Inventory of the Richard L. Watson, Jr. Papers, 1941 - 1989
[top]Descriptive Summary
TitleRichard
L. Watson, Jr. Papers,
1941 - 1989.
Creator
Watson, Richard
L.
Extent
19.0 Linear Feet,
14,500 Items
Repository
14,500 Items
University Archives, Duke
University
Abstract
Richard L. Watson, Jr. served as Professor
of History at Duke University (1939-1984), Chair of the
Department of History (1960-1967), Chair of the Academic
Council (1964-1966, 1975-1977), and associate editor of the
South Atlantic Quarterly (1974-1987). Papers include
correspondence, notes, committee minutes and reports,
course evaluations, research files, and manuscript drafts
of chapters, and involve Watson's work with the Army Air
Force Historical Office, the History Department, Duke
University, professional organizations, research and
writings in American history and historiography, and personal materials.
Language
English.
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Administrative Information
Access RestrictionsPatrons must sign the Acknowledgement of Legal Responsibility and Privacy Rights form before using this collection.
For a period of twenty-five years from the
origin of the material, permission in writing from the
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for use. After twenty-five years, records that have been
processed may be consulted with the permission of the
University Archivist.
Records, such as search committee files or
others pertaining to employment where individuals are
identified, are closed for 70 years.
In accordance with the Family Education Rights
and Privacy Act of 1974 as amended, Duke University permits
students to inspect their education records and limits the
disclosure of personally identifiable information from
education records.
In off-site storage; 24 hours advance notice is
required for use.
Use Restrictions
Copyright for Official University records is
held by Duke University; all other copyright is retained by
the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants,
as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Richard L. Watson, Jr.
Papers, University Archives, Duke University.
Provenance
The Richard L. Watson, Jr. Papers were received
by the University Archives as a transfer in 1960-1992.
Processing Information
All recommendation files were shredded.
University materials duplicated in office of origin records
were discarded: Department of History newsletters,
Educational Facilities, Duke University Press material.
Student Papers (Accessions 84-63 and 90-112) transferred to
History Department, Student Papers section. World War II
documents: checked with National Archives; determined these
items were most likely declassified and thus open for
research. St. Augustine's College BOT materials (Accession
73-91) were deaccessioned June 2001. Sent to St.
Augustine's College.
Encoded by Jill Katte, September 2003
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
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Biographical Note
Richard Lyness Watson, Jr. was born December 25, 1914 in Mount Hermon, Mass. He attended Mount Hermon Preparatory School and graduated 1931. He studied economics and history at Yale University, receiving his B.A. in 1935, and his Ph.D. in 1939. Immediately after attaining his doctorate he moved to Durham and began teaching at Duke University. He was drafted into the Army in 1941 and commissioned in May 1943. He first served at the Coast Artillery School until appointed to the Army Air Force Historical Office. While at this post he served as chief of the Southwest Pacific Branch and was responsible for selecting documents on and writing histories pertaining to the Pacific theatre of operations during the War. His work was ultimately included in the seven volume series, The Army Air Forces in World War II, edited by Wesley Frank Craven and James Lea Cate.
During his forty-five year tenure at Duke, Watson served as one of the university's leading "citizens." He not only served in positions of leadership at the departmental level, but at the university level as well. Duke recognized his citizenship in 1988 when they awarded him the Duke University Medal for Distinguished Meritorious Service. While trained to specialize in early 19th century American history, Watson filled a needed role in the Department of History by shifting his research and teaching focus to early twentieth-century American history. His particular interests lay in the Progressive, Depression, and New Deal Eras. He chaired the department from 1960-1967 and stood in as Acting Chair in 1970-1971 and 1980. He took a lead in the burgeoning development of Black Studies, teaching several summer workshops for college professors on the materials of black history.
Watson led, at numerous points in his career, the faculty's most important representative bodies. He was vice chair of the University Council from 1961-1962; Chairman of the Academic Council from 1964-1966, as well as 1975-1977; and vice chair of the Academic Council from 1973-1974. He was the first person to hold the position of Faculty Secretary of the Academic Council, a position created in 1984. In addition, he was a member of the board of the Duke University Press from 1973-1982, and was associate editor of the South Atlantic Quarterly from 1974-1987. Watson also played a central role in the faculty movement to bar the Nixon presidential library from locating at Duke.
Watson answered the university administration's call to service. This is evidenced in the numerous committees, advisory councils, and task forces to which he was appointed. He played a significant role in helping define and implement university policies during student unrest of the late 1960s. As chair of the Committee on Judicial Procedures he helped put into place judicial procedures and policies to deal with the pickets and protests regulations. He also served on the Faculty Committee on Student Concerns which helped develop policies in response to the takeover of the Allen Building in 1969 and his work on the Student-Faculty-Administration Committee addressed drug policies, military recruitment on campus, and the pickets policy.
