Chapel Hill: An Illustrated History by James Vickers (Text), Thomas Scism (Illustrator), Dixon Qualls (Color Photography); 1985. Hardcover.

In the first full-length - and copiously illustrated - history of Chapel Hill, author James Vickers describes in lively and entertaining detail the rich history of the village which in a century and a half of progressive struggle interspersed with threatening adversity evolved from a sparsely populated backwood crossroads to become the cultural center of North Carolina.