Q&A with archivist Chaitra Powell about community-driven archives
The Southern Historical Collection has completed a four-year grant exploring ways to build archives in partnership with communities.
Southern Historical Collection
New toolkit from University Libraries helps communities tell their stories
Charting New Courses in Community-Driven Archives culminates a four-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the Southern Historical Collection.
Archivist Chaitra Powell speaks to WUNC about J.G. de Roulhac Hamilton
Hamilton founded the Southern Historical Collection. But beneath his cloak of academic legitimacy, he was a white supremacist.
Rare, special, and very, very close
Fascinating. Magical. Surprising. Even a brief power outage could not dampen the enthusiasm and curiosity of more than 300 visitors to the 2019 Recent Acquisitions Evening at the Wilson Special Collections Library on April 4. As attendees circulated through the Fearrington Reading Room, they enjoyed an unprecedented encounter with rare and …
On the Move: Stories of African American Migration and Mobility
Wilson Library exhibition examines six modes of travel and what they reveal about four centuries of African American experience
Savoring Southern Apples at Wilson Library
Students at UNC-Chapel Hill are the first to explore a new collection of papers on Southern apples in the Southern Historical Collection in Wilson Library.
