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Norval Neil Luxon Papers, circa 1930-1989

Title: Norval Neil Luxon Papers, circa 1930-1989

Norval Neil Luxon (1899-1989) was a journalist, professor of journalism, and Dean of the School of Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1953-1964. Born in London, Ohio, he served in the Navy, 1917-1919, before earning a B.S. in journalism (1923) and M.A. in history (1931) from Ohio State University and Ph.D. in history (1940) from UCLA. Luxon held a variety of editorial posts on several newspapers and taught journalism and served in administrative capacities at Ohio State until 1953, when he was appointed Dean of the School of Journalism at the University of North Carolina. As a member of several national journalism organizations, Luxon wrote and spoke widely on the importance of maintaining high standards in journalism education and of a solid background in the humanities to practicing journalists. Luxon was married to Ermina Munn in 1928, and the couple had one son, Norval Neil Luxon Jr. Luxon died in Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1989. The collection includes correspondence chiefly between Norval Neil Luxon and other journalists, newspaper editors, deans of journalism schools, and faculty and administrators at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Also included are speeches and lectures given by Luxon; teaching and other materials from Luxon's tenure at Ohio State and the University of North Carolina; clippings; materials related to Luxon's graduate work at UCLA and his dissertation on the history of the ; books and other publications related to journalism and journalism education; correspondence and other materials belonging to his wife, Ermina Luxon, that document life in Chapel Hill, N.C., and the Munn family of Ohio; story boards and other materials related to television advertising for the ice cream division of the Walter M. Lowney Company (relation of these materials to other materials in the collection is unclear); and other items. Correspondents include Edward W. Barrett, Herbert Brucker, Chilton Rowlette Bush, Ralph D. Casey, Clifton Daniel, Earl English, Mark F. Ethridge, William C. Friday, Gail Godwin, Gordon Gray, Gerald W. Johnson, Bernard Kilgore, W. M. Kiplinger, A. H. Kirchhofer, Holt McPherson, Frank Luther Mott, Ralph O. Nafzinger, Sam Ragan, James Reston, Vermont Royster, and J. Carlyle Sitterson, among many others. Niles' Weekly Register

ArchivalResource: 15.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 12,800 items)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/04585/ View

Lauterer, Jock. Jock Lauterer photographic collection, circa 1964-1968.

Title: Jock Lauterer photographic collection, circa 1964-1968.

The collection is predominantly composed of images of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the town of Chapel Hill, N.C., made from circa 1964-1968, when the photographer was an undergraduate student at UNC. The largest grouping of negatives documents the UNC Men's Glee Club European Tour of 1966. Other images portray life in Chapel Hill, the UNC campus, and university activities. Lauterer captured small-town life; the serenity of campus; sporting events; and the effects of politically charged times on a small community, including anti-war protests, Speaker Ban protests, civil rights marches and speeches, and a Ku Klux Klan rally. Many of the images include persons of national or local significance.

ArchivalResource: ca. 3522 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/668111954 View

Roper, John Herbert, 1948-. John Herbert Roper papers, 1979-2003.

Title: John Herbert Roper papers, 1979-2003.

Correspondence, interviews, writings, and other materials relating to historian John Herbert Roper's work as professor of history at Emory and Henry College and on topics in southern history. Among these materials are transcripts of and notes on interviews done in 1978 and 1980 with William T. Couch, Manning J. Dauer, John Hope Franklin, Guy B. Johnson, Guion Johnson, LeRoy E. Loemker, J. Carlyle Sitterson, Carl D. Stewart, and Bennett H. Wall about historian C. Vann Woodward. Also included is a transcript of an interview with Woodward; correspondence with Woodward that includes letters from Woodward about Tom Watson; and a manuscript by Roper of "Progress and History: U. B. Phillips and C. Vann Woodward Create A Southern Dialectic on Race." There is also correspondence about historian U. B. Phillips; materials relating to the Herbert Aptheker/Paul G. Partington controversy about publication of a bibliography of the works of W. E. B. DuBois; correspondence and other papers relating to Roper's editing a collection of essays entitled "C. Vann Woodward: A Southern Historian and His Critics"; an interview with Ellis Merton Coulter about U. B. Phillips; and correspondence and other materials relating to other aspects of Roper's writing and teaching.

