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Archibald Henderson taught in UNC's mathematics department at Chapel Hill for fifty years, heading it from 1920 until he retired in 1948. George Bernard Shaw's authorized biographer and a historian of the state and the university, he worked with the Chapel Hill drama department from its founding in 1918 and died at Fordell, his Chapel Hill home, in 1963.
Source: Documenting the American South: Archibald Henderson, 17 July 1877-6 Dec. 1963
1877–1963 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
14 works about Archibald Henderson are indexed here, as are 12 works by Henderson.
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Archibald Henderson's short history of the Carolina Playmakers, the University of North Carolina's theater company at Chapel Hill, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1945, 104 pages. Written while the company was still in its first decades, it gives a contemporary view of how the Playmakers saw their own mission as a people's theatre.
Archibald Henderson's history of the Episcopal congregation in Chapel Hill, the Church of the Atonement and the Chapel of the Cross, as the title names them. A short work of Chapel Hill church history and of the Episcopal Church in North Carolina, published in Hartford, Connecticut, by the Church Missions Publishing Company in 1938, 57 pages with illustrations and portraits. One copy carries the author's presentation inscription to the North Carolina State Library.
Archibald Henderson's history of the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, its buildings and grounds from the founding in the 1790s onward. Henderson, a professor of mathematics and a prolific historian of the university, wrote it in the years around the university's sesquicentennial. Published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1949, 412 pages with illustrations and bibliographical footnotes.
Reviewed in The Journal of Southern History (1949), South Atlantic Quarterly (1950).
Archibald Henderson's commemoration of the 1935 Transylvania bicentennial, which paired Richard Henderson's birth in 1735 with the Transylvania Company's Kentucky purchase of 1775. Henderson wrote it from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he taught.
A 1929 study of the Transylvania Company and the founding of Henderson, Kentucky, the town that took Richard Henderson's name. Archibald Henderson, writing from Chapel Hill, follows the company's Kentucky dealings and the state's early history to 1792. Richard Henderson, 1735 to 1785, was a North Carolina judge and the company's organizer. Part of the Old State Library Collection.
Phases of the westward movement in the Old Southwest, as Archibald Henderson set them out in 1919: the Transylvania colony, Richard Henderson's land company and the career of Isaac Shelby. The Seeman Printery produced the volume, 86 pages with two portraits. Its author held a professorship at Chapel Hill.
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Samuel Stevens Hood's composite portrait of Archibald Henderson (1877-1963), the University of North Carolina mathematician, historian and biographer of George Bernard Shaw, cast in the title as a new Crichton for the breadth of his interests. Published in 1949 as an authorized edition of five hundred numbered copies, 252 pages with portraits and facsimiles, closing with a bibliography of Henderson's writings that runs to more than thirty pages.
Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Henderson, Archibald, 1877-1963.
Reviewed in South Atlantic Quarterly (1949).
The Carolina Playmakers presented a Shaw and Henderson festival in Chapel Hill in honor of Archibald Henderson, the university mathematician who became Bernard Shaw's biographer, and this piece reports on it. Detached from the May 1933 issue of Sigma Nu Delta and printed in Indianapolis by the fraternity, it concerns drama festivals in Chapel Hill and names both Henderson and Shaw.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Henderson, Archibald, 1877-1963.
Mathematician Archibald Henderson, elected king of Student-Faculty Day, raises the day's sign on 5 February 1941 beside queen Sylvia Goich of Santiago, Chile, with young attendants in dresses carrying flowers. Goich was among several South American students visiting UNC that month. Hugh Morton, sheet film negative.
Included because: Their name appears in the record.
Correspondence dominates the papers of Charles Mills (1914-1982), approximately 150 items in one linear foot dated 1937 to 1981, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4270. Subjects include American authors and novelists he wrote to or about, among them Paul Green, Betty Smith, Archibald Henderson, Robert Fitzgerald and Clare Leighton, and note a personal narrative of the Second World War in Burma. Chapel Hill social life anchors the local tie.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Henderson, Archibald, 1877-1963.
Julia Goode Eagan (1888-1963) is represented by twenty four items dated 1932 to 1937 and 1944, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4104. Includes biographical material. Subjects include Archibald Henderson, biographers in North Carolina, the social life of college teachers at the university in the twentieth century, family life, and Chapel Hill.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Henderson, Archibald, 1877-1963.
News and publicity files produced by the university news bureau and its successor News Services at Chapel Hill, 1924 to 2013, some 200,000 items across 119 linear feet, University Archives at UNC, collection 40139. Photographs are a large part of it. Topics include public relations and research, the Speaker Ban Law, anniversary observances, Archibald Henderson, and filming in Chapel Hill for the motion picture 'Patch Adams'.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Henderson, Archibald, 1877-1963.
Pendergraph's General Store in Chapel Hill, about 1910: an interior view with the owner, Colonel Pendergraph, his son Robert and Archibald Henderson, the university mathematician and historian, plus a negative. Two items in the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection.
Included because: Their name appears in the record.
Henderson family Bible records, 1773 to 1890, kept in an 1823 printing of the New Testament from H. C. Carey and I. Lea. The six pages register births and other family events for the Orange County family of Archibald Henderson.
Included because: Their name appears in the record.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Archibald Henderson, the university mathematician and biographer of George Bernard Shaw, in an undated portrait from the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection.
Included because: Its title names this person.
Archibald Henderson's house in Chapel Hill is the subject of an undated folder containing a single report. Henderson was a University of North Carolina mathematician and a biographer of George Bernard Shaw. From the Historic Houses files of the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Vertical File Collection.
Included because: Its title names this person.
Sarah A. Wadsworth's 2000 account of the Archibald Henderson Collection in the Rare Book Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A guide to the Bernard Shaw material Henderson gathered.
Included because: Their name appears in the record.
Isabel Van Rensselaer Masterton's 1964 account of the Archibald Henderson Collection of books and other materials relating to George Bernard Shaw, gathered in the Rare Book Collection of the University of North Carolina library at Chapel Hill. Henderson, 1877 to 1963, is also named beside Shaw, whose works the collection gathers. A bibliography occupies leaves 209 to 211.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Henderson, Archibald, 1877-1963.
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Archibald Henderson's history of the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, its buildings and grounds from the founding in the 1790s onward. Henderson, a professor of mathematics and a prolific historian of the university, wrote it in the years around the university's sesquicentennial. Published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1949, 412 pages with illustrations and bibliographical footnotes.
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Picture: Archibald Henderson, portrait plate, 1910. Public domain. Portrait photograph, about 1910; via Wikimedia Commons
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