Francis Sheldon Hackney was an American educator, historian, and chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
19 Facts About Sheldon Hackney
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Sheldon Hackney was president of Tulane University from 1975 to 1980 and president of the University of Pennsylvania from 1981 to 1993.
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Sheldon Hackney was a graduate of Ramsay High School and took courses at Birmingham Southern College.
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Sheldon Hackney previously served in the Navy for five years, beginning in 1956.
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Sheldon Hackney served on the USS James C Owens from 1956 to 1959.
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Sheldon Hackney began his career as a lecturer in history at Princeton University.
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From 1975 to 1980, Sheldon Hackney was the president of Tulane University.
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At Tulane, Sheldon Hackney was best known for approving the November 1979 decision to tear down Tulane Stadium, the on-campus home of the Green Wave football team from 1926 through 1974.
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Sheldon Hackney was president of the University of Pennsylvania from 1981 to 1993.
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Sheldon Hackney was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1988.
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Sheldon Hackney was the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 1993 to 1997, appointed by President Clinton.
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Sheldon Hackney's defining initiative in the job was his first: "A National Conversation on American Pluralism and Identity," a project that helped finance and shape about 1,400 public meetings from 1994 to 1997.
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Sheldon Hackney specialized in the history of the American South since the Civil War.
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Sheldon Hackney had in an interest in American utopias and other social movements with an emphasis on the Civil Rights Movement and the 1960s, and served on the Board of Editors of the Journal of Southern History.
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Dixie Redux: Essays in Honor of Sheldon Hackney, an edited collection of essays authored by his former students and collaborators was released in November 2013.
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Sheldon Hackney was credited at the University of Pennsylvania with raising undergraduate minority enrollment from 13 to 30 percent and with increasing the endowment from about $160 million to $1 billion.
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In particular, Sheldon Hackney's role in the incident was a subject of his 1993 Senate confirmation hearings for the NEH appointment.
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Sheldon Hackney was the son-in-law of civil rights activists Virginia and Clifford Durr.
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Sheldon Hackney died at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts in 2013, aged 79.