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Size | 30.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 17,500 items) |
Abstract | John Shelton Reed (1942- ) was director of the Institute for Research in Social Science and professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with research interests in, among other subjects, southern regional studies, popular culture, public opinion research, and regional value differentiation. The papers of John Shelton Reed begin in the 1940s and include correspondence between Reed and colleagues, friends, and family; letters relating to Reed's publications and the publications of others working on topics of interest to him; reviews of publications, particularly those handled by Reed as book review editor for the journal Social Forces; and other material relating to the study and teaching of sociology, history, southern culture, popular culture, and related fields. |
Creator | Reed, John Shelton. |
Curatorial Unit | Southern Historical Collection |
Language | English |
Processed by: David Stickney, Roslyn Holdzkom, and Archival Technical Services staff, 1989-2003; 2017
Encoded by: Roslyn Holdzkom, December 2000
Updated by: Dawne Howard Lucas, December 2021
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John Shelton Reed (1942- ) was director of the Institute for Research in Social Science and professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with research interests in, among other subjects, southern regional studies, popular culture, public opinion research, and regional value differentiation.
Back to TopThe papers of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sociology professor and director of the Institute for Research in Social Science John Shelton Reed begin in the 1940s and include correspondence between Reed and colleagues, friends, and family; letters relating to Reed's publications and the publications of others working on topics of interest to him; reviews of publications, particularly those handled by Reed as book review editor for the journal Social Forces; and other materials, including offprints of scholarly writings by others, newspaper clippings, reports, periodicals, printed materials promoting lectures and other presentations, teaching materials, and ephemera relating to the study and teaching of sociology, history, southern culture, popular culture, and related fields.
Back to TopArrangement: chronological by year, but not chronologized within years.
Correspondence between John Shelton Reed and colleagues, friends, and family; letters relating to Reed's publications and the publications of others working on topics of interest to him; reviews of publications, particularly those handled by Reed as book review editor for the journal Social Forces. Correspondence beginning in 2001 includes loose papers. Note that family correspondence is filed at the end of this series.
Published and unpublished essays, lectures, articles, books, and book reviews by John Shelton Reed. Also included are scholarly and popular reviews of John Shelton Reed's books and clippings that higlight his expertise on a variety of topics in southern history and culture.
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Folder 165 |
"Contracts, etc." |
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Folder 166 |
A Band of Prophets |
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Folder 167 |
Dixiology's False Dichotomies, Reed, John Shelton |
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Folder 168 |
The Enduring Effects |
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Folder 169 |
The Enduring Effects |
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Folder 170 |
The Enduring South, Southern Folk, etc. |
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Folder 171 |
The Enduring South |
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Folder 172 |
The Enduring South Reviews |
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Folder 173 |
Glorious Battle |
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Folder 174 |
Glorious Battle: The Cultural Politics of Victorian Anglo Catholicism, 1995 |
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Folder 175 |
Holy Smoke |
Image Box
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Image Folder PF-04538/1 |
Holy Smoke |
Image Box
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Image Folder PF-04538/10-44 PF-04538/10PF-04538/11PF-04538/12PF-04538/13PF-04538/14PF-04538/15PF-04538/16PF-04538/17PF-04538/18PF-04538/19PF-04538/20PF-04538/21PF-04538/22PF-04538/23PF-04538/24PF-04538/25PF-04538/26PF-04538/27PF-04538/28PF-04538/29PF-04538/30PF-04538/31PF-04538/32PF-04538/33PF-04538/34PF-04538/35PF-04538/36PF-04538/37PF-04538/38PF-04538/39PF-04538/40PF-04538/41PF-04538/42PF-04538/43PF-04538/44 |
Holy SmokePhotographs of barbecue restaurants. |
Digital Folder DF-04538/1 |
Holy SmokeClosed to researchers pending curatorial review as of March 2017. Born digital materials related to research and writing of book. |
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Folder 176 |
Holy Smoke Binder 2 |
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Folder 177 |
Holy Smoke Binder 2 |
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Folder 178 |
Holy Smoke Binder 1 |
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Folder 179 |
Holy Smoke Binder 1 |
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Folder 180 |
Holy Smoke Binder 1 |
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Folder 181 |
Holy Smoke: "BBQ Stuff" |
