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Daniels entered the law school of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the summer of 1885, joined the university’s board of trustees in 1901 and remained an active trustee until his death in 1948. During the 1920s he pressed for consolidating the state’s three colleges into one university.
Source: NCpedia: Daniels, Josephus (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography)
1862–1948 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗
17 works about Josephus Daniels are indexed here, as are 3 works by Daniels.
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Josephus Daniels speaking at the alumni luncheon in Chapel Hill on 10 June 1935 on academic freedom, and on what he called the right and duty to amend the Constitution and to debate judicial decisions in a free country. Printed by the University of North Carolina.
Correspondence of Josephus Daniels, Raleigh editor and secretary of the navy from 1913 to 1921, dated 1928 to 1946. In a 1933 letter he argues that the state should offer education to every student through the university level; another, from Alexander H. Graham of the State Highway and Public Works Commission, concerns building highways to Chapel Hill. State Archives of North Carolina, PC.442.
Josephus Daniels's memorial address for Adolphus Williamson Mangum, delivered in the university chapel at Chapel Hill on Sunday, May 31, 1891 and printed by the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies. Mangum, who died in 1890, was a Methodist minister on the University of North Carolina faculty. The text was detached from the North Carolina University Magazine for that year.
Interviews recorded in spring 1968 with Martha Hawkins Bailey Haywood, Mrs. Marshall DeLancey Haywood of Raleigh, by the Wakefield Junior Historian Club for an oral history project. One reel-to-reel tape, with a CD version and transcripts. Her memories range over Raleigh houses, streets, families and institutions; Chapel Hill and the university are mentioned. State Archives of North Carolina, TR.40.
Included because: Their name appears in the record.
Photographs of the Army-Navy E ceremony in Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill, on 22 January 1943, the first such award in North Carolina during World War II. They show officers of the Pre-Flight School and of National Munitions Corporation, the audience and the presentation. Governor J. Melville Broughton, Josephus Daniels, Carl T. Durham and Frank Porter Graham are among those pictured.
Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948.
Group portrait by Hugh Morton at the stage entrance of Memorial Hall, 31 January 1942: Eleanor Roosevelt with her secretary Malvina Thompson at left, UNC president Frank Porter Graham second from left, and Josephus Daniels at right. Roosevelt was in Chapel Hill as keynote speaker for a conference of the International Student Service and the Carolina Political Union.
Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948.
Seated at the head of a table in a UNC dining hall, Eleanor Roosevelt shares a meal with students, faculty and staff on 31 January 1942. Frank Porter Graham and Josephus Daniels are named among those pictured. Hugh Morton photographed the visit, made while Roosevelt keynoted a student conference in Chapel Hill on war aims and peace plans. Black-and-white sheet film negative.
Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948.
University Day procession on 12 October 1941 passing the Old Well at UNC. Frank Porter Graham, the university's president, leads at front left, with Josephus Daniels and R. B. House behind him. A detail ran on the cover of The Alumni Review for November 1941. Hugh Morton photograph.
Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948.
Papers of the newspaperman Holt McPherson (1906-1979), 1930 to 1979, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4222. Topics include North Carolina journalists and civic leaders of the twentieth century, the School of Journalism at the University of North Carolina, and Methodists, and they also name Josephus Daniels and Frank Porter Graham.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948.
Publishing records of the University of North Carolina Press from 1922 to 2015, approximately 121,400 items in 158.5 linear feet, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40073. Subjects include the editor William T. Couch and figures connected with the press, among them Paul Green, Bernice Kelly Harris, Howard W. Odum, Rupert B. Vance and Josephus Daniels, along with the journal 'Social forces' and the Federal Writers' Project in North Carolina.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948.
R. B. House (1892-1987) was chancellor at Chapel Hill, and his papers, 1916 to 1973, come to 7,500 items in six linear feet in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3581. University administration is the main subject, with material on Frank Porter Graham, Harry Woodburn Chase, Josephus and Jonathan Daniels, Gordon Gray, Terry Sanford, O. Max Gardner, the Watauga Club and communism in North Carolina.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948.
Josephus Daniels, Governor Locke Craig and Edward Kidder Graham stand with other men in front of Alumni Hall at the University of North Carolina, some in academic robes, on a real photo postcard from about 1912 to 1915. Graham became president of the university in 1914.
Included because: Their name appears in the record.
Forty seven items dated 1903 to 1960 from Charles Edward Maddry (1876-1962), in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3593. Topics include the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, church buildings in the state, and the church history of Orange County, with Mount Moriah Church in Orange County named directly. Josephus Daniels also appears among the subjects.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948.
Books in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection whose titles, catalog subjects, or descriptions match this person. The Friends’ recommended starting points are labelled.
Speeches and papers from the dedication on October 19, 1948, of the monument on the State Capitol grounds in Raleigh to Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk and Andrew Johnson, the three presidents North Carolina claims as native sons. President Harry S. Truman gave the main address, and Charles Keck sculpted the figures. Contributors include Josephus Daniels and Willis Smith. Printed in Raleigh in 1949 for the state memorial commission, 61 pages with portraits.
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