John Herbert Roper is a professor of history with interests chiefly related to the history of the American South. The collection includes 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 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 ; 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. Progress and History: U. B. Phillips and C. Vann Woodward Create A Southern Dialectic on Race. C. Vann Woodward: A Southern Historian and His Critics
