This month, UNC’s Documenting the American South celebrates the birthday of naturalist and explorer William Bartram, who was born April 9, 1739, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Read more about Bartram at William Bartram’s Legacy.
Archive for April, 2010
William Bartram’s Legacy
Posted in History on April 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Defending Nat King Cole wasn’t on his play list
Posted in On This Day, tagged bob raiford, nat king cole, wbt on April 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
On this day in 1956: Bob Raiford, a disc jockey on Charlotte’s WBT, is fired for denouncing on the air the racial beating of Nat King Cole during a concert two days earlier in Birmingham, Ala.
Not all Cherokee: Chief Mankiller’s N.C. roots
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged cherokee nation, gillespie family, pretty boy floyd, sitton family, tahlequah oklahoma, wilma mankiller on April 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Death noted: Wilma Mankiller, chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1985 to 1995, at her home near Tahlequah, Okla. She was 64. Her 1993 autobiography, “Mankiller: A Chief and Her People,” includes this genealogical aside: “My [Dutch-Irish] mother’s ancestry goes back to North Carolina, where her kinfolk from the Sitton side were some of the [...]
Who Am I?
Posted in From the Stacks on April 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Here’s your Friday afternoon fun…..do you recognize this person? Submit your answer as a comment to this post. If no one answers, I’ll start giving clues in the comment section.
Babe Ruth pays memorable visit to Charlotte
Posted in On This Day, tagged babe ruth, brooklyn robins, celebrity, charlotte nc, new york yankees, southern women, wearn field on April 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1926: Babe Ruth visits Charlotte for a spring training exhibition and sets the town on its ear. Before the game he gives the local press a brief hotel-room interview. Reclining nude beneath a sheet and smoking a large cigar, he remarks on Southern women (“all they were cracked up to be”) [...]
North Carolina Civil War Image Portfolio
Posted in Tar Heelia on April 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Over the past few months we’ve been “re-highlighting” digital resources that can be found on the NC Collection’s website. Today’s feature is our “Civil War Image Portfolio,” which can be found at: http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/pcoll/civilwar/index.html. Images in the North Carolina Collection depicting the Civil War are from woodcuts, engravings, lithographs, and photographs. The overwhelming majority of these [...]
Prohibition on campus: The roaring drunk ’20s
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged 1920s, alcohol, duke, unc chapel hill on April 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“By the end of the decade the polls of the Congressional Hearing on the Repeal of the Prohibition Amendment presented overwhelming evidence that men and women students drank in a proportion close to two drinkers to every non-drinker….. At the University of North Carolina, of the 944 students who voted, 67 percent admitted drinking to [...]
Easter Monday In North Carolina
Posted in Tar Heelia on April 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
For some it is the pinnacle of the church calendar…for others it is a chance for an early beach trip. For children it may be all about the candy, but for our state legislators in the early 20th century, it may have been about the baseball game. For over fifty years (1935-1987), the Monday after [...]
North Carolina Books, Which Ought To Be In The Library Of Every North Carolinian
Posted in Tar Heelia on April 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The advertisement above claims that these books should be in the library of every North Carolinian. Well, I can imagine that the vast majority of our state’s fine citizens do not have these titles in their personal library (I know I don’t), but I can assure you that the North Carolina Collection does. I’m including [...]
In mountains, ‘lineage of England’s pauperism’
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged crackers, david starr jordan, eugenics, indiana university, nc mountains, poor whites, stanford university, unitarian on April 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Anthony Stokes [a Loyalist refugee from Georgia in 1783] spoke for many when he wrote of ‘a swarm of men’ he called ‘Crackers,’ who were overrunning western Virginia and North Carolina. ‘Many of these people are descended from convicts that were transported from Great Britain to Virginia at different times and inherit so much profligacy [...]
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