TIPSHEET

With state and national elections around the corner, reporters often need quick access to informed historians and political scientists. Two of the best, most reporter-friendly such sources are at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

• Dr. William Leuchtenburg, William Rand Kenan professor of history, can be reached at (919) 967-1257. He is a past president of the American Historical Association, the nation’s top expert on Franklin D. Roosevelt and one of the top experts on the U.S. presidency. He has researched and written about countless other subjects ranging from the U.S. Supreme Court and Lyndon Johnson to Huey Long and Johnny Appleseed and has appeared on national news programs as an expert many times.
  
  
• Dr. Thad L. Beyle, Pearsall professor of political science, can be reached at (919) 962-0404 (w) or 942-1281 (h). Beyle is widely acknowledged as "Mr. North Carolina Politics." He and his students have been keeping up with, analyzing and commenting on politics across the state and the South for decades, and he’s also an expert on the national presidential picture at any given time.

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Contact: David Williamson, (919) 962-8596.