To call someone a “rosin heel” or “tar heel” was to imply they that they worked in a lowly trade. During the Civil War, North Carolina soldiers flipped the meaning of the term, and turned an …
In 1929 it changed its name to The Daily Tar Heel and began to expand its reporting and analysis of national and international affairs. Since then The Daily Tar Heel has often made news itself …
Hazel Katherine Hill, Editor of the Daily Tar Heel, 1943-1944 Women filled many of the classroom seats left vacant by male students. In 1944, they numbered well over half of the civilian …