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Henry Steele Commager Papers, 1920-1998, (bulk 1945-1985)

Title: Henry Steele Commager Papers 1920-1998 (bulk 1945-1985)

Papers documenting the professional life and career of Henry Steele Commager, 20th century historian, public intellectual, and engaged citizen. They include the extensive letters received from historians, congressmen, educators, journalists, jurists, publishers, as well as former students, and the general public. Commager's writings and public appearances reflect his active professional life as well as his influence within the profession. The papers document a wide variety of issues of 20th century American society, including the interventionist role in Europe; civil liberties; academic freedom; the loyalty oath; nationalism; the American military in Vietnam; the expansion of executive power; changing views of foreign policy; and the purpose and role of education in society.

ArchivalResource: 16 records storage boxes, 120 archives boxes, 4 half archives boxes, 6 oversize flat boxes, 2 object boxes; (84 linear ft.)

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/amherst/ma173.html View

Hopwood Awards Collection, 1930-

Title: Hopwood Awards Collection, 1930-

Consists of correspondence relating to the annual University of Michigan student contests in creative literature for the Avery Hopwood and Jule Hopwood Prizes funded by income from the Avery Hopwood bequest.

ArchivalResource: 8, 111 items.

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/990039225410106381 View

Johnson family. Johnson family : papers, 1859-1971.

Title: Johnson family : papers, 1859-1971.

Consists of correspondence, including copies of the Civil War letters of George W. Johnson, provisional governor of Ky. for the Confederacy. The correspondence consists of letters received by Mrs. William H. Coffman (Anne Payne), a granddaughter of George W. Johnson. The correspondence deals with family news, genealogical data, and politics. The papers also include information on related families, genealogical scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings. Prominent correspondents include Lyman Abbott, Dean Acheson, Herbert Agar, Martin Agronsky, Joseph Alsop, Alben Barkley, Chester Bowles, Mary Breckinridge, Virgil Chapman, Bert Combs, John Sherman Cooper, Basil W. Duke, Elbert Hubbard, Cordell Hull, Henry Jackson, Keen Johnson, George W. Johnson, Robert S. Kerr, William Lindsay, John B. McMaster, Mike Mansfield, Henry Morgenthau, Emmet O'Neal, Ambrose H. Sevier, John Sparkman, Adlai E. Stevenson, Thomas Underwood, and Lawrence Wetherby.

ArchivalResource: 4 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49243810 View

Owsley, Frank Lawrence, 1890-1956. Frank Lawrence Owsley Correspondence, 1913-1959.

Title: Frank Lawrence Owsley Correspondence, 1913-1959.

Prominent correspondents include Herbert Agar, William C. Binkley, Cleanth Brooks, Seward Collins, Donald Davidson, William E. Dodd, John Gould Fletcher, Andrew Lytle, H.C. Nixon, Allen Tate, John Donald Wade, Robert Penn Warren, and Stark Young.

ArchivalResource: 2.52 linear ft. (6 Hollinger boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19906121 View

Seward Collins papers, 1918-1952 (inclusive), 1927-1937

Title: Seward Collins papers 1918-1952 (inclusive) 1927-1937

The Seward Collins Papers contain correspondence, subject files, business papers, and other papers documenting Collins's editorship of The Bookman and The American Review.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 21; Other Storage Formats: oversize; Linear Feet: 9.5

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.collins View

Agar, Herbert, 1897-1980. Letters, 1940, to Lewis Mumford.

Title: Letters, 1940, to Lewis Mumford.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 l.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155876297 View

Atlantic Union Committee Records, 1940-1968, (bulk 1949-1952)

Title: Atlantic Union Committee Records 1940-1968 (bulk 1949-1952)

Organization to foster a union of Atlantic democracies. Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, financial records, office administrative files, chapter files, printed materials, and other records relating to the organization and its activities.

ArchivalResource: 39,500 items; 136 containers; 54 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009031 View

Freedom House (U.S.). Letters, 1942-1947, to Lewis Mumford.

Title: Letters, 1942-1947, to Lewis Mumford.

Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Herbert Agar, President, William Agar, Educational Director, and George Field, Executive Secretary, Freedom House (U.S.).

ArchivalResource: 4 items (5 l.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155868470 View

Atlantic Union Committee. Records, 1940-1968.

Title: Records, 1940-1968.

Correspondence, minutes, memoranda, reports, financial records, office administrative files, chapter files, clippings, printed materials, and other records, relating chiefly to the organization and activities of the committee, chapter activities, and Atlantic Union resolutions submitted to the U.S. Congress. Includes the papers of Henry William Nugent Head relating to his role in the committee's efforts to establish an overseas base. Correspondents include Herbert Agar, Robert J. Bishop, Justin Blackwelder, Will Clayton, Donald P. Dennis, C.A. Edson, Henry C. Flower, Ellen Garwood, Guy M. Gillette, Livingston Hartley, Gerald B. Henry, Hubert Humphrey, Irving McNeil Ives, Lyndon B. Johnson, Estes Kefauver, Edward John Meeman, Hugh Moore, Walden Moore, Edmund Orgill, Stellanova Osborn, Lithgow Osborne, Robert Porter Patterson, Owen Josephus Roberts, Elmo Roper, and Clarence K. Streit.

