This project traces the first 58 years of Andrew Carnegie's central philanthropic organization. Officers, staff members, and grant recipients discuss its work in adult education, area studies, art education, cognitive research, education testing, library science, music education, national security, social science research, teacher education, and other areas. The Corporation's relations with other Carnegie institutions over the years are delineated in many memoirs. Others detail the Corporation's own administrative history, as well as its relations with other major foundations and the federal government. Others trace the work of independent agencies which originally received all or part of their funds from the foundation. In general, the design of the project was to provide comprehensive and candid information about the foundation, its work, and those who have served "to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding." The material is rich in personal recollections of grantees and members of the Corporation's board and staff. Prominent among them are James R. Angell, James Bertram, Nicholas Murray Butler, Oliver C. Carmichael, Robert Franks, Walter Jessup, Nicholas Kelley, Frederick Paul Keppel, Clyde Kluckhohn, Thomas W. Lamont, William S. Learned, Russell C. Leffingwell, Arthur Page, Henry Pritchett, Elihu Root and Elihu Root, Jr., Beardsley Ruml, James E. Russell, William F. Russell, Whitney H. Shepardson, Irvin Stewart, and Samuel A. Stouffer. Participants, pagination, and restrictions as noted: Florence Anderson, 656; Geoffrey Andrew, 64; Clarence Beeby, 89; Bernard Berelson, 119; Karl Bigelow, 138; Paul Buck, 87; Frederick H. Burckhardt, 84; W. Randolph Burgess, 50; Vannevar Bush, 58; James W. Campbell, 151; Roberta Capers, 124; Morse Cartwright, 242; Henry Chauncey, 88; Eric Clarke, 76; James B. Conant, 88; Lawrence Cremin, 107 (closed during lifetime); Cornelis de Kiewiet, 117; Réné d'Harnoncourt, 65; Harold W. Dodds, 70; Charles Dollard, 329; Katherine Ford, 61; William T.R. Fox, 97 (closed during lifetime); John W. Gardner, 221; Morris Hadley, 84; Samuel S. Hall, Jr., 115; Caryl P. Haskins, 251; Edward Pendleton Herring, 129; Alger Hiss, 67; Alice Hoctor, 48; Kenneth Holland, 35; John C. Honey, 82; Robert Hoppock, 49; Everett C. Hughes, 43; Frederick Jackson, 305; Guion G. Johnson, 67. Participants continued: Guy B. Johnson, 64; Joseph Johnson, 50 (closed during lifetime); Devereux C. Josephs, 150; Francis Keppel, 61; Eric Larrabee, 89; Robert M. Lester, 872; R. McAllister Lloyd, 67; Trevor Lloyd, 45; Dorothy R. Loemker, 73; Thomas R. McConnell, 86 (closed during lifetime); Constance McCue, 60; Earl McGrath, 107; Margaret Mahoney, 86; Ernst G. Malherbe, 68; William Marvel, 278; Lloyd Morrisett, 214; Lois Murkland, 24; Gunnar Myrdal, 122; Isabelle C. Neilson, 42; Frederick Osborn, 140; G. Raleigh Parkin, 152; Talcott Parsons, 41; James Perkins, 64 (closed during lifetime); Alan Pifer, 273 (closed); Alan Pifer and Eli Evans, 149; David Riesman, 84; John Russell, 290; Frederick Sheffield, 61; Arthur Singer, 138 (closed until 2000); Harold Spivacke, 76; Stephen Stackpole, 398; Ralph Tyler, 139; Robert E. Ward, 81; Robertson D. Ward, 49; Bethuel Webster, 25; Robert J. Wert, 200; Benjamin D. Wood, 123; John E. F. Wood, 52; Henry Wriston, 219; Donald Young, 180.
