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Traces: the UNC Journal of History

Traces: the UNC Journal of History is an award-winning student-run journal based in the UNC History Department. It was created in 2011 by UNC-Chapel Hill students G. Lawson Kuehnert and Mark W. Hornburg, with support from the UNC-Chapel Hill Parents Council.

Over ten years of operation, run entirely by UNC students, Traces has twice been the recipient of Phi Alpha Theta’s prestigious Gerald D. Nash History Journal Prize (2013, 2017) and student research featured in the journal has been recognized by Phi Alpha Theta and other university and national organizations for their exceptional quality.

Traces is currently edited by Javier Etchegaray.

A partial record of previous student research featured in Traces can be found in the Carolina Digital Repository.


554A Pauli Murray Hall*
102 Emerson Dr., CB #3195
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195

*Though the History Department uses the name Pauli Murray Hall for our building, on official maps you will find it as Hamilton Hall. Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton’s intellectually dishonest historical and archival work promoted white supremacy. In contrast, Pauli Murray marshaled unassailable evidence and analysis in the service of racial and gender equality. In July 2020, all of the departments housed in the building agreed to adopt the name Pauli Murray Hall in place of Hamilton Hall. An official request with the Chancellor is pending. For more information, please see here.
phone: 919.962.2115
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email: history@unc.edu
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