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Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

Historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall founded UNC's Southern Oral History Program and led it from 1973 to 2011, building a collection of more than 7,500 recordings now kept in Wilson Library. She is Julia Cherry Spruill Professor Emerita of history at UNC, and in 2023 the University Libraries endowed a graduate fellowship in her name.

Source: UNC University Libraries: Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Fellowship honors pioneering scholar of the South

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Working Group in Feminism and History Records,

Working Group in Feminism and History · 1992

Fliers, letters and other papers from the Working Group in Feminism and History, begun in 1990 as the Feminist Women in History Group by historians Judith Bennett of UNC-Chapel Hill and Cynthia Herrup of Duke to support women graduate students and faculty in the area. Captures of the group's websites from 2003 and 2017 are included. A quarter of a linear foot.

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Jacquelyn Dowd Hall papers, 1870s-2020s

Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd · 1874

The papers of the historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall run from the 1870s into the 2020s, approximately 75,000 items in 134 linear feet, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5574. Subjects include Jessie Daniel Ames, Grace Lumpkin, the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, the Southern Oral History Program and the Young Women's Christian Association, along with Hall's faculty appointment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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  1. The Southern Oral History Program is founded UNC's Southern Oral History Program was founded in 1973 under historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, its founding director until 2011, and was first housed in the history department. Its interviews with Southerners, now more than 7,500 recordings kept in Wilson Library, include many Chapel Hill and Orange County narrators. People: Jacquelyn Dowd HallSearch the index · UNC University Libraries: Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Fellowship honors pioneering scholar of the South (December 13, 2023)
  2. Southern Oral History Program records histories of UNC people for the bicentennial For UNC's bicentennial the Southern Oral History Program, then directed by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, added more than 300 interviews with the university's students, chancellors and service workers.In the index: UNC-Chapel Hill Young Democrats · Southern Oral History Program: Frequently Asked Questions
  3. Jacquelyn Dowd Hall receives the National Humanities Medal President Clinton presented Hall with a National Humanities Medal as founder and director of UNC-Chapel Hill's Southern Oral History Program and a scholar of the New South. People: Bill ClintonSearch the index · NEH: National Humanities Medalists, 1999
  4. UNC Libraries endows the Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Fellowship An endowment from John Powell created a UNC University Libraries fellowship in Hall's name for graduate students researching the American South, with preference for projects using oral history sources.Search the index · UNC University Libraries: Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Fellowship honors pioneering scholar of the South

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  • Frequently Asked QuestionsSouthern Oral History Program (UNC) Interviews with residents, workers, and organizers, searchable in UNC’s database
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