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'''Fletcher Melvin Green''' (1895 - 1978) was a historian and |
'''Fletcher Melvin Green''' (1895 - 1978) was a historian and writer at the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]], where he was a faculty member from 1936 until 1960 and served as a department chair. The University has a collection of his papers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/04265/#:~:text=Fletcher%20Melvin%20Green%20(1895-1978,and%20served%20as%20department%20chair.|title=Fletcher Melvin Green Papers, 1898-1980}}</ref> He also taught at Harvard and Oxford. |
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==Life== |
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Melvin Green was born in [[Gainesville, Georgia]] and went to school in [[Murrayville, Georgia]].<ref name=nc>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/green-fletcher-melvin|title = Green, Fletcher Melvin | NCpedia}}</ref> He married and had four children.<ref name=nc/> |
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==Career== |
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He was Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History in 1968. |
He was Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History in 1968. |
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Vernon Lane Wharton states in the preface to ''Negro in Mississippi 1865-1890'' that the book was "inspired and directed by Professor Fletcher M. Green of the University of North Carolina."<ref>Negro in Mississippi 1865-1890 page 6</ref> |
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He married and had four children.<ref name=nc/> |
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In 1970, historian [[George M. Fredrickson]] wrote that Green "ranks as the elder statesman among historians of the South".<ref>Fredrickson, George M., "Two Southern Historians", ''American Historical Review'' 1970 75(5): 1387–1392. [https://www.jstor.org/pss/1844483 in JSTOR], quotation on p. 1387. The two Southern historians of the title are Green and [[David M. Potter]].</ref> He is buried at the Chapel Hill Memorial Cemetery.<ref name=nc/> |
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He is buried at the Chapel Hill Memorial Cemetery<ref name=nc/> |
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==Writing and editing== |
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He edited and wrote the introduction to [[Susan Dabney Smedes]]' ''Memorials of a Southern Planter'' (1965). He wrote the |
He edited and wrote the introduction to [[Susan Dabney Smedes]]' ''Memorials of a Southern Planter'' (1965). He wrote the introduction to the Florida quadracentennial edition of [[William Watson Davis]]' ''The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida''. Some of his former students prepared the Festschrift, ''Writing Southern History: Essays in Honor of Fletcher M. Green'', published in 1965, edited by [[Arthur S. Link]] and [[Rembert W. Patrick]]. It includes a bibliography of Green's writings.<ref name=nc/> A collection of his articles and essays was published in 1970.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40190676|jstor = 40190676|last1 = Downey|first1 = Matthew T.|title = Reviewed work: Democracy in the Old South and Other Essays by Fletcher Melvin Green, J. Isaac Copeland|journal = Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society|year = 1970|volume = 63|issue = 3|pages = 326–328}}</ref> |
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==Bibliography== |
==Bibliography== |
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*''Constitutional Development in the South Atlantic States''<ref name=nc/><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wright |first1=B. F. |title=Constitutional Development in the South Atlantic States, 1776-1860. By Fletcher M. Green. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1930. Pp. xiv, 328.) |journal=American Political Science Review |date=August 1931 |volume=25 |issue=3 |pages=754–755 |doi=10.2307/1946993}}</ref> |
*''Constitutional Development in the South Atlantic States, 1776-1860: A Study in the Evolution of Democracy''<ref name=nc/><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wright |first1=B. F. |title=Constitutional Development in the South Atlantic States, 1776-1860. By Fletcher M. Green. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1930. Pp. xiv, 328.) |journal=American Political Science Review |date=August 1931 |volume=25 |issue=3 |pages=754–755 |doi=10.2307/1946993|jstor=1946993 |s2cid=142148885 }}</ref> |
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*''Democracy in the Old South and Other Essays'' |
*''Democracy in the Old South and Other Essays'' |
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*''The Role of the Yankee in the Old South'' |
*''The Role of the Yankee in the Old South'' |
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==References== |
==References== |
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Latest revision as of 23:05, 23 March 2023
Fletcher Melvin Green (1895 - 1978) was a historian and writer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a faculty member from 1936 until 1960 and served as a department chair. The University has a collection of his papers.[1] He also taught at Harvard and Oxford.
Life
[edit]Melvin Green was born in Gainesville, Georgia and went to school in Murrayville, Georgia.[2] He married and had four children.[2]
Career
[edit]He was Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History in 1968. He was part of the Southern Historical Association, which presents the Fletcher M. Green and Charles W. Ramsdell Award in even-numbered years for the best article published in the Journal of Southern History during the two preceding years.
Vernon Lane Wharton states in the preface to Negro in Mississippi 1865-1890 that the book was "inspired and directed by Professor Fletcher M. Green of the University of North Carolina."[3]
In 1970, historian George M. Fredrickson wrote that Green "ranks as the elder statesman among historians of the South".[4] He is buried at the Chapel Hill Memorial Cemetery.[2]
Writing and editing
[edit]He edited and wrote the introduction to Susan Dabney Smedes' Memorials of a Southern Planter (1965). He wrote the introduction to the Florida quadracentennial edition of William Watson Davis' The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida. Some of his former students prepared the Festschrift, Writing Southern History: Essays in Honor of Fletcher M. Green, published in 1965, edited by Arthur S. Link and Rembert W. Patrick. It includes a bibliography of Green's writings.[2] A collection of his articles and essays was published in 1970.[5]
Bibliography
[edit]- Constitutional Development in the South Atlantic States, 1776-1860: A Study in the Evolution of Democracy[2][6]
- Democracy in the Old South and Other Essays
- The Role of the Yankee in the Old South
- Henry Kyd Douglas, I Rode With Stonewall; Essays in Southern History Presented to Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton, editor
- The Lides Go South . . . and West: The Record of a Planter Migration in 1835 ; John Blackford, editor
- Volume one of Travels in the New South, editor[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Fletcher Melvin Green Papers, 1898-1980".
- ^ a b c d e f "Green, Fletcher Melvin | NCpedia".
- ^ Negro in Mississippi 1865-1890 page 6
- ^ Fredrickson, George M., "Two Southern Historians", American Historical Review 1970 75(5): 1387–1392. in JSTOR, quotation on p. 1387. The two Southern historians of the title are Green and David M. Potter.
- ^ Downey, Matthew T. (1970). "Reviewed work: Democracy in the Old South and Other Essays by Fletcher Melvin Green, J. Isaac Copeland". Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. 63 (3): 326–328. JSTOR 40190676.
- ^ Wright, B. F. (August 1931). "Constitutional Development in the South Atlantic States, 1776-1860. By Fletcher M. Green. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1930. Pp. xiv, 328.)". American Political Science Review. 25 (3): 754–755. doi:10.2307/1946993. JSTOR 1946993. S2CID 142148885.