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Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
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Shelby Foote arrives in Chapel Hill to enroll at UNC
Shelby Foote came to Chapel Hill in fall 1935 to register at UNC despite having been turned down, following his Greenville friends Walker and LeRoy Percy. He stayed two years and contributed nine stories to Carolina Magazine.
Recent decades · 1976–2026
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Shelby Foote receives the Charles Frankel Prize
The National Endowment for the Humanities gave Shelby Foote the Charles Frankel Prize, the award now called the National Humanities Medal, as novelist, historian and principal commentator of the PBS documentary The Civil War.
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UNC awards Shelby Foote an honorary Doctor of Letters
UNC-Chapel Hill conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters on Shelby Foote, a UNC student from 1935 to 1937, for his fiction and his three-volume narrative history of the Civil War.
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Shelby Foote becomes UNC's first Morgan Family Writer-in-Residence
Shelby Foote spent the fall 1993 semester at UNC as the university's first Morgan Family Writer-in-Residence.
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