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Folder 182 |
Holy Smoke: "BBQ Stuff" |
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Folder 183 |
Holy Smoke: "BBQ Stuff" |
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Folder 184 |
Holy Smoke: "BBQ Yellow Pages" |
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Folder 185 |
Holy Smoke: "BBQ Genealogy" |
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Folder 186 |
Holy Smoke: "Menus" |
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Folder 187 |
Holy Smoke: Misc. |
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Folder 188 |
Holy Smoke: "Notes finished with" |
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Folder 189 |
Holy Smoke: "Notes to Save" |
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Folder 190 |
Holy Smoke: Photo permissions |
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Folder 191 |
Holy Smoke: "Recipes" |
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Folder 192 |
One South |
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Folder 193 |
Perspectives on the American South |
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Folder 194 |
"Rindfuss/ Vance" |
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Folder 195 |
Southern Folk, Plain and Fancy |
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Folder 196 |
Southern Folk, Plain and Fancy |
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Folder 197 |
Southern Folk, Plain and Fancy |
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Folder 198 |
Southerners: The Social Psychology of Sectionalism |
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Folder 199-200 Folder 199Folder 200 |
Whistling Dixie |
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Folder 201-205 Folder 201Folder 202Folder 203Folder 204Folder 205 |
Writings by or about John Shelton Reed |
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Folder 206-213 |
Writings by or about John Shelton Reed |
Chiefly published scholarly articles on the South by authors other than John Shelton Reed.
Newspaper clippings, periodicals, and reports touching on all aspects of southern culture, including but not limited to race and racism; the Confederate flag; violence; masculinity; food, especially barbecue; guns; music, literature, and the arts; Civil War re-enacting. There are also a collection of the "Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-in" column by Joe Bob Briggs and clippings in which John Shelton Reed is quoted or featured in some way.
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Folder 610 |
Clippings, 1900-1959 |
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Folder 611 |
Clippings, 1960-1969 |
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Folder 612-616 Folder 612Folder 613Folder 614Folder 615Folder 616 |
Clippings, 1970-1979 |
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Folder 617-618 Folder 617Folder 618 |
Clippings, 1980-1989 |
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Folder 619-625 Folder 619Folder 620Folder 621Folder 622Folder 623Folder 624Folder 625 |
Clippings, 1980-1989 |
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Folder 626-627 Folder 626Folder 627 |
Clippings, 1980-1989 |
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Folder 628-631 Folder 628Folder 629Folder 630Folder 631 |
Clippings, 1990-1999 |
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Folder 632-637 Folder 632Folder 633Folder 634Folder 635Folder 636Folder 637 |
Clippings, 1990-1999 |
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Folder 638-643 Folder 638Folder 639Folder 640Folder 641Folder 642Folder 643 |
Clippings, 1990-1999 |
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Folder 644-649 Folder 644Folder 645Folder 646Folder 647Folder 648Folder 649 |
Clippings, 1990-1999 |
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Folder 650-651 Folder 650Folder 651 |
Clippings, 1990-1999 |
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Folder 652-655 Folder 652Folder 653Folder 654Folder 655 |
Clippings, 2000-2004 |
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Folder 656-660 Folder 656Folder 657Folder 658Folder 659Folder 660 |
Clippings: Joe Bob Briggs |
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Folder 661-665 Folder 661Folder 662Folder 663Folder 664Folder 665 |
Clippings: John Shelton Reed |
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Folder 666-676 Folder 666Folder 667Folder 668Folder 669Folder 670Folder 671Folder 672Folder 673Folder 674Folder 675Folder 676 |
Clippings: John Shelton Reed |
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Folder 677-686 Folder 677Folder 678Folder 679Folder 680Folder 681Folder 682Folder 683Folder 684Folder 685Folder 686 |
Clippings: John Shelton Reed |
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Folder 687 |
1992 Commission on the Future of the South |
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Folder 688-690 Folder 688Folder 689Folder 690 |
"Agrarians": Reprints |
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Folder 691 |
Alabama |
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Folder 692 |
American South Comes of Age |
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Folder 693 |
Appalachian Center News, 1986-1987 |
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Folder 694 |
Atlanta, 1992-1996 |
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Folder 695 |
Brother Will: A Southern Odyssey |
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Folder 696 |
