From the arboretum to Franklin Street, these spaces are peaceful, beautiful and Tar Heel-approved. 

Professor of History John Wood Sweet was among 31 scholars awarded National Humanities Center fellowships for the 2024-2025 academic year. Sweet was the only researcher from UNC-Chapel Hill to receive a fellowship.

Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College of Arts and Sciences faculty and alumni. This month’s featured book is “The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization that Transformed America,” by Katherine Turk, associate professor of history.

Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College of Arts and Sciences faculty and alumni. The December featured book is “Colonial Reckoning: Race and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Cuba” (Duke University Press) by Louis A. Pérez Jr.

Elisa Troncoso is inspired by the most fundamental displays of humanity in her writing. The first-year student is the winner of this year’s prestigious Thomas Wolfe Scholarship.

Historian John Wood Sweet writes character-driven narratives filled with vivid descriptions and emotional moments to unpack early America’s complicated history.

A groundbreaking volume weaves a new narrative of the South from its ancient past to the present, drawing on top scholars’ work in global and Atlantic world history, histories of the African diaspora and environmental history.

Feeling a call to help, doctoral candidate Ahmet Tarık Çaşkurlu rallies community support for Turkey and Syria relief efforts.

Bookmark This is a feature that highlights new books by College faculty and alumni. This month’s featured book: “Prague: Belonging in the Modern City” (Harvard University Press) by Chad Bryant, associate professor of history.

Researchers working on a digital archive mark a major milestone by documenting over 1,000 historical monuments in all 100 North Carolina counties, painting a picture of the changing landscape of the state through physical objects.