Light on the Hill A History of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Name: Light on the Hill A History of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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ISBN: 9780807855713

ISBN-10: 0807855715

ISBN-13: 9780807855713

Edition: 2004

Authors: William D. Snider

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In 1795 the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill became the first state university in the United States to open its doors to students. As the celebrated institution prepared to observe its bicentennial, William Snider provided a rich chronicle of its history. Snider describes the signal events of the university's first two hundred years: the chartering and siting of a charming campus and village; the trying years of the Civil War and Reconstruction, during which the University closed its doors; the period of remarkable renewal in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; the achievement of national and international stature in the 1920s and 1930s; the challenging 1960s; and…

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List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 8/30/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 215
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.308

Beth Barton Schweiger is assistant professor of history at the University of Arkansas. She is author of The Gospel Working Up: Progress and the Pulpit in Nineteenth-Century Virginia.William D. Snider, retired editor of the Greensboro News and Record, is author of Helms and Hunt: The North Carolina Senate Race, 1984. He is a 1941 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.




Child of the revolution, 1754-1795



This embryo college, 1795-1804



Joseph Caldwell, character is destiny, 1804-1835



David L. Swain, diplomat and peacemaker, 1835-1868



Collapse of the people's college, 1869-1871



Reconstruction and revitalization, 1872-1875



Kemp P. Battle, a one-ideal man, 1876-1891



One of those razor-sharp Winstons, 1891-1896



Edwin A. Alderman, woven in the loom of Jefferson, 1896-1900



Francis P. Venable, expanding horizons, 1900-1914



Edward K. Graham, service to the state, 1914-1918



Harry W. Chase, national distinction, 1919-1930



Frank P. Graham, champion of the underdog, 1930-1949



Gordon Gray, the secretary and the generals, 1950-1955



William C. Friday, steel under velvet, 1956-1964



The speaker ban law, 1963-1968



Student unrest and consolidation, 1966-1972



Challenges of academic expansion, 1972-1980



A magic gulf stream, 1980-1988