<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> As well as being geniuses, the Wright brothers were methodical craftsmen of astonishing persistence. An aeronautical expert supplies the fascinating technical and personal details of their legendary achievement.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A black chaplain in the Union Army reports on the struggle to take Fort Fisher, North Carolina, in the winter of 1864–65</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A contemporary artist re-creates two and a half centuries of the life of a North Carolina county</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">400 years ago, the first English settlers reached America. What followed was a string of disasters ending with the complete disappearance of a colony.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">What the Wright brothers did in a wild and distant place made its name famous around the world. Their biographer visits the Outer Banks to find what remains of the epochal outpost.</span></p>
<p>Artifacts pulled from the wreck of Blackbeard's flagship <i>Queen Anne's Revenge</i> offer a glimpse into the bloody decades of the early 18th century, when pirates ruled the Carolina coast.</p>
<p>What happened to the first English colonists in North America, who supposedly disappeared without a trace? Recent archaeological discoveries may have solved the riddle.</p>
<p>The blind guitarist and singer from Deep Gap, North Carolina transformed American music by blending bluegrass, folk, country, blues, and gospel.</p>
