J. G. Randall and Ruth Painter Randall Papers 1779-1970 (bulk 1916-1970)

Potter, David Morris

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Historian; interviewee b.1910, d.1971. From the description of Reminiscences of David Morris Potter : oral history, 1968. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122574030 Coe professor of history at Stanford (1961-1971); president of American Historical Association. Potter was born in 1910 and died in 1971. From the description of David Morris Potter papers, 1942-1971. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 703381535 ...

Randall, Ruth Painter

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Author Born in 1891 in Salem, Virginia, Ruth Painter graduated from Roanoke College (Va.) in 1913 and received her M.A. in English from Indiana University in 1914. In 1917 Randall married J. G. Randall, well known historian, became deeply interested in her husband's Lincoln studies and worked closely with him researching Lincoln's life and times. So interested was she in the Lincoln history and memorabilia that she too became a Lincoln scholar and biographer. ...

Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882

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Mary Ann Todd Lincoln was the wife of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. She served as First Lady from 1861 until his assassination in 1865 at Ford’s Theatre. Daughter of Eliza Parker and Robert Smith Todd, pioneer settlers of Kentucky, Mary lost her mother before the age of seven. Her father remarried; and Mary remembered her childhood as “desolate” although she belonged to the aristocracy of Lexington, with high-spirited social life and a sound private education. Just...

Pease, Theodore Calvin, 1887-1948

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Professor of history, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). From the description of Papers, 1915-1944. (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign). WorldCat record id: 28412520 ...

Stephenson, Wendell Holmes, 1899-1970

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Wendell Holmes Stephenson was a professor of history at Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in Baton Rouge, La. From the description of Wendell Holmes Stephenson papers, 1862-1947 (bulk 1917-1947) (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 236485544 Historian, university professor, and editor at University of Kentucky, Louisiana State University, Tulane University, and University of Oregon. From the description of Papers, 182...

Randall, Ruth Painter. J. G. Randall and Ruth Painter Randall papers. 1779-1970

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Biographical Note J. G. Randall 1881, June 24 Born, Indianapolis, Ind. 1903 B.A., Butler University, Indianapolis, Ind. 1904 M.A., University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. ...

Luthin, Reinhard H. (Reinhard Henry), 1905-1962

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Freidel, Frank, 1916-1993

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Historian. From the description of Reminiscences of Frank Freidel :koral history, 1972. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122620236 Professor of history, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus); b. 1916. From the description of Papers, 1939-1950. (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign). WorldCat record id: 28416891 Freidel taught history at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Frank Freidel...

Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998

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Historian. From the description of Reminiscences of Henry Steele Commager : oral history, [196-?]. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122619921 From the description of Reminiscences of Henry Steele Commager : oral history, 1979. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309728956 American historian. From the description of The price of Eire's neutrality : printed, 1943. (Unknown). WorldCat record i...

Milton, George Fort, 1894-1955

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Editor, historian, advisor to diplomatic delegations, consultant to U.S. government agencies, and special assistant to U.S. secretary of state Cordell Hull. From the description of Papers of George Fort Milton, 1828-1946 (bulk 1915-1946). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71063544 Newspaper publisher, civic leader, and historian of the Civil War, of Chattanooga, Tenn. From the description of George Fort Milton, Jr., papers, 1924-1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: ...

Williams, T. Harry (Thomas Harry), 1909-1979

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Historian. From the description of Reminiscences of T. Harry Williams : oral history, 1969. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122440853 From the description of Reminiscences of T. Harry Williams : oral history, 1965. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122574197 A native of Wisconsin, T. Harry Williams began his teaching career at the University of Wisconsin in 1936, and continued at the Un...

Randall, J.G. (James Garfield), 1881-1953

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American historian who taught history and political science at various colleges before joining the faculty of the Univ. of Illinois in 1920. A leading authority on Lincoln. From the description of Has the Lincoln theme been exhausted, 1936. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 53969462 J.G. Randall: author, historian, and educator. Ruth Painter Randall: biographer; born, 1892; died, 1971. From the description of J.G. Randall and Ruth Painte...

Craven, Avery, 1886-1980

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Mearns, David C. David Chambers 1899-1981

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Librarian and historian. From the description of Papers of David C. Mearns, 1918-1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71132260 Biographical Note 1899, Dec. 31 Born, Washington, D.C. 1914 1916 Student, St. Albans School, Washington, D.C. ...

