Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton (1878–1961) was an American historian of the South, author, and the founder of the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he spent most of his academic career.
After a few years teaching school, Hamilton went to Columbia University where he studied with William Archibald Dunning, the leading historian of Reconstruction.
He collected and published letters by important historical figures from North Carolina such as William Richardson Davie,[2] Jonathan Worth,[3] and John Rust Eaton.
[6] In 2020, UNC began the process of removing his name from Hamilton Hall in favor of Pauli Murray.
The academic departments involved cited "the history of our University and Professor Hamilton’s role in shaping it for the benefit of white supremacy".