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Size | 8.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 7000 items) |
Abstract | Edgar Wallace Knight (1885-1953) was University of North Carolina Kenan professor of educational history, and author of numerous publications. This collection chiefly contains source material from various repositories collected by Knight in preparation for A Documentary History of Education in the South before 1860 (1949-1954). Papers include letters; wills; petitions; trustees' minutes of schools and colleges; personal diaries; and other selected materials concerning education and related cultural and social aspects of the antebellum South. Institutions represented include the University of Alabama, the University of Georgia, Davidson College, South Carolina College, the University of Tennessee, and the Texas Military Institute. Persons and organizations represented include Henry Harrisse, Horace Mann, Henry Barnard, Joseph Lancaster, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and Dr. Thomas Bray's Associates. |
Creator | Knight, Edgar Wallace, 1885-1953. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Adam Fielding, Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, November 2010; Nancy Kaiser, January 2021; Dawne Howard Lucas, July 2021
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.
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Edgar Wallace Knight (1885-1953) was University of North Carolina Kenan professor of educational history, and author of numerous publications, including A Documentary History of Education in the South Before 1860 (1949-1954).
Back to TopThis collection chiefly contains source material from various repositories collected by Edgar Wallace Knight (1885-1953) in preparation for A Documentary History of Education in the South before 1860 (1949-1954). Papers include letters; wills; petitions; trustees' minutes of schools and colleges; personal diaries; and other selected materials concerning education and related cultural and social aspects of the antebellum South. Institutions represented include the University of Alabama, the University of Georgia, Davidson College, South Carolina College, the University of Tennessee, and the Texas Military Institute. Persons and organizations represented include Henry Harrisse, Horace Mann, Henry Barnard, Joseph Lancaster, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and Dr. Thomas Bray's Associates.
Back to TopArrangement: Chronological.
Series chiefly contains photocopies of wills, petitions, and reports, along with a few letters and photographs of documents.
Transcripts of minutes, diaries, and publications. Volume 23 is only avaiable on microfilm (M-378.768 Tk-b).
Selected materials from collections of papers at different repositories. Volumes 26-27 are from the Henry Harrisse Papers; volume 28 is from the Henry Barnard Papers; volume 30 is from the Joseph Lancaster Papers; and volumes 31-32 are from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Papers.
Folder 60 |
Volume 26: Henry Harrisse's essay on collegiate education |
Folder 61 |
Volume 27: Henry Harrisee: miscellaneous materials |
Folder 62a-62b |
Volume 28Selected copies of materials from the Horace Mann papers, Massachusetts Historical Society. Letters chiefly regard schools and education. |
Folder 63 |
Volume 29: Letters from Southerners to Henry Barnard |
Folder 64 |
Volume 30: Letters from Southerners to Joseph Lancaster |
Folder 65 |
Volume 31: Papers of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Papers |
Folder 66 |
Volume 32: Dr. Bray's Associates Papers |
These files include theses and other literature relating to American education.
Folder 67 |
Stanton's thesis |
Folder 68 |
John Chavis: Daniel L. Boyd"Free-Born Negro: The Life of John Chavis" thesis by by Daniel L. Boyd. |
Folder 69 |
"Educational Theories and Influence of Archibald D. Murphey" by Vera Millsaps, 1924 |
Folder 70 |
"Compulsory Education" |
Folder 71 |
Blair Bill |
Folder 72 |
"Readings in Education Administration" |
Folder 73a-73b |
"Readings in American Education History" |
Folder 74 |
"Fifty Years of American Education" |
Arrangement: Alphabetical.
State reports, articles, and other literature relating to education in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
Folder 75 |
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana |
Folder 76 |
Florida |
Folder 77 |
Georgia |
Folder 78 |
North Carolina |
Folder 79-83
Folder 79Folder 80Folder 81Folder 82Folder 83 |
South Carolina |
Folder 84-89
Folder 84Folder 85Folder 86Folder 87Folder 88Folder 89 |
Tennessee |
Folder 90a-93 |
Texas |
Folder 94-99
Folder 94Folder 95Folder 96Folder 97Folder 98Folder 99 |
Virginia |
Folder 100 |
Miscellaneous, non-Southern |