Earlie Endris Thorpe (November 9, 1924 - January 30, 1989) was a professor of history, an author, and clergyman in the United States. He lived in Durham, North Carolina^[1] and was a professor at North Carolina Central University for 27 years. Duke University has a collection of his papers and correspondence.^[2]

He and his wife, Martha Vivian Branch, had two daughters: Rita Harrington and Gloria Earl.^[1]

Marcus P. Nevius delivered the 30th Annual Earl E. Thorpe Memorial Lecture at North Carolina Central University in 2020.^{[citation needed]}

• "Negro Historiography in the United States", dissertation
• Negro Historians in the United States (1958)^[3]
• The Desertion of Man: A Critique of Philosophy of History (1958)
• The Mind of the Negro: An Intellectual History of Afro-Americans (1961)
• Eros and Freedom in Southern Life and Thought (1967)
• The Central Theme of Black History (1969)
• "The Black Experience in America" editor, ten-booklet series
• Struggle for a nation's conscience : the civil rights movement^[4]
• Pioneers and Planters; Black Beginnings in America with Joseph Penn, American Education Publications (1971)
• The Old South: A Psychohistory (1972)^[5][6]
• "Black history and the organic perspective : an essay to introduce the directory and bibliography no. 870-872" (1975)^[7]
• "The uses of Black history : a speech delivered during the observance of Black History Week", February 11, 1980
• African Americans and the Sacred: Spirituals, Slave Religion, and Symbolism (1982)
• Slave Religion, Spirituals, and C. J. Jung (1983)
• A Concise History of North Carolina Central University (1984)

8. Gershenhorn, Jerry. "Earlie Thorpe and the Struggle for Black History, 1949-1989." Souls 12 (2010): 376-397.

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