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    <title>George Fort Milton papers, 1828-1953 (bulk 1915-1946)</title>
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    <namePart>Milton, George Fort</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1894-1955</namePart>
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    <extent>100</extent>
    <extent>36</extent>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, writings, research and historical source material, biographical material, scrapbooks, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Milton's career as a historian of the Civil War, newspaper editor, and advisor in the national government.  Documents his work as president and editor of the Chattanooga News and editorial writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Buffalo Evening News.  Also documents his service as member of the Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching in the 1930s; advisor at the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace, Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1936; and special assistant to U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull in 1937.  Subjects include Stephen A. Douglas, Andrew Johnson, the Tennessee Valley Authority, lynching in the South, and other national and local political issues.</abstract>
  <abstract>Correspondents include Paul M. Angle, Stringfellow Barr, Francis Biddle, William Jennings Bryan, William Edgar Borah, Henry Steele Commager, E. Merton Coulter, Josephus Daniels, Paul H. Douglas, James A. Farley, Douglas Southall Freeman, Cordell Hull, Marquis James, Estes Kefauver, David Eli Lilienthal, Thomas Powderly Martin, W.G. McAdoo, Kenneth Douglas McKellar, Samuel Davis McReynolds, Allan Nevins, George W. Norris, George Foster Peabody, Arthur Franklin Raper, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Daniel C. Roper, Francis Bowes Sayre, Sumner Welles, William Allen White, and Fort family members.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.</note>
  <note>Sound recordings transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.</note>
  <note>Editor, historian, advisor to diplomatic delegations, consultant to U.S. government agencies, and special assistant to U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note>Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.</note>
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      <namePart>Angle, Paul M. (Paul McClelland)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1900-1975</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Barr, Stringfellow</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1897-1982</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Biddle, Francis</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1886-1968</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Borah, William Edgar</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1865-1940</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bryan, William Jennings</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1860-1925</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Commager, Henry Steele</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1902-1998</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Coulter, E. Merton (Ellis Merton)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1890-</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Daniels, Josephus</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1862-1948</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Douglas, Paul H. (Paul Howard)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1892-1976</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1813-1861</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Farley, James A. (James Aloysius)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1888-1976</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Freeman, Douglas Southall</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1886-1953</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hull, Cordell</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1871-1955</namePart>
    </name>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hull, Cordell</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1871-1955</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>James, Marquis</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1891-1955</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Johnson, Andrew</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1808-1875</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Kefauver, Estes</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1903-1963</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lilienthal, David Eli</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1899-1981</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Martin, Thomas Powderly</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1887-1963</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McAdoo, W. G. (William Gibbs)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1863-1941</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McKellar, Kenneth Douglas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1869-1957</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McReynolds, Samuel Davis</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1872-1939</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Nevins, Allan</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1890-1971</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Norris, George W. (George William)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1861-1944</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Peabody, George Foster</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1852-1938</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Raper, Arthur Franklin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1899-1979</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1882-1945</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Roper, Daniel C. (Daniel Calhoun)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1867-1943</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sayre, Francis Bowes</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1885-1972</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Welles, Sumner</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1892-1961</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>White, William Allen</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1868-1944</namePart>
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      <namePart>Fort family</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Department of State.</namePart>
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      <title>Buffalo evening news</title>
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      <title>Chattanooga news</title>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
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      <title>St. Louis post-dispatch</title>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>African Americans</topic>
    <geographic>Southern States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>American newspapers</topic>
    <geographic>Missouri</geographic>
    <geographic>Saint Louis</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>American newspapers</topic>
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
    <geographic>Buffalo</geographic>
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    <topic>American newspapers</topic>
    <geographic>Tennessee</geographic>
    <geographic>Chattanooga</geographic>
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    <topic>Lynching</topic>
    <geographic>Southern States</geographic>
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    <topic>Pan-Americanism</topic>
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    <topic>Peace</topic>
    <topic>Congresses</topic>
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    <topic>Racism</topic>
    <geographic>Southern States</geographic>
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    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
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    <topic>Race relations</topic>
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    <geographic>Tennessee</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1865-1950</temporal>
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    <geographic>Tennessee River Valley</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <temporal>20th century</temporal>
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    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
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    <topic>History</topic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1901-1953</temporal>
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    <occupation>Editors</occupation>
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    <occupation>Historians</occupation>
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