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The Daily Tar Heel, Reconstruction and the New South: 1 dated entry from the full dataset. Back to the highlights →
- Reconstruction and the New South · 1866–1899
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The Tar Heel publishes its first issue
The first issue of The Tar Heel, volume 1, number 1, appeared on Thursday, February 23, 1893, as a weekly published under the auspices of the University Athletic Association, with Charles Baskerville as editor in chief. The student paper took the name The Daily Tar Heel in 1929.
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