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| Named Person: | Herbert Baxter Adams; Charles McLean Andrews; Jessie Lewellin Bassett; Margaret Byrd Bassett; Richard H Bassett; Kemp P Battle; William Kenneth Boyd; George Washington Cable; William C C Claiborne; J Franklin Crowell; Josephus Daniels; William Edward Dodd; Stockley Donelson; Ralph Earl; Albert Bushnell Hart; Andrew Jackson; J Franklin Jameson; Walter Hines Page; Ulrich Bonnell Phillips; Archibald Roane; William Peterfield Trent; William Tyrrell; Henry Watson; Benjamin Williams; Woodrow Wilson |
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| Document Type: | Archival Material |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John Spencer Bassett |
| OCLC Number: | 71072393 |
| Description: | 25,450 items. 67 containers plus 1 oversize. 26.8 linear feet. |
Abstract:
Correspondence, diaries and journals, lectures, speeches, writings, research material, subject files, family correspondence, and collected historical manuscripts. Documents Bassett's teaching career at Trinity College, Durham, N.C. (later Duke University), and at Smith College, Northampton, Mass., his biography of Andrew Jackson, and his secretaryship of the American Historical Association. Includes Bassett's writings and research material on the Regulator movement, slavery, and other topics in North Carolina history; his editorship of the South Atlantic Quarterly; and his interest in race relations, politics, and educational reform in the South, and in national politics and the League of Nations. Bassett's collected historical manuscripts include letters (1802) between governors William Charles Cole Claiborne, Archibald Roane, and Benjamin Williams concerning the extradition of Stockley Donelson and William Tyrrell, implicated in the Yazoo land frauds; papers of Ralph Earl, artist and intimate of Andrew Jackson; family and personal papers of Alabama lawyer and planter Henry Watson; and literary papers.
Family members represented include Bassett's wife, Jessie Lewellin Bassett, and their children, Margaret Byrd Bassett and Richard H. Bassett. Correspondents include Herbert Baxter Adams, Charles McLean Andrews, Kemp P. Battle, William Kenneth Boyd, George Washington Cable, J. Franklin Crowell, Josephus Daniels, William Edward Dodd, Robert L. Flowers, Albert Bushnell Hart, J. Franklin Jameson, Walter Hines Page, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, William Peterfield Trent, and Woodrow Wilson.
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- Adams, Herbert Baxter, -- 1850-1901.
- Andrews, Charles McLean, -- 1863-1943.
- Bassett, Jessie Lewellin.
- Bassett, Margaret Byrd.
- Bassett, Richard H. -- (Richard Horace), -- 1900-1995.
- Battle, Kemp P. -- (Kemp Plummer), -- 1831-1919.
- Boyd, William Kenneth, -- 1879-1938.
- Cable, George Washington, -- 1844-1925.
- Claiborne, William C. C. -- (William Charles Cole), -- 1775-1817.
- Crowell, J. Franklin -- (John Franklin), -- 1857-1931.
- Daniels, Josephus, -- 1862-1948.
- Dodd, William Edward, -- 1869-1940.
- Donelson, Stockley, -- -approximately 1804.
- Earl, Ralph, -- 1751-1801.
- Hart, Albert Bushnell, -- 1854-1943.
- Jackson, Andrew, -- 1767-1845.
- Jameson, J. Franklin -- (John Franklin), -- 1859-1937.
- Page, Walter Hines, -- 1855-1918.
- Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, -- 1877-1934.
- Roane, Archibald, -- 1759-1819.
- Trent, William Peterfield, -- 1862-1939.
- Tyrrell, William.
- Watson, Henry, -- 1810-
- Williams, Benjamin, -- 1751-1814.
- Wilson, Woodrow, -- 1856-1924.
- American Historical Association.
- League of Nations.
- Smith College -- Faculty.
- Trinity College (Durham, N.C.) -- Faculty.
- South Atlantic quarterly.
- Editors.
- Educational change -- Southern states.
- Slavery -- North Carolina.
- Yazoo Fraud, 1795.
- North Carolina -- History.
- North Carolina -- History -- Regulator insurrection, 1766-1771.
- Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950.
- Southern States -- Race relations.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950.
