In recent years, the University of North Carolina has encouraged faculty across disciplines to provide new opportunities for undergraduate students to develop research-related skills. Many history courses already include student research, especially the History 398 capstone courses, in which students … Read more

In recent years, the UNC History Department has undertaken a number of new initiatives to prepare graduate students for a wide array of careers beyond academia. Among the opportunities available at UNC for graduate students to explore non-academic careers is … Read more

The History Department welcomed a number of leading international scholars to Chapel Hill for its “Global Brexit and the Lost Futures of European Empires” conference from April 4-6, 2019. Over the course of the conference, these scholars discussed the global … Read more

The UNC History Graduate Program continues to support our graduate students as they become professional historians. Recognizing that the skills they will need are much more varied than when much of the current faculty went to graduate school, we have … Read more

Historians might aspire to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur “Genius Grant,” or even a Pulitzer Prize, but few would expect to win a Grammy. Professor Emeritus William R. Ferris, a leader in the field of Southern studies, is an … Read more

Dear Alumni and Friends, Greetings from Hamilton Hall! As the academic year comes to a close, it is my pleasure to share with you the spring issue of our newsletter, the Department Historian. I hope you will take some time … Read more

In the fall 2018, the History department inaugurated a new funding initiative aimed at fostering undergraduate research: the 398 Capstone Seminar Support Awards. These modest but important grants are intended to defray the costs of undergraduate travel to archives, libraries, … Read more

This semester, we welcomed 18 new students into the Graduate Program. These remarkable new scholars come from the US and five other countries (Canada, Indonesia, Nigeria, Scotland, and Turkey). This is the first year for our new field in African … Read more

There is a long history of student activism at UNC. In 1968, students successfully fought North Carolina’s ban on inviting “known communists” to speak on campus. In 1987, students pushed the UNC Endowment Board to divest from South African companies … Read more

Many students dread studying history, thinking it has no bearing on their lives in the present. McKee Nunnally ’65 knows differently. Nunnally, who earned his bachelor’s degree in history at UNC, has applied the lessons he learned in U.S. and … Read more