The Southern Lady.

scottannefiror Preliminary Inventory of the Anne Firor Scott Papers, 1939-2003 Processed by: Ruth E. Bryan, Paula Jeannet, Lisa Stark, Tim West, and other Rubenstein Library staff; machine-readable finding aid created by: Ruth E. Bryan

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Machine-readable finding aid derived from automated markup system. Date of source: July 1, 1985-October 31, 2000 Processed by Ruth E. Bryan, Paula Jeannet, Lisa Stark, Tim West, and other Rubenstein Library staff July 1, 1985-October 31, 2000; Finding Aid encoded by Ruth E. Bryan, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, June 14, 2001 Description is in English. 12-31-2005 PUBLIC "-//David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library//TEXT (US::NDD::::Anne Firor Scott Papers)//EN" "scottannefiror.xml" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Also, the top level of the finding aid (above the dsc) changed to conform to current Rubenstein Library and NC EAD standards as laid out in the Inventory Style Guide and in the NCEAD Best Practice Guidelines. Within the dsc, dates for series were normalized. These changes were made by Michelle Belden. Also, container TYPE and LABEL attribute values were standardized according to the Rubenstein Library EAD 2002 manual and the NCEAD eadlocal.ent by Ruth E. Bryan.The tag list inside index was changed to indexentry by Ruth E. Bryan. 12-17-2008 Finding aid updated to include additions from 2000 to 2008. Preliminary Inventory of the Anne Firor Scott Papers, 1939-2009 David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Duke University Durham, North Carolina 27708-0185 USA

Descriptive Summary Anne Firor Scott Papers, 1939-2009 Scott, Anne Firor 19 Linear Feet 11,000 Items David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. English. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is restricted.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Anne Firor Scott Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Provenance

The Anne Firor Scott Papers was received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a gift in 1985-2008.

Processing Information

Processed by Ruth E. Bryan, Paula Jeannet, Lisa Stark, Tim West, and other Rubenstein Library staff.

Completed July 1, 1985-October 31, 2000.

Encoded by Ruth E. Bryan.

Finding aid updated by Meghan Lyon, May 2009.

This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.

This collection is unprocessed: materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.

Biographical Note

Professor emerita of history at Duke University, Durham, N.C.

Collection Overview

The collection contains writings of Anne Firor Scott and materials relating to her academic work in Southern and women's history. The materials primarily refer to her scholarly activities, and include her dissertation, occasional papers, articles, speeches and lectures, book reviews, contracts, conference proceedings and schedules, course materials, newspaper clippings, and other activities related to academia. There is also a file of correspondence written by Anna Lord Strauss (then president of the League of Women Voters) in 1949 and mailed to all members the league. Notes by Scott in this file explain her connection to Strauss, and the circumstances of the correspondence. In addition, there are newspaper articles related to the first and second editions of Scott's book, The Southern Lady. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.

Preliminary container lists exist for only parts of the collection.

Subject Headings

These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.

Scott, Anne Firor, 1921- Scott, Anne Firor, 1921- The Southern Lady. Strauss, Anna Lord, 1899-1979 Duke University--Faculty. Duke University. Dept. of History--Faculty. League of Women Voters (U.S.) Women--History. Women--History--Congresses. Women--United States--History. Education, Higher--North Carolina. Women historians--United States. History--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States. Southern States--History. Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture. Contents of Collection Accession (2000-0293)

Some of the materials in this collection are not immediately accessible, because they require further processing before use. Technical Services staff need to copy clippings onto acid-free paper. Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library to use this collection.

1 Final Lectures Over the Years, 1957-1992 Teaching Introductory Course from Documents Clippings 1960s (2 folders) 1970s 1990s Outside Lectures-Clippings, 1980s 2 League of Women Voters Connection (correspondence included) Notes for Class Discussion in Introductory Course Reviews of Making the Invisible Woman Visible Accession (2000-0335)

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Attention: The first folder contains restricted material. Contact a Reference Archivist.

1 The Southern Lady 25th Anniversary Edition

(RESTRICTED)

Includes correspondence, newspaper articles, and contracts

Speech and article for Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 1983, 1988 Article on William Bacon Evans, 1995 Comments: Southern Association of Women Historians, 1988 Juneand OAH Panel, 1998 Book review, Janet Browne, Charles Darwin: Voyaging,1995 Harvard paper on Veblen Duke speeches, 1979, 1990, 1998 Miscellaneous speeches, 1974-2000 Accession (2001-0120)

Addition (2001-0120) (2 items, 0.1 lin. ft.; dated 1986-2001) includes two rolls of microfilm negatives containing Scott's diaries, dating 1986-2001 and 1987-2000.

Accessions (2003-0060), (2003-0092), and (2003-0104) 1 Box

Addition (2003-0060) (26 items, 0.4 lin. ft.; dated 1968-1998) includes chiefly issues of periodicals (1968-1995), and her calendars/appointment books (1981-1998).