Watson served as President of the Southern Historical Association (1976-77) and of the Historical Society of North Carolina (1972-73); he was also chair of the Organization of American Historians' Frederick Jackson Turner Prize Committee from 1964-68. In addition, he sat on the board of editors of both the Mississippi Valley Historical Review (1958-60) and the Journal of Southern History (1968-70). He was a member of the Board of Trustees of St. Augustine's College from 1965-1971.
His activity in the Durham community was recognized by the Duke University Campus Ministry, who in 1992 awarded him its Humanitarian Service Award. Watson aided in the establishment of the St. Philip's Community Kitchen and the Durham Urban Ministry Center. He was also a familiar face in community theater, as a long-time member of Durham Savoyards, a group that presents annual performances of Gilbert and Sullivan.
In the midst of his teaching and academic service, Watson continued to conduct and publish scholarly research. He won the R.D.W. Connor Award for the best article to appear in the North Carolina Historical Review in both 1960 and 1965. He contributed greatly to the teaching of history in the secondary schools by his editorship, along with William Cartwright, of Interpreting and Teaching American History (196?) and its revised edition, Reinterpretation of American History and Culture. Other books he authored or edited include, Bishop Cannon's Own Story, the United States in the Contemporary World, 1945-62, and The Development of National Power: The United States 1900-1919.
Upon retirement in 1984, Watson continued his relationship with Duke. He was active in the university's FOCUS program, as well as hosting Japanese students from Hosei University each year.
Richard L. Watson, Jr. died on September 22, 2000.
[top]Collection Overview
The materials in this collection consist of the
papers of Richard L. Watson, Jr. accrued between 1941 and
1989. The majority of the collection pertains to his work
at Duke University, both in the department of history and
in service to university faculty and administration. There
are also papers relating to his writings and research, his
work in the Army Air Force Historical Office, professional
organizations, and personal life. Types of materials
include correspondence, notes, committee minutes and
reports, teacher course evaluations, chapter files and
draft chapters.
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Subject Headings
These and related materials may be accessed under
the following subject headings in the Duke University
Libraries online catalog.
- Watson, Richard L.
- Duke University. Academic Council.
- Duke University. Dept. of History
- Duke University--Faculty.
- Duke University--History.
- Historiography--United States.
- South Atlantic Quarterly.
- United States. Army Air Forces. Historical Office.
- United States--History--Study and teaching.
- United States--Historiography.
Dept. of History records.
University Archives, Duke University.
Detailed Description of the Collection
Army Air Force Historical Office, 1941-1951
The first series, Army Air Force Historical
Office, contains material Watson collected while serving as
the Chief of the Southwest Pacific Branch of the Army Air
Force Historical Office. The work of the office was
eventually collected in the seven volume series, The Army
Air Forces in World War II, edited by Wesley Frank Craven
and James Lea Cate. Watson's contributions to the series
pertain chiefly to Vols. I and IV. Types of material in
this series include general correspondence about the work
of the Historical Office, newspaper clippings chronicling
daily events, and notes taken from primary wartime
documents on Southwest Pacific Air Operations. Major events
include Rabaul, Battle of the Bismarck Sea, Philippines
campaign, Pearl Harbor, Wau, and Nassau Bay. Strategic
topics include bombing techniques, equipment, men and
morale, radio and radar, supplies, and allocations. There
are also draft chapters of his work, The Fifth Air Force in
the Huon Peninsula Campaign. Also included are several
reference works such as maps of the Southwest Pacific, a
gazetteer of New Guinea, and several works by J.V. Cragg on
the Fifth Air Force.
Box 1
Army Air Force Historical
Office
Correspondence,
1944-1951
General
Drafts
Undated
[3
folders]
Chapters 1-3,
The Fifth Air Force
in the Huon Peninsula Campaign
Chapters 4-6,
The Fifth Air Force
in the Huon Peninsula Campaign
Notes,
The Fifth Air Force in
the Huon Peninsula Campaign
Fifth Air Force
1941-1942
Jan.-Aug.
1943
Sept.-Dec.
1943
Jan.-Feb.
1944
March
1944
April
1944
May
1944
June
1944
July
1944
August
1944
Sept.-Dec.
1944
Notes, Fifth Air Force,
1941-1942
Includes Philippines campaign and Pearl
Harbor.
Box 2
Notes on Southwest Pacific Air
Operations, n.d.
[12
folders]
Includes notes on Allocation, Australia,
Bases (General), Bombing Technique, Bombers (Light), B-25
and B-26, B-24 and B-17, Bibliography, Appendix, SWPA-Oct.
