Statements
Letter from the History Department on Nikole Hannah-Jones Tenure CaseOn behalf of the History Department, Chair of the Department Professor Lisa Lindsay sent the following letter to the UNC Board of Trustees on June 22, 2021 regarding the tenure case of Nikole Hannah-Jones. You can download this letter as a PDF. The letter is also printed in full below: … Read more |
Statement in Solidarity with Carolina’s Asian and Asian American CommunitiesThe Department of History strongly condemns racist violence, intimidation, and discrimination in all forms, including those against Asians and Americans of Asian descent, with whom we stand in solidarity. On March 16, 2021, a white gunman killed eight people—six of them women of Asian descent—at an Asian American-owned business outside … Read more |
2020 Statement on White House Memo Barring Federal Agencies from Race-Related TrainingsStatement on White House Memo Barring Federal Agencies from Race-Related Trainings READ: White House memo barring federal agencies from race-related training sessions “The President, and his Administration, are fully committed to the fair and equal treatment of all individuals within the United States….The divisive, false, and demeaning propaganda of the … Read more |
Pauli Murray Hall: UNC’s Departments of History, Political Science, and Sociology and the Curriculum on Peace, War, and Defense begin the renaming of Hamilton HallThe History Department, along with Sociology, Political Science, and Peace, War & Defense have started the process of renaming Hamilton Hall. Our motivation for renaming the building is rooted in the history of our University and Professor Hamilton’s role in shaping it for the benefit of white supremacy. Ample evidence … Read more |
WGEI Statement Concerning the 2020 Murder of Mr. George Floyd and the 2021 Trial of His KillerThe-UNC-Chapel Hill History Department Working Group on Equity and Inclusion has written the following Statement Concerning the 2020 Murder of Mr. George Floyd and the 2021 Trial of His Killer. Sign the statement here. Below is the statement in full: The image of a hunter with his knee on the … Read more |
The History Department’s Recommended Links Related to ‘Silent Sam.’A University’s Betrayal of Historical Truth (Dec. 9, 2019) “A great public university should stand for the pursuit of truth, not the promotion of historical distortions and falsehoods. In seeking an expedient solution, the university system has succeeded only in aggravating the problems that the removal of the statue was supposed … Read more |
Previous Department Statements Related to the Confederate Memorial Known as ‘Silent Sam.’Letter to Chancellor Folt from 35 members of the History Department, August 24, 2018 “Now that Silent Sam has been removed from his pedestal on our campus, let him remain on the ground: he should be displayed as a contextualized, historical artifact within an appropriate educational space, not in a … Read more |