North Carolina Civil War

Hegseth renames North Carolina military base Fort Roland L. Bragg

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed an order Monday restoring the name of a storied special operations forces base back to Fort Bragg. The North Carolina base was renamed Fort Liberty in 2023 as part of a national effort under the Biden administration to remove names that honored Confederate leaders.

CNN on MSN · 6h

Defense Secretary Hegseth brings back Fort Bragg name, with a different namesake

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is bringing the name Bragg back to one of the Army’s largest bases, Fort Liberty, which replaced the namesake of a Confederate general in 2023.

USA TODAY on MSN · 4h

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth renames Army base Fort Liberty to Fort Bragg

The military base had been renamed Fort Liberty as part of an effort to rechristen bases named for Confederate officers.

The New York Times · 5h

Hegseth Renames Fort Liberty to Fort Bragg

The army base was earlier named after Braxton Bragg, a Confederate general. The Pentagon said the name will now honor Roland L. Bragg, a soldier who was decorated for his service during World War II.

WNCT Greenville on MSN · 7h

Fort Liberty is renamed to Fort Roland L. Bragg after World War II soldier, Pentagon says

The massive post will now be called Fort Roland L. Bragg while in the past it was named for Gen. Braxton Bragg, a Confederate general from Warrenton.

88.5 WFDD15h

North Carolina historians seek to help educators accurately teach about the Civil War

The N.C. History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation & Reconstruction is hosting a two-day symposium for educators in ...

We Are The Mighty on MSN14h

Why the Civil War battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack was so epic

It would be the U.S. Navy’s biggest defeat until World War II and threatened to change the balance of power in American ...

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Learn more about North Carolina’s rich Black history through these 10 iconic landmarks

From the site of Durham’s Black Wall Street, where Black-owned businesses thrived, to the site of the state’s oldest ...

Raleigh News & Observer12d

He helped strike down segregated schools. See how NC, Raleigh will honor him this weekend.

a town built after the Civil War by former enslaved and free Black men and women. It had fallen into disrepair and was restored by Preservation North Carolina. The N.C. Civil Rights Trail ...

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