1943, Plans, Service, Rabaul, Operations, SWPA Jan. 44,
Appendix, Bibliography, Unit Histories, Problems with men
and materials, Organization, Personnel, Photos, Plans,
Rabaul, Radio and Radar, Shipping and Supply; Supply
dropping, Status, Training, Troop Carrier, Tsili Tsili,
Wau, Strategic Situation, Plans and Allocations, Service
Command, Preliminary Offensive Moves, Bismarck Sea, Nassau
Bay, Part II, Conclusions, Citations, Dobodura, Darwin,
Fighters, Intelligence, Miscellaneous, Modifications and
Maintenance, Night Fighters.
Notes on Southwest Pacific Air
Operations,
October
1943-February 1944
[3
folders]
Includes notes on Bases, Allocations, Enemy
order of battle, Miscellaneous Morale, Navy, Operations
cables, Operations-General, Organization, Personnel, Plans
after Jan. 1944, Radar, Service, Status, Supply and
Maintenance, Training, Miscellaneous.
Notes
Battle of the Bismarck Sea,
n.d.
Miscellaneous, n.d.
Newspaper Clippings on Southwest
Pacific Theater, Sept.-Oct. 1944
Newspaper Clippings on Southwest
Pacific Theater, Nov. 1944-Feb. 1945
Outline for a Published History of
the AAF, n.d.
Paper Critique:
"Prewar Military Plans
and Preparations, 1939-1941"
by Maurice Matloff,
1951
Oversize
3
Crabb, Brigadier General J.V.
"Role of Fifth Air
Force in Southwest Pacific Campaign, World War
II"
Crabb, Brigadier General J.V.
"Fifth Air Force Air
War Against Japan, September 1942- August
1945"
Gazetteer of South-East New Guinea
and New Britain
Map. Eastern New Guinea and Bismarck
Archipelago
Map. Southwest Pacific.
Scrapbook. Newspaper Clippings,
1943-1944
History Department, 1946-1986
The materials in the second series, History
Department, contain information relating to Watson's
forty-five year tenure in the department both as a
professor and administrator. Insights into his teaching
style can be gleaned from numerous teacher-course
evaluations as well as syllabi and book lists. The series
contains thirty-five years of correspondence primarily
relating to departmental and teaching matters. Also
included are departmental meeting minutes, enrollment
statistics, and materials relating to graduate students.
This series includes numerous planning and curriculum
reports, the bulk dating from the 1960s to early 1970s.
There is also a run of the departmental publication
Research Notes
(Nos. 1-14), which describes the scholarly research of
faculty members. The development of the departmental honors
program is detailed as well as the early history of
teaching African-American history at Duke. This series also
contains historical information on the activities of the
Trinity College Historical Society, a social and
professional society for faculty and graduate students of
the History Department.
Box 4
Ad Hoc Committee on the Curriculum
of the Department of History,
1967
Ad Hoc Committee on the Curriculum
of the Department of History, Report,
1967
Ad Hoc Committee on the History
Graduate Program, Report,
1973
Afro-American History Faculty
Appointment,
1968-1969
NOTE: Faculty Appointment information is
RESTRICTED.
Afro-American History,
1968-1972
Budgets,
1961-1968,
1980-1982
[8
folders]
NOTE: Budgets are RESTRICTED; contain
salary, evaluation, and motions information.
By-Laws,
1980
Committee on Courses,
1959-1960
Committee on Honors,
1955,
1961
Committee on Hyphens and Commas,
1954
Committee to Review Graduate History
Curriculum,
1978-1980
Conference on Teaching the Social
Studies,
1957-1975
Committee on the Seminar Room
[William K. Boyd Seminar Room],
1957
Commonwealth Seminar,
n.d.
Correspondence
1946-1963
[16
folders]
Box 5
1964-1973,
1980-1981
[11
folders]
During the fall of 1971, Watson was on a
Fulbright in Australia.
Course Offerings,
1955-65
Dean's Memoranda,
1982
Dean's Memoranda,
1983-85
Departmental Committee on the
Graduate Program,
1961
Departmental Leave Requests,
1960
Departmental Meeting
Minutes
1953,
1958-61,
1965-67
1962-64
1968-75
Departmental Search Committee,
1974-75
NOTE: Search Committee files are
RESTRICTED.
Education, Department of,
1961-65
Enrollment Statistics
1976
1979
1982
Executive Committee,
1967-75
Faculty Rosters,
1980-83
General Education Board Southern
Scholarships,
1950-53
Graduate Alumni Correspondence,
1965-67
Graduate Staff,
1961-64
Graduate Student Committee on
Curriculum Reform-Report,
1967
Graduate Students
NOTE: Student records are RESTRICTED.
