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Hugh Talmage Lefler (1901–1981) joined the University's history faculty in Chapel Hill in 1935, succeeding R. D. W. Connor, was named Kenan Professor in 1955 and retired in 1972. With Paul Wager he edited Orange County, 1752–1952 (1953). He is buried in the old Chapel Hill Cemetery.
Source: NCpedia: Lefler, Hugh Talmage
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Hugh Lefler and Paul Wager edited this history of Orange County covering 1752 to 1952, published in 1953 for the county's two hundredth year in 389 pages with illustrations, portraits and maps.
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Books in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection whose titles, catalog subjects, or descriptions match this person. The Friends’ recommended starting points are labelled.
Hugh T. Lefler and William S. Powell's history of North Carolina in the colonial period, written for Scribner's A History of the American Colonies series and published in 1973; 318 pages, illustrated, with a bibliography and index. Lefler taught the state's history at Chapel Hill from 1935; Powell, curator of the North Carolina Collection at the university library from 1958, later edited the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography.
The third edition, 1973, of Hugh Talmage Lefler and Albert Ray Newsome's college history of North Carolina, first published in 1954 and revised in 1963. It runs to 807 illustrated pages with a bibliography of nearly forty pages. Lefler taught at Chapel Hill from 1935 until 1972 and was known for testing popular legends against the documents; Newsome died in 1951, before the first edition appeared.
Four volumes on North Carolina's past by Hugh Talmage Lefler, published in 1956 by the Lewis Historical Publishing Company of New York. The first two carry the state's history, with footnotes; the third and fourth, subtitled Family and Personal History, hold biographical sketches of North Carolinians and their families. The set is illustrated, with portraits.
A secondary-school textbook of North Carolina history, geography and government by Hugh T. Lefler, first published in 1959 and revised in 1966, incorporating material he had developed with Albert Ray Newsome. The revised edition runs to 561 pages with maps, portraits and illustrations, some in color. Published in New York by Harcourt, Brace and World.
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