The university had an often contentious relationship with Jesse Helms that extended long before he was first elected to the…
History & Lore
Soon after the first women students entered the university in the 1890s, administrators began to devise separate rules to manage…
From the 1920s through the early 1950s the men's basketball team was known informally as the "White Phantoms." They were…
After World War II the university experienced a rapid increase in enrollment, especially among married students attending college on the…
In the 1984 movie This Is Spinal Tap, the British metal band Spinal Tap played a concert in Chapel Hill…
A major theme for the early twentieth-century history of the university and Chapel Hill —as it was for much of…
The eighteenth-century choice to locate UNC in a relatively sparsely populated area left the university and town stranded in the…
The only UNC alumnus to go on to become president of the United States was James K. Polk, from Mecklenburg…
One of the university's earliest exchange programs, the Toronto Exchange ran for more than thirty years. In the program, a…
For many years women at the university were required to live on campus. The only exceptions made were for students…