1960
1960-1963
1965-1967
1967-1972
1969-1970
1973-1974
1974-1976
1977-1978
1979-1981
Graduate Studies, Director of,
1957-60
Box 6
Graduate History 1 and 2 (50 and
51), Syllabi, n.d.
History 1X,
1959-63
History 91, Teacher Course
Evaluations, n.d.
History 91-92,
1947-52
History 113, Teacher Course
Evaluations,
1972
History 113, Teacher Course
Evaluations,
1974
History 114, Teacher Course
Evaluations, n.d. [ca. 1970s]
History 114, Teacher Course
Evaluations,
1975
History 114, Teacher Course
Evaluations,
1980
History 196D, Teacher Course
Evaluations,
1971
History 212, Teacher Course
Evaluations,
1971
History Alumni, Fund Raising,
1977-80
History Majors. Statistics,
1955-66
History of India Vacancy,
1972-73
History of Science,
1962-64
History Sub-Committee on
Interdisciplinary Programs,
1967-68
Honors Program,
1963-64
Honors Program, Proposals and Ideas,
1958-60
Independent Study,
1970-75
Independent Study,
1980-84
Library Reserve Book Lists,
ca.
1981
Makerere University College Exchange
Program,
1967-70
Medical Historian Training Program,
1967
National Defense Fellowship,
1958-61
NEH Summer Workshop on the Materials
for Teaching Negro History,
1968-70
Applicants,
1968
[2
folders]
Budget,
1968-70
Publishers,
1968
Paranavitana, Senarat Lecture,
1962,
1964
Planning,
1958-66
Planning Committee of the Dept. of
History,
1973-74
Pre-Major Advising,
1986-88
Report: Department of History, "An
Ongoing Program",
[1965]
Report of the Planning Committee of
the Dept. of History,
1974
Report of Special Long-Range
Planning Committee for the History Dept.,
1964
Research Notes (#1-14),
1982-84
Self-Study Committee on the
Curriculum-Report,
[ca.
1976]
Summer Session,
1960-63
Summer Session,
1963-64
Teaching Course Load,
1976-79
Trinity College Historical
Society
1958-1972
1973-1977
1978-1986
Newsletters,
1978-79,
1982
Undergraduate Studies, Director of,
1959-60
University, 1947-1988
The third series, University, documents
Watson's involvement and service on numerous faculty and
university committees, councils, and task forces. Watson
served as vice chair of the University Council from
1961-62; Chairman of the Academic Council from 1964-66, as
well as 1975-77; and vice chair of the Academic Council
from 1973-74. Materials relating to the University Council
document discussion about tuition benefits for faculty
children, by-laws, faculty qualification and improvements,
and the role of University Council. His long service on the
Undergraduate Faculty Council (UFC) and Undergraduate
Faculty Council of Arts and Sciences (UFCAS) is reflected
in this series. He chaired the UFC Faculty Committee on
Admissions and the minutes and report are contained in
these files. He also was appointed to the review committee
on the structure of UFCAS. In addition, in the early 1970s
Watson was on the executive committee of the Undergraduate
Faculty Committee of Arts and Sciences. These files include
a proposal on Afro-American studies.
Watson was appointed to numerous university
committees formed in response to the period of student
protest and unrest of the late 1960s. This series contains
minutes, reports, correspondence, and background material
from said committees. The Committee on Judicial Procedures,
also called the "Watson Committee", was created to define
and implement judicial procedures and address the pickets
and protests regulations. The files contain committee
reports, meeting minutes, background materials and
correspondence. They also include information on the
existing judicial structures and procedures of the Men's
Student Government Association, the Women's Student
Government Association, and the Nursing and Medical
Schools. There is also information on honor codes as
embedded in the judicial structures. The materials from the
Faculty Committee on Student Concerns relate to the Allen
Building takeover, Afro-American studies program, and the
Afro-American society. The Student-Faculty-Administration
Committee files contain information relating to university
drug policy, military recruitment on campus, and pickets
and protest policies.
In 1981, Duke President Terry Sanford
proposed Duke as a possible site for the Richard M. Nixon
presidential library. Watson played a central role in
faculty debate over the appropriateness of placing the
library at Duke. This series contains news clippings,
correspondence, academic council material, and his own
diary and notes on the controversy.
Materials in this series relating to the
Committee on Social Implications of Duke's Investment
Policy all appear to be originals from committee co-chair
William A. Reppy and chairman James D. Cox's files. The
committee consisted of twelve members appointed by the
President and included four administrators, four faculty
members, and four students. The committee was allowed to
make specific recommendations or general guidelines to the
Board of Trustees. It primarily dealt with issues relating
to investments with companies doing business with South
Africa. This collection of materials includes news
articles, church shareholder resolutions, correspondence,
and minutes.
