Biography:

Writer, university professor, administrator. Born– November 30, 1890, Brundidge. Parents– William Whatley and Minto (Anglin) Pierson. Married– Henrietta Elizabeth Brase, 1916. Married– Mary Bynum Holmes. Education– Troy State Normal School, Ph.B., 1908; University of Alabama, A.B., 1910; A.M., 1911; Columbia University, Ph.D., 1916; Boston University, honorary Litt.D., 1948; Washington and Lee University and Women’s College of the University of North Carolina, honorary LL.D.’s, 1949 and 1963. Traveled and studied in Spain, Portugal, and thirteen Latin American countries. Taught at the University of North Carolina, serving as head of the Department of Political Science, 1935-1942, dean of the Graduate School 1930-1956, and Chancellor of Women’s College of U.N.C., 1956-1957 and 1960-1961. Member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Source:

Who Was Whom Among North American Authors and National Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1951.

Publication(s):

Hispanic American History, 1826-1920. New York; The Institute of International Studies, 1921.

Studies in Hispanic American History. Chapel Hill, N.C.; University of North Carolina Press, 1927.

A Study of South America. Chapel Hill, N.C.; University of North Carolina Press, 1929.

A Syllabus of Latin American History. Chapel Hill, N.C.; University of North Carolina, 1916.

Texas Versus White; a Study in Legal History. Durham, N.C.; Seeman Press, 1916.

Joint_Publication(s):

American Ideals. Boston; Houghton, 1917.

Governments of Latin America. New York; McGraw Hill, 1957.

Editor:

Hispanic American History; a Syllabus. Chapel Hill, N.C.; University of North Carolina, 1926.

Whipt’em Everytime; the Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone. Jackson, Tenn.; McCowat-Mercer Press, 1960.