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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 Erik Donald France Travel Diary #5504-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Erik Donald France in September 2011 (Acc. 101486).

Sensitive Materials Statement

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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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• Diaries (Blank-books)
• England--Description and travel.
• France, Erik Donald, 1961-
• France--Description and travel.
• Germany (East)--Description and travel.
• Germany (West)--Description and travel.
• Leutze, James R., 1935-
• Netherlands--Description and travel.
• Travelers--Diaries--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Students--History--20th century.
• World War, 1939-1945--England.
• World War, 1939-1945--France.
• World War, 1939-1945--Germany.
• World War, 1939-1945--Monuments--Europe.
• World War, 1939-1945--Netherlands.

Erik Donald France (1961- ) has a B.A. and M.S.L.S. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Ph.D in History from Temple University. He traveled to England, France, East Germany, West Germany, and the Netherlands in 1981 with Professor James R. Leutze's undergraduate European history class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The collection is a typescript (2005) of Erik Donald France's 1981 journal kept during his trip to England, France, East Germany, West Germany, and the Netherlands as an undergraduate student in Professor James R. Leutze's University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill European history class. Entries describe Leutze's lectures, visiting World War II sites, and other activities during the month-long trip.