Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton papers, 1895-1961
The papers of white historian and founding director of the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina J.G. (Joseph Grégoire) de Roulhac Hamilton (1878-1961) document his education including graduate work at Columbia University under William A. Dunning (1857-1922); service in the United States Army during and after the First World War; career as a teacher, historian, and archivist; publishing; travel and curatorial work related to the Southern Historical Collection; social life and civic engagement in Hillsborough and Chapel Hill, N.C.; North Carolina politics including his advocacy for a state constitutional convention in the 1910s and participation in the state's Democratic Party; and historical research especially as related to Confederate generals, Reconstruction, northern "carpet-baggers," white Democratic "Redeemers," and nineteenth-century white supremacist and domestic terror groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. The collection contains correspondence; diaries; scrapbooks; published and unpublished writings; speeches; photographs; and research materials. Correspondents include historians R.D.W. Connor and Dunning; University of North Carolina faculty and administrators; state and national politicians; business leaders; individuals and families who donated their papers to the Southern Historical Collection; and members of his family. The papers reflect Hamilton's historical, political, and social perspectives that were brought to bear on his collecting manuscript materials documenting affluent white families of the nineteenth and early twentieth-century American South
Archival Material, English, 1895
1895