Have you heard the story that the Bell Tower was intentionally placed right behind Wilson Library so that, when viewed from South Building, the top of the tower looks like a dunce cap on the roun...
https://blogs.lib.unc.edu/hill/2019/11/26/the-legend-of-the-wilson-library-dunce-cap/
We are pleased to present this guest post from UNC-Chapel Hill student Autumn Linford. Aros Coke Cecil’s photographs could be the work of any UNC undergrad of any era. Playing sports, the Old W...
When Carolina played its 2019 home opener on September 7th against Miami, there was a certain “electricity” in the air…Head Football Coach Mack Brown was back…the Heels had beaten South C...
https://blogs.lib.unc.edu/hill/2019/11/08/a-certain-electricity-in-the-air/
A View to Hugh marks a dozen years today. We published our very first post on November 1, 2007. Casting about for subject matter to mark the occasion, I took to Hugh Morton’s executive plan...
https://blogs.lib.unc.edu/hill/2019/11/01/location-scouting-for-the-last-of-the-mohicans/
On this day, October 26, 2019, Carolina’s football Tar Heels will meet Duke for the 106th time, plus it is homecoming on the UNC campus. The winner will capture the Victory Bell. Earlier this s...
https://blogs.lib.unc.edu/hill/2019/10/26/a-ho-hum-season-ending-game-becomes-a-tar-heel-thrill/
This post contains information about reproductive health that may be sensitive for some readers. A decade of change in UNC’s student population sparked several changes in reproductive and sex...
https://blogs.lib.unc.edu/hill/2019/09/26/elephants-and-butterflies-and-contraceptives/
On this day three years ago, September 19, 2016, the Tar Heel Nation lost an icon with the passing of Robert Vinsant (“Bob”) Cox. He was 90-years-old. Many Tar Heels remember Bob as a player...
https://blogs.lib.unc.edu/hill/2019/09/19/the-amazing-resume-of-robert-vinsant-cox/
In the University Archives, our work often has us viewing contemporary events with an eye toward the past. So while we look ahead to Friday night’s football game between UNC and Wake Forest, we...
https://blogs.lib.unc.edu/hill/2019/09/12/did-unc-really-lose-to-wake-forest-in-1888/
James Kern Kyser, better known as Kay Kyser, the “Ol’ Professor” of the popular radio program of the late 1930s and 40s, the “Kollege of Musical Knowledge,” retired and returned to his ...
https://blogs.lib.unc.edu/hill/2019/06/21/the-ol-professor-of-the-kollege-of-musical-knowledge/
This post comes from regular contributor Jack Hilliard, who takes another look at the man “Still Alone at the Top” because today, May 18th, marks a special day for long time Tar Heels like J...
https://blogs.lib.unc.edu/hill/2019/05/18/still-alone-at-the-top/