A look at the long and controversial life of ‘Silent Sam’
Posted Aug 24, 2017
Silent Sam has been under fire a long time. Archivists at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Wilson Library digitized primary sources of the Confederate monument’s history on the campus last year. “Any time there’s this much interest in a piece of university history we see it as a tremendous learning experience,” said university archivist Nicholas Graham.
(Durham Herald-Sun)
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