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University of North Carolina Press. Records of the University of North Carolina Press, 1922-1997 (bulk 1930-1970) [manuscript].

Title: Records of the University of North Carolina Press, 1922-1997 (bulk 1930-1970) [manuscript].

Correspondence and other files relating to the administration and publishing activities of the University of North Carolina Press. Included are minutes and other records of the Press's Board of Governors, 1922-1970 and 1979-1997; files of the Director, 1922-1993; extensive financial records from the office of the Controller of the Press, 1925-1979; and Marketing Division records pertaining to publicity and distribution, 1932-1963. There are also extensive files on rejected manuscripts and out-of-print titiles, including correspondence with leading intellectual figures, bothsouthern and national. Among these are Josephus Daniels, Paul Green, Bernice Kelly Harris, Howard W. Odum, and Rupert Vance. The files of William T. Couch as Director are of particular interest; they include materials pertaining to the Federal Writers' Project and to the journal Social Forces.

ArchivalResource: About 118800 items (153.0 linear ft.).

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Hamilton, C. Horace (Charles Horace), 1901-1977. C. Horace Hamilton papers, 1920s-1970s [manuscript].

Title: C. Horace Hamilton papers, 1920s-1970s [manuscript].

Chiefly Hamilton's professional and personal correspondence. Personal correspondence includes a number of letters from family members. Most of the papers cover Hamilton's years at Lon Morris College, UNC, VPI, and NCSU, and treat topics such as rural sociology, farm tenancy, interracial cooperation, and African-American education. Correspondence provides information about the interracial cooperation movement in Texas and the study of social science at UNC in the 1920s and 1930s. Correspondents include George Collins of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, Rupert Vance, and Howard Odum. There are also a few items relating to Jessie Daniel Ames.

ArchivalResource: 4,500 items (7.5 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25814405 View

Vance, Rupert Bayless, 1899-1975. Rupert Bayless Vance papers, 1926-1975 [manuscript].

Title: Rupert Bayless Vance papers, 1926-1975 [manuscript].

Correspondence, mostly scattered, of Vance, about fifty drafts and other versions of writings by Vance, and miscellaneous other items. Correspondence, chiefly from the 1950s, deals largely with Vance's projects involving economic and social conditions in the South and with his administrative duties. There also are a letter, 1935, from poet Donald Davidson (1893-1968); letters, 1933, 1949, 1954, from C. Vann Woodward (1908- ); and letters, various dates, from Howard W. Odum. Letters from the 1930s discuss the status of sociology at the University of North Carolina.

ArchivalResource: 750 items (2.5 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25300756 View

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Institute for Research in Social Science. Records of the Institute for Research in Social Science, 1924-1987 (bulk 1924-1969) [manuscript].

Title: Records of the Institute for Research in Social Science, 1924-1987 (bulk 1924-1969) [manuscript].

Correspondence and other files relating to the administration and programs of the Institute for Research in Social Science, including correspondence of Howard W. Odum. Also included are correspondence of Rupert Vance as research professor, 1938-1952, and files pertaining to the Center for Urban and Regional Studies, which began as a program of the Institute. In addition, there are 186 audiocassette tapes of various social science lectures and panels, most sponsored by the Institute under the title IRSS Colloquium, from 1983 to 1987. Although the scope of the Institute's research is no longer limited to the South, these records pertain primarily to the South.

ArchivalResource: 13,900 items (55.5 linear ft.) including 186 audiocassette tapes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26707546 View

General Faculty and Faculty Council of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1799-2011

Title: General Faculty and Faculty Council of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1799-2011

The university's earliest , adopted by its Board of Trustees in 1795, defined the duties and rights of the faculty. Formal faculty meetings have been held since at least 1799; the amended adopted by the trustees in December 1799 included guidelines for the conduct of such meetings. Throughout the antebellum period, the faculty was responsible for enforcing social as well as academic regulations and for handling cases of student misconduct. After 1875 the faculty assumed an increasing role in establishing policies governing educational activities and the awarding of degrees by the university. The , originally titled , was adopted by the General Faculty in 1947 and has been amended numerous times. In 1950 the General Faculty authorized the creation of the Faculty Council to act as its legislative body. The council, composed of elected members from the various faculty divisions and ex-officio members from the university administration, held its first meeting on 5 January 1951. Officers of the faculty include the chair and the secretary. The university's chancellor presides over meetings of the Faculty Council. Much of the Faculty Council's work is carried on by its standing and special committees. Laws and Regulations Laws of the University Faculty Code of University Government Faculty Legislation Records include minutes of meetings of the General Faculty, 1799-2011, and of the Faculty Council, 1951-2011; files of the secretary of the faculty and of the chair of the faculty; minutes of the meetings of various faculty divisions; and files of standing and special committees. Beginning in the mid-1990s, there are scattered meeting transcripts among the minutes. There are also recordings of many General Faculty and Faculty Council meetings, 1984-2010, on 283 audiocassettes, 31 data compact discs, and three digital video discs.

ArchivalResource: About 43,000 items (71.0 linear feet)

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Vance, Rupert Bayless, 1899-1975. Reminiscences of Rupert Bayless Vance : oral history, 1971.

Title: Reminiscences of Rupert Bayless Vance : oral history, 1971.

Childhood; education, Henderson-Brown College; graduate work, Vanderbilt and University of North Carolina; development of social science in the South; Southern race reliatons; Populist Party; agricultural life; Southern Sociological Society; impressions of the Nashville Agrarians, W. T. Couch, Frank Graham, Charles S. Johnson, Herman C. Nixon, Howard W. Odum, and others.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 106 leaves.Tape: 2 reels.

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Rupert Bayless Vance Papers, 1926-1975

Title: Rupert Bayless Vance Papers, 1926-1975

Rupert B. Vance (1899-1975), Kenan professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was associated with the Institute for Research in Social Science at the University from the 1920s to the 1970s. He was a leading sociologist of the American South and actively encouraged social, political, and economic changes in the region. Correspondence, mostly scattered, of Vance, about fifty drafts and other versions of writings by Vance, and miscellaneous other items. Correspondence, chiefly from the 1950s, deals largely with Vance's projects involving economic and social conditions in the South and with his administrative duties. There also are a letter, 1935, from poet Donald Davidson (1893-1968); letters, 1933, 1949, 1954, from C. Vann Woodward (1908- ); and letters, various dates, from Howard W. Odum. Letters from the 1930s discuss the status of sociology at the University of North Carolina.

ArchivalResource: 750; 2.5

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