Southern Historical Association records, 1935-2005.

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Southern Historical Association records, 1935-2005.

Officers' files and other materials pertaining to the administration of the Southern Historical Association, the historical profession, and related matters. Among individuals whose work with the Association is documented are James W. Patton, Bennett H. Wall, Sanford W. Higginbotham, and Gilbert Fite. Also included are records, 1982-1983, of the Association's Ad Hoc Committee on the Status of Women in the Southern Historical Association, of the European History Section, and of the "Journal of Southern History."

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Fite, Gilbert Courtland, 1918-2010

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Gilbert C. Fite was born in 1918 on a farm in South Dakota. He, along with twelve other students, graduated from the Free Methodist Secondary School in Wessington Springs in 1935. He attended the Free Methodist junior college where both his parents attended and where his mother was a secretary. At the junior college, Fite majored in history for two years before enrolling at Seattle Pacific College, a larger Free Methodist school, in 1937. He then enrolled at the University of South Dakota where ...

Higginbotham, Sanford W.

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Patton, James Welch, 1900-1973

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James Welch Patton (1900-1973) was the director of the Southern Historical Collection, 1948-1967, and history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1948-1973. The papers contain correspondence and manuscripts of published and unpublished writings, 1948-1973. From the description of James Welch Patton papers, 1948-1973 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 25264859 James Welch Patton (1900-1973) grew up in Tennessee. He was graduated from Vand...

Wall, Bennett H.

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Bennett H. Wall, professor of history at the University of Georgia at Athens and secretary of the Southern Historical Association. From the description of Bennett H. Wall papers, 1960-1966 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 25696787 From the guide to the Bennett H. Wall Papers, 1960-1966, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Southern Historical Association

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The Southern Historical Association was established in 1934 to promote the study of history of the American South and the teaching of all branches of history in the South. From the description of Southern Historical Association records, 1935-2005. WorldCat record id: 25466009 Eighteen historians from seven southern states organized the Southern Historical Association in November 1934, to promote interest and research in Southern history, to collect and preserve ...