Records of the University of North Carolina Press, 1922-1997 (bulk 1930-1970) [manuscript].

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Records of the University of North Carolina Press, 1922-1997 (bulk 1930-1970) [manuscript].

Correspondence and other files relating to the administration and publishing activities of the University of North Carolina Press. Included are minutes and other records of the Press's Board of Governors, 1922-1970 and 1979-1997; files of the Director, 1922-1993; extensive financial records from the office of the Controller of the Press, 1925-1979; and Marketing Division records pertaining to publicity and distribution, 1932-1963. There are also extensive files on rejected manuscripts and out-of-print titiles, including correspondence with leading intellectual figures, bothsouthern and national. Among these are Josephus Daniels, Paul Green, Bernice Kelly Harris, Howard W. Odum, and Rupert Vance. The files of William T. Couch as Director are of particular interest; they include materials pertaining to the Federal Writers' Project and to the journal Social Forces.

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University of North Carolina Press

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The University of North Carolina Press was incorporated as a non-stock company in 1922. Its original purpose was threefold: to publish periodicals devoted to the research and writing of University of North Carolina faculty; to publish catalogs and other documents for the university; and to promote the arts, sciences, and literature by publishing generally deserving works. Throughout its history, the Press has been espeically strong in the areas of Southern history and literature. Although suppor...

Vance, Rupert Bayless, 1899-1975

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Sociologist. From the description of Reminiscences of Rupert Bayless Vance : oral history, 1971. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309740774 Rupert B. Vance (1899-1975), Kenan professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was associated with the Institute for Research in Social Science at the University from the 1920s to the 1970s. He was a leading sociologist of the American South and actively encouraged social, ...

Harris, Bernice Kelly, 1892-1973

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Bernice Harris (1891-1973) was an author and playwright, largely on southern topics, and leader in civic, cultural, and religious organizations, of Seaboard, N.C. She participated in the W.P.A. Federal Writers' Project, collecting "life histories" of ordinary people in the South. From the description of Bernice Kelly Harris papers, 1913-1973, 1996-1997. WorldCat record id: 25507472 Bernice Kelly Harris (8 Oct. 1891-13 Sept. 1973) was born in Wake County, N.C., d...

Odum, Howard Washington, 1884-1954

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Howard Washington Odum was a sociologist of the American South; author; professor at the University of North Carolina from 1920 to 1954; and founder of the Sociology Department, the School of Public Welfare, the Department of City and Carolina. From the description of Howard Washington Odum papers, 1908-1982. WorldCat record id: 27192779 Howard Washington Odum, sociologist, author, and educator, was born 24 May 1884, in Bethlehem, Georgia, and died 8 November 1954, in Chapel...

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...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Couch, William T. (William Terry), 1901-1988

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William Terry Couch was director of the University of North Carolina Press, 1932-1945; director of the University of Chicago Press, 1945-1950; editor-in-chief of Collier's Encyclopedia and Yearbooks, 1952-1959; editor of the American Oxford Encyclopedia, 1959-1963; and co-director of the Center for American Studies in Burlingame, Calif., 1963-1964. From the description of William T. Couch papers, 1926-1988. WorldCat record id: 27190223 Publisher. From the descrip...

Federal Writers' Project (N.C.)

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Green, Paul, 1894-1981

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Paul Eliot Green(1894-1981) was a Southern playwright, poet, and novelist. Born in Lillington, North Carolina, Green lived in the state all of his life and tried to capture in his writings the culture and heritage of the American South, concentrating on the experiences of tenant farmers, mill workers, Native Americans and African Americans. Green studied at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill under folk dramatist Frederick Koch of the Carolina Playmakers. After an interruption of his ...

Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948

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Josephus Daniels, son of Josephus and Mary (Cleves) Daniels, was born in Washington, North Carolina, May 18, 1862. He attended the Wilson Collegiate Institute. On May 2, 1888, he married Addie W. Bagley. At the age of eighteen, he was editor of the "Wilson Advance"; admitted to the bar in 1885; state printer for North Carolina, 1887-1893; chief clerk, Department of the Interior, 1893-1895; editor of the "Raleigh State Chronicle", 1885; editor of the "Raleigh State News and Observer", 1894-1919; ...