Contributors to South Writ Large answer the question, “What does it mean to be ‘Southern’ in an increasingly interconnected world?” in the publication’s Spring 2012 issue, available online at southwritlarge.com.
Lisa Lindsay, an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's College of Arts and Sciences, was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to support her research.
Joanne Iritani will speak about her experience at an Arizona internment camp at a free, public program in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Wilson Library on April 24 at 5:30 p.m.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill experts and an author who documented the experiences of her enslaved ancestors at a North Carolina plantation will offer a workshop on how to research and preserve African-American family history on April 14.
The sixth Global American South Symposium on April 21 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will focus on the region’s changing demographics. The Saturday afternoon event at the FedEx Global Education Center is free to the public, … Read more
Two doctoral graduates, representing the fields of history and cell and molecular physiology, will be the featured speakers at the second annual Sequoyah Distinguished Lecture on March 22 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Asia experts James Fallows and Orville Schell will discuss China’s unprecedented economic boom in a talk April 9 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
North Carolina Public Radio – WUNC-FM, a service of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will explore a new collection of never-before-heard interviews about the Civil Rights Movement. Each Friday morning in March, WUNC’s Eric Hodge will be … Read more
Pioneering African-American broadcaster J.D. Lewis Jr. will be remembered during an exhibit and program March 20 at the Southern Historical Collection in the Wilson Special Collections Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dozens of child welfare experts will gather at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Wednesday and Thursday (Feb. 22-23) for the first in a series of national meetings aimed at forging solutions to keep children safe and healthy.