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25493
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Konrad Jarausch is a UNC professor in the Department of History and the son of a German World War II officer. Jarausch never met his father but finally faced his legacy 60 years later. His father’s wartime letters revealed the emotional realities, values and obligations soldiers faced in the war.
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25558
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Brett Whalen, a UNC assistant professor of history, researches medieval theology and the apocalypse. In his book, Dominion of God, Whalen traces the cycle of apocalyptic thinking throughout the Middle Ages and its influence on the papacy.
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10853
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Chapel Hill has been known for its charm and beauty since 1795, when the town was selected as the home of the nation's first public university. Over the past two centuries the town has managed to escape the ravages of urban growth which has changed the look of so many American cities. Lea discusses the town's \"carefully preserved built environment.\"
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25660
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UNC doctoral student Darin Waters is writing the history of the Young Men’s Institute Cultural Center at the Biltmore Estate, which has offered educational programs and other services for African Americans in Asheville since 1893. Waters discovered the Biltmore Estate did not did not force African Americans to leave; rather, Biltmore was part of a mutual agreement that relied on the help of black craftsman and philanthropy.
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25661
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UNC historians Lars Schoultz and Louis Perez have been studying United States history with Cuba. Schoultz analyzed unpublished archives from the CIA during the Bay of Pigs Invasion, which confirm plans for using U.S. troops in Cuba. Perez documented metaphors that U.S. policymakers and politicians have used to depict Cuba as a country needing to be saved. Both authors agree that the U.S. should engage with Cuba and end the embargo.
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28193
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is ignoring its mission and is suffering from corporatization. John Hammond is a UNC School of Medicine professor emeritus and has investigated the university's recent practices. The university’s hospital has reduced access for the poor while raising its tuition and rewarding leaders with large bonuses. Hammond describes a drift from the university’s mission since 1987, discusses how the university has become more corporate, and worries that this hurts students and the local community.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 24 Issue 3, January 2007,
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16687
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Graduates, students, and faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are proud of their school. Many North Carolinians share that pride in the institution that was the nation's first state university to admit and graduate students. Allen discusses two new books that discuss the glory of the University and also the politics behind its founding.
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21578
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This article examines potential causes for University of North Carolina professor Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick'a steadfast antislavery beliefs which, among other things, led to his dismissal in 1856. The university stated its reasoning for the decision came from its belief that the university was no place for rancorous political debates. Effectively banished from his native North Carolina, Hedrick worked for the US Patent Office in Washington, D.C., and never again lived in North Carolina on a permanent basis.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 76 Issue 3, July 1999,
p316-336, il, por, f
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1470
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Chapel Hill has been visited by Presidents James K. Polk, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Bill Clinton.
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1473
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A long and meandering process resulted in the creation of today's University of North Carolina System, comprised of sixteen degree-granting institutions.
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1474
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Joyce presents the legal history of the desegregation of the University of North Carolina System and the prospects for future change, recognizing that both gradualism and abrupt, court-ordered change are possible.
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24428
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The North Carolina Collection in Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is host to documents related to the state’s history from the sixteenth century onwards. This article discusses what can be found in the collection.
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The 1918-1919 influenza epidemic killed millions worldwide, including 13,644 in the state. A large number of Army trainees on the University of North Carolina campus died, as did UNC president Edward Kidder Graham.
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21549
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In 1933 at the University of North Carolina medical school, there was a quota on the number of Jewish students that were to be accepted into the program. Medical school dean Isaac Hall Manning kept Jewish students to about 10 percent of the overall program based on the argument that those students would not be accepted elsewhere after the program and the school's reputation would suffer. University president Frank Porter Graham argued against Manning's quota system on moral grounds until Manning resigned.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 67 Issue 4, Oct 1990,
p385-410 , il, por, f
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Two prominent families were brought together when Henry Flagler and Mary Kenan wed in 1901. Flagler was one of the founders of the Standard Oil Company and founder of the Florida East Coast Railway System. Kenan also came from a well-known family. Her brother, for example, was famous for discovering carbon gas for home lighting before the electric light was used, and he built the first electric light plant in Chapel Hill. Henry Flagler died in 1918 (sic) and left their $4 million mansion named “Whitehall,†in Palm Beach, Florida, to Mary. She established the Kenan Professorship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her siblings inherited the estate after her death and began a long tradition of philanthropy in North Carolina, including major funding for the Kenan Stadium and Kenan Memorial Auditorium.
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