Duke University Archives. Collection description
Extent: 5.7 linear ft. ; 4 RS boxes + 1 document box
Organization: Series 1. Correspondence; 2. Topical; 3. Student papersHistory: Educator, Professor of History, Duke University, 1961-. Chair of the Academic Council, 1977-1979. President, Organization of American Historians, 1983-1984.
Contents: Correspondence, student papers, committee records, professional papers, and other materials. Includes records pertaining to University matters and to Dr. Scott's duties as president of the Organization of American Historians, but the bulk concerns the study and teaching of American history, particularly the history of women in the South. Included are 24 students' reactions to the assassination of John F. Kennedy (1963), 17 student papers on the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island (1979), a "Last Lecture" by Dr. Scott ("A Modest Proposal for a Quiet Revolution," 1966), 170 students' interviews with working women (1976), and a letter by Ruth Dozier describing the work of a home demonstration agent in North Carolina, 1900-1920. All these materials are open for research. Among University-related materials are records of the Provost Search Committee, 1982-1983, and the University Scholar Teacher Award, 1982-1983; these are restricted as noted below. Correspondence is sometimes labelled Business Correspondence, sometimes AFS Chronological file. The topical (subject) files include letters of recommendation, History Department minutes, and files relating to seminars, meetings, publishing, and professional associations.
Restriction: Provost Search Committee, University Scholar/ Teacher Award, correspondence and subject files, and departmental minutes are closed except by permission of Dr. A.F. Scott and the University Archivist.
Guides: Accession records and a partial folder list are in the collection file.