Slavery

The early history of the university is inseparable from the history of slavery in the United States. Many of the early faculty and most of the members of the UNC Board of Trustees profited directly from enslaved labor. Enslaved people helped build the first buildings and were present all over campus...

Carolina Playmakers

The Carolina Playmakers was the name for the drama program and the faculty, staff, students, and community members who staged plays at the university. The Playmakers started in 1918 with the arrival of Frederick Henry Koch, a professor from the University of North Dakota. Koch had developed a type o...

Mitchell Hall

Mitchell Hall opened in 1964 to serve as the home for the Department of Geology and has remained so for more than fifty years. The building is named for Elisha Mitchell, a native of Connecticut and graduate of Yale who was hired in 1818 as chair of mathematics at UNC. Mitchell would remain at Caroli...

Health Sciences Library

In 1971 UNC—Chapel Hill dedicated a new Health Sciences Library, bringing together the separate departmental libraries from the five health affairs schools: medicine, dentistry, nursing, public health, and pharmacy. At first many services were available only to graduate students; in 1976 the H...