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Category Archives: Events
Be Inspired With Carolina’s Nobel Laureates
Join Chancellor Carol Folt and Carolina’s two Nobel Laureates for a special event in Davis Library on April 13. Continue reading Continue reading
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Be Inspired With Carolina’s Nobel Laureates
Join Chancellor Carol Folt and Carolina’s two Nobel Laureates for a special event in Davis Library on April 13. Continue reading Continue reading
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Undergrads To Share Research on UNC’s WWII Policy Toward Japanese American Students
Members of English 360 used documents from UNC’s Wilson Special Collections Library to examine a little-known episode in University history. Continue reading Continue reading
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UNC’s Hidden Campus Revealed in April 14 Lecture
UNC professor Stephen Davis will discuss the University in the 19th century, as discovered through two decades of archaeological exploration. Continue reading Continue reading
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The Battle Challenge: 100 Years in the Making
This Wednesday, Wilson Library and the UNC Department of History are putting on the first of two events that are 100 years in the making. It all started in 1915, when former UNC president Kemp Plummer Battle presented the North Carolina Historical … Continue reading → Continue reading
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This Saturday is a good day to go to New Bern
If you live in the New Bern area, there’s still time to see the exhibition “Photographs by Hugh Morton: An Uncommon Retrospective” at Tryon Palace—and tomorrow, Saturday February 7th, would be a good time to visit. Why . . . … Continue reading → Continue reading
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In his own words: Johnpaul Harris, artist and dear friend
Today, November 5, 2014 marks a very special anniversary on the UNC campus. It was ten years ago, on a beautiful Hugh Morton photo-post-card-day, that the magnificent Charlie Justice statue was dedicated just outside the Justice Hall of Honor at … Continue reading → Continue reading
A Hall for All . . . Old, New, and Renovated
Nine years ago on September 8, 2005, the “new and improved” Memorial Hall on the UNC campus was celebrated with a grand re-opening weekend. On this special anniversary, Morton Collection volunteer, Jack Hilliard, takes a look back at this iconic … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Barton College next stop for exhibit “Photographs by Hugh Morton: An Uncommon Retrospective”
Jack Morton, a professional photographer in Raleigh and grandson of Hugh Morton will give a presentation titled “My Grandfather and His Camera” this evening at Barton College as part of the opening reception for the exhibit “Photographs by Hugh Morton: … Continue reading → Continue reading
The best of times: the “Golden Era” at UNC (1945-1950)
A View to Hugh has been on a summer vacation of sorts as other projects have pressed to the fore. This week marks the start of another school year at UNC, and the resumption of more frequent posts. Today, Hugh … Continue reading → Continue reading