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The Daily Tar Heel, UNC-Chapel Hill's student newspaper, has been a vibrant voice on campus since its founding in 1893, when the university was still struggling to find its identity after the Civil War. Along with lively coverage of athletics and campus activities, the DTH has captured world events as students experienced them, including two world wars, the Cold War, movements to democratize the campus and the country for women and African Americans, and the digital age. Kenneth Joel Zogry chronicles history of the Daily Tar Heel, examining the close and sometimes contentious relationship between the university and its paper and offering insights into campus events both well-known and barely remembered, including documenting the introduction of basketball to Chapel Hill much earlier than is commonly thought. Zogry shows that the rise of UNC into a modern research university was mirrored by the rise of the newspaper, which counts governors, authors, and thousands of professional journalists among its alumni. Zogry concludes by detailing the DTH's efforts to produce journalists today, during a tumultuous time for the newspaper industry.

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Kenneth Joel Zogry's history of the University of North Carolina's student newspaper the Daily Tar Heel (DTH) is proof that news really is the 'first rough draft of history.' His sweeping, sprawling story-by-story account of the paper's 125-plus years of publication gives the sort of unvarnished context so necessary, but so often missing, from histories of higher education.--Journal of American History A surprisingly lively and engaging survey of hundreds of thousands of articles printed in some twenty thousand issues of the University of North Carolina's (UNC) student newspaper, the Daily Tar Heel. . . . [Zogry] has given us an invaluable perspective on the period when UNC-Chapel Hill grew and developed into one of America's premier public research universities.--North Carolina Historical Review Informative and accessible, Zogry's work confirms that a free, independent press remains crucial to the healthy functioning of society and essential to understandings of the present and the past.--Journal of Southern History

Informative and accessible, Zogry's work confirms that a free, independent press remains crucial to the healthy functioning of society and essential to understandings of the present and the past.--Journal of Southern History

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Kenneth Joel Zogry, Ph.D., is a public historian and researches and writes extensively about UNC history.

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