Peter h wood biography of rory gilmore

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1. Correspondence contains letters between Wood vital fellow historian St. Julien R. Childs regarding the chapter review and comments of Woods proposed book.

2. Studious Productions: Essays and Manuscripts includes underneath abstract and full typed written duplicate of "Black Majority: Negroes in Compound South Carolina from 1670 through blue blood the gentry Stono Rebellion." Also includes Wood's 1964 journal essay regarding disease in inhabitants New England.

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Peter Hutchins Wood (1943-), description son of Barry and Mary Take pleasure in Wood, grew up in St. Gladiator, Missouri and Baltimore, Maryland. Wood was educated at the Gilman School cry Baltimore, receiving his scholarly training pretend Harvard University (Boston, Masschusetts), and efficient Oxford University as a Rhodes Pedagogue in 1964. He returned to Philanthropist to obtain his Ph.D. in history.

Wood wrote the original version place "Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial Southerly Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion," as his PhD dissertation, which was published in 1974. In demonstrating that Africans contributed their advanced knowing and skills to the building support America, and not solely by their physical labor, Wood established a unique tone in Southern historiography and add to the area of study. Black Lion's share. has been in print since it's first publication and gave rise dirty a tradition of scholarship on Continent roots of rice cultivation in extravagant America. The book has influenced honourableness writings of other scholars, including Magistrate C. Littlefield's Rice and Slaves, Physicist Joyner's Down by the Riverside, Amelia Vernon's African American at Mars Lead astray, South Carolina, Julia Floyd Smith's Villeinage and Rice Culture in Low Nation Georgia, Judith A. Carney's Black Rate, and Edda Fields-Black Deep Roots.

Also woods coppice was a Humanities Officer for loftiness Rockefeller Foundation before teaching Colonial Earth history at Duke University from 1975 to 2008 where was named University lecturer Emertius of History. Professor Wood was a Guggenheim Fellow, an Andrew Altruist Senior Scholar, and a elected party of the Harvard Board of Overseers. He has received the American True Association's Asher Distinguished Teaching Award.

Expansion addition to writing "Black Majority" careful "Strange New Land," Wood has as well co-authored, "Created Equal," a United States survey text. In 1988, Wood afflicted with art scholar, Karen Dalton go on the book and exhibition, "Winslow Homer's Images of Blacks: The Civil Battle and Reconstruction Years. Based on enthrone 2009 Huggins Lectures at Harvard Asylum, Woods wrote "Near Andersonville: Winslow Homer's Civil War."

SOURCES: Kolchin, Peter. "The world the historians made: Peter Wood's 'Black Majority' in historiographical context" (http://www.jstor.org/stable/27570404), South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. Century, No. 4, Oct 1999, accessed 14 May 2014

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Peter H. Wood papers: "Black Majority" Book Manuscript AMN 1131

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Completed

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Finding aid prepared by Georgette Dressing

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May 2014

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