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Collection Number: 5540

Collection Title: Joel Williamson Papers, 1970s-2000s

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Size 31.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 10,000 items)
Abstract The papers of Joel Williamson, white historian of the American South and professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, are his professional and scholarly research files. The materials are focused chiefly on three major book projects, The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation (1984), William Faulkner and Southern History (1993), and Elvis Presley: A Southern Life (2014). Also included are research materials about Margaret Mitchell, the author of the novel Gone with the Wind. The collection contains correspondence, research notes and copies of archival documents relevant to Williamson's historical research, grant applications and reports, materials for teaching and for advising graduate students, printed items including published articles by Williamson and others, annotated and amended drafts of his scholarly publications, and talks and papers delivered at conferences for professional organizations including the Southern Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians.
Creator Williamson, Joel.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Restrictions to Use
No usage restrictions.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Joel Williamson Papers #5540, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Joel Rudolph Williamson in November 2012 (Acc. 101700).
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: Laura Smith

Processed by Nicole Cvjetnicanin and Rebecca Stubbs, March 2019

Since August 2017, we have added ethnic identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine ethnic identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual’s preference for ethnicity to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@email.unc.edu.

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Box 1

Correspondence

Box 2

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1980, 1995-2000s

Box 3-4

Book projects: Faulkner

Notes

Box 5

Book projects: Faulkner

Permits index

Box 6

Book projects: Faulkner

Early drafts

Box 7

Book projects: Faulkner

Articles & talks & draft

Box 8

Book projects: Elvis

Clippings, teaching

Box 9

Book projects: Elvis

Clippings, notes, research-University of Memphis, lion workshop

Box 10

Book projects: Elvis

Talks

Box 11

Book projects: Elvis

Elvis & Margaret Mitchell

Box 12

Book projects: Crucible of Race and Rage for Order, 1983

Research for Crucible of Race, few dates

Box 13

Book projects: Various projects

Notes for writing

Box 14

Professional work

Correspondence, dissertation advisees, etc.

Box 15

Professional work

Talks, etc.

Box 16

Professional work

Talks, travel, grants

Box 17

Professional work

Notes, talks, etc.

Box 18

Professional work

Student papers, attendance sheets, teaching materials, etc.

Box 19

Professional work

Teaching "summer", summer school classes, student work, lecture notes, grades

Box 20

Professional work

Talks, grant proposals, etc.

Box 21

Audiovisual materials

Professional audio tapes

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