Solon J. Buck Papers

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...

University of Minnesota. University Archives.

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Minnesota Historical Society

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United States. National Park Service

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U.S. National Park Service has managed the Morristown National Historical Park since 1933. From the description of Morristown National Historical Park resource management records, 1933-1994 (bulk 1938-1970). (Morristown National History Park). WorldCat record id: 71014733 The National Park Service is the U.S. federal agency that manages all National Parks, many National Monuments and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations. It was created...

United States. Department of State

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The Department of Foreign Affairs was established by an act of July 27, 1789 (1 Stat. 28) and redesignated the Department of State by an act of September 15, 1789 (1 Stat. 68). It was the agency of the United States created by law to assist the President in the formulation and execution of the Nation's foreign policy, and in the conduct of foreign affairs and of certain domestic affairs. The Department made plans for peace and security among all nations, participated in the United Nations and o...

United States. National Archives and Records Administration

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The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States government charged with the preservation and documentation of government and historical records. It is also tasked with increasing public access to those documents which make up the National Archive. NARA is officially responsible for maintaining and publishing the legally authentic and authoritative copies of acts of Congress, presidential directives, and federal regulations. NARA also transmit...

Agricultural History Society.

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The Agricultural History Society (AHS) founded in 1919, was one of the first specialized history groups. The distinguised botanist Rodney H. True was chosen as chair and later elected the first president of the society. The founding members were of diverse professions: historians, sociologists, economists, and other scientists who believed they could better comprehend their individuals fields through an understanding of the history of agriculture. The society maintained close association with th...

Pennsylvania Historical Association

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Conference of Historical Societies

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American Antiquarian Society

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The American Antiquarian Society was founded in Worcester, Mass., in 1812, largely through the efforts of Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831). The Society's original stated purpose was to "encourage the collection and preservation of the Antiquities of our country, and of curious and valuable productions in Art and Nature [that] have a tendency to enlarge the sphere of human knowledge." AAS from its inception attempted to be national in its collecting and its membership, which is by election....

Michigan Historical Commission

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American Historical Association. Public Archives Commission

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Alvord Memorial Commission.

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Macmillan company

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The Macmillan Company was founded in 1869 as a branch in New York City of the British firm of Macmillan & Co., Ltd. of London. The company became autonomous in 1896 but the British firm maintained close ties and a strong financial interest in the company. The Macmillan Company attracted major American authors and published a wide variety of fiction, non-fiction, textbooks, reference works, and children's books. George Platt Brett, Jr. who became Macmillan's president in 1931, arranged for th...

Joint Committee on the Enlargement, Improvement, and Preservation of Data.

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University of Minnesota. Dept. of History.

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Sibley, Henry Hastings, 1811-1891

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American pioneer; first Governor of Minnesota. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to William L. Marcy, 1853 Mar. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270664016 Fur trader; soldier; politician; Governor of Minnesota, 1850-1860. From the description of Papers, 1815-1830. (State Historical Society of North Dakota State Archives). WorldCat record id: 17998041 Henry Sibley was a general in the Confederate Army. From the de...

Neill, Edward D. (Edward Duffield), 1823-1893

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Bibliographical Society of America (New York, N.Y.)

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The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) began as the Bibliographical Society of Chicago (BSC) in 1899. The idea of a national bibliographical society was discussed at the 1901 meeting of the American Library Association (ALA). At the suggestion of the ALA, the BSC appointed a committee and began discussing the possibilities of a national organization. The proceedings of the committee were slow until, in June 1903, it was decided that the time for a national society had come. In 1903 and 190...

Army War College (U.S.)

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American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Edmund W. Sinnott was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the time of this correspondence. Walter G. Berl was an editor for the Association. From the description of Letters, 1948-1971, to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155878457 ...

National Grange

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American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1919.

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Yale University press

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See "A Brief History of Yale University Press" by Robert Pranzatelli, adapted from A World of Letters by Nicholas A. Basbanes, available at <http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/about.asp>. From the guide to the Yale University Press records, 1919-1964, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) I. THE FIRST HALF-CENTURY From its founding in 1908 by George Parmly Day, Yale University Press sought to acquire and publish important works of scholarship, issuin...

Nelson, Knute, 1843-1923

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Knute Nelson was born in Vosse Elven, Norway, on February 2, 1843. In 1849 he and his widowed mother emigrated to the United States, settling first in Chicago (1849-1850), then in Dane County, Wisconsin, where he enlisted in the Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry Regiment (1861-1864) during the Civil War. Following the war he was graduated from the Albion Academy and studied law in a Madison, Wisconsin, law office, being admitted to the bar in 1867 and then serving as a representative in the ...

Flandrau, Charles E. (Charles Eugene), 1828-1903

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Charles Flandrau was born in New York, passed the bar in 1851 and joined his father's law firm. In 1853 he moved to Traverse des Sioux, Minnesota to practice law. He served on the Territorial Council of Minnesota, in the Minnesota Constitutional Convention, and on the territorial and state supreme courts. He was named U.S. agent for the Sioux in 1856. After serving in the Union Army from 1862 to 1864 he took up the practice of law for a year in Nevada before returning to Minnesota. F...

Buck, Solon Justus, 1884-1962

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Historian, archivist. From the description of Reminiscences of Solon Justus Buck : oral history, 1955. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309731781 Biographical Note 1884, Aug. 16 Born, Berlin, Wis. 1900 1906 A...

Joint Committee on Chinese Studies (U.S.)

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Flagg, Gershom, 1792-1857

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Long, Stephen H. (Stephen Harriman), 1784-1864

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David Ives Bushnell was born 28 April 1875 in St. Louis, Mo. He was educated in St. Louis schools and in Europe. He worked as an assistant archaeologist at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University from 1901-1904. Bushnell contributed to the Handbook of American Indians and wrote numerous books on Native American Indians, including Native villages and village sites east of the Mississippi, (1919), Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan tribes west of the Mississippi (1922), The Manahoac tr...

Norwegian-American historical association

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Jackson, Mitchell Young, 1816-1900

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University of Pittsburgh. United Faculty

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Throughout its history the University of Pittsburgh has received occasional support from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In the early 1960s it suffered an unprecedented fiscal crisis and sought a solution that linked it to the Commonwealth. On August 23, 1966, House Bill No. 2 of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania was signed and the University officially became state-related. From the description of State-related status of the University of Pittsburgh files, 1936-1983. (Universit...

Joint Committee on Materials for Research

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Joint committee of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council, concerned with the enlargement, improvement, and preservation of materials for research in the social sciences and humanities. From the description of Records of the Joint Committee on Materials for Research, circa 1930-1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131175 ...

Nelson, Rensselaer Russell, 1826-1904.

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Illinois. Centennial Commission

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Commission established in 1907 by Illinois Governor Charles Deneen to arrange for a celebration of the anniversary of the 100th birthday of Abraham Lincoln in 1909. The commission worked with the Lincoln Centennial Association, later the Abraham Lincoln Association, to put on the celebration. From the description of Report: Springfield, Ill., 1909. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 34799091 The Illinois Centennial Commission was created by joint res...

American Council of Learned Societies. Meeting

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Founded in 1919 to promote advancement of the humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies represents about 30 societies and association. Serves as the spokesgroup for the International Union of Academics. The Council publishes "Speculum" and "The Journal of the History of Ideas", and also helps administer the Fulbright Program. From the description of Collection, 1956-1964. (Texas Tech University). WorldCat record id: 23196764 ...

American Historical Association

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Mississippi Valley Historical Association.

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University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus)

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