Painter, Nell Irvin

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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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creatorOf Smith, Jacqueline Bryant. Nell Irvin Painter letters and photographs, 1957-2004. Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library
referencedIn Lerner, Gerda, 1920-. Papers, 1941-2001 (inclusive). Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn Women Writing Women's Lives Records Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
referencedIn Irvin family. Irvin family papers, [ca. 1890s]-2003. Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library
referencedIn Records of, Sojourner, (inclusive), (bulk), 1920-2004, 1975-2002 Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
creatorOf Painter, Nell Irvin. Harvard University and the Ku Klux Klan, 1923 / Nell Painter. Harvard University Archives.
creatorOf Painter, Nell Irvin. Nell Irvin Painter papers, 1793-2011 and undated, bulk 1876-2007. Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library
creatorOf Painter, Nell Irvin. Nell Irvin Painter papers, 1980-1996. Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library
referencedIn Michele Wallace papers New York Public Library System, NYPL
creatorOf Guide to the Nell Irvin Painter Papers, 1793-2016 and undated, bulk 1876-2007 Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library
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creatorOf The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Nell Irvin Painter The HistoryMakers
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associatedWith Armah, Ayi Kwei, 1939- person
associatedWith Bruce, Roscoe Conkling. person
associatedWith Harvard University corporateBody
associatedWith Hudson, Hosea. person
associatedWith Irvin family. family
associatedWith John Hope Franklin Collection of African and African-American Documentation. corporateBody
associatedWith John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture. corporateBody
associatedWith Lerner, Gerda, 1920- person
associatedWith Lowell, A. Lawrence (Abbott Lawrence), 1856-1943. person
associatedWith McKay, Nellie Y. person
associatedWith Princeton University corporateBody
associatedWith Smith, Jacqueline Bryant. person
associatedWith Sojourner (Cambridge, Mass.) corporateBody
associatedWith Truth, Sojourner, d. 1883. person
associatedWith University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill corporateBody
associatedWith University of Pennsylvania. Faculty. corporateBody
associatedWith Wallace, Michele person
associatedWith Women Writing Women's Lives. corporateBody
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United States
Southern States
Newark (N.J.)
United States
Ghana
France
Houston (Tex.)
Newark (N.J.)
Southern States
Massachusetts--Cambridge
Subject
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
Occupation
Educator
Historian
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Active 1980

Active 1996

Birth 19420802

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