The last week in July, UNC Chapel Hill’s Carolina K-12 program hosted a professional development program in Wilmington called “Harbors of Democracy” for educators across the state. For some of the sessions, they listened to state and local historians on how the media was used to foment violence during the Wilmington 1898 coup and massacre – and to subsequently cover up the truth of what happened. They also learned that some historical remnants from that time are at risk of being lost.