Manning, Ambrose N.

Person

Staff Only

Dates

Existence: 1922 - 2008

Biography

Ambrose Nuel Manning was born to Howard and Minnie Manning on May 18, 1922 in Baileys Township, Nash County, North Carolina, He received the A. B. degree in 1943 from Atlantic Christian College in Wilson, North Carolina. During World War II, he served in the U. S. Army Medical Corps and was awarded the Bronze Star. In 1947 he received the M. A. degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and in 1955 he was awarded the Ed. S. degree by George Peabody College for Teachers (now a part of Vanderbilt University).

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Broadside Television (T.V.) Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: AppMs-0028

Scope and Contents The Broadside Television Collection includes both manuscripts and tapes. The manuscript documentation includes legal, financial, personnel, publicity and programming records, as well as correspondence and grant proposals. The tapes cover the myriad of topics included among Broadside's programs. Among these topics are local and regional history, environment, aging, medical care, Appalachian folklore, and country music.An addition incorporated into the existing collection includes...

Dates: 1970 - 1978

Found in: Archives of Appalachia / Broadside Television (T.V.) Collection

Thomas G. Burton-Ambrose N. Manning Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: AppMs-0025

Scope and Contents The collection resulted from Dr. Burton’s and Mr. Manning’s interests in Appalachian folklore and related teaching, research, and service activities. A central component of the collection consists of reel-to-reel audio recordings, dub sheets, transcripts, and indices created as part of the professors' efforts to gather ballads, instrumental music, stories, superstitions and beliefs, folk remedies, and accounts of everyday life from individuals in Western North Carolina and East Tennessee. ...

Dates: 1899 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1967 - 1971

Found in: Archives of Appalachia / Thomas G. Burton-Ambrose N. Manning Collection

Ambrose Manning Papers

Collection — Other Boxes 1-2

Identifier: AppMs-0131

Arrangement

The papers are divided into two series: Series 1, Appalachian Consortium Files, 1970-1979 and Series 2, General Subject Files, 1955-1979.

Dates: 1955-1979

Found in: Archives of Appalachia / Ambrose Manning Papers

Mary D. Manning Interview

Collection

Identifier: UnivRec-0500

Scope and Contents The Mary D. Manning Interview collection consists of two audiocassette tape recordings of an oral history interview with Manning conducted March 31, 1996 by Marie Graves, a former student. The interview examines Manning's life and teaching career at East Tennessee State University and helps document the history and development of the university and its Department of English during the period from the late 1940s into the 1980s.Tape 1 is recorded on both the A and B side...

Dates: 1996

Found in: Archives of Appalachia / Mary D. Manning Interview