Other committees and subjects addressed in
this series include the Task Force on Yearly Operations,
the Institute of Policy Studies and Public Affairs, the
library council and the George Washington Flowers
Collection, the Forest History Society, Phi Beta Kappa, the
South Atlantic
Quarterly, and the YMCA.
Box 7
Academic Council. Committee on
Faculty and Staff Housing,
1963-65
Academic Council. Committee on
Trustee Nominations [info on student trustees],
1974,
1982
NOTE: Student records are RESTRICTED.
Academic Freedom,
1965-76
Ad Hoc Committee on African and
Afro-American Studies,
1968-69
Alumni Lecture Series,
1962
Alumni Lecture Series,
1965-68
American Association of University
Professors-Duke University Chapter,
1978-87
Angier B. Duke Scholarship (on
finals committee),
1972-73
Art Museum Siting Committee,
1988-89
NOTE: Art Museum Siting Committee files
are RESTRICTED.
Art Museum Siting Committee,
1989-91
NOTE: Art Museum Siting Committee files
are RESTRICTED.
Baldwin Federation,
1978-79
Baldwin Federation,
1979-80
Bassett Affair, 75th Anniversary,
1978-79
Centennial Celebration of Teacher
Education in Duke University,
1952
Center for Commonwealth Studies,
1979-88
Center for Southern Studies,
1965-66
Colloquium 101,
[1962]
Commencement Marshals,
1950-52
Committee on Judicial
Procedures
1968
1969
[2
folders]
Background Material,
1968-69
Correspondence,
1968-69
Existing Duke Judicial Structures
and Procedures,
1965-69
Meeting Minutes and Agendas,
1968-69
Policies at Other Institutions,
1968
Reports,
1968-69
Committee on Planning and
Development. Sub-Committee on the University Arts Center,
1958-60
Committee on School Management,
1981-82
Box 8
Committee on Social Implications of
Duke's Investment Policy
Articles on Alternate Sources of
Energy,
1978-79
Articles on Chile and Argentina,
1979
Articles on Military Arms Sales,
1978-79
Articles on Nuclear Energy,
1978-79
Articles on South Africa and
Uganda,
1977-79
Church Shareholder Resolutions,
1979
Correspondence,
1977-80
Corporate Examiner,
1978-79
Correspondence,
1981-82
Minutes,
1978-80
Minutes,
1981-82
Miscellaneous Articles,
1980
Xerox Corporation,
1982
Committee on Undergraduate Student
Counseling on Military Service,
1951
Committee to Recommend a Successor
to Dean Marcus Hobbs,
1962-63
Dean of Arts and Sciences, Search
Committee,
1984-85
NOTE: Search Committee files are
RESTRICTED.
Dean of Trinity College, Replacement
Selection Committee,
1963-64
Duke Elderhostel,
1978
Duke United Fund Campaign,
1963-66
Includes information on desegregation of
Durham YMCA.
Duke United Way Campaign,
1977-84
Duke University, History,
1964-65
Duke University Arts Council,
1957-60;
1970-71
Duke University Church Board.
Minutes,
1951-53
Duke University Community Chest
Campaign,
1948-50
Duke University Community Chest
Campaign,
1949-50
Duke University Conference for
Secondary School Counselors,
1966
Duke University Press,
1971-75
Duke University Press,
1978-79
Duke-UNC National Security Policy
Seminar,
1961-66
East Campus-Facilities,
1965
Educational Facilities
Committee
Sub-Committee on the Gothic Hall
Renovation,
1967
Sub-Committee on the Arts Center,
1963-66
Sub-Committee on the Arts Center,
Special Committee to Interview Architectural Candidates,
1965-66
Episcopal Student Center,
1959-63
Faculty Advisors,
1952-55
Faculty Adviser,
1955-59
Faculty Club,
1967-73
Faculty Committee on Duke
Development Program,
1950-51
Faculty Committee on Parking,
1949-51
Faculty Committee on Selection of
President,
1962
NOTE: Presidential Selection Files are
RESTRICTED.
