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Speaking Event Honors North Carolina’s Copy of the Bill of Rights

June 11, 2009 – 4:11 pm

Tuesday, June 16, at 7:30 p.m. The event will be held at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh’s Ridgewood Shopping Center.
Dr. Jeffrey Crow, Deputy Secretary of the Office of Archives and History, will speak on the Office of Archives and History’s role as curator of North Carolina’s copy of the Bill of Rights. Dr. Crow will [...]

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State Capitol Lecture Explores Journey of N.C.’s copy of U.S. Bill of Rights

April 13, 2009 – 11:47 am

RALEIGH–As a hard rain lashed the last Confederate state capital to surrender to General William T. Sherman, the first Union soldiers entered Raleigh on April 13, 1865, ending the general’s infamous March through the Carolinas. By the time the general’s troops struck camp and left three weeks later, North Carolina’s original copy of the [...]

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History à la Carte: North Carolina’s Bill of Rights

April 2, 2009 – 8:53 am

It made national headlines when North Carolina’s original copy of the Bill of Rights returned to the Tar Heel State in 2005. After 140 years, the historic document was finally home.
An upcoming program at the N.C. Museum of History focuses on the saga of the Bill of Rights, from its theft from the State Capitol [...]

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BOR Case Resolved

March 25, 2008 – 1:11 pm

RALEIGH - An original copy of the U.S. Bill of Rights stolen by union soldiers in 1865 now officially belongs to the people of North Carolina and to no one else, Attorney General Roy Cooper said Monday.
“The Bill of Rights is more than words on a piece of paper. It’s a powerful part of our history [...]

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