Posted in From the Stacks, History on February 4, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
I found this interesting article in the June 4, 1926 issue of The Pilot, then published in Vass, N.C. When I saw the headline about the state song, I assumed it would be about William Gaston’s well-known “The Old North State,” which we wrote about a few years ago in This Month in North Carolina [...]
Posted in Tar Heelia on February 4, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Several new titles just added to “New in the North Carolina Collection.” To see the full list simply click on the link in the entry or click on the “New in the North Carolina Collection” tab at the top of the page. As always, full citations for all the new titles can be found in [...]
Posted in Tar Heelia, tagged james loewen, kinston nc, lenoir county nc, nc ku klux klan, sundown towns, william stadiem on February 4, 2013 | 1 Comment »
I had known the prolific author William Stadiem was born in Kinston, but I was jarred at seeing this passage in his Feb. 1 column on thedailybeast.com: “As a 10-year-old Jewish boy in North Carolina, I had a cross burned on my family’s lawn by the local Ku Klux Klan. I am thus particularly sensitive [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, UNC History, tagged empire of liberty, gordon s wood, student protests, university of north carolina on February 4, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“…When college students, like those at the University of North Carolina in 1796, could debate the issue of whether ‘the Faculty had too much authority,’ then serious trouble could not be far away…. “Between 1798 and 1808, American colleges were racked by mounting incidents of student defiance and outright rebellion — on a scale never [...]
