The Phi Alpha Theta chapter of UNC, with support from the UNC History Department, hosted its fourth annual history quiz bowl for high school students on Saturday, April 1st, in Hamilton Hall. Question content roughly followed knowledge from AP-level classes … Read more

The 2017 issue of our students’ prize-winning journal, Traces, explores the theme of Memory and Southern History. This volume includes articles by UNC undergraduates on gender and marriage during the Civil War, infanticide in the antebellum South, depictions of the … Read more

Recipients of Honors and Highest Honors Phi Beta Kappa Inductees Phi Alpha Theta Inductees Georgia Jane Brunner Elizabeth Crenshaw Chase (Highest) Michael Ian Hensley Ruoyu Ji Adrienne Kronovet Charles Bracken Lumsden (Highest) Meredith Grace Miller (Highest) Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler Ethan Henry … Read more

This month, we say goodbye to our seniors, who are heading off to a wide range of professional opportunities and graduate programs. And students who are returning to Carolina in the fall have exciting summer plans. What has a history … Read more

This year the University is rolling out a new “Quality Enhancement Plan” called “Creating Scientists: Learning by Connecting, Doing, and Making.” But it is not only in the sciences that UNC students learn through experience, conduct research, and create their … Read more

We in the History Department, like most academics I suspect, are cynical about departmental and college rankings. Unless, of course, they confirm our prejudices. So when U.S. New and World Report ranked our doctoral program as the 11th best in … Read more

I often offer my advisees much unsolicited advice. One such pearl of wisdom is always to take time to celebrate achievements, especially those of colleagues and friends. Here, it is my pleasure to take my own advice. A proper place … Read more

This fall semester, some 3750 students were enrolled in History Department courses, nearly 500 UNC-CH students were majoring or double-majoring in history, and another 300 or so were history minors.  Although nationally, history enrollments have been declining, UNC-CH’s Department of … Read more

In 1975 UNC-CH awarded the first Morehead-Cain scholarships to women. Among the first female recipients was Katie Ziglar ’79, who agreed it was “high time” the university accepted women into the prestigious program. Ziglar fell in love with history and … Read more

In 1990, UNC-CH alum Dr. Gordon “Nick” Mueller, then a professor and administrator at the University of New Orleans, was approached by colleague Stephen Ambrose to start a modest museum to honor those who participated in D-Day. Mueller, whose graduate … Read more