Faculty Committee on Student
Concerns,
1969
[2
folders]
Faculty Committee on Student
Concerns, Background Material,
1969
Faculty-Student Advisory System
Committee,
1952-53
Box 9
Foreign Policy Institute Proposal,
1973-74
Forest History Society,
1981-83
Friends of Duke University Library,
1976-86
Graduate School-Committee on Final
Examination Procedures for the M.A. and Ph.D. Degree,
1963-64
Graduate School-Committee on
Graduate degree time-limits and fees,
1966-67
Humanities Council,
1967-69
Institute of Policy Studies and
Public Affairs
1971-76
Advisory Committee, 1972
Advisory Committee, 1972-75
Advisory Committee,
1973-74
Investment Policies Study Committee,
1974
Joint Faculty-Trustee Committee on
Honorary Degrees,
1961-74
Library
1965-85
George Washington Flowers
Collection,
1965-72
George Washington Flowers
Collection,
1973-83
Special Committee on Gathering
Election Material,
1951-52
Library Council,
1947-65
Local 77,
1966
Murphy, Charles (Honorary Degree
Recipient),
1967
National Defense Education Act of
1958, Oath and Affidavit,
1959-60
Nixon Honorary Degree Controversy,
1954-57,
1973
Nixon Library
Academic Council,
1981
Clippings,
1981-82
[2 folders]
Committee Against the Nixon-Duke
Library (CANDL),
1981
Correspondence,
August
1981
Correspondence,
September
1981-1982
General,
1981
Watson's Diary and Notes,
August-September,
1981
Omicron Delta Kappa,
1953-68
Oral History Project,
1963
Phi Beta Kappa,
1977-80
Phi Beta Kappa,
1981-88
President's Special Advisory Search
Committee,
1977-79
NOTE: Search Committee files are
RESTRICTED.
Box 10
Regional Education Laboratory
Proposal [also Center for the Study of Higher Education
proposal],
1965-66
Social Science Council,
1970-1971
South Atlantic Quarterly,
1972-1988
Student-Faculty-Administration
Committee,
1967-1968
Includes information on the drug policy,
military recruitment on campus, and pickets policy.
Student-Faculty-Administration
Committee
Ad Hoc Committee on Regulations on
Pickets, Protests and Demonstrations,
1968-1969
Minutes and Agendas,
1967-1968
Military recruiting,
11-27-1967,
12-4-1967
Pickets and Protests,
12-4-1967,
12-14-1967,
12-18-1967,
2-15-1968,
2-22-1968,
3-11-1968,
3-20-1968,
5-6-1968
Drug Policy,
1-9-68,
1-15-1968,
2-15-1968,
2-22-1968,
3-11-1968,
4-5-1968,
4-15-1968
Task Force on Year-Round
Operations
1979-80
[3
folders]
Draft Reports,
1980
Faculty Concerns Subcommittee,
1980
Traffic Commission,
1952
Traffic Commission,
1955-1956
Undergraduate Faculty Committee of
Arts and Sciences, Executive Committee,
1973-1975
[2
folders]
Undergraduate Faculty
Council
Committee on Committees,
1965-66
Faculty Committee on Admissions,
Minutes,
1952-1953
Sub-Committee on Curriculum,
1970-1971
Report of the Faculty Committee on
Admissions,
1953
Review Committee on Undergraduate
Faculty Council of Arts and Science (UFCAS)
Structure of UFCAS,
1982
Undergraduate Research Assistantship
Program,
1976-89
University Admissions Committee,
Advisory Committee for Trinity College and College of
Engineering,
1963-1965
University Archives,
1955-1978
University Art and History
Preservation Committee,
1981
University Arts Center, Report to
the Long Range Planning Committee on,
1959
University Council
1957-1962
Includes tuition benefits for faculty
children.
Committee on the By Laws,
1960-1962
Committee to Consider Proposal
Concerning Tuition Awards for Faculty Children,
1959
Special Committee on the Future
Role of the University Council,
1956
University Committee on Faculty
Qualifications and Improvements,
1961
University Planning Committee,
Sub-Committee on Regional and State Responsibilities,
1971-1972
University Policy, Planning and
Advisory Committee,
1964-66
University Policy, Planning and
Advisory Committee, Ad Hoc Committee on the Fifth Decade,
1965
Woman's College Scholarship
Committee,
1953-1954
Young Men's Christian Association,
Board of Directors, Minutes,
1954-1957
[2
folders]
Professional Organizations, 1954-1988
The fourth series, Professional Organizations,
documents Watson's long contribution of service to
national, state, and local professional historical
organizations and his work for the promotion of history.
His work with the American Historical Association includes
serving on the Ad hoc committee on Ph.D. programs in
history, as well as being a session chair and member of the
committee to collect the basic data of American political
history. For six years he served the Organization of
American Historians, and its predecessor organization, the
Mississippi Valley Historical Association, as a member of
their prize committees. Documents in this series shed light
on the changes in prize policy and process. In addition to
serving as its president from 1976-1977, Watson served on
numerous annual program committees and as session chairs
for the Southern Historical Association. This series
contains material on program and nominating committees,
sessions, and his work on the board of editors of the
Journal of Southern
History.
