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Collection Overview
| Size | About 3,650 items (8.0 linear feet) |
| 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. |
| Creator | Roper, John Herbert, 1948- |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
| Language | English. |
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Subject Headings
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.
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Biographical Information
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).
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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 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 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.
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Materials Received 1980-1988.
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Additions after 1988.
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Addition of October 1989: 1976-1989.
Acquisitions Information: Accession 89111, 89112, 89120
Folder 44-45
Folder 44Folder 45 |
Letters from C. Van Woodward, Paul G. Partington, Bennett H. Wall, and others #04235, Subseries: "Addition of October 1989: 1976-1989." Folder 44-45Acquisitions Information: Accession 89112 |
| Folder 46 |
U. B. Phillips materials #04235, Subseries: "Addition of October 1989: 1976-1989." Folder 46Acquisitions Information: Accession 89112 |
| Folder 47 |
Letters from C. Van Woodward, Paul G. Partington, and August Meier #04235, Subseries: "Addition of October 1989: 1976-1989." Folder 47Acquisitions Information: Accession 89111 |
| Folder 48 |
Materials relating to the Herbert Aptheker/Paul G. Partington controversy #04235, Subseries: "Addition of October 1989: 1976-1989." Folder 48Acquisitions Information: Accession 89120 |
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Additions 1990-1999: 1981-1997.
Acquisitions Information: Accessions 90033, 90059, 93132, 94067, 94121, 94160, 95022, 95099, 95146, 96041, 96088, 98115, 98312, 98351
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Addition of February 2000: 1990.
Acquisitions Information: Accession 98566
| Folder 68 |
Interview: Avery, Lawrence #04235, Subseries: "Addition of February 2000: 1990." Folder 68 |
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Additions of June 2000-August 2001: 1970s-2001.
Acquisitions Information: Accession 98640, 99057
Correspondence and other items roughly sorted by year.
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Addition of June 2002: 1970-2002.
Acquisitions Information: Accession 99267
Correspondence and other items, including an essay by Roper, "Marxing through Georgia: Eugene Genovese and Radical Historiography for the Region," ( Georgia Historical Quarterly, spring 1996) and See Yankeetown by Tom Knotts (1970).
Folder 93-94
Folder 93Folder 94 |
Correspondence and other items, 1970-2002 #04235, Subseries: "Addition of June 2002: 1970-2002." Folder 93-94 |
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Addition of October 2003: 2002-2003.
Acquisitions Information: Accession 99636
Correspondence and other items including notes and letters relating to a speech Roper gave at Virginia Intermont college in 2002 about Benjamin Elijah Mays.
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Additions of 2004-2006: 1976-2006.
Acquisitions Information: Accessions 99633, 99841, 99922, 100051, 100343, 100407, 100546
The creator's original arrangement has been retained. Folder titles were derived from original folder names and from descriptive metadata found within the files by the processing archivist. Original folder titles are indicated with "".
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Items Separated
Items separated include audiocassettes (C-4235/1-2).
Back to TopProcessed by: SHC staff, 1980-2004; Meaghan Alston and Nancy Kaiser, September 2021
Encoded by: Roslyn Holdzkom, 2004
Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, September 2021
Since August 2017, we have added ethnic and racial identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine 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 and racial 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 identity information to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.
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