ArchivalResource: 1650 items (3.0 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25723855 View

Townsend Ludington Papers (#4951), 1968-1969

Title: Townsend Ludington Papers (#4951) 1968-1969

C. Townsend Ludington received a B.A. from Yale University in 1957 and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Duke University in 1964 and 1967 respectively. He began teaching English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1966. Among other work, Ludington wrote biographies of John Dos Passos and Marsden Hartley. The collection contains correspondence of Townsend Ludington, committee reports, and other materials relating to the development of an African-American studies curriculum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1968-1969, in response to a list of 23 demands of the Black Student Movement (BSM) that were presented to Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson on 11 December 1968. Ludington served as a member of the College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Committee on Afro-American and African Studies in 1969 and acted as chair of the American Studies Curriculum.

ArchivalResource: About 150 items (0.5 linear feet)

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/l/Ludington,Townsend.html View

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Photographic Services. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library Photographic Services photographs, 1976-2003.

Title: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library Photographic Services photographs, 1976-2003.

The collection dates from 1976 to 2003 and consists of still images taken by Photographic Services employees, primarily documenting Library-related events and functions. Events depicted include conferences, meetings, North Caroliniana Society dinners, meetings of the North Carolina Writers Conference, awards banquets, visitors, staff retirement parties, and student protests. Many of the images include persons of national or local significance, especially authors. Some studio portraits of individuals (students and faculty) are also included.

ArchivalResource: ca. 2500 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/688511676 View

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Bicentennial Photographic Collection [graphic].

Title: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Bicentennial Photographic Collection [graphic].

The collection documents the bicentennial activities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in October 1993. The majority of the images were taken by Dan Sears and Rick Beckman, but the work of a few other UNC staff photographers is also included. Most of the images date from October 1993, but a few were taken on other dates.

ArchivalResource: ca. 4,150 images, including ca. 1,140 prints; 3,006 35 mm. negatives, 2 col. transparencies, 4 x 5 inches; and 2 35 mm. col. slides (ca. 7.0 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43512426 View

Green, Fletcher Melvin, 1895-1978. Fletcher Melvin Green papers, 1898-1980 (bulk 1935-1965) [manuscript].

Title: Fletcher Melvin Green papers, 1898-1980 (bulk 1935-1965) [manuscript].

Correspondence, writings, speeches, course materials, and other papers relating to the professional career and family life of Fletcher Melvin Green. The bulk of the collection consists of professional and personal letters, 1935-1965. These letters chiefly document Green's tenure at the University of North Carolina and his involvement in professional and social organizations, but there is also material related to his teaching at Emory, Harvard, Columbia, and Oxford universities. Other items include extensive family correspondence between Green and other family members. Correspondents include Howard K. Beale, J. Isaac Copeland, E. Merton Coulter, Frank Porter Graham , J. G. deRoulhac Hamilton, Arthur Stanley Link, James Welch Patton, Rembert Patrick, J. Carlyle Sitterson, George Brown Tindall, and C. Vann Woodward.

ArchivalResource: 19,800 items (21.5 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25740280 View

University of North Carolina miscellaneous personal papers, 1802-1976.

Title: University of North Carolina miscellaneous personal papers, 1802-1976.

Miscellaneous letters from students, student autograph albums, notes made by students of lectures by professors, other student notebooks, and other items relating to the University of North Carolina. There are about twelve letters, 1828-1882, dealing with student life and other matters. The ten albums, 1852-1862, sometimes include brief biographical information on students. The notes, chiefly for the 1890s, relate to engineering, chemistry, anatomy, philosophy, and other subjects, and include an apparently unauthorized "study aid," 1846. Other items include humorous and scatological poems; records, 1894-1898, of the University of North Carolina chapter of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity; and about 2100 pieces of correspondence, 1924-1961, of members of the faculty of the University's Department of History, consisting chiefly of carbon copies of outgoing letters about academic matters. The correspondents include Wallace E. Caldwell, James L. Godfrey, Fletcher M. Green, Cecil S. Johnson, Hugh T. Lefler, Loren C. MacKinney, Carl H. Pegg, J. Carlyle Sitterson, and H. M. Wagstaff.

