Remarks at the rededication of the Louis Round Wilson Library
… G. de Roulhac Hamilton, founder of the Southern Historical Collection housed there.
Key local figure
J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton
Hamilton spent 43 years at UNC-Chapel Hill and gathered, on collecting trips across the South in his Ford, the papers that became its Southern Historical Collection. Trained in Columbia's Dunning School, he wrote Reconstruction history that defended white supremacy, arguing that the Ku Klux Klan saved North Carolina from rule by Black people and carpetbaggers.
Also found in catalogs as Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton.
On the Friends’ Local Authors roster as J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
6 indexed records are connected with this person.
Indexed works
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Department of History of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill records, 1921-2014.
… G. de Roulhac Hamilton, Albert Ray Newsome, Fletcher Melvin Green, Gillian Cell and Don Higginbotham, and cover the teaching of history and political science in the state.
Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton papers, 1895-1961.
… 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.
Ransack Roulhac and racism : Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton and Dunning's questions of institution building and Jim Crow
John Herbert Roper's study of J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, the University of North Carolina historian who built the Southern Historical Collection in Chapel Hill by gathering manuscripts across the South. The headings pla…
Southern Historical Collection, 1930-1980
… The collection belongs to the university library at Chapel Hill, and the headings name the historian Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton, 1878 to 1961, along with the historiography of the South.
Manuscripts Department of the Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill records, 1926-2014 (bulk 1926-1996)
… Names in the headings include Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton, James Welch Patton, and Carolyn Andrews Wallace.
Life and Orange County connections
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- J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton joins the UNC history faculty Hamilton, born in Hillsborough and trained at Columbia under William A. Dunning, was appointed associate professor of history at the University of North Caroli…Search the index · NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources: J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton (Highway Historical Marker G-103)
- Hamilton announces plans for a manuscript collection at UNC Hamilton announced plans for what he first called the National Southern Collection of manuscripts at the university. It became the Southern Historical Collecti…Search the index · NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources: J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton (Highway Historical Marker G-103)
- The Southern Historical Collection is established In 1930 Sarah Graham Kenan of Wilmington gave UNC $25,000 to buy books, letters and diaries for the Southern Historical Collection being gathered by history pr… People: J. G. de Roulhac HamiltonSearch the index · NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources: J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton (Highway Historical Marker G-103)
- UNC names its new history building Hamilton Hall The university named the new building occupied by its History Department for J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, founder of the Southern Historical Collection.Search the index · NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources: J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton (Highway Historical Marker G-103)
- A state highway marker for Hamilton is cast for Churton Street in Hillsborough The North Carolina highway historical marker G-103, which marks Hamilton's birthplace half a block west as historian, professor and founder of the Southern His…Search the index · NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources: J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton (Highway Historical Marker G-103)
- Renaming of Hamilton Hall is recommended After a reevaluation of Hamilton's career, the building housing UNC's History Department was recommended for a name change. Critics pointed to his white suprem…Search the index · NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources: J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton (Highway Historical Marker G-103)
Background reading at OCPL
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- Background reading · Rebecca Wall Collection Creating A Local History Archive at your Public Library Phillips, Faye · 2017 Subjects in the Library of Congress catalog record: Libraries -- United States -- Special collections -- Local history materials OCPL call number: NC 026 PHILLIPS
- Background reading · Rebecca Wall Collection Guide to County Records in the North Carolina State Archives North Carolina · 2009 Subjects in the Library of Congress catalog record: Public records -- North Carolina -- Bibliography -- Catalogs; North Carolina Office of Archives and History -- Catalogs; North Carolina -- History, Local -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Catalogs OCPL call number: NC 016.975 NORTH
- Background reading · Rebecca Wall Collection The History of Public Library Service in Durham, North Carolina 1897-1997 Harland-Jacobs, Jessica · 1998 Subjects in the OCPL catalog record: Durham County Library -- History; Durham Colored Library -- History; Public libraries -- North Carolina -- Durham County -- History OCPL call number: NC 027.475 HAR
- Background reading · Rebecca Wall Collection Local History Reference Collections for Public Libraries Marquis, Kathy · 2015 Subjects in the Library of Congress catalog record: Libraries -- United States -- Special collections -- Local history materials; Local history -- Bibliography -- Methodology; United States -- History, Local -- Bibliography -- Methodology OCPL call number: NC 025.21 MARQUIS
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