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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Andrew MacKay Scott Papers #5238, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Anne Firor Scott of Chapel Hill, N.C., in September 2005 (Acc. 100218) and April 2007 (Acc. 100647).

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Processed by: Jodi Berkowitz, July 2006; Rachel Canada, April 2007

Encoded by: Jodi Berkowitz, July 2006

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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• Coastal Carolina Press.
• Nonprofit organizations--North Carolina.
• North Carolina--Intellectual life--20th century.
• Publishers and publishing--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Scott, Andrew MacKay.
• Small presses--North Carolina.
• Wilmington (N.C.)--Commerce.

Professor of Political Science and founder of the Coastal Carolina Press Andrew MacKay Scott (b. 27 November 1922) graduated from Dartmouth College in 1946. He began graduate studies at Harvard University in September of that year and received a Master of Arts degree and a Master of Public Administration Degree in June 1949. In June 1950, Scott received his Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government. He taught at schools including Dartmouth and Haverford Colleges before joining the faculty of the University of North Carolina in 1958, where he taught for over 30 years before retiring. Scott founded the Coastal Carolina Press in 1999 in Wilmington, N.C., while retired, upon discovering that there was no publishing company that focused on the history, traditions, people, and places of the coastal area.

Scott authored numerous books and articles and was often cited. He was married to Anne Firor Scott, distinguished women's historian. Scott died in April 2005.

The collection contains papers related to the creation, operation, history, and dissolution of the Coastal Carolina Press (CCP), a nonprofit press founded by Andrew MacKay Scott in 1999 in Wilmington, N.C. Papers include legal documentation of the press; statements of purpose, philosophy, and mission; promotional materials; notes from staff meetings; correspondence; memorial service materials; letters of condolence; an unfinished memoir; and a short graphic publication, Trouble Waters The Floods of '99, written by Scott and published by the CCP.