John Herbert Roper Papers, 1976-2006

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Summary

Creator:
Roper, John Herbert, 1948-
Abstract:

John Herbert Roper is a white professor of history with interests chiefly related to the history of the American South. The collection includes correspondence, interviews, writings, and other materials relating to historian John Herbert Roper's work as professor of history at Emory and Henry College and on topics in southern history. Among these materials are transcripts of and notes on interviews done in 1978 and 1980 with William T. Couch, Manning J. Dauer, John Hope Franklin, Guy B. Johnson, Guion Johnson, LeRoy E. Loemker, J. Carlyle Sitterson, Carl D. Stewart, and Bennett H. Wall about historian C. Vann Woodward. Also included is a transcript of an interview with Woodward; correspondence with Woodward that includes letters from Woodward about Tom Watson; and a manuscript by Roper of "Progress and History: U. B. Phillips and C. Vann Woodward Create A Southern Dialectic on Race." There is also correspondence about historian U. B. Phillips; materials relating to the Herbert Aptheker/Paul G. Partington controversy about publication of a bibliography of the works of W. E. B. DuBois; correspondence and other papers relating to Roper's editing a collection of essays entitled C. Vann Woodward: A Southern Historian and His Critics; an interview with Ellis Merton Coulter about U. B. Phillips; and correspondence and other materials relating to other aspects of Roper's writing and teaching, as well as his affiliation with the Episcopal Diocese of Southwest Virginia.

Extent:
3,650 items (8.0 linear feet)
Language:
English.
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Background

Biographical / historical:

John Herbert Roper is History Department chair and Richardson Professor of American History at Emory and Henry College in Emory, Va. He received his M.A. from North Carolina State University and his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina. He is the author of many volumes on southern history including C. Vann Woodward, Southerner (1987); U. B. Phillips: A Southern Mind (1984), and Paul Green's War Songs (1993).

Scope and content:

The collection includes correspondence, interviews, writings, and other materials relating to historian John Herbert Roper's work as professor of history at Emory and Henry College and on topics in southern history. Among these materials are transcripts of and notes on interviews done in 1978 and 1980 with William T. Couch, Manning J. Dauer, John Hope Franklin, Guy B. Johnson, Guion Johnson, LeRoy E. Loemker, J. Carlyle Sitterson, Carl D. Stewart, and Bennett H. Wall about historianC. Vann Woodward. Also included is a transcript of an interview with Woodward; correspondence with Woodward that includes letters from Woodward about Tom Watson; and a manuscript by Roper of "Progress and History: U. B. Phillips and C. Vann Woodward Create A Southern Dialectic on Race." There is also correspondence about historian U. B. Phillips; materials relating to the Herbert Aptheker/Paul G. Partington controversy about publication of a bibliography of the works of W. E. B. DuBois; correspondence and other papers relating to Roper's editing a collection of essays entitled C. Vann Woodward: A Southern Historian and His Critics; an interview with E. Merton Coulter about U. B. Phillips; and correspondence and other materials relating to other aspects of Roper's writing and teaching, as well as his affiliation with the Episcopal Diocese of Southwest Virginia.

Acquisition information:

Received from John H. Roper of Laurinburg, N.C., in 1979, 1980, and 1983-1988; 1989-1999 additions from Roper in Emory, Va. September 2003 (Acc. 099633); February 2004 (Acc. 099841); October 2004 (Acc. 099922); May 2005 (Acc. 100051); March 2006 (Acc. 100343); May 2006 (Acc. 100407); November 2006 (Acc. 100546).

Processing information:

Processed by: SHC staff, 1980-2004; Meaghan Alston and Nancy Kaiser, September 2021

Encoded by: Roslyn Holdzkom, 2004

Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, September 2021

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Restrictions to use:

No publication of extensive portions of this material without permission from donor. Persons citing or quoting from the interviews are requested to cite interview, date, and page number carefully and to cite the materials as per the preferred citation form below.

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 John Herbert Roper Papers #4235, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Location of this collection:
Louis Round Wilson Library
200 South Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27515
Contact:
(919) 962-3765
wilsonlibrary@unc.edu