ArchivalResource: About 2200 items (3.0 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24527371 View

J. Carlyle Sitterson Papers, 1930s-1999s

Title: J. Carlyle Sitterson Papers, 1930s-1999s

J. Carlyle Sitterson (1911-1995) was born in Kinston, N.C. He received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina in 1931 and began teaching history at UNC in 1935 while completing his Ph. D. In 1955, Sitterson became dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, and, in 1965, he was appointed vice-chancellor. Serving as chancellor from 1966 to 1971, he steered the University through major desegregation efforts, anti- Vietnamese War protests, and general campus unrest while reorganizing the administration to reflect the needs of a modern university.Through all of his administrative work, Sitterson continued to teach history, moving from his specialty in United States economic history to 20th-century United States history; he retired as William Rand Kenan Professor of History in 1981. Sitterson married Nancy Howard in 1944; the couple had three children: Joseph Carlyle, Jr.; Mary Howard, who married Eric Calhoun; and Curtis Howard. Sitterson died 19 May 1995. Papers, 1930s-1990s, reflecting Sitterson's activities at the University of North Carolina, his professional activities within the community of historians, and work with other groups. Included are general office files containing correspondence, publications, calendars, and other materials and several boxes of notes and other items relating to classes that Sitterson taught.Also included are a considerable number of documents relating to Sitterson's work with other groups, particularly the Research Triangle Institute and the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT), for which he served as board chair. NCCAT was organized in 1984 to promote excellence in teaching by offering outstanding teachers opportunities to study advanced topics in the sciences, arts, and humanities.Family papers include 19th-century correspondence and court and legal records from Sitterson's ancestors in Williamson, N.C., as well as Sitterson's own family correspondence and personal papers.

ArchivalResource: 15000; 25.5

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/s/Sitterson,J.Carlyle.html 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)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/40106/ View

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. College of Arts and Sciences. Office of the Dean. Records of the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, 1917-2002 (bulk 1960-1997).

Title: Records of the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, 1917-2002 (bulk 1960-1997).

The collection includes correspondence and other files relating to curricula, faculty, and budget matters in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Also included are historical records reflecting changes in the duties of the dean and the development of the administrative structure of the college. Past deans who figure significantly in these records include C. Hugh Holman, J. Carlyle Sitterson, John Charles Morrow, Raymond H. Dawson, James R. Gaskin, Samuel R. Williamson, Gillian T. Cell, and Stephen S. Birdsall.

ArchivalResource: About 139600 items (175.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26683397 View

Barnhart mss., 1813-1962

Title: Barnhart mss. 1813-1962

Consists of the papers of John Donald Barnhart, 1895-1967, professor of history at Indiana University.

ArchivalResource: 706 items

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAC4947 View

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chancellor. Records of the Office of Chancellor : Joseph Carlyle Sitterson series, 1966-1972.

Title: Records of the Office of Chancellor : Joseph Carlyle Sitterson series, 1966-1972.

Records consist of correspondence and other files relating to the administration of and academic programs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including records relating to desegregation and the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare lawsuit against the university; the speaker ban law, which prohibited communists from speaking at the university; anti-war (Vietnam) protest; and campus unrest.

ArchivalResource: About 39600 items (49.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26385095 View

Wendell Holmes Stephenson Papers, 1820-1968

Title: Wendell Holmes Stephenson Papers, 1820-1968

ArchivalResource: Linear feet of space occupied: 34.6; Number of items: ca. 25,950

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/stephen/ View

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Office of the Provost. Records of the Office of Provost, 1917-2003 (bulk 1954-2001).

Title: Records of the Office of Provost, 1917-2003 (bulk 1954-2001).

Records include correspondence and other files relating chiefly to the administration of and programs in the Division of Academic Affairs (established in 1954) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Of particular importance are files on the research centers and institutes that report to the Provost and on matters affecting the faculty, including tenure, leaves, and salaries. Individuals who have served as Provost and who figure prominently in these records are Corydon P. Spruill, James Logan Godfrey, J. Carlyle Sitterson, C. Hugh Holman, John Charles Morrow, Samuel R. Williamson, John D. O'Connor, Richard L. McCormick, and Richard J. Richardson. Many of the files predate the 1954 establishment of the Division of Academic Affairs, probably because Corydon Spruill, its first administrator, had been Dean of the General College beginning in 1935. He continued in that capacity after he became Chairman of the Division of Academic Affairs. Undoubtedly some mixing of the files of the two offices occurred.

