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Collection Overview
| Size | 60.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 30,000 items) |
| Abstract | Professional papers of Charles Hudson (1932-2013), noted white anthropologist and scholar. The collection includes an extensive set of professional correspondence, 1965-2013. Correspondents are principally scholars of Native American history and culture, historians, fellow educators, publishing contacts, museum and art curators, archaeologists, anthropologists, former students and other acquaintances and colleagues. The collection also contains a large set of files relating to "Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun," Hudson's groundbreaking work on Hernando de Soto, and other books and articles. There are also materials for many of the courses that Professor Hudson taught throughout his career as a member of the anthropology faculty at the University of Georgia. |
| Creator | Hudson, Charles M. |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
| Language | English |
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Encoded by: Laura Smith
Processed by Nicole Cvjetnicanin, March 2019
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Biographical Information
Charles M. Hudson, Jr. was born in 1932 on a farm near Monterey, Ky. At the age of 14, Hudson moved with his family to Frankfort, Ky., where he attended Frankfort High School. Following his graduation, he joined the United States Air Force and served in communications intelligence in Japan during the Korean War. Hudson used the GI Bill to attend the University of Kentucky, graduating in 1958 with a degree in anthropology. He then pursued graduate studies in anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, earning an M.A. (1962) and a Ph.D. (1965). Upon earning his doctorate, he joined the anthropology faculty at the University of Georgia, where he would spend his entire professional career (until his retirement in 2000).
Hudson authored or edited a number of books but is perhaps best known for his extensive research of Hernando de Soto's 1539-1543 expedition across the Southeast, which culminated in the publication of "Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South’s Ancient Chiefdoms" (1997).
Hudson was one of the founders of the Southern Anthropological Society, serving as president of the organization in 1973-74. In 1993-94 he served as president of the American Society for Ethnohistory.
Charles M. Hudson, Jr. married Joyce Rockwood 1968 and the couple had two children: Charles M. Hudson III and Ann Rebecca Currie. After he retired from the University of Georgia, Charles and Joyce Hudson moved back to Frankfort, KY. Charles M. Hudson, Jr. died in Kentucky on June 8, 2013.
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Charles M. Hudson Papers, 1965-2013