Charles S. Sydnor

American historian

Charles Sackett Sydnor (July 21, 1898 - March 2, 1954) was a history professor and author in the United States. He was born in Augusta, Georgia.^[1]

He wrote 23 biographical sketches for the Dictionary of American Biography.^[2]

The Southern Historical Association gives out an award named for him.^[3] Duke University has a collection of his papers.^[4]

Writings

Slavery in Mississippi (1933)^[5]
A Gentleman of the Old Natchez Region: Benjamin L. C. Wailes (1938)^[6]
The Development of Southern Sectionalism, 1818–1848 (1948)
Gentlemen Freeholders: Political Practices in Washington's Virginia (1952)^[7]^[8]^[9]
American Revolutionaries in the Making (1965)^[10]

References

^ "Sydnor, Charles Sackett | NCpedia". www.ncpedia.org.
^ "Charles S. Sydnor". Louisiana State University Press. Retrieved January 21, 2022.
^ "Charles S. Sydnor Award". www.thesha.org.
^ "Charles S. Sydnor papers, 1729-1978 and undated - Archives & Manuscripts at Duke University Libraries". David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
^ "Charles S. Sydnor, Slavery in Mississippi". The Journal of Negro History. 19 (3): 332–334. July 1, 1934. doi:10.2307/2714219. JSTOR 2714219 – via journals.uchicago.edu (Atypon).
^ Baldwin, Leland D. (June 30, 1938). "Book Review: A Gentleman of the Old Natchez Region: Benjamin L. C. W axles, by Charles S. Sydnor". Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography: 420 – via journals.psu.edu.
^ "Gentlemen Freeholders | Charles S. Sydnor". University of North Carolina Press.
^ Dodson, Leonidas (July 22, 1953). "Book Review: Gentlemen Freeholders: Political Practices in Washington's Virginia, by Charles S. Sydnor". Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography: 362–363 – via journals.psu.edu.
^ Weeks, O. Douglas (June 22, 1953). "Gentlemen Freeholders: Political Practices in Washington's Virginia. By Charles S. Sydnor. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 1952. Pp. ix, 180. $3.50.)". American Political Science Review. 47 (2): 567. doi:10.1017/S0003055400294756. S2CID 146677440 – via Cambridge University Press.
^ "American Revolutionaries in the". personal.tcu.edu.