Allen W. Trelease

Allen William Trelease was born {{circa|1928/1929}} in Boulder, Colorado. Trelease's parents were Helen Waldo and William Trelease. The family moved often and he attended high school in Catonsville, Maryland. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (A.B. 1950);{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uo3R7OfrSy8C |title=Report –University of Illinois Board of Trustees |date=1950 |publisher=University of Illinois |others=University of Illinois (System) Board of Trustees |pages=786 |language=en}} and received a doctorate from Harvard University (Ph.D. 1955).{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H_8RAAAAYAAJ |title=A News Letter from the Institute of Early American History & Culture |date=1954 |publisher=Institute of Early American History and Culture |others=Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.) |page=4 |language=en}}

Trelease taught at Wells College in Aurora, New York, from 1955 to 1967. Followed by teaching history for 27 years at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro from 1967 until 1994. He also briefly served as Dean of Faulty and as the history and government department chair.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NLTvAAAAMAAJ |title=Directory of History Departments and Organizations in the United States and Canada |date=1992 |publisher=American Historical Association, Institutional Services Program |page=326 |language=en}}

Trelease wrote the book, White Terror: the Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction (1971), about the Ku Klux Klan.{{Cite web |last=Kneebone |first=John T. |title=Ku Klux Klan in Virginia |url=https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/ku-klux-klan-in-virginia/ |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=Encyclopedia Virginia |language=en-US}} He wrote entries for NCPedia, an encyclopedia published by the State Library of North Carolina.{{Cite web |title=Trelease, Allen W. |url=https://www.ncpedia.org/category/authors/trelease-allen-w |website=NCpedia.org {{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (WP:NOTRS).|date=January 2023}}}}

He died on July 15, 2011, in Greensboro.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=July 18, 2011 |title=Trelease, retired professor of history at UNCG, dies |url=https://greensboro.com/news/trelease-retired-professor-of-history-at-uncg-dies/article_d26df25d-6e72-5186-9659-295362436cdd.html |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=Greensboro News and Record |language=en}} A graduate fellowship at UNC Greensboro, the "Allen W. Trelease Graduate Fellowship in History" was named for him. The University of Minnesota libraries have a collection of his papers.{{Cite web |title=Collection: Allen W. Trelease Papers |url=https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/4/resources/3120 |website=University of Minnesota Archival Collections Guides, University of Minnesota}}

• {{Cite book |last=Trelease |first=Allen W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2F50AAAAMAAJ |title=Indian Affairs in Colonial New York: The Seventeenth Century |publisher=Cornell University Press |year=1960}}{{Cite journal|url=https://journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/view/41641|title=Book Review: Indian Affairs in Colonial New York, by Allen W. Trelease.|first=Paul A. W.|last=Wallace|date=December 10, 1961|journal=Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography|pages=83–84|via=journals.psu.edu}}{{Cite journal |last=Jones |first=Maldwyn |date=January 10, 1961 |title=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 |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/030639686100300124 |journal=Race |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=101 |doi=10.1177/030639686100300124 |s2cid=144537418|url-access=subscription }}
• {{Cite book |last=Trelease |first=Allen W. |title=United States Supreme Court Justices Their Personal Backgrounds 1789–1951 |year=1968 |type=thesis}}
• {{Cite book |last=Trelease |first=Allen W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uNoeAAAAMAAJ |title=Reconstruction: the Great Experiment |publisher=Harper & Row |year=1971 |isbn=9780060261221 |location=New York City}}
• {{Cite book |last=Trelease |first=Allen W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DNKqQgAACAAJ |title=White Terror: the Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction |publisher=Harper and Row |year=1971 |isbn=9780807119532 |location=New York City}}{{Cite journal |last=Hirshson |first=Stanley P. |date=April 1, 1974 |title=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 |url=https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/79/2/589/69873?redirectedFrom=fulltext |journal=The American Historical Review |volume=79 |issue=2 |pages=589–590 |doi=10.2307/1850455 |jstor=1850455 |access-date=2023-01-23|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/30150282|author=Alexander, Charles C.|title=Reviewed work: White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction, Allen W. Trelease |year=1972|journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly|volume=51|issue=1|pages=80–82|jstor=30150282 }} 42 editions since 1971
• {{Cite book |last=Trelease |first=Allen W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UY9PAAAAMAAJ |title=The North Carolina Railroad, 1849–1871, and the Modernization of North Carolina |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |year=1991 |isbn=9780807819418 |series=Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies}}{{Cite journal |last=White |first=John H. |date=April 1, 1992 |title=Allen W. Trelease, 'The North Carolina Railroad, 1849–1871, and the Modernization of North Carolina' (Book Review) |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/3488fced985063a4e5ae4c36ea5e671b/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1817427 |journal=Technology and Culture |volume=33 |issue=2 |doi=10.2307/3105884 |jstor=3105884 |via=ProQuest|url-access=subscription }}{{cite journal |last1=Stover |first1=John F. |date=December 13, 2011 |title=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. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/business-history-review/article/abs/north-carolina-railroad-18491871-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-3750/898D4A8652531B66EF6B704E30EE311A |journal=Business History Review |volume=65 |issue=4 |pages=955–956 |doi=10.2307/3117271 |jstor=3117271 |s2cid=154636202|url-access=subscription }}
• {{Cite book |last=Trelease |first=Allen W. |title=Changing Assignments: a Pictorial History of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro |publisher=University of North Carolina at Greensboro |year=1991}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JDUTAAAAYAAJ |title=The North Carolina Historical Review |date=2005 |publisher=North Carolina Historical Commission |pages=503 |language=en}}
• {{Cite book |last=Trelease |first=Allen W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2EefAAAAMAAJ |title=Making North Carolina Literate: the University of North Carolina at Greensboro From Normal School to Metropolitan University |publisher=Carolina Academic Press |year=2004 |isbn=9780890895238}}{{cite journal | url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/history-of-education-quarterly/article/abs/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-4000/0EAF5AAF3E1E365131216BE2D2D505AB | doi=10.1111/j.1748-5959.2006.00062.x | title=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. | year=2006 | last1=Adams | first1=John D. | journal=History of Education Quarterly | volume=46 | issue=4 | pages=679–681 | s2cid=143888877 | url-access=subscription }}

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• [https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/oh%3A348 Oral history interview with Allen W. Trelease] (dated October 2, 2006), from UNC Greensboro

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