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Charles William Dabney

1885–1945 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton papers, 1895-1961.

Hamilton, Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac, 1878-1961 · 1895

Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton (1878-1961) taught history at Chapel Hill, and his papers, 1895 to 1961, amount to roughly 9,500 items in 25.5 linear feet in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 1743. Diaries sit among the material. Topics include the collecting of archival materials and the Southern Historical Collection itself, Reconstruction, the nineteenth century Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina, the state Democratic Party, and figures such as R. D. W. Connor and Albert Ray Newsome.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Dabney, Charles William, 1855-1945.

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  1. University trustees elect Charles W. Dabney to the faculty in place of Professor Redd Meeting in Raleigh, the trustees of the University of North Carolina elected Charles William Dabney to fill the faculty vacancy left by the resignation of Professor Redd.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Ledger, July 24, 1880, p. 3
  2. Professor Dabney arrives at Chapel Hill to direct the state experiment station Professor Charles W. Dabney arrived at Chapel Hill as director of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment and Fertilizer Control Station, then housed at the university.Search the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), November 20, 1880, p. 3

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