Watson also worked to advance the promotion of
history. This series documents his work with the National
Historical Publications and Records Commission, the NDEA
Institute for Advanced Study in American History, the
National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of
History, and the United Negro College Fund Distinguished
Scholars Program.
The series also contains materials related to
Watson's work with historical organizations at the state
and local level. It documents his twenty-year involvement
with the Historical Society of North Carolina, as well as
his work with the North Carolina Literary and Historical
Association, and the State Archives of North Carolina. At
the local level, this series contains materials about the
Durham County history project to publish a history of
Durham County, N.C.
Box 11
American Historical
Association
1977-1985
Ad Hoc Committee on Ph.D. Programs
in History,
1967-1969
[3
folders]
Ad Hoc Committee on Ph.D. Programs
in History, Program Descriptions,
1969
[4
folders]
Committee to Collect the Basic
Quantitative Data of American Political History,
1966-1968
Committee to Collect the Basic
Quantitative Data of American Political History, North
Carolina Election Data,
1964-1966
Session Chair, New Approaches to
Recent American Political History,
1961
Appalachian State University,
Consultant for M.A. Degree in History,
1967
Dictionary of American Biography,
1974-1975
Includes his article on O. Max Gardner
Durham County History Project,
1955-64
Durham County History Project,
1965-70
Encyclopedia of Southern History,
1974-76
Ford Foundation, Doctoral
Fellowships for Black Students,
1970-72
NOTE: Student information is
RESTRICTED.
Historical Society of North
Carolina
1965-69
1970-72
1973-75
1981-87
Committee on a Constitutional
Amendment,
1957-58
Indiana Council for the Social
Studies, Speaker,
1963-64
Mississippi Valley Historical
Association
1962-63
Mississippi Valley
Historical Review, Board of Editors,
1958-61
Committee on the Future,
1963-65
Membership Committee,
1962-65
Prize Studies Committee,
1963-65
[2
folders]
Prize Studies Committee, Final
Appraisals,
1964-65
NOTE: Prize appraisals are
RESTRICTED.
National Coordinating Committee for
the Promotion of History,
1976-85
National Council for the Social
Studies,
1967-68
National Geographic,
1963-84
National Historical Publications and
Records Commission,
1983-89
National Historical Publications and
Records Commission, Fellowships in Archival Education,
1985-86
National Defense Education Act
(NEDA)
Institute for Advanced Study in
American History,
1968
Box 12
Institutes for Advanced Study
Evaluation Panel,
1967-68
Summer History Institutes,
1965
Title IV Graduate Fellowship
Program,
1967-69
North Carolina Highway Historical
Marker Advisory Committee,
1975-79
North Carolina Literary and
Historical Association,
1965-67
North Carolina Literary and
Historical Association, Mayflower Cup,
1981
Organization of American
Historians
1966-73
1978-88
Committee on Bibliographical and
Research Needs,
1974-77
Frederick Jackson Turner Prize
Committee
NOTE: All Turner Prize Committee files
are RESTRICTED.
1966-67
1967-68
[3
folders]
Correspondence,
1967-69
Final Appraisals,
1966-67
Manuscript Publication,
1966-67
Submissions,
1966
1968
Prize Studies
Committee
NOTE: All Prize Studies Committee files
are RESTRICTED.
1965-66
1965-66
Finalists,
1965-66
Submissions,
1965-66
Report of the Prize Study
Committee,
1966
Session Chair: "The Progressive
Era",
1973-74
Special Committee on Prize Policy,
1965-66
St. Augustine's College,
1984-85
Southern Association of Colleges and
Schools. University of Houston Accreditation Visit,
1965-66
Southern Association of Colleges and
Schools. University of Mississippi Accreditation Visit,
1967
Box 13
Southern Historical
Association
1985-86
Board of Editors,
Journal of Southern
History,
1968-69
Board of Editors,
Journal of Southern
History,
1970-72
Nominating Committee,
1963
Nominating Committee,
1972
Paper Critique,
1955
Program Committee,
1959-60
Program Committee,
1961-62
Program Committee Chairman,
1963-64
Seminar Paper, "A Political Leader
Bolts: F.M. Simmons in the Election of 1928",
1959-61
Session Chair, "Dissent in the New
South",
1974
Session Chair, "Harry Truman and
the South",
1969
Session Chair, "Southerner Look at
the New Deal",
1965
Session Chair, "The Cold War and
American Liberalism",
1966
Special Committee to Study the
Awards Program,
1966-67
State Archives of North Carolina,
1976-77
Tarheel Junior Historian
Association,
1954-55
United Negro College Fund,
Distinguished Scholars Program,
1981-89
United Negro College Fund,
Distinguished Scholars Program, Scholars-at-Large,
1981-87
Research and Writings, ca. 1940-1989
Forty years of Watson's research and writings
are reflected in this fifth series, Research and Writings.
