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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Hardin Craig Papers, #3640, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Hardin Craig, June 1963 and December 1966.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, June 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• College teachers--North Carolina--History.
• Craig, Hardin, 1875-1968.
• Education, Higher--North Carolina--History.
• English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700.
• English literature--Study and teaching (Higher)--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Study and teaching (Higher)--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Stanford University--Faculty--History--20th century.
• United States--Intellectual life--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty--History--20th century.

Hardin Craig (1875-1968) was a Shakespearean and English Renaissance scholar and professor of English at several universities, including Stanford, 1928-1942, and the University of North Carolina, 1942-1949. He published numerous books on these subjects and also on Lord Byron and Edgar Allen Poe. Craig was educated at Centre College, Danville, Ky., and Princeton University.

The collection is chiefly notes, lectures, and speeches by Hardin Craig; and copies of published and unpublished works of Craig and of several colleagues and friends. Topics include Shakespeare, literature of the English Renaissance, higher education in the United States, and Craig's ideas on the potential for an intellectual renaissance in the United States.