Record #:

10134

Author(s):

Blackburn, Charles, Jr.

Abstract:

William S. Powell is professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After World War II, Powell began his life's work in 1948, as a research historian at the North Carolina Office of Archives and History and later spent the bulk of his career at UNC. A leading authority on the people and events that have shaped North Carolina over the last four hundred years, he has written many books on the state's history and geography.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 76 Issue 1, June 2008, p106-108, 110, 112-114, il, por

Subject(s):

Powell, William Stevens, 1919-