Hesseltine, William Best, 1902-1963

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Monaghan, Jay, 1891-1980

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Author, historian, teacher. Writing from Santa Barbara, Calif. where he was consultant to the Wyles Collection, UCSB Library. From the description of Letters to Caroline Bancroft, 1966 June 21 & Oct. 24. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 19018455 The following biographical sketch was derived from: Donald C. Davidson, "James Jay Monaghan IV, 1891-1980; Mildred Eversole Monaghan, 1902-1980" in Soundings: Collections of the University Library (UCSB),...

Wiley, Bell Irvin, 1906-1980

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Born in 1906 in Halls, Tennessee; educated at Asbury College (Kentucky), the University of Kentucky, and Yale University (Ph.D.); professor of history at Asbury College, the University of Southern Mississippi, the University of Mississippi, Louisiana State University, and Emory University; author of significant historical works primarily on the South and the Confederacy; died in 1980. From the description of Typescript of Southern Negroes, 1861-1865, 1933. (University of Southern Mis...

Nichols, Roy F. (Roy Franklin), 1896-1973

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Historian. From the description of Reminiscences of Roy F. Nichols : oral history, 1968-69. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 626908632 Historian Edward Potts Cheyney taught at the University of Pennsylvania. From the guide to the Drafts of chapters for "Freedom of inquiry and expression, " 1936-1938, 1936-1938, (American Philosophical Society) ...

Nichols, Jeannette Paddock, 1890-

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Chartered as Illinois Industrial University 1867; adopted name University of Illinois in 1885 and know as the Urbana-Champaign campus; became University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1966). From the description of Afro-American Studies and Research Program records, 1980-1984. (Fisk University). WorldCat record id: 70970126 ...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

De Voto, Bernard Augustine, 1897-1955

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American educator, novelist, and Literary Editor of the Mark Twain Estate. From the description of Autograph and typed letters signed (11) : Lincoln and Cambridge, Mass. ; White Plains, New York, to Edward Wagenknecht, [n.d.] and 1935-1947. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270863883 Betty White was one of De Voto's students at Northwestern in the 1920's. She was literary, and the best friend of Avis MacVicar, whom De Voto shortly married. As a senior at Northwestern, Betty Whi...

Pratt, Harry E. (Harry Edward), 1901-1956

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Illinois State Historian, Lincoln scholar and author, this scrapbook reflects Pratt's interest in Illinois past. From the description of Scrapbook, 1882-1946. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 49700227 Cambridge, Illinois author, Lincoln scholar, history professor and director of the Illinois State Historical Library. Pratt graduated from the University of Illinois in 1923 and after teaching for awhile, returned to complete his doctorate in history ...

Baringer, William E. (William Eldon), 1909-2000

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Historian, college professor, and author of various works on Abraham Lincoln; executive secretary of the Abraham Lincoln Association (1943-1947) and executive director of the Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission (1958-1960). From the description of Papers, 1932-1994. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 67617750 ...

Beale, Howard K. (Howard Kennedy), 1899-1959

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Donald, David Herbert, 1920-2009

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Historian. From the description of Reminiscences of David Herbert Donald : oral history, [197-?]. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122681083 ...

Potter, David Morris

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Quaife, Milo Milton, 1880-1959

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Milo M. Quaife was born in Nashua, Iowa on October 6, 1880, the son of Albert E. and Barbara S. (Hine) Quaife. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1908. Dr. Quaife taught at Lewis Institute in Chicago, Wayne University and the University of Detroit. He served as superintendent of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin from 1914 until 1920. He was editor and founder of Wisconsin Magazine of History to 1.922 and managing editor of Mississippi Valle, Historical Review, 1924-1...

Basler, Roy P. (Roy Prentice), 1906-1989

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Author, educator, and librarian. From the description of Papers of Roy Prentice Basler. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71132264 ...

Angle, Paul M. (Paul McClelland), 1900-1975

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Author and historian. From the description of Paul M. Angle papers, 1947-1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123391606 Paul M. Angle (1900-1975), historian and author, was secretary of the Abraham Lincoln Association (1925-1932), Librarian of the Illinois State Historical Library (1932-1945), and Director of the Chicago Historical Society (1945-1965). Angle was an Abraham Lincoln scholar and wrote several books on Lincoln and Illinois history, including The Lincoln Reader (...

Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967

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Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) was an American author, editor and poet. He won three Pulitzer prizes, two for his poetry and the third for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. From the guide to the Carl Sandburg Collection, 1924-1954, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) American poet, novelist and historian, Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for Abraham Lincoln: the War Years and the other for The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg ...