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Copyright Notice

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 John L. Snell Papers, #3970, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. John L. Snell of Chapel Hill, N.C., October 1972 and May 1973.

Received from H. A. Schmitt, Department of History, University of Virginia, August 1973.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, May 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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• American Historical Association--History.
• College teachers--United States--History.
• Germany--History--Study and teaching--United States.
• Historians--United States--History--19th century.
• Snell, John L.
• Southern Historical Association.
• Tulane University--Faculty--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty--History--20th century.
• University of Pennsylvania. Faculty--History--20th century.

John L. Snell (1923-1972) was an author and professor of German history at Tulane University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of North Carolina. He was actively involved in the Southern Historical Association and the American Historical Association and other professional societies. Snell published several books including The Outbreak of the Second World War: Design or Blunder? and The Nazi Revolution: Hitler's Dictatorship and the German Nation.

The collection is chiefly professional papers of John L. Snell consisting mainly of correspondence with fellow historians and material related to his service on committees of the American Historical Association and the Southern Historical Association. Unpublished lectures, writings, and notes concerning German history in the 20th century are also included.