The Historical Society of North Carolina was organized on November 17, 1945, in Chapel Hill. Instrumental in its organization was Archibald Henderson. A constitution and bylaws were drawn up and adopted and officers were elected: Alice Baldwin of Duke University, president; Frontis W. Johnston of Davidson College, vice-president; and Cecil Johnson of the University of North Carolina, secretary-treasurer. Dr. Henderson, Christopher Crittenden of the State Department of Archives and History, William T. Polk of the Greensboro Daily News, and James W. Patton, then of North Carolina State College, were named to the executive council. After dinner, at this first meeting, Dr. Johnston read a paper entitled “The Military Career of Zebulon Baird Vance.”
The Society claims descent from the North Carolina Historical Society, which was incorporated in 1833 under the leadership of David L. Swain. For details concerning the history of that organization and five other early historical societies that were organized between 1833 and 1887, see H. G. Jones’s For History’s Sake: The Preservation and Publication of North Carolina History, 1663-1903.
Some of our archival records are at UNC-Chapel Hill here.
Name | Affiliation |
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Dr. Mary Alice Baldwin (1879-1960) | Duke University |
Dr. Cecil Kenneth Brown (1900-1957) | Davidson College |
G. Hope Summerell Chamberlain (1870-1960 | Chapel Hill |
Robert Digges Wimberly Connor (1878-1950) | UNC - Chapel Hill |
William Terry Couch (1926-1988) | Publisher (various institutions) |
Dr. Charles Christopher Crittenden (1902-1969) | NC Dept of Archives & History |
Adelaide Lisetta Fries (1871-1949) | Archivist - Winston-Salem |
Dr. James Logan Godfrey (1907-1994) | UNC - Chapel Hill |
Paul Green (1884-1981) | Writer - Santa Monica, CA |
Dr. Fletcher Melvin Green (1898-1980) | UNC - Chapel Hill |
Dr. Joseph G. de R. Hamilton (1878-1961) | UNC - Chapel Hill |
Dr. Archibald Henderson (1877-1963) | UNC - Chapel Hill |
Dr. Samuel Hamilton Hobbs, Jr. (d. 1969) | UNC - Chapel Hill |
Dr. Walter Clinton Jackson (1879-1959) | UNC - Greensboro |
Dr. Cecil Johnson (n.d.) | UNC - Chapel Hill |
Dr. Frontis Withers Johnston (1908-1990) | Davidson College |
Dr. Edgar Wallace Knight (1915-1953) | UNC - Chapel Hill |
Dr. Hugh Talmage Lefler (1901-1981) | UNC - Chapel Hill |
Lawrence Foushee London (1908-2005) | Curator, UNC-Chapel Hill |
Dr. Albert Ray Newsome (1894-1951) | UNC - Chapel Hill |
Dr. James Welch Patton (1900-1973) | NCSU & UNC - Chapel Hill |
Dr. Charles Chilton Pearson (1879-1956) | Wake Forest College |
William Tannahill Polk (1896-1955) | UNC - Greensboro |
Charles Phillips Russell (1884-1974) | Journalist, UNC - Chapel Hill |
Dr. Marvin L. Skaggs (1897-1994) | Greensboro College |
Dr. Charles Sackett Sydnor (1898-1954) | Duke University |
Mary Lindsay Thornton (1891-1973) | Librarian, UNC - Chapel Hill |
Dr. Rupert Bayless Vance (1889-1975) | UNC - Chapel Hill |
Dr. Robert Hilliard Woody (1903-1985) | Duke University |