Sydnor, Charles S. (Charles Sackett), 1898-1954

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History professor and Dean, Duke University, Durham, N.C.

From the description of Papers, 1729-1978 and n.d. (bulk 1923-1954). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 122509902 From the description of Papers, 1729-1978 (bulk 1923-1954). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 28081387 1898, July 21 Born, Augusta, Ga. 1915 Graduated from Darlington School, Rome, Ga. 1918 B.A., Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney, Va. 1919 Taught high school in Rome, Ga. 1919 1920 Taught at McCallie School, Chattanooga, Tenn. 1923 Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University 1923 1925 Professor of History and Political Science, Hampden-Sydney College 1924, June 12 Married Betty Brown 1925 1936 Professor of History, University of Mississippi 1935 1938 Member, Board of Editors, Journal of Southern History 1936 1938 Associate professor of History, Duke University, Durham, N.C. 1938 Professor of History and Chairman of History Department, Duke University 1939 President, Southern Historical Association 1941 1944 Member, Executive Committee, North Carolina Literary and Historical Association 1947 Member, Board of Editors, South Atlantic Quarterly 1948 Litt.D., Washington and Lee University, and Princeton University (1953) 1949 President, North Carolina Literary and Historical Association 1950 M.A., University of Oxford, Oxford, England 1950 1951 Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History, University of Oxford 1952 Dean of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Duke University 1953 LL.D., Davidson College, Davidson, N.C. 1954 Died (buried in Chattanooga, Tenn.)

Sydnor's publications include Mississippi History, Slavery in Mississippi, A Gentleman of the Old Natchez Region: Benjamin L. C. Wailes, The Development of Southern Sectionalism, 1819-1848 (Volume V of The History of the South), and Gentlemen Freeholders: Political Practices in Washington's Virginia.

Sydnor held visiting professorships at Emory (1925-1926), Johns Hopkins (1929, 1934), Duke (1935-1936), Cornell (1941), University of North Carolina (1949), and Harvard (1952) Universities. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, the Council Institute of Early American History and Culture, the Advisory Committee of the Office of the Chief of Military History for the U.S. Army, the American Historical Association, and the American Mississippi Valley Historical Association. He received awards from the Social Science Research Council (1940) and the Library of Congress (1945-1946).

From the guide to the Charles S. Sydnor Papers, and undated, 1729-1978, (Duke University. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

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