Rankin, Hugh F.

• 17 June 1913: Born Arlington County, Va.
• 1931: Graduated from Reidsville High School, Reidsville, N.C.
• 1931 - 1935 : Attended V.P.I. on football scholarship.
• 1935 - 1942 : Worked as timekeeper to superintendent in road and bridge construction, as power lineman, clothing store clerk, tobacco factory worker, and minor league professional football player.
• 1942 - 1945 : Private to first lieutenant, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
• 1943: Married Betty Jean Bursley, Richmond, Va. They had three sons: Patrick Allyn, John Bursley, and Wade Dillard.
• 1949: B.A., Elon College.
• 1951: M.A., University of North Carolina.
• 1953: 1954: Worked for National Park Service, Yorktown, Va., two summers.
• 1955 - 1957 : Research associate, Colonial Williamsburg, Inc., Williamsburg, Va.
• 1959: Ph.D., University of North Carolina.
• 1957 - 1974 : Instructor to professor of history at Tulane University, New Orleans, La.
• 1974 - 1983 : W. R. Irby Professor of History, Tulane University.
• 1962 - 1975 : Faculty chair of athletics, Tulane University.
• 1989: Died in New Orleans, La.

Honors:

• 1952 - 1955 : John Motley Morehead Scholarship, University of North Carolina
• 1953: 1954: R. D. W. Connor Prize (for best article of the year in North Carolina Historical Review)
• 1960: Fellow, Company of Military Historians
• 1962 - 1963 : Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1974: Doctor of Humanities, Francis Marion College, Florence, S.C.
• 1976: Doctor of Letters, William Carey College, Hattiesburg, Miss.

Publications:

• 1957: Rebels and Redcoats (with George Scheer)
• 1959: North Carolina in the American Revolution
• 1960: The Pirates of Colonial North Carolina
• 1961: The Battle of New Orleans: A British View (editor)
• 1962: Upheaval in Albemarle: The Story of Culpeper's Rebellion
• 1964: The American Revolution
• 1965: Theater in Colonial America
• 1965: Criminal Trial Proceedings in the General Court of Colonial Virginia
• 1969: The Golden Age of Piracy
• 1971: The North Carolina Continentals
• 1973: Francis Marion: The Swamp Fox
• 1975: The Fate of a Nation (with W. P. Cummins)
• 1976: Narratives of the American Revolution as told by a young sailor, a home-sick surgeon, a French volunteer, and a German general's wife (editor)
• 1976: George Rogers Clark and the Winning of the West (editor, with Edward M. Riley)
• 1976: Greene and Cornwallis: The Campaign in the Carolinas
• 1979: The War of the Revolution in Virginia

From the guide to the Hugh F. Rankin Papers (#4920), 1867-1994, (Southern Historical Collection)