Indiana University History Department Centennial 1994

Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)

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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is a radical student group that descended from the Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS) which was founded in 1905. The ISS changed its name in 1921 to the League for Industrial Democracy (LID), a social-democratic educational and organizational group. Its student branch, the Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID), merged with National Student League in 1935 to form American Student Union (ASU) but soon split over ASUs alleged communist affiliati...

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Simmons University (Boston, Mass.)

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Simmons University (previously Simmons College) is a private university in Boston, Massachusetts. It was established in 1899 by clothing manufacturer John Simmons. In 2018, it reorganized its structure and changed its name to a university. Its undergraduate program is women-focused while its graduate programs are co-educational. Simmons is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education. As of 2020, 83 percent of applicants to undergraduate programs were accepted. The university ...

United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), principal foreign intelligence and counterintelligence agency of the U.S. government. Formally created under the provisions of the National Security Act of 1947, approved July 26, 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) grew out of the World War II Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Previous U.S. intelligence and counterintelligence efforts had been conducted by the military and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and suffered from duplication, compe...

Wayne State University

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Nevins, Allen

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Morison, Samuel Elliot

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Jelavich, Charles

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Baxter, Maurice G. (Maurice Glen), 1920-

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Vasser, Rena

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McMains, Howard

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Rudin, Harry Rudolph

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Winther, Oscar Osburn, 1903-1970

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In 1937, historian Oscar O. Winther joined the history faculty of Indiana University, where he remained until his death in 1970. Winther's areas of expertise included the Western United States, including the Pacific Northwest. From the description of Oscar Osburn Winther papers, 1926-1979, bulk 1950-1969. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 43395092 Oscar Osburn Winther was born in Weeping Water, Nebraska on December 22, 1903. After graduating from Eugene ...

Ferrell, Robert H.

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Historian; interviewee b. 1921. From the description of Reminiscences of Robert Ferrell : oral history, 1968. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122631937 Robert H. Ferrell (b. 1921) is an American historian and author of several books on Harry S. Truman and the diplomatic history of the United States. He received a B.S. in Education from Bowling Green State University in 1946 and a Ph.D. from Yale in 1951. He served in the U.S. Army Air Force...

Indiana Central College

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Yale University.

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Wells, Herman B.

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Before becoming president of Indiana University, Herman B Wells served as an assistant cashier at the National Bank of Lebanon before going on to work for the Indiana Bankers Association, the Indiana Commission for Financial Institutions, and the Indiana Department of Financial Institutions. He was named dean of the Indiana University School of Business administration in 1935 by IU President William Lowe Bryan. In 1937 he was named acting president of the university and president the following y...

Dulles, Foster Rhea

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Marietta College

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Byrnes, Robert Francis.

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Joseph Horn and Frank Hardart founded the Horn & Hardart Co., in Philadelphia in 1902. Horn and Hardart started their careers in 1888 with a luncheonette in Philadelphia. This soon changed, when Hardart became inspired by the "waiterless" service at some of Europe's fine restaurants and hotels. While in Europe, Hardart purchased the automat equipment in Berlin, but the ship transporting it sank during a storm in the English Channel. Not discouraged, Horn & Hardart reordered ...

Solt, Leo F.

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Leo F. Solt, professor emeritus of History and dean of the University Graduate School, was born on October 12, 1921 in Waterloo, Iowa, and died in 1994 at the age of 72. He received his B.A. in 1943 from Iowa State Teachers College (now the University of Northern Iowa), before joining the U.S. Navy in 1943 to serve as an officer on the aircraft carrier Bataan in the Pacific during the final years of World War II . Following the war, he attended graduate school, receiving...

Michigan State University

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Michigan State University was established in 1855, and by 1862, it stood as the nation’s premier land-grant university. Over the decades, the university has continued to be a model of what a land-grant university can and should do. As a university of, for and by the people, Michigan State University began a long tradition of empowering people through educational opportunity....

Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory

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Esarey, Logan, 1874-1942

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Indiana University Professor of History. From the description of Papers, 1912-1914. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 237005910 Indiana University Professor of History; a native of rural Indiana, Esarey had completed his bachelor's and master's degrees and begun his doctoral work at Indiana University when he was appointed Research Fellow in the Department of History in September 1911. With that appointment he became the driving force in the newly formed Indiana Hist...

Ballantine, Elijah

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Hesseltine, William Best, 1902-1963

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Bemis, Samuel Flagg, 1891-1973

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Samuel Flagg Bemis taught history at Colorado College from 1917-1920, at Whitman College from 1920-1923, and at George Washington University from 1924-1934. He was director of the European mission of the Library of Congress from 1927-1929. Bemis was a professor of history at Yale University from 1935-1973. He was the author of numerous books and articles, and received the Pulitzer Prize in 1926 and 1950. From the description of Samuel Flagg Bemis papers, 1798-1969 (inclusive). (Unkno...

Quirk, Robert E

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University of Chicago.