Carolina Confederate, 1993-1998 |
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Folder 697 |
Comic books |
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Folder 698 |
The Confederate Leader |
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Folder 699 |
Congressional Record |
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Folder 700 |
Criswell's Publications |
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Folder 701 |
Digital South, 1997-1998 |
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Folder 702 |
Dixie Liberator, 1992-1993 |
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Folder 703 |
Farmers Without Land |
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Folder 704 |
The Garner Dispatch, 1994 |
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Folder 705 |
Hand Me Downs |
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Folder 706 |
Hillsdale Review |
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49
Folder 707 |
Home Town Minstrels by Skeets Mayo |
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Folder 708 |
How North Carolina Whites and Blacks View Each Other, 1968 |
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49
Folder 709 |
Is the South Changing (Firing Line) |
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Folder 710 |
Kudzu (the musical) |
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Folder 711 |
Laff Parade Minstrels by Skeets Mayo |
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Folder 712 |
The Nation, 1952, "Southern Negro" |
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Folder 713 |
The New South |
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Folder 714 |
Now and Then, 1985-1988 |
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Folder 715 |
Now and Then, 1989-1997 |
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Folder 716 |
Old Time and Comedy Songs for Ukulele, 1952 |
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Folder 717 |
A Primer of American Regions |
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Folder 718 |
Principles or Gods |
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Folder 719 |
Ray, Gordon |
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Folder 720 |
Reflections on the Development of Cooperative Rural Sociology |
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Folder 721 |
Regional Planning |
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Folder 722 |
Singers in the Dawn |
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Folder 723 |
Regional Concept and the Regional Method |
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Folder 724 |
Saturday Review, 1976-1978 |
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Folder 725 |
The Scottsboro Case, 1936 |
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Folder 726 |
"Social Farces" |
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Folder 727 |
Social Forces |
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Folder 728 |
South, November-December 1997 |
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Folder 729 |
South Today, 1942-1943 |
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Folder 730 |
Southern Changes, March-December 1987 |
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Folder 731 |
Southern Growth Policies Board |
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Folder 732 |
SJHS Newsletter, July-December 1994 |
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Folder 733 |
Southern Journal, 1975-1981 |
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Folder 734 |
Southern Living |
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Folder 735 |
Southern Magazine, 1987-1988 |
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Folder 736 |
Southern National Newsletter, 1980-1992 |
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Folder 737 |
Southern Outdoors, 1989-1990 |
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Folder 738 |
Southern Partisan, 1979-1980 |
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Folder 739 |
Southern Reader, 1989-1992 |
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Folder 740 |
Southern Reader, 1989-1992 |
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Folder 741 |
The Southern Re-enacting Veteran, 1993 |
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Folder 742 |
Southern Regional Council |
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Folder 743 |
Southern Regional Council, The South America's Opportunity Number One |
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Folder 744 |
Southern Register, 1982-2004 |
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Folder 745 |
The Southern Sociologist |
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-04538/1-2
OPF-04538/1OPF-04538/2 |
Southern Style |
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Folder 746 |
A Southern View of Segregation |
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Folder 747 |
Southern Voices, March-November 1974 |
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Folder 748 |
Southern World, 1980-1981 |
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Folder 749 |
The Southerner, Spring-Fall 1983 |
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Folder 750 |
Southpoint, October-December 1989 |
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Folder 751 |
Southpoint, January-April 1990 |
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Folder 752 |
Square Talk Working Papers, 1994 |
