Papers of John Spencer Bassett, 1770-1978 (bulk 1894-1928).

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Papers of John Spencer Bassett, 1770-1978 (bulk 1894-1928).

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Correspondence, diaries and journals, lectures, speeches, writings, research material, subject files, family correspondence, and collected historical manuscripts. Documents Bassett's teaching career at Trinity College, Durham, N.C. (later Duke University), and at Smith College, Northampton, Mass., his biography of Andrew Jackson, and his secretaryship of the American Historical Association. Includes Bassett's writings and research material on the Regulator movement, slavery, and other topics in North Carolina history; his editorship of the South Atlantic Quarterly; and his interest in race relations, politics, and educational reform in the South, and in national politics and the League of Nations. Bassett's collected historical manuscripts include letters (1802) between governors William Charles Cole Claiborne, Archibald Roane, and Benjamin Williams concerning the extradition of Stockley Donelson and William Tyrrell, implicated in the Yazoo land frauds; papers of Ralph Earl, artist and intimate of Andrew Jackson; family and personal papers of Alabama lawyer and planter Henry Watson; and literary papers. Family members represented include Bassett's wife, Jessie Lewellin Bassett, and their children, Margaret Byrd Bassett and Richard H. Bassett. Correspondents include Herbert Baxter Adams, Charles McLean Andrews, Kemp P. Battle, William Kenneth Boyd, George Washington Cable, J. Franklin Crowell, Josephus Daniels, William Edward Dodd, Robert L. Flowers, Albert Bushnell Hart, J. Franklin Jameson, Walter Hines Page, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, William Peterfield Trent, and Woodrow Wilson.

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Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943

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Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

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Tyrrell, William.

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Roane, Archibald, 1759-1819

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Andrews, Charles McLean, 1863-1943

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Historian, educator, and author. From the description of Charles McLean Andrews collection concerning colonial history, 1663-1800. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131880 Charles McLean Andrews was born on February 22, 1863 in Wethersfield, Connecticut. He graduated from Trinity College (A.B., 1884) and received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1889. Andrews taught history at Bryn Mawr College (1889-1907), Johns Hopkins University (1907-1910), and at Yale Universit...

Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948

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Smith College.

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Since 1900, Christmas at Smith College has involved the sending of cards, the singing of carols and the annual Vespers. Smith College's Christmas Vespers has allowed religious and non-religious students alike to come together and appreciate the music and spirit of the holiday season. At this annual candlelight ceremony, Smith College choral groups perform seasonal songs and religious readings. From the description of Records of Christmas at Smith College, 1900-[ongoing]. (Smith Colle...

Trent, William P. (William Peterfield), 1862-1939

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Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925

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Boyd, William Kenneth, 1879-1938

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Bassett, John Spencer, 1867-1928

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Trinity College (Durham, N.C.)

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Adams, Herbert Baxter, 1850-1901

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Page, Walter Hines, 1855-1918

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Claiborne, William C. C. (William Charles Cole), 1775-1817.

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Donelson, Stockley, -approximately 1804

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Watson, Henry, 1810-

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American Historical Association

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