the life and work of Ernie Barnes. With his uniq... Read more
19 Jun 2018
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Ranked #14
A Personal Connection to HBCUs
A Personal Connection to HBCUs
Taneya Thompson, a 2018 summer Museum of History intern, hosted this podcast—which explores her experiences as a student... Read more
1 Oct 2018
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Ranked #15
Conserving the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
Conserving the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
Terry Boone, an exhibits conservator at the National Archives and Records Administration, discusses methods used by cura... Read more
27 Feb 2013
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Ranked #16
Pauli Murray and the Long Civil Rights Movement
Pauli Murray and the Long Civil Rights Movement
The brilliant legal writings of Durham’s Pauli Murray challenged civil rights barriers not only for African Americans bu... Read more
15 May 2018
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Ranked #17
Alamance Battleground and the Regulator Movement
Alamance Battleground and the Regulator Movement
A conversation with Jeremiah DeGennaro, site manager of the Alamance Battleground State Historic Site, about the Battle ... Read more
24 Apr 2017
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Ranked #18
Civil War Refugees and the Struggle for Freedom
Civil War Refugees and the Struggle for Freedom
Chandra Manning, associate professor of History at Georgetown University, talks about her new book, "Troubled Refuge: St... Read more
25 Jul 2016
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Ranked #19
Hugh Morton's View of North Carolina
Hugh Morton's View of North Carolina
Catherine Morton, Hugh Morton’s youngest daughter, talks about her father’s 70-year career as a photographer, his intere... Read more
27 Jun 2016
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Ranked #20
Anarchy and the Historic House Museum
Anarchy and the Historic House Museum
An interview with Frank Vagnone, preservationist, architect, artist, and coauthor of the "Anarchist's Guide to Historic ... Read more
4 Dec 2015
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