D.D. Dougherty, Lillie Dougherty and the Early Years of Appalachian State
D.D. Dougherty, Lillie Dougherty and the Early Years of Appalachian State

Author: Doris Perry Stam

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2024-10-02

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1476696632

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The 125-year history of Appalachian State University rests on the ambitious yet selfless dream of empowering impoverished mountain families through education. Dauphin Disco Dougherty, his wife Lillie Shull Dougherty, and his bachelor brother, Blanford Barnard Dougherty, founded a small semi-private high school in 1899 at great personal cost and would only be able to sustain its growth to a state teacher's college through their fortitude of character and commitment. Drawing extensively on primary sources, some of which have appeared in no previous book, this history presents the first 30 years of the university's life and background. With over 100 historic images and dozens of first-hand accounts and interviews, the text uncovers forgotten foundations and fascinating personal details of the school's founders, bringing the first 30 years of App State to life.

William Friday
William Friday

Author: William A. Link

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2013-10-12

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 1469611864

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Few North Carolinians have been as well known or as widely respected as William Friday (1920-2012). The former president of the University of North Carolina remained prominent in public affairs in the state and elsewhere throughout his life and ranked as one of the most important American university presidents of the post-World War II era. In the second edition of this comprehensive biography, William Link traces Friday's long and remarkable career and commemorates his legendary life. Friday's thirty years as president of the university, from 1956 to 1986, spanned the greatest period of growth for higher education in American history, and Friday played a crucial role in shaping the sixteen-campus UNC system during that time. Link also explores Friday's influential work on nationwide commissions, task forces, and nonprofits, and in the development of the National Humanities Center and the growth of Research Triangle Park. This second edition features a new introduction and epilogue to enrich the narrative, charting the later years of Friday's career and examining his legacy in North Carolina and nationwide.

Light on the Hill
Light on the Hill

Author: William D. Snider

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 9780807855713

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In a bicentennial history of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, William D. Snider leads us from the chartering and siting of a charming campus and village in 1795 through the struggles, innovations, and expansions that have carried the school to national and international prominence. Throughout, Snider provides fine portraits of individuals significant in the life of the university, from William R. Davie and Joseph Caldwell to Harry Woodburn Chase, Frank Porter Graham, and William C. Friday. His book evokes for all who have been part of the Chapel Hill community memories of their own associations with the campus and a sense of the greater history of the institution of which they were a part.

North Carolina Through Four Centuries
North Carolina Through Four Centuries

Author: William S. Powell

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2010-01-20

Total Pages: 671

ISBN-13: 0807898988

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This successor to the classic Lefler-Newsome North Carolina: The History of a Southern State, published in 1954, presents a fresh survey history that includes the contemporary scene. Drawing upon recent scholarship, the advice of specialists, and his own knowledge, Powell has created a splendid narrative that makes North Carolina history accessible to both students and general readers. For years to come, this will be the standard college text and an essential reference for home and office.

Portraits in Leadership
Portraits in Leadership

Author: Arthur Padilla

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0275984907

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This is a book about leadership in all complex organizations which uses the university as its vehicle to illustrate behaviors of exemplary leaders.

Struggle for a Better South
Struggle for a Better South

Author: G. Michel

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2004-11-26

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1403981817

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Struggle for a Better South dispels the notion that all whites in the South stood united against social change in the 1960s. Gregg Michel's compelling study of the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC), the leading progressive organization created by young white activists in the South during that tumultuous decade, fills a crucial gap in the literature about New Left activism. Michel shows that the SSOC was the only activist group of the era that worked to cultivate white support for the social movement. The SSOC's members gave themselves the delicate task of reconciling their love for the South and its history - warts and all - with their modern-day commitment to equality and justice for all people.