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

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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.

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Lefler, Hugh Talmage, 1901-1981

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Hugh Talmadge Lefler, Kenan Professor of history at the University of North Carolina. From the description of Hugh Talmadge Lefler papers, 1800s-1977 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 46547929 From the guide to the Hugh Talmadge Lefler Papers, ., 1800s-1977, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Green, Fletcher Melvin, 1895-1978

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Fletcher Melvin Green (1895-1978) was a member of the faculty of the History Department at the University of North Carolina, 1936-1960. Green directed the graduate studies of more than 200 students, held a Kenan professorship, and served as department chair. From the description of Fletcher Melvin Green papers, 1898-1980 (bulk 1935-1965) [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 25740280 Fletcher Melvin Green (1895-1978) was a member of the faculty of the History Department at the U...

Beta Theta Pi

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Dept. of History

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Johnson, Cecil S., 1900-1976.

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Cecil Slaton Johnson (1900-1976), professor of history who was born in Jackson, Ga.; lived in Clinton, Miss.; and taught history in North Carolina and Mississippi. From the description of Cecil S. Johnson papers, 1923-1970 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 46547912 From the guide to the Cecil S. Johnson Papers, ., 1923-1970, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

Sitterson, J. Carlyle (Joseph Carlyle), 1911-1995

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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 admin...

Caldwell, Wallace Everett, 1890-1961

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Wallace Everett Caldwell was a native of Brooklyn, N.Y. He was professor of history at the University of North Carolina, 1922-1961, and author of books and articles on ancient history. From the description of Wallace Everett Caldwell papers, 1864-1961. WorldCat record id: 24864248 Cornell University Class of 1910. From the description of Wallace Everett Caldwell scrapbook, 1907-1910. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 77010734 ...

Wagstaff, Henry McGilbert

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Henry McGilbert Wagstaff (1876-1945) was an author, editor, and professor of history at the University of North Carolina, 1907-1945. Wagstaff was born in Roxboro, N.C., and educated at the University of North Carolina and John Hopkins University. He specialized in English history but also had a special interest in Southern and North Carolina history and edited a number of the James Sprunt Historial Publications at the University of North Carolina. His wife was Mary Jeffe...

MacKinney, Loren Carey, 1891-1963

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Loren Carey MacKinney was a professor of medieval history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1930 until his death in 1963. MacKinney was born in Minnesota and received degrees from Lawrence College and the University of Chicago. He taught at eight colleges and universities before coming to UNC-Chapel Hill, and was regarded as an authority on the history of medieval medicine. His publications included "Early Medieval Medicine, with Special Reference to France and Chartres" (1...

Godfrey, James L. (James Logan), 1907-1994

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Pegg, Carl H. (Carl Hamilton), 1905-....

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Carl Hamilton Pegg was born in Deep River Township, Guilford County, N.C. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina in history and government in 1929. In 1930, he joined the UNC History Department faculty and remained there until his retirement in 1975, during which time he developed a syllabus for the General College's freshman interdisciplinary course and 20th-century European, Russian, Eastern European, and Far Eastern history courses. He also assisted in strengthening the H...