Charles S. Sydnor
{{Short description|American historian (1898–1954)}}
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|name=Charles S. Sydnor
|birth_name=Charles Sackett Sydnor
|birth_date={{birth date|1898|7|21}}
|birth_place=Augusta, Georgia, U.S.
|death_date={{death date and age|1954|3|2|1898|7|21}}
|occupation={{flatlist|
- Historian
- history professor
- author
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Charles Sackett Sydnor (July 21, 1898 – March 2, 1954) was an American history professor and author in the United States. He was born in Augusta, Georgia.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/sydnor-charles-sackett|title=Sydnor, Charles Sackett | NCpedia|website=www.ncpedia.org}}
He wrote 23 biographical sketches for the Dictionary of American Biography.{{cite web|url=https://lsupress.org/authors/detail/charles-s-sydnor/#:~:text=Sydnor-,Charles%20S.,at%20Emory%20and%20Cornell%20Universities|title=Charles S. Sydnor|publisher=Louisiana State University Press|access-date=January 21, 2022}}
The Southern Historical Association gives out an award named for him.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thesha.org/sydnor|title=Charles S. Sydnor Award|website=www.thesha.org}} Duke University has a collection of his papers.{{Cite web|url=https://archives.lib.duke.edu/catalog/sydnor|title=Charles S. Sydnor papers, 1729-1978 and undated - Archives & Manuscripts at Duke University Libraries|website=David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library}}
Writings
- Slavery in Mississippi (1933){{Cite journal|url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.2307/2714219|title=Charles S. Sydnor, Slavery in Mississippi|date=July 1, 1934|journal=The Journal of Negro History|volume=19|issue=3|pages=332–334|via=journals.uchicago.edu (Atypon)|doi=10.2307/2714219|jstor=2714219 }}
- A Gentleman of the Old Natchez Region: Benjamin L. C. Wailes (1938){{Cite journal|url=https://journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/view/29479|title=Book Review: A Gentleman of the Old Natchez Region: Benjamin L. C. W axles, by Charles S. Sydnor.|first=Leland D.|last=Baldwin|date=June 30, 1938|journal=Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography|pages=420|via=journals.psu.edu}}
- The Development of Southern Sectionalism, 1818–1848 (1948)
- Gentlemen Freeholders: Political Practices in Washington's Virginia (1952){{Cite web|url=https://uncpress.org/book/9780807897928/gentlemen-freeholders/|title=Gentlemen Freeholders | Charles S. Sydnor|website=University of North Carolina Press}}{{Cite journal|url=https://journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/view/31117|title=Book Review: Gentlemen Freeholders: Political Practices in Washington's Virginia, by Charles S. Sydnor.|first=Leonidas|last=Dodson|date=July 22, 1953|journal=Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography|pages=362–363|via=journals.psu.edu}}{{Cite journal|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/abs/gentlemen-freeholders-political-practices-in-washingtons-virginia-by-charles-s-sydnor-chapel-hill-the-university-of-north-carolina-press-1952-pp-ix-180-350/65BC069E738866937587D469F469B6F5|title=Gentlemen Freeholders: Political Practices in Washington's Virginia. By Charles S. Sydnor. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 1952. Pp. ix, 180. $3.50.)|first=O. Douglas|last=Weeks|date=June 22, 1953|journal=American Political Science Review|volume=47|issue=2|pages=567|via=Cambridge University Press|doi=10.1017/S0003055400294756|s2cid=146677440 }}
- American Revolutionaries in the Making (1965){{Cite web|url=https://personal.tcu.edu/swoodworth/Sydnor-ARM.htm|title=American Revolutionaries in the|website=personal.tcu.edu}}
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Category:20th-century American historians
Category:Writers from Augusta, Georgia
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