In 1908 a group of current and former Carolina varsity athletes organized the "North Carolina Club" as a social organization…
History & Lore
Opened as 1942, Miller was one of several new buildings constructed for the U.S. Navy pre-flight school on campus during…
Jubilee was an annual music festival held at the end of the spring semester from 1963 to 1971. It was…
In the fall of 1970 graduate student Nyle Frank started the Invisible University of North Carolina. The (very) informal "invisible…
Although it no longer exists, the Intimate Bookshop lives on in Chapel Hill's reputation for creative writing and independent thinking,…
The university entered the age of networked computing as early as 1966 as a partner in the Triangle University Computation…
Under Jim Crow laws from 1900 to 1951, North Carolina's public schools at all levels were segregated institutions with separate…
The university did not have a campus infirmary until 1895. The Tar Heel described it as a place where "the…
The influenza pandemic that swept the world in 1918 and 1919 had a very visible effect in Chapel Hill, claiming…
The university-owned Horace Williams Airport closed in 2018 after eighty years of operation. It opened in 1928 when local contractor…