ArchivalResource: 54 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28415881 View

Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998. Commager Papers, 1920-1998 (bulk 1945-1985).

Title: Commager Papers, 1920-1998 (bulk 1945-1985).

The Papers document the rich professional life and career of Henry Steele Commager. They include the extensive letters received from historians, congressmen, educators, journalists, jurists, publishers, as well as former students, and the general public. Commager's writings and public appearances reflect his productive, active professional life as well as his influence within the profession. The papers are a rich resource for exploring pivotal issues of 20th century American society, including the interventionist role in Europe; civil liberties; academic freedom; the loyalty oath; nationalism; the American military in Vietnam; the expansion of executive power; changing views of foreign policy; and the purpose and role of education in society. Significant correspondents include: Herbert Agar, Charles R. Anderson, Eugene C. Barker, Jacques Barzun, Milton Cantor, Frank Church, G. Kitson Clark, Charles W. Cole, Clement Eaton, Sam Ervin, J. William Fulbright, Harold Hyman, Jacob Javits, Bill Leuchtenburg, Arthur Link, Leonard Levy, Archibald MacLeish, Herbert Mitgang, Samuel Eliot Morison, Richard Morris, Allan Nevins, A.L.P. Norrington, Calvin H. Plimpton, Maurice Rosenblatt, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

ArchivalResource: 148 boxes (12.5 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/176879324 View

Arthur Family Papers, 1817-1972, (bulk 1874-1972)

Title: Arthur Family Papers 1817-1972 (bulk 1874-1972)

Correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, writings, printed matter, clippings, and miscellaneous material chiefly of Chester Alan Arthur II (1864-1937), sportsman and rancher, and Chester Alan ("Gavin") Arthur III (1901-1972), author and bohemian, son and grandson respectively of President Chester Alan Arthur (1829-1886).

ArchivalResource: 20,000 items; 75 containers plus 2 oversize; 31 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011190 View

Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence, 1881-1981 (inclusive), 1940-1979 (bulk).

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence, 1881-1981(inclusive), 1940-1979 (bulk).

Editorial correspondence of Houghton Mifflin Company, publishing house ofBoston, Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 174 boxes (44 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00119/catalog View

Agar, Herbert, 1897-1980. The saving remnant : manuscript. 1960.

Title: The saving remnant : manuscript. 1960.

Concerns a TMs for a book, with holograph corrections, regarding the persecution of Jews in Europe and around the world, Jewish survival, and the efforts of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee to save them.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (363 leaves) ; 25.5 x 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61275224 View

Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967. Letters of tribute to Carl Sandburg [manuscript], 1951-1952.

Title: Letters of tribute to Carl Sandburg [manuscript], 1951-1952.

Collection consists chiefly of letters from eminent Americans in response to Margaret Ligon's request for tributes to Carl Sandburg on his seventy-fifth birthday.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647807768 View

Robert G. Spivack Papers, 1931-1970, (bulk 1936-1970)

Title: Robert G. Spivack Papers 1931-1970 (bulk 1936-1970)

Journalist. Correspondence, articles, book projects, columns, newsletters, newspapers, material relating to speaking engagements, topical files, records of organizations, scrapbooks, printed matter, and miscellaneous material relating to Spivack's career as a newspaper reporter, syndicated columnist, and newsletter publisher and to his participation in student groups and other organizations seeking the intervention of the United States in World War II prior to the Pearl Harbor attack.

ArchivalResource: 16,800 items; 48 containers plus 2 oversize; 19.2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012153 View

Freedom House (U.S.). Freedom House archives, 1936-1997.

Title: Freedom House archives, 1936-1997.

Consists of records of Freedom House--correspondence, minutes, reports, financial documents, policy statements, radio and television scripts, clippings, writings, memoranda, transcripts, publications, reports, photographs and press releases--which document the organization's activities in advocating freedom, liberty, and democracy throughout the world and its merger in 1997 with the National Forum Foundation.

ArchivalResource: 65.65 linear ft. (131 archival boxes, 1 half-size archival box, 4 8x10 photograph boxes, 1 3.75x5 box, 2 5x7 boxes, 1 11x11 box, 2 11.75x15 boxes, 2 14x18 oversize boxes, 2 custom-made boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/175712389 View

Collins, Seward, 1899-1952. Seward Collins papers, 1918-1952 (inclusive) 1927-1937 (bulk).

Title: Seward Collins papers, 1918-1952 (inclusive) 1927-1937 (bulk).

The Seward Collins Papers contain correspondence, subject files, business papers, and other papers documenting Collins's editorship of The Bookman and The American Review.

ArchivalResource: 9.5 linear feet (21 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702131698 View