Alfred Nixon was a public historian in North Carolina in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He promoted both sectional reconciliation after the Civil War and the preservation of Confederate Lost Cause traditions. Nixon documented the lives of Confederate veterans and collected artifacts from them. As an ethnographer and historian, he worked to preserve local history and identity while also accepting the forces of modernization.

1. “ Lest We Forget” Alfred Nixon: Southern Progressive, Public Historian, and Preserver of Lost Cause Tradition Nixon Family Homeplace, Triangle (Lincoln County), NC

5. “ Lest We Forget” Class of 1880, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.