Brent Lane, who taught heritage economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, grew up fascinated by Lost Colony legends and owns a modern copy of White’s watercolor map.

More than five centuries ago, a group of settlers on Roanoke Island vanished. Recent archaeological findings offer new ...

On this day in 1718, the Royal Navy attacked and killed Blackbeard, also known as Edward Teach, off the coast of North ...

The 13 original colonies of the United States were the foundation of what would become a new nation, born from a blend of ambition, conflict and compromise. These colonies stretched along the Atlantic ...

This region included Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia ... while others were directly ruled by the British crown as royal colonies. The British parliament and English ...

The beginning of what is now the State of North Carolina from the years when thousands of Native American prospered through the first visitors and the Lost Colony early colonial development and ...