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Co-host Leoneda Inge talks with Ansley Wegner about the North Carolina Highway Historical Marker program and its role in documenting North Carolina history — from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement — for all to see.
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A conversation with the directors of "American Coup: Wilmington 1898," and two descendants on opposite sides of the coup and massacre.
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The story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke has captured the imaginations of North Carolinians for centuries. And what actually happened to those colonists remains a mystery, despite so many efforts to uncover the truth.
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Scene on Radio host and producer John Biewen and film studies professor Michael A. Betts II talk with Leoneda Inge about their new podcast series “Echoes of a Coup" and the reverberations felt today from the 1898 Wilmington massacre and coup d’état. And we talk with Dr. LaGarrett King about how to teach traumatic incidents in Black history to K-12 students.
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The story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke has captured the imaginations of North Carolinians for centuries. And what actually happened to those colonists remains a mystery, despite so many efforts to uncover the truth.
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America’s Favorite Drive. That’s what the National Park Service calls the Blue Ridge Parkway. And they have the numbers to back it up: 14 million visitors last year on nearly 500 miles of meandering two-lane road from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to the Great Smokies in North Carolina.But like the rest of the South through which it winds, the Blue Ridge Parkway wasn’t always welcoming - or even accessible - to all of America.
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A group of UNC-Chapel Hill faculty are asking the UNC Board of Trustees to reconsider its ban on naming campus landmarks, in an effort to allow the…
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Wilmington is the setting for some of North Carolina’s oldest history — including the only coup d’etat to ever take place in the United States. In 1898 a…
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Wilmington is the setting for some of North Carolina’s oldest history — including the only coup d’etat to ever take place in the United States. In 1898 a…
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Brunswick Town was once a thriving British port before the Revolutionary War. It was one of the first successful European settlements in the Cape Fear…