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Dr. Shingleton is shown with his three prize winning books. He received a Darton College Foundation Grant to commission the eight original maps for the Wood book, and its second printing (in both hardcover and paperback) was a National Historical Society Book Club edition; for the Peters book he received an Atlanta Foundation Grant; and the Maffitt book, which also had a second printing with a redesigned dust jacket, won the Clarendon Award, presented to him in Wilmington, NC.
One of Royce's middle school teachers gave him a book by Ward Griffith titled "Fifty Famous Americans" that influenced him ultimately to write his major works as biography. He graduated president of his senior class in 1954 from high school in his native town of Stantonsburg, NC.
Professor Shingleton received his B.S. from East Carolina University, his M.A. from Appalachian State University, and his Ph.D. in history from Florida State University. His dissertation is titled "Rural Life in the Old South: The British Travelers' Image, 1820-1860." Several of his early articles were taken from his dissertation, including his very first article, a brief commentary that appeared in the "Proceedings" of the American Philosophical Society--a scholarly organization of international reputation and the first learned society in the US that was founded by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia, PA.
The author's career spanned more than forty years. It began in 1958 when he was in the army's Third Armored Division because (when not in the field) he taught fellow soldiers at the base Education Center in Hanau, W. Germany. Back home, he taught high school in VA and NC; was Dean of Men at Lees-McRae College; taught mostly U.S. history at Georgia State University, Oglethorpe University, and Darton College, now a branch of Albany State University in Albany, GA.
Royce's research and writing, which was carried on simultaneously with his teaching duties, consist of his three books and some fifty articles and book reviews, and are on topics dealing with the mid-nineteenth century, especially Civil War maritime history.
For an article on Royce's writing search: "Royce Shingleton-Naval War College Review." The national security affairs specialist who wrote this commentary compares Royce to the ancient Greek historian Thucydides, "the father of scientific history." An editor of the Naval War College Digital Commons authorized the posting of the piece online "for free and open access" beyond the regular readership of the Review, the editorial offices of which are at the college in Newport, RI.
Dr. Shingleton has won many honors and awards, such as the Southeastern Writers Association Award for best non-fiction submission (from the Peters manuscript). He was active in professional activities such as making numerous public speeches (mostly based on his writings) and was Chairman of the University System of Georgia Advisory Committee on History. He is listed in several biographical reference books such as "Contemporary Authors" and "Who's Who in the South and Southwest."
The author and his wife, also a college professor at Darton College, are retired and live overlooking the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Gatlinburg, TN.
Dr. Shingleton's papers are in the Manuscript Collection, Joyner Library, East Carolina University.
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