Materials related to Hall's monograph, Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the women's campaign against lynching.

Materials related to Like a family : the making of a Southern cotton mill world. Hall collaborated with Michael Frisch, Christopher B. Daly, Lu Ann Jones, Mary Murphy, Robert R. Korstad, and James L. Leloudis on this work.

Materials related to Hall's monograph, Sisters and rebels : a struggle for the soul of America.

Materials related to the publication by the University of Georgia Press of Eli Hill: A Novel of Reconstruction by Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin. Edited by Bruce Baker and Jacquelyn Dowd Hall.

Materials including drafts of articles, research notes, printed items, and correspondence related to a research project about southern women workers. Hall had received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Material related to a Southern Oral History Program research project on women's history and activism in the American South.

Materials related to Hall's article The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past in the Journal of American History and her presidential address to the Organization of American Historians.

Materials related to Hall's participation in the Moral Monday movement at the North Carolina state capitol in Raleigh including her arrest following an act of civil disobedience. Includes materials related to Scholars for North Carolina's Future (also called Scholars for a Progressive North Carolina), which mobilized scholars, mainly historians to speak out on political issues. Materials include correspondence, newspaper clippings, organizational meeting agendas and minutes, op-ed articles, and ephemera. Topics include voter registration, systemic racism, unemployment insurance, women's movement, anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, public education, higher education, fundraising, healthcare, feminism, abortion rights, women's healthcare, rape, and gun control. Individuals mentioned include Rev. William Barber, II, leader of the Moral Monday movement.

Drafts, notes, speeches, ephemera, and correspondence related to speeches written and delivered by Hall. Topics of speeches include women's history, women writers, University Day, trade unionism, labor activists, collective action, textile workers, teaching, history of the American South, sexuality, Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the women's campaign against lynching, biography, public education, performance, oral history, New South, Long Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow, Desegregation, anti-feminism, gender equality, feminism, gendered politics, and activism.

Correspondence, research materials, and printed items related to the 75th anniversary of the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2005 and Hall’s keynote address titled “’Ceaseless Quest for Truth’: The Southern Historical Collection and the Making and Remaking of the Southern Past” at the anniversary exhibition opening in January 2005. Correspondents include curator of the Southern Historical Collection, Tim West, and historians Bethany Johnson and Glenda Gilmore. Research topics include archival practice, historiography of the American South, particularly for Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras, Lost Cause mythology, white supremacy, the founding director and curator of the Southern Historical Collection J.G. de Roulhac Hamilton, Black historians including W.E.B. DuBois, women historians including Anne Firor Scott, historical memory, and oral history.

Materials related to commentary and introductions Hall gave at meetings and symposia held by professional organizations for historians.

Materials include drafts of articles, encyclopedia entries, book reviews, proof sheets, reprints, publication agreements, an oral history transcript, research notes, clippings, and correspondence. Titles of Hall's writings include "Open Secrets: Memory, Imagination, and the Refashioning of Southern Identity," "'You Must Remember This': Autobiography as Social Critique," and "Women Writers, the 'Southern Front' and the Dialectical Imagination."

Clippings, printed items, correspondence, notes, and written remarks related to Hall's receipt of awards, fellowships, and other honors from organizations including the Southern Association for Women Historians, Southern Oral History Program, Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, Lyndhurst Foundation, Raleigh News and Observer, Organization of American Historians, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Bancroft Library, Rockefeller Foundation, Bunting Institute, National Humanities Center, Berea College, and Labor and Working-Class History Association.

Included are materials related to the National Medal for the Arts and Humanities, which Hall was awarded in 1999 by U.S. President Bill Clinton.

Materials are chiefly research notes and annotated copies of journal articles relevant to Hall's research and teaching.

Materials related to the teaching and mentoring of PhD students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Includes items related to Hall and Judith Bennett's introduction in the 1980s of graduate-level courses on women's history in UNC's history department.

Materials include letters of recommendation Hall wrote for students and colleagues.

Materials related to courses on oral history Hall developed and taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Many of the courses resulted in major projects, such as Like a Family, for the Southern Oral History Program.

Materials related to oral history courses on the Long Civil Rights Movement that Hall developed and taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the 2010s and at the Citadel in Charleston, S.C., in 2015.

Lecture notes, syllabi, and research materials related to women's history courses Hall developed and taught for undergraduate students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Syllabi and other items related to Hall's teaching large survey classes in American history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Materials related to oral history courses on the Long Civil Rights Movement in relation to the desegregation of schools in Chapel Hill, N.C., that Hall developed and taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the 2010s.

Materials related to Hall's tenure as director of the Southern Oral History Program under the auspices of the Center for the Study of the American South.

Materials related to grants and other funding applied for and received by the Southern Oral History Program.

Materials related to the celebration of the Southern Oral History Program's 25th anniversary in 1999.

Letters, correspondence, greeting cards, ephemera, clippings, and other items marked by Hall as "Letters to Keep."

Chiefly materials related to Hall's extensive network of professional colleagues and students.