The USS Monitor, a warship which sank in 1862 and was rediscovered in 1973 in North Carolina, was explored for the first time since 2002. The ship is in "astounding" condition.

In the early 1900s, two Civil War memorials — both honoring the Confederacy — were erected in the busy downtown district of Wilmington, N.C. They were meant largely to send a message of ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. — So-called blockade runners of the Civil War were the epitome of maritime stealth technology of the day. “They were the equivalent of a cigarette boat. They were wicke… ...

The large Civil War-era, iron-hulled steamer found off the North Carolina shores in February had no name at the time, but since then, research appears to confirm that it is the Agnes E. Fry, a ...

The Kappa Alpha chapter at North Carolina’s Wake Forest University stopped allowing members to wear Confederate uniform and display the Confederate flag in 1987. But other chapters held on longer.

That autumn of 1862, North Carolina’s own internal civil war began to rage. From the coastal swamps to the wilderness of the Blue Ridge, anti-Confederate guerillas, ...

Maritime archaeologists and researchers in North Carolina recently discovered one of the most significant shipwrecks found off the U.S. East Coast in recent years.

North Carolina’s highest court declined to revive a challenge to Asheville's removal of a monument honoring Civil War-era Gov. Zebulon Vance.

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — A rare Civil War document discovered in a drawer outlines the newly-granted rights of North Carolina’s former slaves. The Fayetteville Observer reported that Raleigh-area ...

A large iron-hulled Civil War-era steamer has been discovered in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North Carolina. Experts believe the vessel may be one of three Confederate blockade-runners ...