North Carolina author Tim McLaurin will be remembered with a symposium, film screening and music on Nov. 7, 2010, at 3 p.m., at The Barn at Fearrington Village in Pittsboro, N.C. Writers Clyde Edgerton, Lee Smith, Hal Crowther, and Jill McCorkle will be among those paying homage to McLaurin. The free public event is sponsored by UNC Friends of the Library, the North Carolina State University Department of English, and McIntyre’s Books at Fearrington Village. Continue reading
African American civil rights advocate Pauli Murray and her unsuccessful attempts in 1938-39 to gain admittance into the applied social work program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will be the topic of a free public program Nov. 2, 2010, at 6 p.m. in the Wilson Special Collections Library at the UNC. A reception will begin at 5:15 p.m. Continue reading
The Southern Historical Collection in the Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has announced the winners of the inaugural Parker-Dooley Award for Undergraduate Research in Southern Studies. Nominations for the 2011 award, which carries a cash prize, will be accepted until Feb. 4, 2011. Continue reading
The scholar who uncovered a link between author William Faulkner and a Civil War era plantation journal will discuss her findings in a free public program Sept. 15 at 5 p.m. in UNC’s Wilson Library, where the original journal is preserved. Continue reading
Robert Korstad and James Leloudis will discuss their newly published history To Right These Wrongs: The North Carolina Fund and the Battle to End Poverty and Inequality in 1960s America. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library. Tuesday, Aug. 31. Reception at 5 p.m.; program at 5:45 p.m. Continue reading
The Poor Among Us: Photography of Poverty in North Carolina North Carolina Collection Gallery, Wilson Library June 10 – Sept. 30, 2010 Communities in Action Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library July 16 – Oct. 16, 2010 An exhibit of nearly 100 items in UNC’s Wilson Library examines the use of photography to depict poverty in … Continue reading
Author Jill McCorkle will read from her newest story collection, Going Away Shoes, in a free public program March 3, 2010, at the Wilson Special Collections Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Continue reading
A scholar of Southern literature has found in UNC’s Southern Historical Collection a diary that she says provided inspiration to novelist William Faulkner. The Feb. 11 New York Times reported that Sally Wolff-King, of Emory University, uncovered the connection between Faulkner and a journal kept during the mid-1800s by Mississippi plantation owner Francis Terry Leak. … Continue reading
Taylor Branch on The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010 Reception at 5 p.m. | Program at 5:45 p.m. Wilson Special Collections Library Free and open to the public Information: Liza Terll, Friends of the Library, liza_terll@unc.edu, (919) 962-4207 Add as a Facebook event. Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Taylor … Continue reading
Eighty years after its founding in January 1930, the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Wilson Special Collections Library is inaugurating a program to digitize large segments of the collections. The Digital Southern Historical Collection debuted Jan. 8 with thirty-five collections digitized in their entirety, plus two more that … Continue reading