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The blind guitarist and singer from Deep Gap, North Carolina transformed American music by blending bluegrass, folk, country, blues, and gospel.
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What happened to the first English colonists in North America, who supposedly disappeared without a trace? Recent archaeological discoveries may have solved the riddle.
Editor’s Note: Scott Dawson, founder of the Croatoan Archaeological Society, has been the driving force behind ten years of archaeological excavations on Hatteras Island that have led to a new understanding of what may have happened to the abandoned settlers.
Artifacts pulled from the wreck of Blackbeard's flagship Queen Anne's Revenge offer a glimpse into the bloody decades of the early 18th century, when pirates ruled the Carolina coast.
A colonial capital remembered for its women
In New Bern, North Carolina, enjoy the holidays in 1770 and 1830 and 1940.
Under a dome of stars emerging from the darkening twilight, the air has a Christmasy nip to it and carries the scent of fires in nearby fireplaces, but the breeze is a mild Southern one.
What the Wright brothers did in a wild and distant place made its name famous around the world. Their biographer visits the Outer Banks to find what remains of the epochal outpost.
Wilbur Wright boarded a Big Four train at the Union Station in Dayton, Ohio, at 6:30 on the evening of Thursday, September 6, 1900. 33 years old, he was setting off on the first great adventure of his life.
400 years ago, the first English settlers reached America. What followed was a string of disasters ending with the complete disappearance of a colony.
Roanoke was a twice-lost colony. First its settlers disappeared—some 110 men, women, and children who vanished almost without a trace.
A contemporary artist re-creates two and a half centuries of the life of a North Carolina county
Last March a letter arrived at AMERICAN HERITAGE from Barry G. Huffman of Hickory, North Carolina, a subscriber who had some kind words to say about the most recent issue of the magazine.
A black chaplain in the Union Army reports on the struggle to take Fort Fisher, North Carolina, in the winter of 1864–65
As well as being geniuses, the Wright brothers were methodical craftsmen of astonishing persistence. An aeronautical expert supplies the fascinating technical and personal details of their legendary achievement.
Third in a series of paintings for AMERICAN HERITAGE BY DON TROIANI
Major General Nathanael Greene, commanding the Continental Army in the south, spent mid-March of 1781 trying to lure Cornwallis and his army into battle on advantageous ground.
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