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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. |
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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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).
Back to TopThe 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.
Back to TopAcquisitions Information: Accession 89111, 89112, 89120
Folder 44-45
Folder 44Folder 45 |
Letters from C. Van Woodward, Paul G. Partington, Bennett H. Wall, and othersAcquisitions Information: Accession 89112 |
Folder 46 |
U. B. Phillips materialsAcquisitions Information: Accession 89112 |
Folder 47 |
Letters from C. Van Woodward, Paul G. Partington, and August MeierAcquisitions Information: Accession 89111 |
Folder 48 |
Materials relating to the Herbert Aptheker/Paul G. Partington controversyAcquisitions Information: Accession 89120 |
Acquisitions Information: Accessions 90033, 90059, 93132, 94067, 94121, 94160, 95022, 95099, 95146, 96041, 96088, 98115, 98312, 98351
Acquisitions Information: Accession 98640, 99057
Correspondence and other items roughly sorted by year.
Folder 69 |
Correspondence and other items, 1970s |
Folder 70-72
Folder 70Folder 71Folder 72 |
Correspondence and other items, 1984-1985 |
Folder 73-79
Folder 73Folder 74Folder 75Folder 76Folder 77Folder 78Folder 79 |
Correspondence and other items, 1986-1987 |
Folder 80 |
Correspondence and other items, 1988-1989 |
Folder 81 |
Correspondence and other items, 1991-1998 |
Folder 82-83
Folder 82Folder 83 |
Correspondence and other items, 1999 |
Folder 84-85
Folder 84Folder 85 |
Correspondence and other items, 2000 |
Folder 86 |
Correspondence and other items, 2001 |
Folder 87 |
Correspondence and other items, undated |
Folder 88 |
History Society, 1998-1999 |
Folder 89 |
Mayer, Henry/Charter Day, 1996 |
Folder 90 |
National Endowment for the Humanities, 1989-1994 |
Folder 91 |
Coulter, E. Merton: Interview about U. B. Phillips, 1976 |
Folder 92 |
Miscellaneous |
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 |
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.
Folder 95-96
Folder 95Folder 96 |
Correspondence and other items, 2002-2003 |
Folder 97 |
Benjamin Elijah Mays speech, 2002 |
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 "".
Box 7 |
Papers, 1976, 2000sAcquisitions Information: Accession 100051, 100546 Includes copies of Anvil, 1976; correspondence records relating to the Episcopal Diocese of Southwest Virginia; correspondence relating to Roper's book on C. Vann Woodward and his knowledge of Ullrich B. Phillips, an historian of the American South whose racial biases informed his study and analysis of slavery as an economic and social system; correspondence relating to African American historical markers in Virginia. Correspondence is chiefly print outs of email. Includes 2 floppy disks. |
Box 8 |
Correspondence and other items, 2004Acquisitions Information: Accession 99922 |
Correspondence and other items, 2002-2006Acquisitions Information: Accession 100343 Correspondence and other items from the Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia and the Diocesan Standing Committee. Includes a floppy disk. |
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Correspondence and other items, 2006Acquisitions Information: Accession 100407 |
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Correspondence and other items, 2003-2004Acquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
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Box 9 |
Notebook, 1991Acquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
Paul Green materialAcquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
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"Endnotes Chapter Four the Great War"Acquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
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"The Group Theatre XIV"Acquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
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"Wrap-Up"Acquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
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"Stage"Acquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
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"Plays Summaries"Acquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
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"Walter Jackson, Frazier, and Paul E. Green"Acquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
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"Little Bethel map"Acquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
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"A Story of Black White Danger"Acquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
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"Lonesome Road support materials"Acquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
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Manuscript draftAcquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
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"End notes"Acquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
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Box 10 |
Correspondence, Roper-McGuiganAcquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
Correspondence, Roper-McGuigan, 1989Acquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
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Correspondence, Roper-McGuigan, 1990Acquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
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Correspondence, Roper-McGuigan, 1991Acquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
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Emory and Henry College-McGuiganAcquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
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Correspondence and other items, 2006Acquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
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Correspondence and other items, 2005-2006Acquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
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Correspondence and other items, 2005Acquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
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Correspondence and other items, 2006Acquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
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Correspondence and other itemsAcquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
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Box 11 |
Paul Green materialAcquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
Manuscript chaptersAcquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
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NotesAcquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
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Box 12 |
Correspondence, 1988-2000Acquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
Correspondence, 1994-2003Acquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
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Papers, 1988-2002Acquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
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Papers, 1990-2002Acquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
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Papers, 1987-1988Acquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
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Card File CF-4235/1-4
CF-4235/1CF-4235/2CF-4235/3CF-4235/4 |
Research notesAcquisitions Information: Accession 99633, 99841 |
Items separated include audiocassettes (C-4235/1-2).
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