Is staying close to home due to the coronavirus. Next, a look at one of our city tour visits. Today, we are on the campus of the university of North Carolina at chapel hill, the First State University in the country. This is a contested claim that we argue with chartered first, chartered in 1785. Was first to open and had already graduated a couple of classes for the university of georgia. The university and the city were founded at the same time. Selected,area was there was no town or village. Farms, therefew was a chapel located on what is now the site of the carolina inn, but there was no town to speak of. On the day for the First University building, they also had an auction of town lots. They understood the university was going to succeed, there needed to be a town around it to support it, provide businesses, so really the town of chapel hill and were born on the same day. The university was chartered in 1781. The ground broken 7093, and it was about a year and a half later when t
It specifies that athletes are not permitted to accept anything of value really related to their status as an athlete. That means that you know a fan or a booster, a wouldbe agent, a coach, is not permitted to give you anything of value beyond what is specified in the ncaa constitution. How it forces good people to do bad things or consider doing bad things. The pressures are just so enormous in the athletic program. People that are sports fans or like to be helpful will be enticed to do shady things from time to time. Sometimes it morphs into fullscale fraud. It is a system that needs repair. That is the dominant message we would like people to take away from the book. I am in chapel hill and hillsboro. My district is best known has as a diverse and growing and by that we not only refer to shedding some of the negative aspects of our history, but really charting a new course. The Research Triangle story is pretty principle internalized arnold here. A group of leaders in education and
Here is a look at our recent visit to chapel hill, North Carolina. The cspan cities tour is exploring the american story. As we take book tv and American History tv on the road. With the support of our cable partners, we traveled to chapel hill, North Carolina. Over the next hour, we will go to notable locations, speak with experts about the citys history and talk with some history makers themselves. In a moment, the story of the university of North Carolinas planetarium and the role it played in early nasa missions. Following that, in ten minutes, a conversation with howard lee, chapel hills first africanamerican mayor and the first africanamerican mayor elected in a majority white southern city. Then in 30 minlutes, the histor of uncs basketball tour as we tour the Basketball Museum. We will speak with an author on the academic scandal that involved the universitys athletic department. We will end our special with local lawyer rufus edmonston talking about delivering a subpoena to pr
More head planetarium in the role it played in early nasa missions. Following that, in about ten minutes, a conversation with howard lee chapel hills first African American mayor and the first African American mayor elected in the majority white southern city. Then, in about 30 minutes, the history of uncs Basketball Program as we tore the North Carolina Basketball Museum. Well also speak with author jay smith on the academic scandal that involve the universities athletic department. We will end our special with a local royal rufus edison talking about delivering a subpoena to president nixon in 1973 and his other experience as a deputy chief counsel on the Senate Watergate committee. Howard ali was the first African American elected mayor in the majority white southern city. Coming up we sit down with mr. Lee to talk about serving his chapel hill mayor in the 19 sixties and seventies and the challenges he faced while in office law. Mayor, why did you decide to run for mayor of chapel
Panel and we are each going to say a few words about are quite different roles. Well nathan and i have the same rule. He is trying to steal the 20th century for me and doing a good job. Well have a different roles and back stories. We will talk about that a little bit. Then were going to open it up to questions. Just for starters, this is not what it looks like behind the scenes of back story. In fact, rarely are we in the same place at the same time. I had to Google Nathan to see what he looked like. I talked to him every week even though. Introducing myself. I am a professor at the university of virginia. I cohost back story and i direct the National Fellowship program at the jefferson scholars foundation. My cohost Nathan Connolly is known to most of you as an outstanding scholar. He is the herbert back stir adams chair Herbert Baxter adams at the john hops guns university. The remaking of jim crows south florida. He is also hard at work on a book that is really a deep transnational