Related Readings About the Collection

• A study guide to university history
• An extensive bibliography on university history
• The Carolina Story Overview, from the conference, "Knowledge in Service to North Carolina, 1789-2006"
• "Service to the State and Region," from the conference "Knowledge in Service to North Carolina, 1789-2006"
• Papers from the conference "Remembering Reconstruction: A Community Conversation," October, 2004
• Gladys Hall Coates University History Lecture Series
• "'The Grown–up Daughter': The Case of North Carolina's Cornelia Phillips Spencer" from the North Carolina Historical Review, July 1997.

Related Readings from Exhibits

Davie and the University's Founding (visit this exhibit)

• To learn more about the university's history, go to "The First Century of the First State University" in Documenting the American South
• 1776 Constitution of the State of North Carolina
• William R. Davie's Bill to Establish the University of North Carolina, [November 12, 1789]
• William R. Davie's Description of the Site of the University, September 25, 1793
• Learn more about Carolina's early buildings in this exhibit.
• Read McCorkle's 1793 sermon on education
• Read the first regulations of the university [August 2, 1795]

Architectural Highlights of Carolina's Historic Campus (visit this exhibit)

• Learn more about the early buildings on campus in the University Library’s exhibit “The First Century of the First State University”
• Look at Nichols’s bill to the university
• Read a letter from Davis describing the dormitory expansion, dated March 24, 1845
• Read a letter from Davis describing the dormitory expansion, dated December 5, 1845
• Look at one of Davis’s drawings of the expansion
• Read Davis’s building description
• Read Davis letter about Playmakers

Carolina's Early Benefactors (visit this exhibit)

• Read trustees’ resolution about the sale of Gerrard’s lands
• Read a Deems sermon written during the Civil War
• Learn more about James Strudwick Smith in the exhibit, Slavery and the University
• Learn more about Pauli Murray in the exhibit, Slavery and the University
• Read more about Venable’s mission for Carolina in the exhibit Building a Research University
• Listen to an interview with George Watts Hill by the Southern Oral History Program
• Read Robert Hanes’s letter written from the battlefields of France during World War I
• Learn more about the history of the Ackland Art Museum.

Antebellum College Life (visit this exhibit)

• Learn more about antebellum student life in True and Candid Compositions: The Lives and Writings of Antebellum Students at the University of North Carolina, a digital publication by Erika Lindemann.
• Learn more about Carolina's early buildings in this exhibit.
• SOAR Telescope
• Learn more about the antebellum curriculum
• Learn more about the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies

Slavery and the University (visit this exhibit)

• Learn more about this topic at the online exhibit Slavery and the Making of the University
• See documents describing the enslaved construction workers
• Learn more about Thomas Day
• Read how Day planned to produce the woodwork
• Read Day's woodwork cost estimate
• Learn more about the life of college servants
• Learn more about escheats and the university
• See a will that lists one trustee's slave holdings
• State v. Mann decision
• The Southern Oral History Program
• Learn more about Caldwell’s life
• Read poems by George Moses Horton
• Learn more about George Moses Horton at the online exhibit Slavery and the Making of the University

Women in the Early Years (visit this exhibit)

• Learn more about women at Carolina in Pamela Dean's Women on the Hill: The History of Women at the University of North Carolina. (PDF)
• Read Hentz's "The Planter's Northern Bride"
• Read the letters Lucy Battle wrote to her husband
• Read Spencer's "The Last Ninety Days of the War in North Carolina"

The Civil War Years (visit this exhibit)

• Read students' views on slavery
• Read Gaston's Address Delivered before the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies at Chapel Hill, N.C., 20 June 1832
• Read more about Hedrick’s views on slavery
• Read about the Hedrick case
• Read James Johnston Pettigrew's 1847 description of campus life
• Read Grimes' battle descriptions
• Read student's description of attack on runaway slave camp
• Read an eyewitness account of the surrender
• Read a letter describing Union occupation of Chapel Hill
• Read Spencer's "The Last Ninety Days of the War in North Carolina"

Reconstruction (visit this exhibit)

• Battle's "History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868"
• History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912
• Learn more about Samuel Field Phillips
• Learn more about Charles Phillips
• Read Spencer's "The Last Ninety Days of the War in North Carolina"
• Read Spencer's "Young Lady's Column," NC Presbyterian, February 26, 1875
• Read a letter written by Spencer that appeared in The Sentinel, April 6, 1869

