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Fletcher Melvin Green taught history at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill for most of the years from 1922 to 1968, chaired its history department from 1953 to 1960, and directed more than 100 doctoral dissertations. He was named Kenan Professor in 1946 and is buried in Chapel Hill Memorial Cemetery.
Source: NCpedia: Green, Fletcher Melvin
1895–1978 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
3 works about Fletcher Melvin Green are indexed here, as are 3 works by Green.
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Fletcher Melvin Green's outline for individual and group study of figures from the American Revolution, issued in 1932 through the university extension program at Chapel Hill. Topics include the Revolution in outline and syllabus form and its teaching in continuing education. Material of this kind guided the reading circles and club programs that the extension division served.
Frontier and pioneer life in the American West is the subject of this 1932 study outline by Fletcher Melvin Green, issued for individual and group work through the university extension program at Chapel Hill. Topics include pioneers, frontier life and the history of the West in continuing education. One of several such outlines Green wrote in these years.
Fletcher Melvin Green's outline for individual and group study of Confederate leadership, prepared in 1931 at the request of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and issued through university extension at Chapel Hill. Topics include leadership and the Confederate States in continuing education study. A record of what the extension division supplied to organized study groups of the period.
History department records from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1921 to 2014, about 20,600 items in 23.5 linear feet, University Archives at UNC, collection 40082. Faculty represented include R. D. W. Connor, J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, Albert Ray Newsome, Fletcher Melvin Green, Gillian Cell and Don Higginbotham. The records cover the teaching of history and political science in the state.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Green, Fletcher Melvin, 1895-1978.
A six leaf typescript memorial to Fletcher Melvin Green (1895-1978), presented to the Faculty Council of the University of North Carolina on 21 April 1978 and signed by J. Isaac Copeland and others. Part of the North Carolina Collection at UNC.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Green, Fletcher Melvin, 1895-1978.
Papers of the historian Bennett H. Wall covering 1960 to 1966, 500 items in 1.5 linear feet, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4227. Topics include historians and historiography of the Southern States in the 20th century, festschriften, Fletcher Melvin Green, 1895 to 1978, and the history of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Green, Fletcher Melvin, 1895-1978.
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