Founded on November 21, 1789, North Carolina was one of the US's thirteen original colonies. Its rich history at the beginning of American history makes it a core part of our nation, and it's ...

This article explores the history of the North Carolina ... as did the province of North Carolina. When North Carolina became a Royal Colony in 1729, the old Albermarle seal got abandoned ...

Archaeologists from the First Colony Foundation, a North Carolina nonprofit devoted to ... to look through a periscope that goes far back in history,” she says. But the image remains stubbornly ...

It's a mystery that has intrigued Americans for centuries: What happened to the lost colonists of North Carolina's Roanoke Island? (See "America's Lost Colony.") The settlers, who arrived in 1587 ...

In this era when teaching history has become politically ... The Roanoke Colony Memorial Association commissioned Green, a North Carolina native, to develop an outdoor play honoring Dare for ...

MANTEO, N.C. — Archaeologists say an unearthed copper earring likely came from European explorers who made up part of the "Lost Colony" in modern-day Roanoke Island, North Carolina. The ...