{"id":889,"date":"2012-11-06T12:26:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T19:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=889"},"modified":"2016-03-02T12:35:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T19:35:26","slug":"burnette-ollen-lawrence-jr-1927","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=889","title":{"rendered":"BURNETTE, OLLEN LAWRENCE, JR., 1927-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historian, educator, editor. Born&#8211; September 30, 1927, Bethel, N.C. Parents&#8211; Ollen and Eva E. (Highsmith) Burnette. Married&#8211; Elizabeth Tull, August 15, 1951. Children&#8211; Five. Married Jeanne A. MacRitchie, June 10, 2000. \u00a0Education&#8211; University of Richmond, B.A.; University of Virginia, M.A., 1948, Ph.D., 1952. U. S. Navy, 1945-47. Taught at Petersburg, Virginia, High School, 1948-1949, and Virginia Military Institute, 1951-1953; field editor for Charles Scribner&#8217;s Sons, 1953-1957; book editor for the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1957-1963; research professor of history, Birmingham-Southern College, 1963-1972; dean of faculty and research professor of history, Stratford College, 1972-1974; executive director of the West Piedmont Planning District Commission, 1975-80; Assistant to the Superintendent, Virginia Military Academy, 1981-86. Member Organization of American Historians; AAUP; Southern Historical Association; Alabama Coalition for Better Education. LLD, Southern Adventist College.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online; Marquis Who&#8217;s Who online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Beneath the Footnote. Madison, Wisc.; State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1970.<\/p>\n<p>Coastal Kingdom: A History of Baldwin County, Alabama.\u00a0 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Life in America. New York; Harper, 1964.<\/p>\n<p>A Syllabus of American History. Madison, Wisc.; University of Wisconsin, 1960.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Readings on the Development of the American Constitution.\u00a0 2005.<\/p>\n<p>A Soviet View of the American Past.\u00a0 Peter Smith, 1960.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin Witness to Frederick Jackson Turner. Madison, Wisc.; State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1961.<\/p>\n<p><em>Updated 2012-11-06.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Historian, educator, editor. Born&#8211; September 30, 1927, Bethel, N.C. Parents&#8211; Ollen and Eva E. (Highsmith) Burnette. Married&#8211; Elizabeth Tull, August 15, 1951. Children&#8211; Five. Married Jeanne A. MacRitchie, June 10, 2000. \u00a0Education&#8211; University of Richmond, B.A.; University of Virginia, M.A., 1948, Ph.D., 1952. U. S. Navy, 1945-47. Taught at Petersburg, Virginia, High School, 1948-1949, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5181,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/5181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}