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...

Jelavich, Barbara, 1923-1995

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Indiana University South Bend

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Grant, James

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Castle, William R. (William Richards), 1878-1963

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William Richards Castle, Jr. (1878-1963), Harvard graduate, was Ambassador to Japan during period of Naval Arms Conference, London, in 1930, and Undersecretary of State from 1931 to 1933. From the description of Castle, William R. (William Richards), 1878-1963 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10570910 William Richards Castle (1878-1963), AB 1900, was an American diplomat. He served in the Department of State as chief of the Division of Western Europ...

Buley, R. Carlyle (Roscoe Carlyle), 1893-1968

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Buley was born in Georgetown, Ind. He attended Indiana University and taught high school history in Delphi and Muncie, Ind. before earning his Ph.D. in 1925. Buley taught history at Indiana University from 1925 until 1964. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1951 for THE OLD NORTHWEST: PIONEER PERIOD, 1815-1840, and the Elizur Wright Award for his history of life insurance. From the description of Papers, 1950-1968. (Indiana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 37792683 R...

McCullough, David

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Labaree, Leonard

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Lilly Endowment

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Morris, Richard

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Indiana University Office of Women's Affairs

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Lynch, William O. (William Orlando), 1870-1957

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Cornell University

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Tyrrell, Robert

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University of Kentucky.

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The University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY is a land grant institution founded in 1865. The University evolved through three stages before becoming the University of Kentucky in 1916: the Agriculture and Mechanical College of Kentucky University, 1865-78, a private, denominational institution in Lexington created by an act of the legislature on February 22, 1865; the Agriculture and Mechanical College of Kentucky, 1878-1908; and State University, Lexington, 1908-1916. A statute in 1916 changed ...

Mooney, Chase C. (Chase Curran), 1913-

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Indiana University professor of history. After receiving his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in 1939, Chase Curran Mooney began his teaching career at Brenau College in 1939. In 1946 he joined the history faculty at Indiana University, where he remained until his death in 1973. As a distinguished member of the faculty, Mooney participated in numerous history department committees and successfully worked to bring the Journal of American History to IU in 1963. With resear...

Kohlmeier, Albert Ludwig

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Lundin, C. Leonard

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Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne

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Madison, James H.

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Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971

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Historian, journalist and educator. He attended the University of Illinois where he earned a B. A. 1912 and an M. A. in English, 1913. Nevins moved to New York to work and eventually was made a Professor of History at Columbia University. Wrote numerous biographies and articles on history. President of the American History Association in 1959. Helped found the Society of American Historians. From the description of Commencement address, June 1953. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Librar...

Gucker, Frank Thomson, 1900-

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Gucker earned his Harvard PhD in 1925. From the description of Report of research work : Chemistry 20a, 1922-1923. June 9, 1923. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77075501 ...

Neu, Irene

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Whitemarsh, Edwin

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Rippy, J. Fred (James Fred), 1892-1977

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James Fred Rippy was a professor in the Department of History at Duke from 1926-1936. From the description of J. Fred Rippy papers, 1926-1935. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 163579884 J. Fred Rippy (1892-1977) was professor of Latin American history at the University of Chicago, 1920-1926 and 1936-1958, and at Duke University, 1926-1936. From the description of J. Fred Rippy papers, 1916-1972 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 25422554 J. ...

Gates, Paul W. (Paul Wallace), 1901-1999

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Historian, professor of history at Cornell University. From the description of Paul Wallace Gates interviews, 1979-1980. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64074384 Professor of History, Cornell University. Paul W. Gates was born in Nashua, New Hampshire on December 4, 1901. He taught at Harvard and Bucknell from 1929-1936 and worked for the Federal Agricultural Adjustment Administration, 1934-1935. He joined the history faculty at Cor...

Lukacs, John, 1924-....

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Southeast Missouri State University

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Rockford College.

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Ballantine Hall

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Glenn, Elizabeth

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University of Illinois System

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Bowling Green University

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Commager, Henry Steele

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Epithet: Professor US historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x000061 ...

Sonneborn, T. M. (Tracy Morton), 1905-1981

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Early geneticist whose early work with paramecium was critical to the discovery of genetic recombination. Sonneborn taught and conducted most of his important work at Indiana University, 1939-1981. In 1959 the National Academy of Science presented the Kimber Award for Genetics to Sonneborn. From the description of Sonneborn laboratory abstracts and papers, ca. 1931-1979. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 62198002 From the description of Sonneborn reprint collection, ...

Bryan, William Lowe, 1860-1955

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Indiana University alumnus, professor, and president. From the description of William Lowe Bryan papers, 1830-1956. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 47180120 William Julian Bryan was born 11 November 1860 in Monroe County to John Bryan, a Presbyterian minister, and Eliza Jane Phillips Bryan. After attending the public schools in the county, Bryan entered the Preparatory Department of Indiana University in 1877. While a student a IU, he was active in man...

Wilz, John E.

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