History: A Man Named Raleigh
Raleigh was an adventurer, writer, explorer, poet and soldier for whom North Carolina’s Capital is named. He was twice imprisoned in the famed ‘Tower of London’ and eventually beheaded. Did Raleigh deserve his fate?
Entries by Gordon and Marcia Mercer
History of the Carolinas: Women Pirates
Bonny was still angry at Jack for not fighting and said, “If you’d fought like a man you needn’t hang like a dog.”