A plaque for Bush in Chapel Hill?

“The real mystery after half a century,” Wyndham Robertson says, “is why life at the top of large American corporations still seems so overwhe…

RALEIGH — In the January 1953 edition of the magazine If: Worlds of Science Fiction, a fan of the genre from Texas, Marilyn Venable, made her …

While many are fretting over the just-right Christmas present, tackling last-minute holiday details or preparing for years-end, many of North …

What is a good book I can give a friend?

One of my favorite things about the holiday season is the arrival of “The World Almanac and Book of Facts.”

What really happened to Virginia Dare, the first child of English parents born in the New World? The same Virginia Dare whom I suggested recen…

While I have been traveling up and down North Carolina’s roads in search of local eateries, UNC Law School professor Gene Nichol has been trav…

A couple of weeks ago I shared with readers a list of famous North Carolinians published in the 2019 “The World Almanac and Book of Facts.”

There is a secret about North Carolina’s early colonial days, something even more disturbing and horrifying than traditional slavery.

Would you like to know why U.S. sanctions against companies owned by Russian billionaire and businessman Oleg Deripaska are being lifted?

Why would anybody want to spend months walking from the South Carolina coast, up through the Piedmont to present-day Charlotte, and then back …

Do you remember the important North Carolina connection to “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” one of America’s most loved novels?

How did a close election in the Ninth Congressional District of North Carolina lead to this column?

Carol Folt’s swift departure from the chancellorship of UNC-Chapel Hill a few weeks ago and her just as swift hiring as the president of the U…

What did North Carolina Democrats learn from the elections earlier this month?

Who will succeed Margaret Spellings as president of the UNC System?

Can’t you say anything good about President Donald Trump?

Why would I ask you to read from a column I wrote almost 30 years ago?

When H. G. Jones died on October 14, our state lost a key connection to its history as well as a prime and positive, but all too rare, example…

Besides circulation the most complaints I get is about the editorial page. So today’s Friday Five is about questions and complaints about poli…

I am looking for iconic North Carolina eateries for a new book.

How did Carrboro writer and teacher Georgann Eubanks become the leader of the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association?

Anna Beer could cost North Carolina taxpayers millions of dollars.