Harry Watson to Deliver Coates Lecture:
William Richardson Davie, Father of the University of North Carolina
Tuesday, April 18
Reception and exhibit viewing at 5 p.m; Lecture at 5:45 p.m.
Wilson Library
For information call: 919-962-4207
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"William Richardson Davie: Father of the University of North Carolina" will be the title of a free public lecture by Dr. Harry L. Watson, professor of history at UNC and director of the Center for the Study of the American South.
The talk will follow reception and viewing of the related exhibition "William Richardson Davie: Soldier, Statesman and Founder of the University of North Carolina" in the North Carolina Collection Gallery of the Wilson Library.
The lecture and exhibition both commemorate the 250th anniversary of Davie's birth on June 22, 1756.
The talk, presented by the Friends of the Library, will be the second Gladys Coates University History Lecture. The series honors Coates, an avid university historian who, with her husband, Albert Coates, founded UNC's Institute of Government, now the School of Government. Gladys Coates died in September 2002.
Watson's specialties are the antebellum South, Jacksonian America, and the history of North Carolina. He is co-editor of the journal "Southern Cultures."
The Davie exhibition is free and open to the public. It will remain up through June 30 and is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays and 1-5 p.m. Sundays.
