Browse Exhibits (52 total)
Keys to Communication: Speech & Hearing Sciences
A 2010 Exhibition Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Division of Speech & Hearing Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine, Department of Allied Health Sciences
Medicine in Paris, 1801-1971
Using images from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s New York Academy of Medicine Collection of International Medical Theses, the exhibit “Medicine in Paris, 1801-1971” provides insight into the medical culture of an increasingly industrial and cosmopolitan Paris from the wake of the French Revolution to after the May 1968 student protests. We have selected over 250 lithographs, photographs, and radiographs from the collection to illustrate the history and development of clinical medicine in Paris during this tumultuous period, which spans three major wars (Franco-Prussian, WWI, and WWII) and countless scientific discoveries and significant inventions. Sometimes poignant and humanistic, sometimes brutally clinical,6 these images are a window into the lives—and sometimes deaths—of real people treated at Paris clinics and hospitals in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Each of the 13 galleries tells the story of a medical specialty through the doctors, patients, and tools that influenced it. Names of doctors whose theses are part of UNC-Chapel Hill's collection appear in bold.
Meeting the Public Health Challenges of the 21st Century
Celebrating the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. This exhibit looks at the history of the school and how it is addressing the public health needs of the 21st century.
This exhibit was on display at the Health Sciences Library in 2008 to celebrate the renaming of the school in honor of Dennis and Joan Gillings and their gift to the school.
You’ll see and hear highlights of how the School has made and continues to make a difference in North Carolina and around the world.
The exhibit also features historical materials about the School that are part of the Library’s Special Collections, including selections from the papers of Dr. Daniel Okun, digitized public health documents and journals, and more.
Narratives of Queer Identity
This exhibition highlights LGBT+ experiences, from well-known novels to small-press serials. The materials shown are from the Rare Book Collection in the Wilson Special Collections Library and reflect the global queer community's use of pen and print as indispensable weapons in the fight for equity, respect, and expression.
On the Move: Stories of African American Migration and Mobility
This exhibition looks at African American experiences of migration and mobility over the last 400 years through the lens of changing modes of transportation.
Organized Womanhood: North Carolina Women and the Ongoing Struggle for Political Inclusion
This exhibit provides an overview of the roadblocks faced and the successes made by North Carolina women in their pursuit of equal rights and full participation in politics.
Papers for the People: A Treasury of North Carolina News Sources
This exhibit explores a survey of community newspapers produced for specialty audiences and held in the North Carolina Collection.
Priceless Gems
This exhibition features prized Wilson Special Collections Library items connected to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Queerolina: Experiences of Place and Space through Oral Histories
Welcome to “Queerolina: Experiences of Place and Space Through Oral Histories,” an exhibit highlighting the lived experiences of UNC-Chapel Hill students who identify as LGBTQIA+. Queerolina examines spaces on campus and beyond through selected excerpts from oral histories shared by students and alums.
- View the Queerolina Map, an exploration of places and spaces on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus and beyond with excerpts from oral histories.
- Learn more about the Queerolina online exhibit.
- Learn how to share your story about your experiences at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Graduate students Hooper Schultz and Cassie Tanks developed Queerolina during spring 2022, and UNC-Chapel Hill University Libraries hosts and maintains the exhibit. The exhibit is hosted and maintained by the UNC-Chapel Hill University Libraries. It was last updated 03/20/2026.
Race Deconstructed
This exhibition explores the changing concept of race using examples drawn from across Western science between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries.
Slavery and the Making of the University
"Slavery and the Making of the University" introduces materials that recognize and document the contributions of slaves, college servants and free persons of color primarily during the university's antebellum period. Part of a larger project that included a physical exhibit mounted in the Manuscripts Department of Wilson Library October 12, 2005 through February 28, 2006 and a printed bibliography of sources, this online exhibit includes digitized images and transcriptions of many of the items from the physical exhibit as well as other items from the bibliography of sources not originally exhibited due to lack of physical space.
Last updated: 04/09/2026
Sour Stomachs and Galloping Headaches
This 2005 exhibition provided a broad overview of North Carolina's medical history by highlighting some of the common ailments that afflicted our ancestors, as well as some of the deadly epidemics they faced. Together, these highlights introduced visitors to the multitude of references in the UNC library that are available to researchers interested in the evolution of public health care.
This website is a condensed version of an exhibition that appeared in the North Carolina Collection Gallery from June 22 to September 30, 2005.
Last updated on 04/09/2026.
Tar Heel Ink
This exhibit examines the University's student-run publications, including The Daily Tar Heel and its rival newspaper The White and Blue, yearbooks, literary magazines, and political newsletters.
