The overall goal of the NC Civil War & Reconstruction
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 valuab
le contribution to a new and more accurate depiction of this history that was unavailable a century ago. The NC Civil War & Reconstruction History Center, 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. Using current interpretive technologies, and anticipating trends that will be available at the time of its completion, the NC Civil War & Reconstruction History Center planning committee envisions a state-of-the-art institution that embraces a historic site, a facility that conveys the significance of its historic charter, and a digital dimension that extends its reach across the state of North Carolina. The Center shall serve as a primary Civil War era historical resource for all of North Carolina.
