Light on the Hill: A History of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Softcover

Snider, William D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807855715 ISBN 13: 9780807855713

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004

Synopsis

In 1795 the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill became the first state university in the United States to open its doors to students. As the celebrated institution prepared to observe its bicentennial, William Snider provided a rich chronicle of its history.

Snider describes the signal events of the university's first two hundred years: the chartering and siting of a charming campus and village; the trying years of the Civil War and Reconstruction, during which the University closed its doors; the period of remarkable renewal in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; the achievement of national and international stature in the 1920s and 1930s; the challenging 1960s; and the period of expansion and innovation in the late 1970s and 1980s.

Throughout, Snider provides fine portraits of individuals prominent in the life of the university, from William R. Davie and Joseph Caldwell to Harry Woodburn Chase, Frank Porter Graham, and William C. Friday. His book evokes for all who have been part of the Chapel Hill community memories of their own associations with the campus and a sense of the greater history of the institution of which they were a part.

About this title

Book Description:

"Alumni, friends and supporters of the university, general readers, and historians of higher education will find Light on the Hill insightful, informative, and, unquestionably, illuminating."-- North Carolina Historical Review

From the Inside Flap:

In a bicentennial history of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Snider leads us from the chartering and siting of the campus in 1795 through the struggles, innovations, and expansions that have carried the school to national and international prominence.

About this edition

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0807855715
• ISBN 13: 9780807855713
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 215