Pauli Murray Hall has never been a prominent stop on any campus tours. It is dated, not historic. The Campus at Chapel Hill: Two Hundred Years of Architecture, a recently reissued 1986 book written by art history professor John V. … Read more
Quarantine measures, widespread shutdowns, and barriers to travel have made the past year unlike any in memory. For UNC History gradruate students, the coronavirus has created particular challenges. As four graduate students report, conducting dissertation research under these conditions presents … Read more
During the 2018-19 academic year, UNC History Department faculty members have read materials and attended talks by applicants for the Frank Porter Graham distinguished professorship in global human rights history, which we hope to fill as soon as possible. The … Read more
World War II had profound effects on the American home front—including UNC’s Department of History. When the war came to Carolina, our faculty, staff, and students quickly responded to the nation’s changing needs. After the United States declared war in … Read more
Professors in the Department of History usually advise numerous graduate students, but few have had as much influence on graduate education as Fletcher M. Green, a Kenan Professor of History from 1927 until his retirement in 1968. Green, a specialist … Read more
Kevin Cherry received his MA in History at UNC in 1993, before going on to earn a Ph.D. in Library Science at UNC. He is now deputy secretary of the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources and director of … Read more
In 1929, Henry M. Owl received a master’s degree from the Department of History. Owl is one of many distinguished graduates of the program, but he is particularly important to department and campus history: Owl was the first student who … Read more
In the summer of 1945 UNC-CH accepted its first Japanese-American student, Shizuko Hayashi, largely thanks to the activism of UNC-CH historian Howard K. Beale. As part of a larger project to resettle Japanese-American college students during internment in World War … Read more
