Harry L. Watson

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Harry L. Watson is an American historian of the antebellum American South, Jacksonian America, and the history of North Carolina. He is formerly the Director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina. He also holds the title of the Atlanta Distinguished Professor in Southern Culture in the Department of History at UNC-Chapel Hill. [1]

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Watson is an alumnus of Brown University and received a Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1976.

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  1. "Harry L. Watson". The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 29 May 2019.