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Lecture Blends Southern Food with African American Culture

May 9, 2013 – 9:00 am

The Tryon Palace African American Lecture Series continues on Thursday, May 16, with “Shaping a Culture: African American Cooks and the Making of Southern Food.” Conducted in Cullman Performance Hall by Dr. Rebecca Sharpless, this free event is the latest installment of Tryon Palace’s yearlong theme of “Fresh from the Past: Food and Culture in [...]

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The Death and Wounding of Stonewall Jackson

April 9, 2013 – 5:00 pm

FAYETTEVILLE — The Museum of the Cape Fear is pleased to welcome the return of Dr. Matt Farina who, in his third presentation at the museum, will speak about The Wounding and Death of Stonewall Jackson, on April 25 at 7 p.m. in the museum’s multi-purpose room. The program is free and open to the [...]

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Museum of the Cape Fear Hosts Speaker on the Wilmington Race Riots

April 1, 2013 – 1:00 pm

FAYETTEVILLE — LeRae Umfleet, author of A Day of Blood: the 1898 Wilmington Race Riot, will speak on that subject at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 14 at the Museum of the Cape Fear Historical Complex in Fayetteville. LeRae Umfleet, Chief of Collections Management for the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, will discuss this important, [...]

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Civil War Comes to Life with Soldier’s Ball, Encampments, Rare Exhibits

March 5, 2013 – 2:30 pm

After its fall to Union troops in March of 1862, New Bern remained a Federally-occupied city for the remainder of the Civil War. Experience life in New Bern during that occupation as Tryon Palace invites visitors to go behind Union lines for “Civil War Weekend: Keepers of the Town.” Held the weekend of March 9-10, [...]

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Historian Dispels Myths of Gen. Lee’s Surrender

February 13, 2013 – 1:00 pm

The Civil War Sesquicentennial Lecture Series continues in March at the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh. Elizabeth R. Varon, Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History at the University of Virginia, will address myths about Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. Hear more during her lecture “Legacies of Appomattox” on Sunday, March 3, [...]

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Who Murdered Cleopatra’s Sister?

February 11, 2013 – 5:00 pm

Hilke Thür gained international recognition from her investigations of a tomb in the ancient city of Ephesus (in present-day Turkey), which she correctly identified as the tomb of Cleopatra’s youngest sister, Arsinoë IV. Come hear Thür present the lecture “Who Murdered Cleopatra’s Sister? And Other Tales From Ephesus” on Friday, March 1, at 7 p.m. [...]

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Through the Lens: The Life of Bayard Wootten

December 20, 2012 – 12:29 pm

On Thursday, January 17 at 2 p.m. join New Bern Native Anthony Lilly and special guests as they illuminate the life of pioneering photographer Bayard Wootten, sharing her rich family history, her road to success, and her passion for the artistic medium which she used brilliantly to document the American South. Anthony Lilly, a New [...]

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Rare Opportunity to Hear Firsthand About Preserving the Heritage of Selçuk, Turkey

November 28, 2012 – 11:30 am

The N.C. Museum of History presents a rare opportunity to hear firsthand about efforts to preserve the rich heritage of Selçuk, located near Ephesus, one of Turkey’s major tourist attractions. Selçuk archaeologist Yusuf Yavaş will be in Raleigh on Saturday, Dec. 1, at 7 p.m. to discuss how the city is trying to preserve the [...]

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Civil War Lecture Series Debuts

September 19, 2012 – 10:40 am

Intriguing perspectives of the American Civil War will rise to the forefront in upcoming lectures at the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh. October’s lecture, The Civil War in Fiction and Film, centers on how memory of the Civil War has been manipulated and its history reinterpreted. The lecture complements the popular exhibit Real to [...]

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Lecture Series Features Internationally Recognized Scholars

January 6, 2010 – 4:30 pm

How did Shirley Temple help Americans during the Great Depression? What was the South’s secret weapon during the Civil War? Internationally recognized scholars from the National Humanities Center will answer these questions and others during Perspectives on History, a lecture series that examines history in new and innovative ways. This free series begins Feb. 9 [...]

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SECCA Co-hosts Lecture by Artist Mark Jenkins Sept. 22

September 9, 2009 – 4:26 pm

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) and Reynolda House Museum of American Art are co-presenting a launch party and artist talk by sculptor Mark Jenkins Sept. 22. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the auditorium at Reynolda House beginning at 5:30 p.m. Jenkins [...]

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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 U.S. [...]

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