Records of the Carolina Symposium, 1927- 1986.

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Records of the Carolina Symposium, 1927- 1986.

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Records of the Carolina Symposium and its predecessor, the Institute on Human Relations, include correspondence, memoranda, reports, financial records, publicity materials, photos, printed programs, speech transcripts, scrapbooks, and audiotapes of session proceedings. Especially well-documented is the 1958 Symposium on the American cultural tradition, with John Sparkman, Malcolm Cowley, Victor Reuther, Jonathan Daniels, Harry Golden, Sidney Hook, Benjamin Fine, Harry Ashmore, and other speakers. Also represented are the 1962 Symposium on "The Concept of Revolution," with James B. Reston and other speakers; the 1964 Symposium on "Arms and the Man," with William Fulbright, Hans Morgenthau, David Brinkley, Irving Howe, Marya Mannes, John Knowles, George McGovern, Adam Yarmolinsky, George Ball, and others; the 1966 Symposium on American myth, with John Kenneth Galbraith, Nelson Algren, Morris Udall, Al Capp, Tom Wolfe, C. Vann Woodward, and Ralph Ellison; the 1972 Symposium on the "Mind of the South"; the 1984 Symposium on "Population Resources and Environment"; and the 1986 Symposium on "Science, Technology, Society, and the Individual."

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Brinkley, David.

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Graham, Frank Porter, 1886-1972

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