Addition (2003-0092) (2 items, 0.1 lin. ft.; dated 1939, 2000) comprises two programs, one, with ephemera inserted, for the 125th anniversary celebration of the Emma Willard anniversary celebration of the Emma Willard School in Troy, NY (October 6-8, 1939); the otherfor the Southern Association of Women Historians Fifth Southern Conference on Women's History, held June 15-17, 2000.

Addition (2003-0104) (8 items, 0.1 lin. ft.; dated 1974-2002) consists of programs from the second (1974), third (1976), seventh (1987), and twelfth (2002) Berkshire Conferences on the History of Women.

Accession (2003-0236) 9 Boxes

Addition (2003-0236) (2500 items, 4 lin. ft.; dated 1950-1999) consists primarily of Scott's personal and professional correspondence. Also includes subject files related to writing projects, lectures, research, and various professional organizations.

Accession (2004-0330) 13 Boxes

Addition (2004-0330) (4300 items, 7.2 lin. ft.; dated 1932-2003 (bulk [1980s]-2002)) contains primarily correspondence, both personal and professional. Also includes writings and speeches by Scott and others; subject files; research files; and teaching materials, including student papers.

Accessions (2007-0178) and (2007-0211) 2 Boxes

Additions (2007-0178 and 2007-0211) (700 items, 1.2 lin. ft.; dated 1951-2000) contain correspondence, research files, grant proposals, drafts and published writings including Teaching Parallel Lives, Virginia Women, and Georgia Women.

Accession (2008-0236) 2 Boxes

Addition (2008-0236) (900 items; 1.2 lin. ft.; 1965-1995) includes correspondence, research files, and master's theses from students that Scott supervised at Duke. Also included are two boxes of 5.25" floppy disks.

1Master's theses (4) Correspondence Examples of devices for teaching American history Correspondence in California at the Center for Advanced Study in Social Science, 1986-1987 Correspondence, 1985 Correspondence with Marnta Ragland Creation of Sallie Bingham Center for women's papers 5.25" Floppy disks (21 disks) 2Texas Women Greer diary (unpublished) Data on Southern Women Life of Virginia Gearhart Gray (longtime archivist at Duke) Life of Julia Chevy Sprull Life of Guion Griffis Johnson Unheard Voices Oscar Handlin Retirement Tribute Eleanor Boatwright file Unheard Voices: Data Searching for Eleanor Boatwright (Data M.A.) Muriel Beadle's History of Fortnights Julia Flesch Accession (2009-0142) (2 boxes)

Addition (2009-0142) (900 items; 1.2 lin. ft.) includes correspondence, including a file of letters from Sacvan Berkovitch; Jane Addams subject files; files on awards, conferences, and remarks; League of Women Voters documents; Duke appointment materials; and essays and research on women's studies and women's history. Two files are restricted until 2010 and 2020.

This accession has not been processed. Folder titles were created by the donor and have been transcribed into this finding aid.

1Duke University Libraries, vol. 3, n. 1, 1989 Letters from Sacvan Bercovitch, 1995-1996 AHA award/OHA award Transition from rural to urban society Syllabi and notes: Slavery Tell the South, Furman University, 1996 UNC panel on co-eds Southern ladies and some other Letters from Dick and Jing(?) Lyman Report on the provost (Philip Griffiths), 1987 Advice to freshmen women, 1970 Whose history are we talking about anyway? Radcliffe conference, 1985 Unclassified Georgia women France Correspondence with historians, 2006 Benjamin Franklin's sister Origin of Women's Studies A 1975 analysis Duke appointment, 1961-1991 Southern women after suffrage Learning to write Macaffrey(?) Lecture at Harvard Political campaigns Duke women: two lectures Alternatives to Futility, 1984 Mormon Women Other Women, 1985 2Letters from the 1940s and interview with James Reston Looking Back from 1998: History of Duke Harvard paper, 1948 Taking issue Graduate student concerns Jane Addams documents More Jane Addams Thinking about Jane Addams Writings from 1960s Life of Guion Griffis Johnson Correspondence, 1982-1990 Writing St. Janet and the Ward Boss Memoir of Celestia Parrish, Georgia's Greatest Woman Harvard newspapers Judith Harlow Spearing League of Women Voters rare documents, 1933-1995 2 files: closed until 2010 and 2020, respectively Accession (2011-0120), 1963-2009 (1 box)

Addition (2011-0120) (100 items; 0.3 lin. ft.) includes a file of Citizen's Advisory Council on the Status of Women, 1963-1977 and other research materials and a file on the National Women's History Museum.

1Citizen's Advisory Council on the Status of Women, 1963-1977 and other research materials National Women's History Museum info, 2009