NC History Center on the Civil War, Emancipatio...

The North Carolina History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation & Reconstruction (NCHCCWER) will create a comprehensive portrait of the Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction periods.

The overall goal of this North Carolina History Center is to create a comprehensive portrait of North Carolina history that spans the Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction periods.

The Center builds on histories already told, using new records that have been since uncovered, patterns of data that have been newly seen, and recent scholarship. All of these things will make a valuable contribution to a new and more accurate depiction of this history that was unavailable a century ago.

The NCHCCWER will tell North Carolina's Civil War story from the top-down, and the ground-up. The history told here will focus on the human impact of the most traumatic period of United States history. At the same time, visitors should experience, and understand, the sweep of the state's Civil War era history.