The Good Government Man captures the life of Albert Coates (1896-1989), the founder and first director of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina. Inspired by visionary Preside
In June 1919 Harry Woodburn Chase was chosen to succeed Edward Kidder Graham as president of the University of North Carolina. The two were a study in contrasts. Graham was a southerner whose father h
"Henry E. Frye came of age just as the South was beginning a change. Throughout their lives, Frye and wife, Shirley, were in the vanguard of the advances that shaped the lives of African Americans. Th
Profiles 160 people who influenced life in North Carolina during the twentieth century, exploring their accomplishments in the arts, business, education, politics, religion, sports, and other areas.
Terry Sanford (1917–1998) was one of the most important public figures of the postwar South. First as North Carolina’s governor and later as president of Duke University, he demonstrated a dynamic sty
