From the Director of Public History:

Southeastern North Carolina boasts a rich network of museums, archives, historical societies, documentary filmmakers, and historic preservation agencies, as well as one of the top public regional universities in the south. Since the 1980s, the public history program at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington has provided a vital link between the University and the Cape Fear region’s wide variety of institutions that preserve and communicate history to the public.

UNCW’s public history program introduces undergraduates to the practice of history outside of traditional classrooms and prepares graduate students for positions in museums, historic sites, and historic preservation. Further, the program provides historical services for area institutions and government agencies and develops innovative public projects that engage a broad range of audiences. Our students and alumni are making waves, and enhancing the quality of life, in Wilmington and throughout the region!

If you are considering a career in public history, I urge you to consider attending UNCW as either a graduate or undergraduate.  Our faculty is involved in exciting, groundbreaking research while also actively and professionally practicing historic preservation and museum exhibition. Our program offers great opportunities, while also providing intensive faculty attention.

Let me add my encouragement to Dr. McCaffray’s invitation to visit our campus.  The faculty is always
eager to talk about our ongoing projects and the field of public history.

Sincerely yours,

William D. Moore
Associate Professor and
Director of Public History
moorewd@uncw.edu

Dr. Tammy Stone-Gordon and graduate student curators celebrate the opening of the exhibition Facing Changes: Expressions of Teens and Young Adults in the 1970s (can ya dig it?) in UNCW’s Randall Library.

Students in HST 470: Introduction to Public History visit a historically African-American Moravian Church at Old Salem with Dr. Will Moore.