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Williams taught philosophy at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill from 1890 until 1940 and chaired the department from 1890 to 1935, holding the Kenan professorship from 1921 to 1935. His students included Thomas Wolfe and Paul Green.
Source: UNC Libraries: Henry Horace Williams Papers, 1835-1948 finding aid
1858–1940 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
9 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes 4 works by Henry Horace Williams. 1 held at OCPL →
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Henry Horace Williams published this account of his own education in 1936 at Chapel Hill, issuing it himself. His personal narrative also addresses the history of the University of North Carolina during his lifetime. Preserved on microfilm.
Lectures on logic and thinking that Horace Williams gave at the University of North Carolina in 1921 and 1922, published in 1951, eleven years after his death. The book runs to 281 pages.
Henry Horace Williams, who taught philosophy at Chapel Hill for decades, set out his thinking on logic and concepts in this 347-page book published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1927.
Early book by Henry Horace Williams, the Chapel Hill philosophy professor, tracing how logic developed. It appeared in 1925 and runs to 181 pages.
Robert Watson Winston's biography of Henry Horace Williams (1858-1940), who taught philosophy at the University of North Carolina for half a century, subtitled gadfly of Chapel Hill. Published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1942, 309 pages with frontispiece and portraits; this copy is autographed. Topics include educators in Chapel Hill and the university's history.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Williams, Henry Horace, 1858-1940.
Reviewed in Social Forces (1943).
An account of the Horace Williams House in Chapel Hill and of Henry Horace Williams, the university teacher whose home it was. Published in the town in 1989, it concerns historic buildings in Chapel Hill, university faculty biography and novelist Thomas Wolfe.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Williams, Henry Horace, 1858-1940.
Auction announcement printed at Chapel Hill in 1946, advertising twenty-two houses offered for sale on behalf of the University of North Carolina. The sale concerned the university's endowment and property contributed by Henry Horace Williams, who died in 1940.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Williams, Henry Horace, 1858-1940.
Henry Horace Williams's autobiography, recalling his life as an educator at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the history and culture of the South. Williams lived from 1858 to 1940. This printing dates from 1997, 200 pages.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Williams, Henry Horace, 1858-1940.
Account ledger of Patterson's General Store in Chapel Hill for 1910 to 1911, recording what customers owed. Accounts run from townspeople and the university Athletic Association to figures such as Kemp Plummer Battle, Edward Kidder Graham, Collier Cobb, Horace Williams and Louis Round Wilson, and firms including the Bank of Chapel Hill, Odell Hardware, Standard Oil and the Southern Railway. Part of North Carolina Memory.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Williams, Henry Horace, 1858-1940.
Phillips Russell (1884-1974) taught journalism at the University of North Carolina and wrote biographies of Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Paul Jones. His papers, 7,800 items in fourteen linear feet covering 1861 to 1974, are part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4004. Topics include his publishers, his teaching, the writer Lucy Phillips Russell, and colleagues such as Henry Horace Williams and John Ehle.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Williams, Henry Horace, 1858-1940.
Henry Horace Williams, the longtime philosophy professor at the University of North Carolina, is the subject of these newspaper clippings, photocopied articles, published pieces and notes. From box 9 of the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Vertical File Collection. Undated.
Why this is here: Its title names this person.
One hundred items document the Horace Williams Philosophical Society, 1945 to 1968, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40186. The society took its name from Henry Horace Williams (1858-1940), and topics include philosophy societies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and intellectual life in the state during the twentieth century.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Williams, Henry Horace, 1858-1940.
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.
Robert Watson Winston's biography of Henry Horace Williams (1858-1940), who taught philosophy at the University of North Carolina for half a century, subtitled gadfly of Chapel Hill. Published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1942, 309 pages with frontispiece and portraits; this copy is autographed. Topics include educators in Chapel Hill and the university's history.
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Picture: Henry Horace Williams, 1907. Public domain. Photograph by University of North Carolina (1793-1962); This file was contributed to Wikimedia Commons by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as part of a cooperation project. The donation was facilitated by the Digital Public Library of America. Record in source catalog DPLA identifier: fdccaea386ee463f5be4c0aea9875f86; via Wikimedia Commons
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