Could anyone be angrier with South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford than his wife?
Published: Jul. 1, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
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It is summertime again and time to put aside a few books for vacation reading. Let me share some suggestions from books I have been reading to prepare for UNC-TV's North Carolina Bookwatch's new season beginning July 5 at 5 p.m.
Published: Jun. 24, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
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After reading an important and provocative new book about Abraham Lincoln's ideas about the proper role of freed blacks in post-slavery times, I wondered if somebody will propose that we tear down the Lincoln Memorial.
Published: Jun. 17, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
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A lot of people think that the big Walter Davis Library at UNC is named after the great basketball player.
Published: Jun. 10, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
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I come to bury Cary, not to praise him; The evil that men do lives after them,
Published: Jun. 3, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
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ONE ON ONE: Is nobody going to say a good word about the Easleys? It might be dangerous, what with federal prosecutors raising the possibility of violations of campaign laws. Or, with many of the state's newspapers rushing in to join the News & Observer
Published: May. 27, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
ONE ON ONE: What does good eating have to do with history? This week I am trying to answer that question for the N.C. Museum of History Associates at their annual meeting.
Published: May. 20, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
ONE ON ONE: Once upon a time they went into the woods and suddenly they met a bear and the bear chased them until...
Published: May. 13, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
ONE ON ONE: Of all the North Carolinians who lived in the 20th century, which one is best known today?
Published: May. 6, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
This time three years ago, nobody in the literary world had ever heard of John Hart.
Published: Apr. 29, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Maybe you think it is too early to begin a campaign for the 2010 elections.
Published: Apr. 22, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
What do Carolina Tar Heel basketball fans and North Carolina Democrats have in common?
Published: Apr. 15, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Last weekend North Carolinians, especially Tar Heel basketball fans, found themselves pulled in all sorts of directions.
Published: Apr. 8, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
It is hard to remember when the nation showered as much attention on a North Carolinian as it did when John Hope Franklin died in Durham last week at 94.
Published: Apr. 1, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
What really makes for good schools? At a recent conference organized for North Carolina Editorial Writers, organizer Ferrel Guillory, director of UNC's Program on Public Life, presented this question for discussion.
Published: Mar. 18, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
What is the biggest surprise in Raleigh this winter?
Published: Mar. 15, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story
What is the biggest surprise in Raleigh this winter?
Published: Mar. 11, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
There is usually a nice side benefit to a search for something specific -- even if you never find what you are looking for. The great rewards of every search are the unexpected discoveries you make along the way.
Published: Mar. 4, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Are there lessons for us from the American Revolution as it was fought in the backcountry of the Carolinas? Could anything that happened so long ago be relevant to today's challenges facing America's military? Maybe.
Published: Feb. 25, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
President Obama has something North Carolina is missing, something he could give us.
Published: Feb. 18, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
We have learned something about forest fires. They are part of a natural process through which nature manages a healthy ecosystem. In our Long Leaf Pine forests, fires burn away the low brush and clear the way for the healthy growth of the pines. The
Published: Feb. 11, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
How will they figure out how to help North Carolina's economy recover? Who can tell them what will work?
Published: Feb. 4, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
ONE ON ONE: Excitement and anticipation reigned everywhere as a young African-American campaigning on a promise of change won a groundbreaking election victory.
Published: Dec. 3, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story
I almost forgot the reading and Christmas giving list I promised you a few weeks ago.
Published: Nov. 26, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story
Nobody argues that Barack Obama's election to the presidency solves America's problems with race. Deep differences and longstanding racist viewpoints are still with us.
Published: Nov. 19, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story
It was a bittersweet moment at the end of the presidential campaign last week when Barack Obama, speaking in North Carolina, tearfully acknowledged his debt to his Kansas-born and raised grandmother.
Published: Nov. 12, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story
ONE ON ONE: It is over at last!
Published: Nov. 5, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story
the great threat to Christianity?
Published: Oct. 29, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story
What about the other races?Few people, other than political insiders, are asking this question when they talk about the possible results of the upcoming elections in North Carolina.
Published: Oct. 22, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story
Do you want a break from politics?
Published: Oct. 15, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story
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