Women’s Airforce Service Pilots at Camp Davis Army Air Field.
(Photo courtesy of N.C. State Archives)
The uniform of a female aviation pioneer resides in the collection of the North Carolina Museum of History. The 18 items of clothing and gear were issued during the Second World War to Kate Lee Adams, who served as a member [...]
March 10, 2010 – 12:23 pm
Their love transcended scandal and outrage. She was a Southern belle in Chapel Hill; he was a Union general who marched into town with Gen. Sherman’s army right after the Civil War ended. Just two months later, they were engaged.
The marriage of Ella Swain, daughter of UNC president and former governor David Swain, and Union [...]
March 10, 2010 – 11:04 am
On July 3, 1863, the final and bloodiest day of the Battle of Gettysburg, the 11th N.C. Troops carried its flag into some of the most intense combat of the Civil War during the famous Pickett-Pettigrew-Trimble charge. This historic banner was the only flag from the Tar Heel regiments in Brig. Gen. James Johnston Pettigrew’s [...]
Earl Johnson makes good on Frolic pledge and orchestrates artifact move
The Robson House has kept Earl Johnson awake at night lately.
“I lie awake at night thinking about these things,” said Johnson, at the Museum earlier today overseeing the move of one of the Museum’s most precious–and large–artifacts into its [...]
With her show-stopping talent and bouncy blond curls, Shirley Temple brought optimism and hope to Americans during the Great Depression. The cheerful child actor, one of the most famous movie stars of the 20th century, helped the nation through the 1930s.
How did she accomplish this? Find out during an upcoming program at the N.C. Museum [...]
The N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh announces that it will host the traveling exhibition Discover the Real George Washington: New Views From Mount Vernon during its national tour. Approximately 100 original objects associated with George Washington - including the only surviving complete set of his famous dentures - will be on view in this [...]
February 26, 2010 – 1:29 pm
RALEIGH - The Wright Brothers have landed in North Carolina. Again. Two paintings featuring the Wright brothers that were aboard the USS Kitty Hawk have been donated to the N.C. Museum of History. A dedication of the paintings will be held at the Museum of History on Monday, March 1, at 10 a.m.
N.C. Department [...]
February 19, 2010 – 10:41 am
“She came on a slave ship carrying the mind of a genius.”— from Sacred Fire: Phillis Wheatley and Her Friends
During Women’s History Month, the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh will present a readers’ theater play written by award-winning poet and playwright Rudy Wallace. The play Sacred Fire: Phillis Wheatley and Her Friends tells the [...]
February 12, 2010 – 11:27 am
In 1957 Virginia Williams and six other African Americans sat in the “White Only” side of the Royal Ice Cream Company in Durham. After refusing to leave, they were arrested on trespassing charges. The sit-in took place nearly three years before the historic Greensboro sit-in on Feb. 1, 1960, at the F.W. Woolworth store and [...]
February 8, 2010 – 4:04 pm
In February 1960 four African American college freshmen in Greensboro ignited a national sit-in movement protesting racial segregation. This historic event took place in the city’s F.W. Woolworth store, now the site of the newly opened International Civil Rights Center and Museum.
Amelia Parker, Executive Director of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum, will highlight [...]