A new museum in the works will tell the story of the Civil War from the home front in North Carolina. It’s geared toward students, and recently social studies teachers in eastern North Carolina met for a symposium, led by history professors from Appalachian State University and University of North Carolina – Wilmington.
In Richlands, the professors led discussions on the Civil War in Eastern North Carolina and how best to teach both about the causes of the war and divisions in the United States today.
The Civil War History Center will tell the story of the war’s impact, not on the battlefield but on individual communities and regions across the state – and the people who lived them during the fighting as well as the Reconstruction period that followed…