Hardacre, Paul H.
Person
Biographical Statement
Paul Hoswell Hardacre was a long-time professor of history at Vanderbilt University. He met his wife, Gracia, while conducting doctoral research at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. Author of The Royalists during the Puritan Revolution as well as numerous book chapters and articles, Hardacre was the recipient of multiple awards, including a Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships. He died in 2010.
Gracia Hardacre was a manuscripts librarian at the Huntington Library in California, the Tennessee State Library and Archives, and at Fisk University.
Citation:
Obituary on Hardacre published in Perspectives on History, January 2011Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Paul and Gracia Hardacre collection
Collection
Identifier: 2074
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of materials collected by Paul and Gracia Hardacre. The collection includes correspondence, ephemera, and a photograph. Correspondence includes one letter each from Booker T. Washington and Rosetta Douglass Sprague. Materials also include a photograph of Frederick Douglass and an autograph with quotation from Douglass. In the Booker T. Washington letter, from 1901, Washington thanks William B. Hoswell of Chicago for his donation of the dressing gown and...
Dates:
Created: 1894-1902; Other: Date acquired: 07/05/1973