U.S. American Commission to Negotiate Peace Records 1898-1919 (bulk 1918-1919)

Arctowski, Henryk, 1871-1958

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Henryk Arctowski was born in Poland in 1871. He was educated in Belgium and Paris and also studied in London and Zurich. He joined the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1879-1899 (leader Adrian Victor Joseph de Gerlache de Gomery), and was in charge of the geological, oceanographical and meteorological programmes. He was connected with the Belgian Weather Service until 1909 and then became Chief of the Science Division of the New York Public Library. In 1920, Arctowski returned to Poland to become p...

Notestein, Wallace, 1878-1969

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Fay, Sidney Bradshaw, 1876-1967

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Fay graduated from Harvard in 1896 and taught history at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Sidney B. Fay, 1885-1957 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973027 ...

Dixon, Ronald B.

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Monroe, Paul, 1869-1947

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Paul Monroe was a member of the faculty of Teachers College, columbia University from 1897 to 1935. Known for his pioneering research in the history of education, Monroe edited a seminal, multivolume work in the field, titled "Cyclopedia of Education" (1911-1913). Monroe was director of the School of Education at Teachers College (1915-1923) and director of the college's International Institute of Education (1923-1938). As director of the International Institute, Monroe trained international stu...

Hornbeck, Stanley Kuhl, 1883-1966

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American diplomat; chief, Division of Far Eastern Affairs, United States Department of State, 1928-1937; adviser on political relations, United States Department of State, 1937-1944; ambassador to the Netherlands, 1944-1947. From the description of Stanley Kuhl Hornbeck papers, 1900-1966. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754869191 Biographical Note 1883, May 4 Born, Frank...

Slosson, Preston W. (Preston William), 1892-1984

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Professor of history at University of Michigan. From the description of Preston W. Slosson papers, 1918-1952. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34422128 Preston Slosson was born in Laramie, Wyoming on September 2, 1892. He received his Ph.D in history from Columbia University in 1916. He was Literary Editor of the New York Independent in 1917, then went to work in the US State Department as an assistant librarian with the American Commission to Negotiate Peace, 1...

United States. Inquiry

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Beer, George Louis, 1872-1920

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George Louis Beer (July 26, 1872 – March 15, 1920) was a renowned American historian of the "Imperial school". Born in Staten Island, New York, to an affluent family that was prominent in New York's German-Jewish community, Beer studied at Columbia University before teaching there while also working in the tobacco business. After retiring from business in 1903, he devoted his time to extensive research in British archives, and wrote three highly regarded and influential books on the British-A...

Morison, Samuel Eliot

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Morison graduated from Harvard in 1908 and taught American history at Harvard. From the description of Course material for History 161b, the discovery of America, 1940. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228512193 Morison earned his Harvard AB in 1908, his Harvard AM in 1909, and his Harvard PhD in 1912. He taught history at Harvard. From the description of Notes in English 28, second half year, 1904-1905. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074686...

Day, Clive, 1871-1951

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Clive Day was born in Hartford, Connecticut on February 11, 1871. He received degrees from Yale University (B.A., 1892; Ph.D., 1899). Day served as an advisor to the American Commission to Negotiate Peace and taught economics, sociology, and political economy at Yale (1899-1936). He wrote several books, served on many university committees, and was a member of the Connecticut Unemployment Commission, 1932-1933. He died in 1951. From the description of Clive Day papers, 1892-1943 (inc...

Kerner, Robert Joseph, 1887-1956

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Robert J. Kerner was professor of Modern European History from 1928-1941, Sather Professor of History 1941-1954, and Director of the Institute of Slavic Studies, 1948-1954. From the description of Robert J. Kerner papers, 1907-1956. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 122556369 ...

Kenyon, Dorothy, 1888-1972

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Lawyer; Judge; activist. Municipal Court Justice, New York City, 1930's; president of the Consumers' League of New York; appointed to a League of Nations Commission to Study the Legal Status of Women, 1938; U.S. delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, 1947-50. Charged by Senator Joseph McCarthy with membership in communist organizations and was the first person to appear before Senate Foreign Relations Sub-Committee, 1950. Was on National Board of the American Civil Lib...

United States. American Commission to Negotiate Peace

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The American Commission to Negotiate Peace was the U.S. Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920.). From the description of Minutes, 1919 July 1-Sept. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 15579963 The American Commission to Negotiate Peace was the U.S. Delagation to the Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920). From the description of Minutes, 1919 July 8, July 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 15538866 The American Commission was the American delegat...

Monroe, W. S. (Will Seymour), 1863-1939

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Monroe received his a.b. (education) from Stanford University, May 1894. From the description of History of education in California : themes presented by the class in American education at Stanford University: holograph and typescript, 1894. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122553627 Will S. Monroe, born in Hunlock, Pennsylvania 22 March 1863, received his A.B. from Stanford in 1894. He was a teacher and principal in public schools in Pennsylvania and California and a professo...

Haskins, Charles Homer, 1870-1937

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Professor of history at Harvard and University of Wisconsin; summer resident of Hancock Point, Me. From the description of Genealogical papers, ca. 1900-1971. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70940266 An American historian, Haskins taught at Johns Hopkins (1889-1892), Wisconsin (1892-1902), and Harvard (1902-1931). He was a leading medievalist of his generation and a prominent member of the group of presidential advisers known as "The Inquiry," 1917. As delegate to the Paris P...

Paris Peace Conference 1919-1920

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