Fort Bragg of North Carolina Officially Renamed as Fort Liberty
Listen to the Podcast: Fort Bragg in North Carolina, which bears the name of Confederate Army General Braxton Bragg, was formally changed to Fort Liberty on Friday. The renaming ceremony on Friday was a component of a nationwide initiative to remove references to the Confederate States of America from the names of nine U.S. Army […]
Jewish Heritage North Carolina: What Is It?
North Carolina has a long and interesting Jewish history. It was the site of the first Jewish settler, Joachim Ganz, who was part of a British colony that arrived in 1585 – coincidentally, sixty-nine years before the heralded date of the 1654 New Amsterdam settlement. Despite this, however, North Carolina became beset by sectarian politics […]
