Richard Bryant Drake Papers, 1948-2001

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Series 1: Personal/Biographical

These files contain correspondence pre-dating Drake’s years at Berea. Other files include  Drake’s or family member’s writing, such as poems written by his daughter Anna and reflections and poems written by Drake in Japan and on his 55^th birthday.

Box 1

Folder 1: Correspondence

Folder 2: Family Dialogues

Folder 3: Musing: From a Japanese Window, 1981

Folder 4: Mousey Poems, Anna Drake, 1963

Folder 5: Ode to an Interlocken Outhouse

Folder 6: Personal/Biographical

Series 2: Professional and Campus Interests

This series contains information relating to Drake’s involvement with professional development of college faculty in general, as well Drake’s tenure at Berea specifically. For instance included in this series is a letter suggesting naming a new dorm the Carter G. Woodson Dormitory, a proposal to open a living museum of Appalachia and a letter suggesting that the college purchase a coal mine.

Box 1

Folder 1: Berea College Faculty Salaries

Folder 2: Carter G. Woodson Dormitory Proposal

Folder 3: Comments On History, Its Uses and Its Hobbies

Folder 4: Correspondence with History Department Students

Folder 5: Faculty Tenure

Folder 6: Fall 1971 New York Times Article

Folder 7: Institute of Practical Politics Proposal

Folder 8: Written Piece:  Buy a Coal Mine!

Folder 9: Living Museum of Appalachia Proposal

Folder 10: 1971 Racial Crisis on Berea Campus

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

Series 4: History of Appalachia Drafts and Prospectus - Part A

This series contains the prospectus and earliest draft of Drake’s book.  Also included in this series is a letter dated February 2, 2001, from Dr. Drake to the Berea College Archives explaining the evolution of his book.  Correspondence from prospective publishers as well as other materials related to the publication of the text throughout its development are contained in this series.

Box 7

Folder 1: Dr. Drake

Folder 2: Book Reviews

Folder 3: History of Appalachia

Folder 4: Notes and Controversy of Publication

Folder 5: Publishers Reports and Correspondence

Folder 6: History of Appalachia, First draft, folder 1

Folder 7: History of Appalachia, First draft, folder 2

Series 5: History of Appalachia/The Appalachian Experience - Part B

This series contains the working copy of Drake’s book on the history of Appalachia.  The dates of this draft are 1992-1994.

Box 8

Folder 1: The Appalachian Experience, Working Copy, 1992-1994, chapters 1-3

Folder 2: The Appalachian Experience, Working Copy, 1992-1994, chapters 4-6

Folder 3: The Appalachian Experience, Working Copy, 1992-1994, chapters 7-9

Folder 4: The Appalachian Experience, Working Copy, 1992-1994, chapters 10-12

Folder 5: The Appalachian Experience, Working Copy, 1992-1994, chapters 13-14

Series 6: History of Appalachia/The Appalachian Experience - Part C

This series contains a draft of Drake’s book written after 1994.

Box 9

Folder 1: Draft pages and Introduction

Folder 2: Chapter 2

Folder 3: Chapter 3

Folder 4: Chapter 4

Folder 5: Chapter 5

Folder 6: Chapter 6a

Folder 7: Chapter 6b

Folder 8: Chapter 7

Folder 9: Chapter 8

Folder 10: Chapter 9

Folder 11: Chapter 10

Folder 12: Chapter 11

Folder 13: Chapter 12

Folder 14: Chapter 13

Folder 15: Chapter 14 and bibliographic notes

Series 7: History of Appalachia/The Appalachian Experience - Part D

This series contains the latest draft of Drake’s book prior to publication.

Box 10

Folder 1: Pages 1-50

Series 8: Dissertation Notes

This series contains the bibliographic cards and research note cards used by Drake in the writing in of his doctoral dissertation on the American Missionary Association, 1861-1888.

Box 11

Item 1: Dissertation index file

Box 12

Item 2: Dissertation note file, chapters 1-3

Box 13

Item 3: Dissertation note file, chapters 4-6