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The Confederate monument raised by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and dedicated on 2 June 1913, with Julian Carr’s speech.
10 works about Construction and dedication of Silent Sam, 1913 are indexed here.
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Maurice M. Bursey's biography of Francis Preston Venable (1856 to 1934), chemist and president of the University of North Carolina, published by the Chapel Hill Historical Society in 1989. It also covers the history of the university's chemistry department. Illustrated, 111 pages, with bibliographies.
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Reviewed in Isis (1992).
Publication of the Leonidas Polk Chapter number 556 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Chapel Hill, issued by the chapter in 1940 in one volume.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: United Daughters of the Confederacy. Leonidas Polk Chapter (Chapel Hill, N.C.).
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.
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Louis Round Wilson's history of the University of North Carolina between 1900 and 1930, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1957 with illustrated endpapers. Wilson, long the university librarian, follows the presidencies of Francis Preston Venable, Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase.
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A scrapbook kept by the Leonidas Polk Chapter, number 556, of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Chapel Hill, dated 1952. In UNC's North Carolina Collection.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: United Daughters of the Confederacy. Leonidas Polk Chapter (Chapel Hill, N.C.).
Four University of North Carolina presidents, Francis P. Venable, Edwin A. Alderman, Edward Kidder Graham and Kemp Plummer Battle, pose together at Graham's inauguration in this real photo postcard of 1915. Mailed to R. H. Lewis in Raleigh, it bears a short greeting from K.P.B. and an April 1915 postmark.
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Crowds gather in Chapel Hill on 2 June 1913 for the unveiling of the university's Confederate monument, later known as Silent Sam, in this real photo postcard. Writing to his mother, the sender explains that it honors students who left the university to enlist in 1861 and describes the parade of the day before.
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Papers of Julian Shakespeare Carr, 1892 to 1923, a Durham industrialist in tobacco, textiles and banking, a Methodist active in Sunday schools, and a figure in the finances of the university at Chapel Hill. They also cover Confederate veterans, race relations, white supremacy campaigns, and the Chapel Hill war memorial by John A. Wilson known as Silent Sam. Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 141.
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Edward Victor Zoeller, 1857 to 1944, worked as a pharmacist, and his papers cover 1885 to 1934. The papers range from pharmacy teaching and societies, including the School of Pharmacy at Chapel Hill, to the Farmers' Oil Mills at Tarboro and the cottonseed oil business. F. P. Venable and Frank W. Hancock are named. In the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 1780.
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Danielle Christmas reads the 1913 dedication of Silent Sam alongside white nationalist media and neo-Confederate fiction to show what is at stake in today's fights over Confederate monuments.
Included because: Catalog heading in the OpenAlex record: Silent Sam (Statue) -- Dedication, 1913.
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Picture: The unveiling of the Confederate monument, 2 June 1913, from a postcard. Public domain. via Wikimedia Commons
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