Michael McVaugh papers, 1971-1988 and undated

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Collection is open for research. A Nitrate Negative is stored in box one and may not be used in the reading room. A use copy of the negative is available in the ESP Photos folder.
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Summary

Creator:
McVaugh, M.R. (Michael Rogers), 1938-
Abstract:
Michael McVaugh is professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Collection comprises his research, interviews, and preparation for the book, The Elusive Science, coauthored with Seymour Mauskopf, regarding the research of J. B. Rhine and the Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke University. Interview and research subjects include Hans Bender, Knight Dunlap, Hudson Hoagland, John L. Kennedy, Brian Mackenzie, Gardner Murphy, Harry Price, Gertrude Schmeidler, Ernest Taves, Raymond Willoughby, Dael Wolfle, and George Zirkle.
Extent:
1.0 Linear Foot
Language:
Materials in English
Collection ID:
RL.11609

Background

Scope and content:

Collection comprises his research, interviews, and preparation for the book, The Elusive Science, coauthored with Seymour Mauskopf, regarding the research of J. B. Rhine and the Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke University. Interview and research subjects include Hans Bender, Knight Dunlap, Hudson Hoagland, John L. Kennedy, Brian Mackenzie, Gardner Murphy, Harry Price, Gertrude Schmeidler, Ernest Taves, Raymond Willoughby, Dael Wolfle, and George Zirkle.

Biographical / historical:

Michael McVaugh is professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his bachelor's degree from Harvard and his Ph.D. from Princeton, and came to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 1964 to teach the history of science in the history department of the University of North Carolina. During the late 1960s he began a close collaborative relationship with Seymour Mauskopf at Duke University, fusing the two programs in the history of science. The two collaborated in a study of the history of parapsychology under J. B. Rhine at Duke, The Elusive Science: Origins of Experimental Psychical Research (Johns Hopkins, 1980), which was one of the early monographs to recognize the importance of treating the history of science as more than simply a record of transcendent intellectual accomplishments. But the bulk of Professor McVaugh's research has centered on medicine in the medieval and early modern periods. In 1996 Professor McVaugh was named William Smith Wells Professor of History at the University of North Carolina; he retired from formal teaching in 2007. He was made a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 2005 and received the Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society in 2010.

Acquisition information:
The Michael McVaugh Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift in 2018.
Processing information:

Processed by Alice Poffinberger, April, 2018

Accessions described in this collection guide: 2018-0016

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

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Collection is open for research.

A Nitrate Negative is stored in box one and may not be used in the reading room. A use copy of the negative is available in the ESP Photos folder.

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