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Folder 753 |
The State of the Humanities |
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Folder 754 |
Status of Women in College and University Faculties 1924 |
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Folder 755-757 Folder 755Folder 756Folder 757 |
Subterranean Sociology, 1969-1975 |
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Folder 758 |
The Sunbelt: A Region and Regionalism |
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Folder 759 |
The Tarheel Empire, H. L. Mencken |
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-04538/3 |
Tennessee Illustrated |
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Folder 760 |
Miscellaneous articles |
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Folder 761-762 Folder 761Folder 762 |
Miscellaneous newsletters |
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Folder 763-766 Folder 763Folder 764Folder 765Folder 766 |
Miscellaneous periodicals |
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Folder 767-768 Folder 767Folder 768 |
Miscellaneous reports |
Printed materials for conferences and lectures by John Shelton Reed; collected ephemera, including bumper stickers; promotional materials from cultural heritage sites; catalogs; course syllabi; bibliographies; unpublished essays of unknown authorship; miscellaneous data. Topics, among many, include southern culture, Elvis Presley, lynching, NASCAR, Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Processing Note: Original folder titles are indicated by quotation marks ("").
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Folder 769 |
Address Book |
Image Box
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Image Folder PF-04538/6 |
African American performers |
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Folder 770-771 Folder 770Folder 771 |
Bibliographies |
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Folder 772-773 Folder 772Folder 773 |
Biographical/Curriculum Vitaes, 1976-1989 |
Image Box
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Image Folder PF-04538/5 |
Biographical/Curriculum Vitaes: Photographs of John Shelton Reed |
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Folder 774 |
Book advertisements |
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Folder 775 |
Calendars, 1984, 1986-1991 |
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Folder 776 |
Cash, W.J. |
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Folder 777 |
Catalogs: Books and music |
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Folder 778 |
Catalogs: Courses |
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Folder 779 |
Centers |
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Folder 780 |
Class presentation: "The Southern Gridiron" |
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Folder 781 |
Columbia University, 1968 |
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-04538/4 |
Columbia University, 1968"Crisis at Columbia: An Inside Report on the Rebellion at Columbia." |
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Folder 782-783 Folder 782Folder 783 |
Conferences/Symposia |
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Folder 784 |
"Crap," 1962 |
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Folder 785 |
Data, polls, surveys |
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Folder 786 |
Data: North Carolina Industrial Data File |
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Folder 787 |
Deposition, Knight v. Alabama, 1990 |
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Folder 788 |
Ephemera |
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Folder 789 |
Ephemera: Bumper stickers |
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Folder 790-795 Folder 790Folder 791Folder 792Folder 793Folder 794Folder 795 |
Episcopal Church, 1970sLetters and reports documenting responses to changes in the structure and practices of the Episcopal Church, including ordination of women and use of the Book of Common Prayer, in the early 1970s. See also Society for the Preservation of the Book of Common Prayer (SPBCP). |
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Folder 796 |
Essays: Death in Country Music |
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Folder 797 |
Essays: The De-Massification of American Culture |
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Folder 798 |
Essays: The Flag Controversy and the Causes |
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Folder 799 |
Essays: God's Project |
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Folder 800 |
Essays: Guns |
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Folder 801 |
Essays: "Liberal But Reasonable" |
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Folder 802 |
Essays: Lynching |
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Folder 803 |
Essays: Piedmont Axis |
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Folder 804 |
Essays: A Question of Image |
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Folder 805 |
Essays: Regional and Racial Effects |
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Folder 806 |
Essays: The Southern Civil Religion |
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Folder 807 |
Essays: Southern Education: A Northern View |
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Folder 808 |
Essays: The Southern Violence Construct |
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Folder 809 |
Essays: Type of Homicide and Variation |
