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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the J. Fred Rippy Papers, #3845, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received as a gift in 1974

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Adam Fielding, Kate Stratton, and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2011

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• American Historical Association--History.
• College teachers--United States--History--20th century.
• Colombia--Description and travel.
• Diaries.
• Duke University--Faculty--History.
• Florida State University--Faculty--History--20th century.
• Florida--Description and travel.
• Hispanic American historical review.
• Historians--United States--History--20th century.
• History--Societies, etc.--History--20th century.
• Latin America--History--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.
• Rippy, J. Fred (James Fred), 1892-1977.
• Travelers--Colombia--Diaries.
• University of Chicago--Faculty--History--20th century.

J. Fred Rippy (1892-1977) was a historian and author specializing in Latin American and diplomatic history. He was a professor at the University of Chicago, 1920-1926 and 1936-1958; professor at Duke University, 1926-1936, and the director of Duke University Press, 1928-1936. He authored numerous articles, books, and book reviews in Latin American and American diplomatic history; was a guest lecturer and visting professor at schools throughout the United States; and an active member of historical organizations and committees, including the American Historical Association, the editorial board of the American Historical Review, 1932-1937 and the Hispanic American Historical Review.

The collection contains the personal and professional papers of J. Fred Rippy (1892-1977), professor of Latin American history at the University of Chicago, 1920-1926 and 1936-1958, and at Duke University, 1926-1936, including correspondence about university affairs, politics and government policy, the careers of former students, his committee work for the American Historical Association, the American Historical Review, and the Hispanic American Historical Review. Also included are manuscripts of writings, book reviews, photographs, clippings, research materials, and personal diaries kept during trips to Colombia in 1928, to Florida as visiting professor at Florida State University in 1951, and to the University of South Carolina at Columbia in 1958. There are also a few items in Spanish and Portuguese.

• Photographs (PF-3845/1-5)