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Collection Overview
Title: Richard Bryant Drake Papers, 1948-2001
Predominant Dates:1960-1995
ID: RG 09/9.15
Primary Creator: Drake, Richard B. -- 1925-
Extent: 5.5 Linear Feet
Arrangement:
Arrangement is by series as follows:
Personal/Biographical; Professional and Campus Interests; Notes and Drafts; History of Appalachia Drafts and Prospectus, Part A; History of Appalachia/The Appalachian Experience, Part B; History of Appalachia/The Appalachian Experience, Part C; History of Appalachia/The Appalachian Experience, Part D; Dissertation Notes
Date Acquired: 02/01/2001
Subjects: American Missionary Association., Appalachian Region, Southern -- History., Appalachian Region., Berea College, Berea College -- Faculty, Drake, Richard B. -- 1925-
Languages: English
Abstract
Richard Bryant Drake came to Berea College in 1957 after receiving his master’s degree from the University of Chicago and his doctoral degree from Emory University. During his tenure at Berea, Drake served as a professor of history and as the chairperson of the History and Political Science Department.
Scope and Contents of the Materials
This set of papers contains research notes, manuscripts, drafts and personal/biographical materials of Richard Bryant Drake. Materials in the Personal and Biographical series include both Drake’s and his family members’ writings.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
Berea College Special Collections and Archives Catalog
Access Restrictions:
Records can be accessed through the Reading Room, Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, Berea College.
Use Restrictions:
There are no restrictions on use of this material other than federal copyright regulations.
Acquisition Source:
These papers were given to the Berea College Archives by R. B. Drake in February of 2001.
Preferred Citation:
[Item/Folder/Box], Richard Bryant Drake Papers, Special Collections & Archives, Berea College, Berea, KY.
Processing Information:
Finding aid updated 2016.
Box and Folder Listing
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Series 1: Personal/Biographical],
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Series 2: Professional and Campus Interests],
[Series 3: Notes and Drafts],
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Series 4: History of Appalachia Drafts and Prospectus - Part A],
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Series 5: History of Appalachia/The Appalachian Experience - Part B],
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Series 6: History of Appalachia/The Appalachian Experience - Part C],
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Series 7: History of Appalachia/The Appalachian Experience - Part D],
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Series 8: Dissertation Notes],
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- Series 3: Notes and Drafts
- Box 2
- Folder 1: A Historiographical After Note
- Folder 2: A Look at the American Revolution and the Appalachian American
- Folder 3: And One Apostle was a Lumberman
- Folder 4: And One Apostle was a Lumberman, Draft 1
- Folder 5: And One Apostle was a Lumberman, Draft 2
- Folder 6: And One Apostle was a Lumberman, Draft 3
- Folder 7: Anglo Saxons vs. Scotch-Irish
- Folder 8: Appalachia and the American Experience
- Folder 9: Appalachia and the Birth of the U.S. to 1783
- Folder 10: Appalachia and the Civil War
- Folder 11: Appalachia and the New Republic 1780-1795
- Folder 12: Appalachia in the Civil War and Reconstruction
- Folder 13: Appalachian America
- Box 3
- Folder 1: Appalachian Anti-Slavery
- Folder 2: Appalachian Crafts and Industries
- Folder 3: Appalachian Culture
- Folder 4: Appalachian Identity
- Folder 5: Appalachian Politics and Government
- Folder 6: Appalachian Pre-History notes and drafts
- Folder 7: Appalachian Religion
- Folder 8: Appalachian Settlement
- Folder 9: Appalachian Slavery
- Folder 10: Broad Form Deed
- Folder 11: Bushwackers and Guerillas
- Folder 12: (The) Challenge to Plutocracy 1930-1945
- Folder 13: Changing Berea College
- Folder 14: Chapter 2, the Settlement
- Folder 15: Classical Appalachia VI
- Folder 16: Cohee Culture
- Folder 17: (The) Coming of the Europeans, chapter 3
- Folder 18: (The) Discovery of Appalachia
- Folder 19: Coal
- Folder 20: Coal Industry
- Folder 21: Coal
- Folder 22: Cohee vs. Plantar vs. Yankee
- Folder 23: Colonialism and Society
- Folder 24: The Coming of the Europeans to 1750
- Folder 25: The Coming of the Machine Age (to Appalachia)
- Folder 26: Disasters in Appalachia
- Box 4
- Folder 1: (The) Emergence of Cohee Society, chapter 6
- Folder 2: (The) End of the Old and Emergence of the New Appalachia
- Folder 3: Ethnicity in Appalachia
- Folder 4: (The) European Background, chapter 1
- Folder 5: Feuds
- Folder 6: Historical Context and Education in Appalachia
- Folder 7: History of Appalachian America
- Folder 8: Index/Outline the Appalachian Experience
- Folder 9: (The) Imperial Struggle in the Mountains, 1750-1790
- Folder 10: Iroquoian Appalachia
- Folder 11: Jack and Clio in Appalachia
- Folder 12: John Hanson Correspondence and Notes
- Folder 13: John Hanson, draft
- Folder 14: Literature and Scholarship in Appalachia
- Folder 15: Lost States
- Box 5
- Folder 1: Manuscript draft, folder 1
- Folder 2: Manuscript draft, folder 2
- Folder 3: Manuscript draft, folder 3
- Folder 4: Manuscript draft, folder 4
- Folder 5: Manuscript draft, folder 5
- Folder 6: Manuscript draft, folder 6
- Folder 7: Mountaineers and Americans, chapters 1-10
- Folder 8: Mountaineers and Americans, draft
- Folder 9: Missionary Intrusion
- Folder 10: Nebraska in the Presidential and Gubernatorial Election of 1920
- Folder 11: The New Deal Era
- Folder 12: Notes for Appalachian History book
- Folder 13: Notes on George Candee
- Folder 14: Notes on Talk with Warren Lambert
- Folder 15: Pioneer Period, 1730-1780
- Folder 16: Politics in Appalachia
- Folder 17: Politics in Education (Research Project)
- Folder 18: Position Paper for W.D. Weatherford and William Jones
- Box 6
- Folder 1: Recent Developments 1945-1985
- Folder 2: Regions of Appalachia
- Folder 3: Research notes, primary texts, chapter 1
- Folder 4: Research notes, primary texts, chapter 2
- Folder 5: Research notes, primary texts, chapter 5
- Folder 6: Research notes, primary texts, chapter 6
- Folder 7: Research notes, primary texts, chapter 8
- Folder 8: Series on the Political Conventions
- Folder 9: Sex Role Distinctions in Appalachia
- Folder 10: Slavery in Appalachia
- Folder 11: Slavery in the Shenandoah
- Folder 12: Strikes and the Union
- Folder 13: (The) Struggle in Appalachian Studies
- Folder 14: Technology and Change
- Folder 15: Technology in Appalachia: an historical evaluation
- Folder 16: War on Poverty
- Folder 17: The West Virginia Book War
- Folder 18: Whose Bicentennial? Appalachia, 1776
- Folder 19: The Yeoman Tradition
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Series 1: Personal/Biographical],
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Series 2: Professional and Campus Interests],
[Series 3: Notes and Drafts],
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Series 4: History of Appalachia Drafts and Prospectus - Part A],
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Series 5: History of Appalachia/The Appalachian Experience - Part B],
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Series 6: History of Appalachia/The Appalachian Experience - Part C],
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Series 7: History of Appalachia/The Appalachian Experience - Part D],
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Series 8: Dissertation Notes],
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