The bulk of the series is related to the two major books
that Watson edited along with William Cartwright,
Interpreting and Teaching
American History, and
Reinterpretation of
American History and Culture. These books were
aimed at giving a historiographical overview of American
history to high school teachers. Leading scholars of the
time contributed essays. The files, which include chapter
files and general correspondence, reflect the changes in
historiographical interpretations of American history from
the early 1960s to the early 1970s. Book reviews, articles,
grants and grant applications make up the rest of the
series.
Box 14
Articles
"American Political
History, 1900-1920,"
n.d.
"Principle, Party,
and Constituency: The N.C. Congressional Delegation,
1917-1919,"
1978-80
"Testing Time for
Congressional Leadership: The War Crisis of
1917-18"
"Woodrow Wilson and
His Interpreters, 1947-57,"
1957
Bishop Cannon's Own
Story (editor),
1955-56
Bishop Cannon's Own
Story (editor), Notes and Introduction, ca.
1955
Book Reviews
ca. 1940s and 1950s
ca. 1950s
Roosevelt
Letters,
1951
1959-79
1980-89
Cannon, James, Encyclopedia Entry,
1960
Grant Applications,
1953-54
Grant Applications,
1957-58
Houghton Mifflin,
1962-79
Interpreting and Teaching American History
Biographical Data
General Correspondence,
1957-62
Chapter 1 File,
1957-61
Chapter 2 File,
1957-61
Chapter 3 File,
1957-60
Chapter 4 File,
1957-61
Chapter 5 File,
1957-61
Chapter 6 File,
1957-61
Chapter 8 File,
1958-60
Chapter 9 File,
1957-61
Chapter 11 File,
1957-60
Chapter 12 File,
1957-60
Chapter 13 File,
1959-60
Chapter 14 File,
1957-61
Chapter 16 File,
1957-61
Chapter 17 File,
1957-61
Chapter 6 File,
1957-61
Chapter 15 File,
1957-61
Paper,
Theodore Roosevelt and
Herbert Hoover: A Study in Political Ideas,
n.d.
Reinterpretation of American History and Culture
General Correspondence,
1970-75
Introduction File,
1971-72
Chapter 1 File,
1971-72
Chapter 2 File,
1971-72
Chapter 3 File,
1970-72
Chapter 4 File,
1971-72
Chapter 5 File,
1972-73
Chapter 6 File,
1971-75
Chapter 7 File,
1971-73
Chapter 8 File,
1971-73
Chapter 9 File,
1971-73
Chapter 10 File,
1970-73
Chapter 11 File,
1970-72
Chapter 12 File,
1970-73
Chapter 13 File,
1970-72
Chapter 14 File,
1970-72
Chapter 15 File,
1970-73
Chapter 16 File,
1970-71
Chapter 17 File,
1970-73
Chapter 18 File,
1971-72
Chapter 19 File,
1970-73
Chapter 20 File,
1970-72
Chapter 21 File,
1970-73
Chapter 22 File,
1970-73
Chapter 23 File,
1970-73
Chapter 24 File,
1970-73
Chapter 25 File,
1970-73
University Press of America,
1962,
1975-83
University Research Council Grants,
1949-1987
[4
folders]
Personal, 1941-1984
Materials in the sixth series, Personal,
relate to Watson's personal activities. They include items
about his life in the military, including his military
records, correspondence, and a diary from 1944. The series
also details his involvement with St. Philip's church of
Durham and the Episcopal Church, Diocese of North Carolina.
A copy of his curriculum vitae and items related to his
retirement and the establishment of the Watson Graduate
Fellowship are also included.
Allied Arts of Durham,
1966-73
Carolina Charter Corporation,
1964,
1985
Coast Artillery School,
1941-43
Correspondence,
1941-46
Correspondence,
1984-85
Curriculum Vitae,
1980
Diary,
September 29,
1944-December 2, 1944
Episcopal Church, Diocese of North
Carolina
Commission on Ministry,
1971-76
Sub-Committee on Examinations,
Commission on Ministry,
1973-75
Historical Commission,
1959-60
Howard, Noah,
1973-74
Military Records,
1942-55
Northfield Mount Hermon School,
1960-69
Operation Breakthrough (Durham),
1969
Retirement and Watson Graduate
Fellowship,
1983-84
St. Philip's Church,
1960-67
St. Philip's Church,
1964-71
St. Philip's Church, Rector,
1967
United Durham, Inc., ca.
1971-74
Yale University,
1955,
1972-78
