Inventory of the Robert E. Gallman Papers, 1960-1998

Collection Number 5000

Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Contact Information:

Manuscripts Department

CB#3926, Wilson Library

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890

Phone: 919/962-1345

Fax: 919/962-3594

Email: mss@email.unc.edu

URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/

Descriptive Summary

Repository

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.

Creator

Gallman, Robert E.

Title

Robert E. Gallman Papers, 1960-1998

Call Number

5000

Language of Materials

Materials in English

Extent

Items: About 70,000

Linear Feet: 111.0

Administrative Information

Restrictions to Access

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Usage Restrictions

This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. 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.

Student materials in box 73 are CLOSED to researchers until 2068.

Acquisitions Information

Received from J. Matthew Gallman of Gettysburg, Pa., in October 1999 (Acc. 98488).

Processing Information

Processed by: Linda Sellars, February 2000

Encoded by: Linda Sellars, February 2000

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Robert E. Gallman Papers #5000, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Copyright Notice

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

Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Gallman, Robert E.

College teachers--North Carolina--History--20th century.

Economic history--Study and teaching.

Economists--North Carolina--History--20th century.

Historians--North Carolina--History--20th century.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty--History--20th century.

Biographical/Historical Note

Economic historian Robert E. Gallman joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1962. He was named a Kenan Professor in 1980 and served as chair of the Economics Department, 1990-1995. He specialized in 19th-century economic growth and antebellum Southern economic history.

Gallman co-authored with Lance E. Davis and Karin Gleiter In Pursuit of Leviathan: Technology, Institutions, Productivity, and Profits in American Whaling, 1816-1906 (1997), which won the Economic History Association's Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Prize for the outstanding book on North American economic history. Gallman co-edited the Cambridge Economic History of the United States (1996- ) and the Cambridge University Press series, Studies in Economic History and Policy: the United States in the 20th century.

Gallman was a past president of the Economic History Association and the Southern Economics Association. He was also a member of the American Economics Association, the Agricultural History Society, and the Social Sciences History Association. Gallman was managing editor of the Southern Economics Journal, 1965-1969, and editor of the Journal of Economic History, 1969-1972.

Gallman's research won him fellowships from the Ford and Guggenheim foundations and grants from the National Science Foundation. The Economic History Association honored Gallman with its Jonathan Hughes Award for Excellence in Teaching Economic History. His university service included stints on the Faculty Council and the Administrative Board of the Library, and as acting chairman of the Curriculum on African and Afro-American Studies.

Gallman was born in 1926 in Bloomfield, N.J. He received an A.B. degree from Cornell University in 1948, an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1949, and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1956. He taught at the Ohio State University, 1954-1962. He died on 10 November 1998. He was survived by his wife, Jane N. Gallman, two daughters, and a son.

Collection Overview

Papers documenting the career of economic historian Robert E. Gallman, including correspondence, research materials, notes, manuscripts, teaching materials, and other items.

Items Separated

Photograph (P-5000/1)

Detailed Description of the Collection