Painter, Nell Irvin

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Dates:
Active 1980
Active 1996

Biographical notes:

Scholar, teacher, and writer in 19th- and 20th-century American and African American history who has taught at Harvard, Princeton, and the Universities of North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

From the description of Nell Irvin Painter papers, 1793-2011 and undated, bulk 1876-2007. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 51907978

Painter earned a Harvard PhD in 1974.

From the description of Harvard University and the Ku Klux Klan, 1923 / Nell Painter. April 13, 1970. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228513358

Director of African-American Studies and the Edwards Professor of American History at Princeton University, who specializes in the history of the southern United States and has written extensively on southerners such as Hosea Hudson, Wilbur Cash, and Sojourner Truth.

From the description of Nell Painter papers, 1959-2002 and n.d. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 83771588

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Subjects:

  • Slavery
  • Abolitionists
  • African American college teachers
  • African Americans
  • African Americans
  • African Americans
  • African Americans
  • African Americans
  • African Americans
  • African Americans
  • African Americans
  • African Americans
  • African Americans
  • African Americans
  • African American women
  • Americanists
  • Biography as a literary form
  • College teachers
  • Discrimination in education
  • Female friendship
  • Feminist theory
  • Historians
  • History
  • Migration, Internal
  • Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
  • Scholars
  • Social reformers
  • Women
  • Women
  • Women

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  • Southern States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Southern States (as recorded)
  • Massachusetts--Cambridge (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Ghana (as recorded)
  • France (as recorded)