Charles Christopher Crittenden (December 1, 1902 – October 13, 1969) served as the executive head of the North Carolina Historical Commission and the North Carolina Department of Archives and History from 1935 to 1968.
Crittenden was born in Wake Forest, North Carolina. He studied at Wake Forest College, earning his bachelor's and master's degrees in history in 1921 and 1922. He later continued his studies at Yale University, and received his Ph.D. in 1930. He then joined the history faculty at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he taught from 1930 to 1935.
Wake Forest is a town in Franklin and Wake counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina; located almost entirely in Wake County, it lies just north of the state capital, Raleigh. The population was 30,117 at the 2010 census, up from 12,588 at the 2000 census. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates the city's population to be 34,752 as of July 1, 2013. In 2007, the town was listed by Forbes magazine as the 20th fastest growing suburb in America, with a 73.2 percent increase in population between 2000 and 2006. Wake Forest was the original home of Wake Forest University for 122 years before it moved to Winston-Salem in 1956.
Wake Forest University is a private research university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Founded in 1834, the university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina. The Reynolda Campus, the university's main campus, has been located north of downtown Winston-Salem since the university moved there in 1956. The Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center campus has two locations, the older one located near the Ardmore neighborhood in central Winston-Salem, and the newer campus at Wake Forest Innovation Quarter downtown. The university also occupies lab space at Biotech Plaza at Innovation Quarter, and at the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials. The university's Graduate School of Management maintains a presence on the main campus in Winston-Salem and in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine Colonial Colleges chartered before the American Revolution. It is a member of the Ivy League.
In 1935 Crittenden was selected to replace Albert R. Newsome as executive head of the North Carolina Historical Commission, and provided leadership to the organization until his death in 1969. [1]
Albert Ray Newsome (1894–1951) was a prominent author, editor, educator, and historian in North Carolina, and served as chairman of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Department of History. Newsome also served as the first President of the Society of American Archivists from 1936–1939.
Crittenden was also deeply involved the developing archival profession. He was the first president of the American Association for State and Local History (1940 - 1942). [2] He was also a founding member of the Society of American Archivists in 1936, and served on the organization's Council and as its president (1947 - 1949). [3]
The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) is a non-profit association for state and local history, with a primary focus on history professionals, history volunteers, museums, historical societies, and other history-related organizations and public history professionals. Since 1964, it is headquartered in Nashville, TN, and currently has about 6,000 members. The organization has ten full-time staff members. AASLH provides leadership and support for its members who preserve and interpret state and local history to make the past more meaningful.
The Society of American Archivists is the oldest and largest archivist association in North America, serving the educational and informational needs of more than 5,000 individual archivist and institutional members. Established in 1936, the organization serves upwards of 6,200 individual and member institutions.
