{"id":634,"date":"2012-10-09T11:38:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T18:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=634"},"modified":"2016-04-15T11:59:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T18:59:14","slug":"abernethy-thomas-perkins-1890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=634","title":{"rendered":"ABERNETHY, THOMAS PERKINS, 1890-1975."},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Historian; University professor. Born– August 25, 1890, Collirene (Lowndes County). \u00a0Parents– Thomas Hines and Anne (Rast) Abernethy. Married– Ida Erckman\u00a0Robertson, December 6, 1917. Education– College of Charleston, A.B., 1912; Harvard University, M.A., 1915, Ph.D., 1922.\u00a0 Military service, U.S. Army, World War I. Taught at Marion Institute, 1912-1914 and 1919; Women’s College of Alabama, 1916-1917; Vanderbilt University, 1921; University of Chattanooga, 1922-1928; University of Alabama, 1928-1930; University of Virginia, Richmond Alumni Professor of History, 1930-1961; University of Texas, 1961-1962; University of Arizona, 1963-1964.\u00a0 Contributed to many professional journals and anthologies. Member American Historical Society; founder and president, Southern Historical Society; member Virginia Historical Society. Honors; Litt. D., Washington and Lee University, 1947; Phi Beta Kappa Award for best historical work, 1961, for The South in the New Nation. <\/em>\u00a0Honored by a festschrift entitled The Old Dominion; Essays for Thomas Perkins Abernethy<\/em>, edited by Darrett B. Rutman.\u00a0 Died Charlottesville, Virginia, November 12, 1975.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n

American Authors and Books; the Dictionary of Alabama Biography; and Contemporary Authors Online.<\/p>\n

Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Antecedents of the Abernethy Family in Scotland, Virginia, Old Alabama. Charlottesville, Va.; s.n., 1966.<\/p>\n

The Burr Conspiracy. New York; Oxford University Press, 1954.<\/p>\n

The Formative Period in Alabama, 1815-1928. Montgomery, Ala.; Brown Printing Co., 1922.<\/p>\n

From Frontier to Plantation in Tennessee; a Study in Frontier Democracy. Chapel Hill, N.C.; University of North Carolina Press, 1932.<\/p>\n

Historical Sketches of the University of Virginia. New York; Appleton Century, 1937.<\/p>\n

Notes and Suggestions, Commercial Activities of Silas Deane in France. S.l.; s.n., 1934.<\/p>\n

The South in the New Nation, 1789-1819. Baton Rouge, La.; Louisiana State University Press, 1961.<\/p>\n

Southern Frontiers of the War of 1812.\u00a0 Tuscaloosa; University of Alabama Press, 1967.<\/p>\n

Three Virginia Frontiers. Baton Rouge, La.; Louisiana State University Press, 1940.<\/p>\n

Western Lands and the American Revolution. Charlottesville, Va.; University of Virginia, Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, 1937.<\/p>\n

Co-author; <\/strong><\/p>\n

The Pursuit of Southern History.\u00a0 LSU Press, 1964.<\/p>\n

Editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jefferson, Thomas.\u00a0 Notes on the State of Virginia.\u00a0 New York; Harper and Row, 1964.<\/p>\n

Contributor;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bugg, James L., ed.\u00a0 Jacksonian Democracy; Myth or Reality.\u00a0 New York; Holt, 1962.<\/p>\n

Jones, Edward T. The American Plutarch. New York; Scribner, 1964.<\/p>\n

Wyman, Walker D. and Kroeber, Clifton B., eds., The Frontier in Perspective.\u00a0 Madison:\u00a0 University of Wisconsin Press, 1957.<\/p>\n

Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n

The papers of Thomas Perkins Abernethy (including professional and personal material) are held in the Special Collections of the Alderman Library at the University of Virginia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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