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William E. Leuchtenburg taught at UNC-Chapel Hill for two decades from 1982, retiring in 2002 as William Rand Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor, and afterward served on the UNC Press Board of Governors. UNC-Chapel Hill gave him an honorary degree in 2021. He died at his home in Chapel Hill in 2025.
Source: Walker's Funeral Home: William E. Leuchtenburg obituary
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1922–2025 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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William E. Leuchtenburg on the presidents of the United States who came to Chapel Hill, printed in 1994 as pages 52 to 61 with portraits. The piece grew out of the speech he gave in Memorial Hall on October 12, 1993, at the commemoration of the bicentennial of the University of North Carolina.
William E. Leuchtenburg's anniversary lecture for the bicentennial of the University of North Carolina, delivered on 12 October 1993. The address takes up the presidents who came to Chapel Hill, including James K. Polk. Issued as a typescript of 24 leaves, it belongs to the run of University Day and bicentennial addresses kept in the campus record.
Papers left by the historian William Edward Leuchtenburg, 1922 to 2025, running from about 1948 to 2003: roughly 35,000 items in 49.5 linear feet, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5124. Topics include the teaching of history at university level, the New Deal of 1933 to 1939, United States presidents and politics, his years on the Columbia University faculty and the student strike of 1968, and his Chapel Hill teaching.
Historian William E. Leuchtenburg, William Rand Kenan Professor of History and a leading authority on Franklin D. Roosevelt, speaks at UNC-Chapel Hill's 189th University Day on 12 October 1982 under the title 'Toward the Year 2000'. WUNC radio recording, American Archive of Public Broadcasting Collection.
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