Papers of Thomas Perkins Abernethy 1926-70.

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Papers of Thomas Perkins Abernethy 1926-70.

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The collection contains the mss. for "The south in the new nation" and "Southern frontiers of the War of 1812." Correspondence, chiefly from students, historians and publishers, deals with recommendations, examinations, dissertations, job placement, student aid, budgets, faculty hiring, salaries, annual reports, routine administrative business and the publication of books and articles. The collection also contains speeches, articles and book reviews, some research material for The Burr conspiracy, card files of bibliographies, student papers, reprints of colonial & Southern history articles and a few personal papers on finance & genealogy. Frederick Jackson Turner, Douglas Southall Freeman and Alfred Leslie Rowse are among the historians with whom Abernethy corresponded.

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University of Virginia. Faculty.

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University of Virginia. Corcoran Dept. of History.

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Rowse, A.L. (Alfred Leslie), 1903-1997

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Alfred Leslie Rowse (1903-1997), historian, poet, diarist, biographer and critic, was born in Tregonissey near St. Austell, Cornwall, to Dick Rowse (china-clay worker) and Annie Vaston. He attended St. Austell grammar school and won a scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford, gaining a first class honours degree in history in 1925 when he was also elected Fellow of All Souls, Oxford (the first man from a working-class background to do so). It was during this period that he established s...

Freeman, Douglas Southall, 1886-1953

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Newspaper editor and historian. From the description of Letter to Charles Lee Lewis, 1943 August 17. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 53180098 Freeman was a Richmond, Virginia journalist and historian who wrote the definitive biography of Robert E. Lee. From the description of Letters, 1934 July 14 and 1936 July 25 : to Miss Helen Webster. (Washington & Lee University). WorldCat record id: 567435277 Editor of the Richomd News Leader. ...

Abernathy family.

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Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932

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Frederick Jackson Turner, professor and historian, became a leading scholar after he published, in 1893, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," his revolutionary thesis that American society owed its distincitve characteristics to experience with an undeveloped frontier. He was born on November 14, 1861 in Portage, Wisconsin, the son of Andrew Jackson Turner, a journalist and politician. His scholary work was first carried on at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he t...

Abernethy, Thomas Perkins, 1890-1975

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Thomas Perkins Abernethy was a teacher who attended the College of Charleston (1908-1912) and received his M.A. and Ph. D. from Harvard University (1914-1916). He taught at Marion Institute (1912-1914, 1919), Woman's College of Alabama (1916-1917), and served as a second lieutenant during World War I. From the description of The formative period in Alabama, 1815-1828, dissertation, [19--]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122538556 Historian and chairman of the University of V...

Abernethy, Thomas Perkins, 1890-1975

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Thomas Perkins Abernethy was a teacher who attended the College of Charleston (1908-1912) and received his M.A. and Ph. D. from Harvard University (1914-1916). He taught at Marion Institute (1912-1914, 1919), Woman's College of Alabama (1916-1917), and served as a second lieutenant during World War I. From the description of The formative period in Alabama, 1815-1828, dissertation, [19--]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122538556 Historian and chairman of the University of V...