Teaching with Mass-Market Paperbacks
This Omeka exhibit highlights selected works from UNC-Chapel Hill’s mass-market paperbacks collection, and is intended to help instructors learn how to incorporate mass-market paperbacks into their classroom. Containing roughly 850 volumes, the mass-market paperbacks collection is part of Wilson Special Collections Library's Rare Book Collection and consists of popular print novels, serials, and short story collections published between the 1930s and the 1990s. This collection contains works from a variety of genres, including everything from mass market versions of the works of George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway to exploitation novels and murder mysteries.
This digital resource includes images and contextualizing information for some of the works in our collection, collections of a few of the most popular genres used for teaching with this collection, and teaching guides for instructors looking to incorporate this collection (and others like it) into the classroom. It also includes information on the history of mass-market paperbacks and their publishers, as well as links to other helpful resources related to mass-market paperbacks.
Created by Ashley Werlinich, Research and Instructional Services. Reviewed by Emily Kader. Last updated April 27, 2021.
The Art of North Carolina Money
This exhibit looks at the art of North Carolina’s historical money, tokens, and medals.
The Cartoons of Dwane Powell
This exhibition shows highlights from the 3,500+ drawings by longtime News and Observer cartoonist Dwane Powell held in the Southern Historical Collection in the Wilson Special Collections Library at UNC-Chapel Hill. The cartoons focus on state, national, and UNC politics and provide a brief glimpse into Powell’s style and creative approach over many years.
The Florence Nightingale Letters
Collection of letters written by Florence Nightingale. These letters are part of the special collections of the Health Sciences Library.
The Lost Colony Film: North Carolina's First Educational Movie
Learn about and view this 1921 film, the first educational film made in North Carolina.
The Native Narrative Tour
The Native Narrative Tour celebrates the American Indian presence at UNC-Chapel Hill through historical and contemporary experiences, stories, voices, and memories of Native and non-Native researchers, staff, community members, alumni, and current students.
The North Carolina Election of 1898
The election of 1898 was one of the most significant elections in the history of North Carolina. The effects of the campaign, and many of the issues that were raised, would last long into the twentieth century.
The election of 1898 marked a turning point in the history of North Carolina. In the years leading up to the election there were three active political parties vying for the support of the state's electorate, and African Americans had a significant role in state politics, both as officeholders and voters. After 1898, all of that would change. The political landscape through most of the twentieth century was affected by issues and policies raised in the campaign of 1898.
This website is designed for students, teachers, and researchers studying this important period in the history of North Carolina. Using primary sources drawn from the holdings of the North Carolina Collection, this site will allow users to explore the issues of the campaign by examining contemporary newspaper articles, speeches, and editorial cartoons.
Clicking an image in the exhibit will lead to more information and, for text items, a transcript. This exhibition is currently undergoing accessibility remediation. If you have an immediate remediation need, please submit an accessibility remediation request.
Content warning: This exhibition discusses historical documents that contain racist imagery and terminology. Please proceed with caution and care.
Exhibition created June 2005.
Last updated on 04/09/2026.
The Worlds Within Austen's Two Inches of Ivory: Exhibit Introduction
Jane Austen’s letters provide an intimate look at the world in which she lived and wrote. More so than her novels, the letters materialize the conditions of Austen’s life as a sister, aunt, friend, and author living within Regency England. In collaboration with the 2021 Jane Austen Summer Program, “Jane Austen’s World”—focused on Diedre LeFaye’s collected edition of Austen’s letters and Claire Tomalin’s Jane Austen: A Life—this rare books exhibit features items housed in UNC’s Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library that bring us closer still to Austen’s world.
Vargas Vila
Courtesy of Beatriz de la Vega
We Birthed the Movement: The Warren County PCB Landfill Protests, 1978-1982
This exhibit examines how a coalition of concerned citizens, civil rights leaders and environmental activists fought state plans to relocate 60,000 tons of carcinogen-laced soil to the majority Black community of Afton. The story is told through the perspectives of those who lived it.
World on Fire in Flames of Blood: Narratives of the Russian Revolution
This is a digital companion to the exhibition World on Fire in Flames of Blood: Narratives of the Russian Revolution, on view in the Melba Remig Saltarelli Exhibit Room in Wilson Special Collections Library from January 21 through May 14, 2017. With a title drawn from Aleksandr Blok's The Twelve, this exhibition brought together some of the conflicting voices from the chaotic events that changed world history. This digital companion includes a selection of digitzed items from the exhibition. All items are drawn from the André Savine Collection of materials relating to Russian emigration, part of the Rare Book Collection, purchased with support from Van Louis Weatherspoon and Kay Massey Weatherspoon and digitized in partnership with the Internet Archive.
Exhibit created by Kirill Tolpygo.
Last updated: 10/29/2020