Browse Exhibits (51 total)

The “Nursery of Patriotism” exhibition focuses on the Civil War, World War I and World War II and is organized according to the major topics that emerged. Using 150-200 letters, documents, photographs, and publications to explore the University’s contributions to and involvement in the Civil War, World War I and World War II, the exhibit displays the impact on the University as well.

Reflecting on the 50th anniversary of the Watergate scandal, several University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni have played unique roles in the Watergate scandal, from the formation of the Senate Watergate Committee (in 1973) to now.

Archival Seedlings explores small community archives projects led by individual history keepers, known as "Seedlings," across the American South' projects - learn how each Southern history keeper stewards personal, local, and community histories.

Celebrating Women’s and Gender Studies: 50 Years of Reimagining Education marks fifty years since the creation of a Women’s Studies program at UNC, offering students a new lens to examine the world and challenge dominant narratives. Drawing on scholars from across disciplines, over the past five decades, the program—now the Women’s and Gender Studies Department—has encouraged critical inquiry into gender, identity, and social justice. In 2025, UNC-Chapel Hill proudly celebrates this vital academic home for questioning, learning, and reimagining the world.  

Climbing the Hill: Women in the History of UNC is a student curated exhibit for Wilson Library, created spring 2020.

An exhibit highlighting pandemic-related items collected by the University Libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2020 to 2021.

Erasure and Resilience exhibits photos, brochures, and manuscripts from the archival collections Penn School Papers and Penn Center of the Sea Islands Records, curated to illuminate the dichotomy between erasure and resilience. Erasure, examines Penn Normal Industrial and Agricultural School materials, largely produced between 1906 and 1930. Resilience, explores Penn Center materials related to cultural preservation and heritage celebrations, largely focused between 1951 and 1981.

This exhibition presents a selection of primary source materials documenting the statewide debate over the teaching of evolution in public schools in the 1920s. Drawn primarily from the collections in Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, these materials will enable students, teachers, and researchers to read original sources and to study a question that captivated North Carolinians in the 1920s, and which still resonates today.

The purpose of this exhibit is to provide historical context for controversies surrounding the death penalty in North Carolina, featuring materials from various collections of the University of North Carolina Library. We present text, timelines, and selected documents and images, hoping to help frame a debate that can get beyond sensational headlines, political rhetoric, and inflamed emotion.

This exhibit was developed by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries to coincide with the "Going Viral" interdisciplinary symposium (4 April 2018 – 6 April 2018) hosted by UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC’s Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, and RTI International. Items highlight how the influenza virus affected the UNC campus, the state of North Carolina, and beyond. Most of these materials represent UNC collections.

The Hillbilly Music: Source and Symbol virtual exhibit is adapted from an original installation, part of a conference organized in April 2003 around the publication and celebration of discographer Guthrie T. Meade's Country Music Sources. The conference brought together chroniclers of country music, in recognition of the development of the music and its place in southern folklife.

This exhibition uses diaries, photographs, personal papers, University records, and other original items to examine student engagement with desegregation, economic inequality, and the war in Vietnam, and North Carolina’s Speaker Ban Law, reflecting the political foment of the 1960s as it played out at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.