The New South (visit this exhibit)

• Learn more about the North Carolina election of 1898
• Listen to Jonathan Daniels discuss his father, Josephus Daniels in an interview conducted by the Southern Oral History Program.
• Read the lyrics to "Hark the Sound"
• Listen to the Carolina Glee Club sing "Hark the Sound."
• Read the current Daily Tar Heel
• Read William S. Powell's article "Why We're All Called Tar Heels"

African Americans and Segregation (visit this exhibit)

• Read more about Wilson Caldwell
• Listen to James Atwater, a black university employee, describe life in segregated Chapel Hill in an interview from the Southern Oral History Program.
• Listen to Rebecca Clark, a black university employee, describe life in segregated Chapel Hill in an interview from the Southern Oral History Program.
• Read and listen to an interview with John Hope Franklin from the Southern Oral History Program

Women and Coeducation (visit this exhibit)

• Learn more about women at Carolina in Pamela Dean's Women on the Hill: The History of Women at the University of North Carolina. (PDF)
• Listen to Kathrine Robinson Everett describe her years in law school
• Read Guion Griffis Johnson's "Antebellum North Carolina"
• Learn more about Guion Griffis Johnson
• Read and listen to an interview with Guion Griffis Johnson from the Southern Oral History Program
• Listen to Lane describe her career at Carolina.

Building a Research University (visit this exhibit)

• Learn more about other early benefactors of Carolina.
• Read about World War I on campus in the 1918 "Yackety Yack"
• Read about World War I on campus in the 1919 "Yackety Yack"
• Listen to researcher Harriet Herring discuss her work on the textile industry in an interview conducted by the Southern Oral History Program.
• Listen to John Ivey, a student, describe Howard Odum and Rupert Vance in an interview conducted by the Southern Oral History Program.
• Listen to Guion Johnson describe her training under Howard Odum in an interview conducted by the Southern Oral History Program.
• The University of North Carolina Press
• Learn more about the Thomas Wolfe Collection in the North Carolina Collection
• Learn more about Paul Green at ibiblio.
• The Louis Round Wilson Library
• The Southern Historical Collection

Carolina’s Literary History (visit this exhibit)

• Read the first issue of University Magazine
• Read an issue of University Magazine from 1852
• For more on student publications, see the online exhibit, "Tar Heel Ink"
• Read The Planter's Northern Bride
• Learn more about George Moses Horton at this library exhibit
• Find documentary resources about George Moses Horton
• Read The Hope of Liberty
• Read Sea-Gift
• Learn more about North Carolina writers.
• Learn more about Thomas Wolfe
• Learn more about Paul Green
• Read Langston Hughes' "Christ in Alabama," from Contempo
• See a description of Shelby Foote’s papers in the University Library including his correspondence with Walker Percy
• Learn more about Walker Percy
• Look at a finding aid with a description of Walker Percy's papers in the University Library
• Look at a finding aid with a description of Robert Ruark's papers in the University Library
• Learn about Josefina Niggli
• Listen to an interview with Phillips Russell from the Southern Oral History Program

Frank Porter Graham (visit this exhibit)

• Learn more about Graham's influence in North Carolina in an interview with William C. Friday conducted by the Southern Oral History Program.
• Learn more about the university during the Great Depression and World War II.

The University in Crisis: The Great Depression and World War II (visit this exhibit)

• Learn more about the B-1 band
• Read about the impact of the G.I. Bill on N.C. State

Student Life at Carolina, 1890-1960 (visit this exhibit)

• Learn about the state’s African Americans during this period in this exhibit.
• Learn about women’s experiences at Carolina in this exhibit.
• Learn about Carolina during the Great Depression and World War II in this exhibit.
• Learn more about women at Carolina in Pamela Dean’s Women on the Hill: The History of Women at the University of North Carolina
• Read about the integration of the university in this exhibit.

Jewish Life at Carolina (visit this exhibit)

• Learn more at the University Library’s online exhibit A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life.
• See a description of Shelby Foote’s papers in the University Library, which includes his correspondence with Walker Percy.
• Learn more about current Hillel activities
• Learn more about the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies.

