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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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The collection includes fliers, correspondence, and other materials related to the activities of the Working Group in Feminism and History. Included are captures of both the Feminist Women in History website from 2003 a…
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. The headings name Jes…
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