Roger Beckett, executive director of the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University, discusses the importance of using original documents when studying American history. Beckett offered these comments during an interview for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 616).
North Carolina: Early to the revolution
In early 1776, battle lines in NC had already been drawn between loyalists to the British crown and American patriots. At the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge, these lines burst into the open.