Carl H. Pegg, Alumni Distinguished professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of History died earlier this month at age 90.
A specialist in modern European history, Pegg joined the faculty in 1930 and was history department chairman from 1960 to 1965. He was named Alumni Distinguished professor in 1961, retired in 1974 and wrote Evolution of the European Idea, 1914-1932, published by UNC Press in 1983.
"Carl Pegg was one of those splendid teachers and untiring servants of the University upon whom the institution's reputation was built," said William C. Friday, UNC system president emeritus and executive director of the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust.
In the mid-1930s, Pegg developed a social science course that became a modern civilization class required of all freshman. He was among co-authors of a textbook, America and the Changing World, first written for the course in 1942 and used in undergraduate classrooms at many other U.S. universities.
Colleagues credit Pegg with making vital contributions to the University by laying the foundations for an undergraduate library and by building courses and collections in 20th-century European as well as Russian and Asian history.
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