Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

Restrictions to Use

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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 William Whatley Pierson Papers, #3929, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mary Holmes Pierson of Mount Olive, N.C., June 1971 and Elizabeth Holmes Lee in March 2007 (Acc. 100625).

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.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2009 and Amy Morgan and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2019

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.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• College teachers--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Cuba--History--1810-1899.
• Cuba--History--To 1810.
• Historians--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Latin America--Politics and government--Study and teaching--North Carolina.
• Pierson, William Whatley, b. 1890.
• Spain--Colonies--America.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty--History--20th century.

William Whatley Pierson (born 1890) was a professor of history and political science at the University of North Carolina.

The collection includes research materials, writings, notes, and miscellaneous correspondence of William Whatley Pierson relating almost completely to his interest in political institutions of Latin America particularly in Cuba, Venezuela, and Chile. The bulk of the collection comprises photocopies and typed transcriptions of original documents held by the Spanish Archives in Seville and Simancas, concerning the origins and early development of the intendencia of colonial Cuba, 1764-1825.