American Indians and Chapel Hill (visit this exhibit)

• Learn more about the state’s only historic site on Indian life, the Town Creek Indian Mound
• Visit Learn NC for Indian history lesson plans
• Read Hariot’s A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (1590) with White’s drawings.
• See De Bry’s edition of hand-colored engravings
• Read early English accounts of Indian life by John Lawson (1709)
• Read early English accounts of Indian life by William Bartram (1791)
• Learn more about the University of North Carolina at Pembroke
• Listen to an interview with North Carolina Indian leader Ruth Dial Woods by the Southern Oral History Program
• Learn more about American Indian studies at Chapel Hill

African Americans and Integration (visit this exhibit)

• Listen to an interview with Harvey Beech conducted by the Southern Oral History Program.
• Listen to an interview with Floyd B. McKissick Sr. conducted by the Southern Oral History Program.
• Listen to North Carolina governor Terry Sanford talk about the role of Carolina in the civil rights movement.
• Listen to Fred Battle talk about the civil rights movement in Chapel Hill in an interview conducted by the Southern Oral History Program.
• Read and listen to an interview with Elizabeth Brooks, one of the strike leaders, from the Southern Oral History Program
• The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Legacy of William C. Friday (visit this exhibit)

• Listen to President Friday discuss Frank Porter Graham in an interview conducted by the Southern Oral History Program.
• Learn more about Chancellor William Aycock in an interview conducted by the Southern Oral History Program
• Listen to President Friday describe the Speaker Ban controversy in an interview conducted by the Southern Oral History Program.
• Listen to an interview with Elizabeth Brooks, one of the strike leaders, conducted by the Southern Oral History Program.
• Listen to an interview with Anne Queen, director of the Campus Y, on student activism during the 1960s and 1970s, conducted by the Southern Oral History Program.
• Listen to Governor Robert Scott talk about education and politics in North Carolina in an interview conducted by the Southern Oral History Program.
• Learn more about this desegregation case in an interview with a federal official conducted by the Southern Oral History Program.
• Listen to an interview with university official Raymond Dawson about the desegregation case.

Medical and Health Education (visit this exhibit)

Public Service and Professional Schools at Carolina (visit this exhibit)

• Listen to an interview with the Campus Y director Anne Queen about student activism during the 1960s and 1970s.
• Learn more about the Institute for Research in Social Science.
• Listen to an interview with Harriet Herring recall her early life and experiences studying labor in North Carolina mill towns in the first half of the 20th century.
• Listen to an interview with Sociologist Guy B. Johnson as he describes his path to sociology and recalls his participation in the Southern Regional Council in the 1940s.
• Listen to an interview with Southern sociologist Guion Griffis Johnson as she describes her work with the Georgia Conference on Social Welfare during the 1940s and her involvement with the women's movement and civil rights activism during the 1960s and 19

Teachers, Scholars, and Citizens: Distinguished Carolina Faculty (visit this exhibit)

• Learn more about the Grahams in an exhibit on Public Service and Professional Schools.
• Learn more about Frank Porter Graham in an exhibit on his life and career.
• Learn more about the Thomas Jefferson award.
• Learn more about the Program in the Humanities and Human Values
• Learn more about the Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense
• Listen to an interview with Pollitt by the Southern Oral History Program

Names Across the Landscape (visit this exhibit)

• Learn more about the history of the Ackland Art Museum.
• Learn more about Charles Brantley Aycock.
• Learn more about the 1898 election.
• Learn more about the 1898 election.
• Learn more about the 1898 white supremacy campaign.
• Learn more about William Friday at this exhibit.
• Learn more about Graham’s ideas on public service in this exhibit.
• Learn more about Frank Porter Graham in this exhibit.
• Learn more about Frank Porter Graham in this exhibit.
• Learn more about Paul Green.
• Visit the Southern Historical Collection.
• Read poems by George Moses Horton
• Learn more about George Moses Horton at this library exhibit
• Read William de Berniere MacNider’s biography at the National Academy of Sciences’ website.
• Read Henry Van Peters Wilson's biography at the National Academy of Sciences' website.

Public Art at Carolina (visit this exhibit)

• Researching Artists in North Carolina
• UNC Department of Art website
• UNC Sloane Art Library website
• Ackland Art Museum website
• Brushes with Life Art Gallery website
• Town of Chapel Hill Public Arts Office
• Read more about Joseph Caldwell
• Learn more about John Motley Morehead
• Learn more about William Coker
• Read more about Silent Sam