Willie Lee Rose Papers

Location of collection:

University of Mary Washington

Special Collections and University Archives

Simpson Library

University of Mary Washington

1801 College Avenue

Fredericksburg, VA 22401-4665

Contact for questions and access:

POC: Sarah Appleby

Email: archives@umw.edu

Phone: (540) 654-2045

Fax: (540) 654-1067

Web: library.umw.edu/library/scua

Summary

Extent:

.4 Linear Feet 1 box

Language:

English .

Background

Scope and content:

This collection primarily contains manuscript material for Dr. Rose's award-winning 1964 book, Rehearsal for Reconstruction.

Biographical / historical:

Willie Lee Nichols Rose was a 1947 Mary Washington College alumna. She went on to earn her PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1964 and became an established historian, joining the faculty at University of Virginia until 1973 and then Johns Hopkins until 1992. She taught and wrote extensively on slavery and the Reconstruction Era in the United States.