Light on the Hill

by Snider, William D.

• ISBN13: 9780807855713
• ISBN10: 0807855715
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xvii
Chapter One. Child of the Revolution, 1754-1795	3	(21)
Chapter Two. This Embryo College, 1795-1804	24	(14)
Chapter Three. Joseph Caldwell, Character Is Destiny, 1804-1835	38	(16)
Chapter Four. David L. Swain, Diplomat and Peacemaker, 1835-1868	54	(20)
Chapter Five. Collapse of the People's College, 1869-1871	74	(11)
Chapter Six. Reconstruction and Revitalization, 1872-1875	85	(8)
Chapter Seven. Kemp P. Battle, a One-Ideal Man, 1876-1891	93	(19)
Chapter Eight. One of Those Razor-Sharp Winstons, 1891-1896	112	(12)
Chapter Nine. Edwin A. Alderman, Woven in the Loom of Jefferson, 1896-1900	124	(13)
Chapter Ten. Francis P. Venable, Expanding Horizons, 1900-1914	137	(18)
Chapter Eleven. Edward K. Graham, Service to the State, 1914-1918	155	(14)
Chapter Twelve. Harry W. Chase, National Distinction, 1919-1930	169	(33)
Chapter Thirteen. Frank P. Graham, Champion of the Underdog, 1930-1949	202	(36)
Chapter Fourteen. Gordon Gray, the Secretary and the Generals, 1950-1955	238	(16)
Chapter Fifteen. William C. Friday, Steel under Velvet, 1956-1964	254	(17)
Chapter Sixteen. The Speaker Ban Law, 1963-1968	271	(9)
Chapter Seventeen. Student Unrest and Consolidation, 1966-1972	280	(15)
Chapter Eighteen. Challenges of Academic Expansion, 1972-1980	295	(19)
Chapter Nineteen. A Magic Gulf Stream, 1980-1988	314	(17)
Notes	331	(12)
Bibliography	343	(4)
Index	347