ArchivalResource: About 274800 items (345.0 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26683387 View

Sitterson, J. Carlyle (Joseph Carlyle), 1911-1995. J. Carlyle Sitterson papers, 1930s-1999s [manuscript].

Title: J. Carlyle Sitterson papers, 1930s-1999s [manuscript].

Papers, 1930s-1990s, reflecting Sitterson's activities at the University of North Carolina, his professional activities within the community of historians, and work with other groups. Included are general office files containing correspondence, publications, calendars, and other materials and several boxes of notes and other items relating to classes that Sitterson taught. Also included are a considerable number of documents relating to Sitterson's work with other groups, particularly the Research Triangle Institute and the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT), for which he served as board chair. NCCAT was organized in 1984 to promote excellence in teaching by offering outstanding teachers opportunities to study advanced topics in the sciences, arts, and humanities. Family papers include 19th-century correspondence and court and legal records from Sitterson's ancestors in Williamson, N.C., as well as Sitterson's own family correspondence and personal papers.

ArchivalResource: 15,000 items (25.5 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33427713 View

Stewart, William Albert. North Carolina Speaker Ban collection, 1965-1988.

Title: North Carolina Speaker Ban collection, 1965-1988.

The North Carolina Speaker Ban Collection dates from 1965 to1988 and contains depositions, exhibits, correspondence, testimonies and other documents from judicial hearings as well as six sound cassettes of interviews conducted by William Stewart (Ed. D. 1988) with William C. Friday, J. Carlyle Sitterson, Robert Morgan, James Medford, and Dr. A.K. King, Jan.-Nov. 1987.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/303427032 View

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chancellor. [Letter] April 1, 1966, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to members of the faculty.

Title: [Letter] April 1, 1966, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to members of the faculty. 1966.

ArchivalResource: [2], 5 leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60705086 View

Graham, Frank Porter, 1886-1972. Frank Porter Graham papers, 1908-1990.

Title: Frank Porter Graham papers, 1908-1990.

The collection includes correspondence, congressional and campaign files, speeches and other writings, notes, photographs, sound recordings, and other materials documenting the personal and professional life of Frank Porter Graham. Included are materials reflecting his service as president of the University of North Carolina, 1930-1949; U.S. senator from North Carolina, 1949-1950; United Nations representative in the dispute between India and Pakistan; and in various other capacities during the New Deal, World War II, and the Cold War. The papers reflect Graham's interests and activities in education, race relations and civil rights, labor arbitration, southern regional development, international mediation, and other southern and national liberal concerns. The addition of 1994 includes materials relating to "Dr. Frank: The Life and Times of Frank Porter Graham" (1994), a documentary biography film by John B. Wilson, Jr., and Martin Clark for the Arts and Sciences Foundation of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of North Carolina Center for Public Television. Included are logs documenting contents of video tapes, typed transcriptions of parts of interviews with Frank Porter Graham and others, and video tapes in various formats. Among the topics covered are civil rights; race relations; education, with emphasis on Graham's career at the University of North Carolina; and Graham's political activities and government service. Included are interviews with several persons involved in the bloody 1950 senatorial campaign. Persons important in these materials include Warren Ashby, William B. Aycock, Augustus Merrimon Burns, Julius L. Chambers, John Hope Franklin, William C. Friday, Alexander Heard, Douglass Hunt, Charles Kuralt, William Edward Leuchtenburg, Benjamin Elijah Mays, Claude Pepper, Julian M. Pleasants, Julian M., John L. Sanders, Terry Sanford, J. Carlyle Sitterson, Mack Smith, William D. Snider, George Brown Tindall, Willis P. Whichard, Tom Wicker, and Edwin Yoder. Materials in other additions are similar to those in the original deposits.

ArchivalResource: About 102400 items (168.5 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24639158 View

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Office of the Chancellor for University Affairs. Newspaper clippings relating to opposition to the Vietnam War in North Carolina : September, 1969 - June, 1970 / compiled by the Office of the Chancellor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Title: Newspaper clippings relating to opposition to the Vietnam War in North Carolina : September, 1969 - June, 1970 / compiled by the Office of the Chancellor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [1970?]

ArchivalResource: 50 leaves : ill. ; 36 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83256603 View