“On June 1, 1925, the Chief Justice of North Carolina in an address to the bar of Wake County, assembled in Raleigh, said: ‘The best friend you have is the law of North Carolina. It protects you before you are born, it surrounds and shields you as long as you live, and it stands sentinel and […]
Posts Tagged ‘virginia quarterly review’
J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton on the law and Prohibition
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged j g de roulhac hamilton, nc prohibition, virginia quarterly review on August 6, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
The Wilmington native who envisioned VQR
Posted in Tar Heelia, tagged ben steelman, edwin a alderman, university of virginia, virginia quarterly review, wilmington nc on September 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ben Steelman offers a footnote to the Virginia Quarterly Review drama-turned-melodrama: “The VQR’s founding, in 1925, was in large part the work of a Wilmington native, UVa President Edwin A. Alderman. Ten years earlier, Alderman had called for ‘an organ of liberal opinion …’ (that’s as in liberal arts, not politics) ‘solidly based, thoughtfully and […]
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