Charles S. Sydnor

Charles S. Sydnor
Born
Charles Sackett Sydnor

(1898-07-21)July 21, 1898
Augusta, Georgia, U.S.
DiedMarch 2, 1954(1954-03-02) (aged 55)
Occupations
  • Historian
  • history professor
  • author

Charles Sackett Sydnor (July 21, 1898 – March 2, 1954) was an American history professor and author in the United States. He was born in Augusta, Georgia.[1]

He wrote 23 biographical sketches for the Dictionary of American Biography.[2]

The Southern Historical Association gives out an award named for him.[3] Duke University has a collection of his papers.[4]

Writings

  • Slavery in Mississippi (1933)[5]
  • A Gentleman of the Old Natchez Region: Benjamin L. C. Wailes (1938)[6]
  • The Development of Southern Sectionalism, 1818–1848 (1948)
  • Gentlemen Freeholders: Political Practices in Washington's Virginia (1952)[7][8][9]
  • American Revolutionaries in the Making (1965)[10]

References

  1. ^ "Sydnor, Charles Sackett | NCpedia". www.ncpedia.org.
  2. ^ "Charles S. Sydnor". Louisiana State University Press. Retrieved January 21, 2022.
  3. ^ "Charles S. Sydnor Award". www.thesha.org.
  4. ^ "Charles S. Sydnor papers, 1729-1978 and undated - Archives & Manuscripts at Duke University Libraries". David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
  5. ^ "Charles S. Sydnor, Slavery in Mississippi". The Journal of Negro History. 19 (3): 332–334. July 1, 1934. doi:10.2307/2714219. JSTOR 2714219 – via journals.uchicago.edu (Atypon).
  6. ^ Baldwin, Leland D. (June 30, 1938). "Book Review: A Gentleman of the Old Natchez Region: Benjamin L. C. W axles, by Charles S. Sydnor". Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography: 420 – via journals.psu.edu.
  7. ^ "Gentlemen Freeholders | Charles S. Sydnor". University of North Carolina Press.
  8. ^ Dodson, Leonidas (July 22, 1953). "Book Review: Gentlemen Freeholders: Political Practices in Washington's Virginia, by Charles S. Sydnor". Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography: 362–363 – via journals.psu.edu.
  9. ^ Weeks, O. Douglas (June 22, 1953). "Gentlemen Freeholders: Political Practices in Washington's Virginia. By Charles S. Sydnor. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 1952. Pp. ix, 180. $3.50.)". American Political Science Review. 47 (2): 567. doi:10.1017/S0003055400294756. S2CID 146677440 – via Cambridge University Press.
  10. ^ "American Revolutionaries in the". personal.tcu.edu.


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