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Charles Sackett Sydnor (July 21, 1898 – March 2, 1954) was an American history professor and author in the United States. He was born in Augusta, Georgia.

He wrote 23 biographical sketches for the Dictionary of American Biography.

The Southern Historical Association gives out an award named for him. Duke University has a collection of his papers.

Writings

• Slavery in Mississippi (1933)
• A Gentleman of the Old Natchez Region: Benjamin L. C. Wailes (1938)
• The Development of Southern Sectionalism, 1818–1848 (1948)
• Gentlemen Freeholders: Political Practices in Washington's Virginia (1952)
• American Revolutionaries in the Making (1965)

References

1. "Sydnor, Charles Sackett | NCpedia". www.ncpedia.org.
2. "Charles S. Sydnor". Louisiana State University Press. Retrieved January 21, 2022.
3. "Charles S. Sydnor Award". www.thesha.org.
4. "Charles S. Sydnor papers, 1729-1978 and undated - Archives & Manuscripts at Duke University Libraries". David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
5. "Charles S. Sydnor, Slavery in Mississippi". The Journal of Negro History. 19 (3): 332–334. July 1, 1934. doi:10.2307/2714219. JSTOR 2714219 – via journals.uchicago.edu (Atypon).
6. Baldwin, Leland D. (June 30, 1938). "Book Review: A Gentleman of the Old Natchez Region: Benjamin L. C. W axles, by Charles S. Sydnor". Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography: 420 – via journals.psu.edu.
7. "Gentlemen Freeholders | Charles S. Sydnor". University of North Carolina Press.
8. Dodson, Leonidas (July 22, 1953). "Book Review: Gentlemen Freeholders: Political Practices in Washington's Virginia, by Charles S. Sydnor". Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography: 362–363 – via journals.psu.edu.
9. Weeks, O. Douglas (June 22, 1953). "Gentlemen Freeholders: Political Practices in Washington's Virginia. By Charles S. Sydnor. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 1952. Pp. ix, 180. $3.50.)". American Political Science Review. 47 (2): 567. doi:10.1017/S0003055400294756. S2CID 146677440 – via Cambridge University Press.
10. "American Revolutionaries in the". personal.tcu.edu.

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