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Fletcher Melvin Green (1895 - 1978) was a historian and author in the U.S. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was a faculty member from 1936 until 1960 and served as a department chair has a collection of his papers.[1] He also taught at Harvard and Oxford.

He was born in Gainesville, Georgia and went to school in Murrayville, Georgia.[2]

He was Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History in 1968.

He married and had four children.[2]

He is buried at the Chapel Hill Memorial Cemetery[2]

He edited and wrote the intorduction to Susan Dabnes Smedes' Memorials of a Southern Planter (1965). He wrote the inroduction 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.[3]

He was part of the Southern Historical Association and it 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.

Bibliography

  • Constitutional Development in the South Atlantic States[2][4]
  • 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]

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