Restrictions to Access

CLOSED until 2030: C-5355/1: Conversation with James B. Meriwether; C-5355/3: West Point office group conversation.

This collection contains additional materials that are not processed and are currently not available to researchers. For information about access to these materials, contact Research and Instructional Services staff. Please be advised that preparing unprocessed materials for access can be a lengthy process.

Restrictions to Use

No usage restrictions.

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 Robert H. Moore Audiocassettes #5355-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Robert H. Moore of Vienna, Va., in September 2007 (Acc. 100765).

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.

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.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Ellison, Ralph.
• Faulkner, William, 1897-1962--Study and teaching.
• Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.
• Meriwether, James B.
• Moore, Robert H. (Robert Henry), 1940-
• United States Military Academy--Faculty--History--20th century.
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Veterans.
• Westmoreland, William C. (William Childs), 1914-2005.

Robert Henry Moore was born in Madisonville, Ky., in 1940. He attended Davidson College, 1958-1962; the University on North Carolina at Chapel Hill,1962-1964; and the University of Wisconsin at Madison,1964-1968. He was an English Department instructor at the United States Military Academy at West Point where he served as a United States Army Captain, 1968-1970. He taught courses on American and southern literature and history at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he became a tenured associate professor, 1970-1977.

The collection of history and literature professor Robert H. Moore includes audio recordings of William Faulkner's April 1962 remarks at the United States Military Academy (with an introduction by William C. Westmoreland), conversations between Moore and Faulkner scholar James B. Meriwether, Ralph Ellison's 1969 remarks at the United States Military Academy, Moore's reading of several Kurt Vonnegut articles that appeared in the New York Times, and conversations among United States Military Academy professors and others who were also Vietnam War veterans regarding their perspectives on the war. A more detailed description of the content and context of each tape has been provided by the donor. Note that original cassette titles have, for the most part, been retained.

• Audiocassettes (C-5355/1-5)