Allen William Trelease (c. 1928/1929–July 15, 2011) was an American historian, author, and professor. He served as the head of the history and government department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNC Greensboro), and as president of the Historical Society of North Carolina.[1][2]
Biography
Allen William Trelease was born on c. 1928/1929 in Boulder, Colorado.[3] Trelease's parents were Helen Waldo and William Trelease.[2] The family moved often and he attended high school in Catonsville, Maryland.[2] He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (A.B. 1950);[4] and received a doctorate from Harvard University (Ph.D. 1955).[5]
Trelease taught at Wells College in Aurora, New York, from 1955 to 1967.[2] Followed by teaching history for 27 years at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro from 1967 until 1994.[2] He also briefly served as Dean of Faulty and as the history and government department chair.[6][2]
Trelease wrote the book, White Terror: the Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction (1971), about the Ku Klux Klan.[7] He wrote entries for NCPedia, an encyclopedia published by the State Library of North Carolina.[8]
He died on July 15, 2011, in Greensboro.[3] A graduate fellowship at UNC Greensboro, the "Allen W. Trelease Graduate Fellowship in History" was named for him.[3] The University of Minnesota libraries have a collection of his papers.[9]
Publications
- Trelease, Allen W. (1960). Indian Affairs in Colonial New York: The Seventeenth Century. Cornell University Press.[10][11]
- Trelease, Allen W. (1968). United States Supreme Court Justices Their Personal Backgrounds 1789–1951 (thesis).
- Trelease, Allen W. (1971). Reconstruction: the Great Experiment. New York City, NY: Harper & Row. ISBN 9780060261221.
- Trelease, Allen W. (1971). White Terror: the Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction. New York City, NY: Harper and Row. ISBN 9780807119532.[12][13] 42 editions since 1971
- Trelease, Allen W. (1991). The North Carolina Railroad, 1849–1871, and the Modernization of North Carolina. Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807819418.[14][15]
- Trelease, Allen W. (1991). Changing Assignments: a Pictorial History of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University of North Carolina at Greensboro.[16]
- Trelease, Allen W. (2004). Making North Carolina Literate: the University of North Carolina at Greensboro From Normal School to Metropolitan University. Carolina Academic Press. ISBN 9780890895238.[17]
References
- ^ Miller, Barry (August 16, 2011). "Allen W. Trelease". Friends of the UNCG Libraries.
- ^ a b c d e f "Allen William Trelease". legacy.com. July 24, 2011.
- ^ a b c "Trelease, retired professor of history at UNCG, dies". Greensboro News and Record. July 18, 2011. Retrieved 2023-01-23.
- ^ Report - University of Illinois Board of Trustees. University of Illinois (System) Board of Trustees. University of Illinois. 1950. p. 786.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ A News Letter from the Institute of Early American History & Culture. Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.). Institute of Early American History and Culture. 1954. p. 4.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Directory of History Departments and Organizations in the United States and Canada. American Historical Association, Institutional Services Program. 1992. p. 326.
- ^ Kneebone, John T. "Ku Klux Klan in Virginia". Encyclopedia Virginia. Retrieved 2023-01-23.
- ^ "Trelease, Allen W." NCpedia.org [better source needed].
- ^ "Collection: Allen W. Trelease Papers". University of Minnesota Archival Collections Guides, University of Minnesota.
- ^ Wallace, Paul A. W. (December 10, 1961). "Book Review: Indian Affairs in Colonial New York, by Allen W. Trelease". Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography: 83–84 – via journals.psu.edu.
- ^ Jones, Maldwyn (January 10, 1961). "Book Reviews: Indian Affairs In Colonial New York By Allen W. Trelease Ithaca, Cornell University Press and London, Oxford University Press, 1960. 363 pp. 54s". Race. 3 (1): 101. doi:10.1177/030639686100300124. S2CID 144537418.
- ^ Hirshson, Stanley P. (April 1, 1974). "Allen W. Trelease. White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction. (The Urban Affairs Series.) New York: Harper and Row. 1971. Pp. xlviii, 557. $15.00". The American Historical Review. 79 (2): 589–590. doi:10.2307/1850455. JSTOR 1850455. Retrieved 2023-01-23.
- ^ Alexander, Charles C. (1972). "Reviewed work: White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction, Allen W. Trelease". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 51 (1): 80–82. JSTOR 30150282 – via JSTOR.
- ^ White, John H. (April 1, 1992). "Allen W. Trelease, "The North Carolina Railroad, 1849-1871, and the Modernization of North Carolina" (Book Review)". Technology and Culture. 33 (2). doi:10.2307/3105884. JSTOR 3105884 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Stover, John F. (December 13, 2011). "The North Carolina Railroad, 1849–1871, and the Modernization of North Carolina. ByAllen W. Trelease · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Xxii + 486 pp. Maps, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $37.50". Business History Review. 65 (4): 955–956. doi:10.2307/3117271. JSTOR 3117271. S2CID 154636202.
- ^ The North Carolina Historical Review. North Carolina Historical Commission. 2005. p. 503.
- ^ Adams, John D. (2006). "Allen W. Trelease. Making North Carolina Literate: The University of North Carolina at Greensboro from Normal School to Metropolitan University. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2004. 680 pp. Cloth $40.00". History of Education Quarterly. 46 (4): 679–681. doi:10.1111/j.1748-5959.2006.00062.x. S2CID 143888877.
External links
- Oral history interview with Allen W. Trelease (dated October 2, 2006), from UNC Greensboro
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