When North Carolina joined other southern states and seceded from the United States in May 1861, university president David Lowry…
History & Lore
In the 1920s students began an annual tradition of running a cross-country race around the campus, with the winners receiving…
In the fall of 1968, dining hall workers at UNC—Chapel Hill presented Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson with a list of…
Most campus buildings, along with some schools, units, and physical spaces, have a namesake. While the mechanism for selecting people…
Boxing was a popular varsity and intramural sport for a few decades in the early twentieth century. It began informally…
The Book Exchange was a university-operated campus store that opened in 1915 after students and faculty complained about textbook prices…
In the 1980s and early 1990s, as part of Gay Awareness Week on campus, the Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association…
Blood on the Old Well is the title of a book by Sarah Watson Emery. Published in 1963, the book…
Even though the University of North Carolina has always been a public university, state financial support has varied greatly over…
The practice of misspelling the name of UNC—Chapel Hill's rival as "Dook" probably began in the 1930s, when "Beat Dook"…