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Folder 810 |
Essays: Vanderbilt Hustler 1934 |
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Folder 811 |
HumorJokes, lists, and other humor poking fun at southern stereotypes. |
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Folder 812 |
Johnson, Charles Spurgeon |
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Folder 813-814 Folder 813Folder 814 |
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1990-1991 |
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Folder 815 |
Lectures and eventsJohn Shelton Reed may or may not have participated in these events. |
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-04538/5-6
OPF-04538/5OPF-04538/6 |
Lectures and events |
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Folder 816-821 Folder 816Folder 817Folder 818Folder 819Folder 820Folder 821 |
"Lectures, etc."Flyers, pamphlets, and other materials documenting John Shelton Reed's participation in lectures, panels, and other similar events. |
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Folder 822 |
"Lectures, etc."Flyers, pamphlets, and other materials documenting John Shelton Reed's participation in lectures, panels, and other similar events. |
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Folder 823 |
Lectures: Writers' Roundtable Talk |
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Folder 824-829 Folder 824Folder 825Folder 826Folder 827Folder 828Folder 829 |
"Lynching Data and Junk" |
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Folder 830-831 Folder 830Folder 831 |
Lynching |
Image Box
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Image Folder PF-04538/45-48 PF-04538/45PF-04538/46PF-04538/47PF-04538/48 |
Millways of Kent, circa 1947-1948Color photograph prints of people in York, S.C., by Ken Morland. |
Image Box
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Image Folder PF-04538/49-52 PF-04538/49PF-04538/50PF-04538/51PF-04538/52 |
Millways of Kent, circa 1947-1948Color slides of people in York, S.C., by Ken Morland. |
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Folder 832 |
Mitchell, H. L. |
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Folder 833-834 Folder 833Folder 834 |
Nascar, 1992Printed materials. |
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Folder 835 |
Nascar, 1992Printed materials. |
Image Box
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Image Folder PF-04538/3 |
National Endowment for the Arts summer seminar visits Stagville Plantation |
Image Box
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Image Folder PF-04538/4 |
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) seminar: Continuity and Change in Southern Culture, 1982 |
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Folder 836 |
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) seminar: Continuity and Change in Southern Culture, 1982 |
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Folder 837 |
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) seminar, 1983 |
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Folder 838 |
Notes |
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Folder 839 |
Orwell, George |
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Folder 840-843 Folder 840Folder 841Folder 842Folder 843 |
Printed materialsMiscellaneous promotional materials from cultural sites and other materials. |
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Folder 844-846 Folder 844Folder 845Folder 846 |
Printed materialsMiscellaneous promotional materials from cultural sites and other materials. |
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-04538/7-8
OPF-04538/7OPF-04538/8 |
Printed materials |
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Folder 847 |
Printed materials: Elvis |
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Folder 848 |
Printed materials: Menus, recipes |
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-04538/9 |
Printed materials: Menus, recipes |
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Folder 849 |
Quotes |
Image Box
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Image Folder PF-04538/2 |
Portraits: NegativesPossibly images of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century clergy. |
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Folder 850 |
Rice University Search |
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Folder 851-853 Folder 851Folder 852Folder 853 |
ScrapbookUnassembled scrapbook of clippings about John Shelton Reed. |
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Folder 854 |
Society for the Preservation of the Book of Common Prayer (SPBCP), 1972-1976 |
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Folder 855 |
Society for the Preservation of the Book of Common Prayer (SPBCP), 1972-1976 |
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Folder 856 |
Sociology 15: Tar Heel Notes, Fall 1997 |
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Folder 857 |
Sons of Confederate Veterans, 1990s |
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Folder 858-859 Folder 858Folder 859 |
Syllabi |
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Folder 860 |
"Why the South" |
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Folder 861 |
Wirtz, Reverend Billy C. |
Image Box
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Image Folder PF-04538/7 |
Miscellaneous color photographic prints |
Image Box
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Image Folder PF-04538/8 |
Miscellaneous black-and-white photographic prints |