Papers, 1856-1964.

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Papers, 1856-1964.

Papers of a University of Wisconsin professor of history and Civil War scholar relating to his teaching, research, and writing projects. Prominent correspondents include Stephen Ambrose, Howard K. Beale, Charles Beard, Frank Byrne, Vernon Carstenson, Bruce Catton, Robert D. Clark, Arthur C. Cole, Marcus Cunliffe, Richard Current, Merle Curti, E. E. Dale, Anna Mae Davis, Chester Easum, Leslie H. Fishel, John Hope Franklin, Frank Freidel, Larry Gara, Ulysses S. Grant III, Fred Harvey Harrington, John D. Hicks, Jim Dan Hill, Richard Hofstader, Merrill Jensen, Paul Knaplund, Isabel La Follette, Robert Marion La Follette, Thomas LeDuc, Clifford Lord, Joseph McCarthy, Donald McNeil, Curtis Nettels, Allan Nevins, Louis Pelzer, Earl Pomeroy, Benjamin Quarles, James G. Randall, Sam Ross, David Smiley, Alice Smith, Kenny Stampp, Norman Thomas, David Van Tassell, Bennett Wall, T. Harry Williams, William Appleman Williams, Carl Wittke, Hazel Wolf, C. Vann Woodward, Richard Younger, and Roman Zorn.

30.0 c.f. (72 archives boxes, 2 card file boxes, and 1 flat box)

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University of Wisconsin

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The University of Wisconsin-Extension promotes continuing education and lifelong learning by providing statewide access to university resources and research to the people of Wisconsin. Its four divisions are continuing education; cooperative extension; entrepreneurship and economic development; and broadcast and media innovations. From the guide to the University of Wisconsin Extension Program Reports, 1960-1969, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) ...

Grant, Ulysses Simpson, 1881-1968

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Ulysses Simpson Grant III (July 4, 1881 – August 29, 1968) was an American army officer, civil engineer and architect. The grandson of Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States, he was born on the Fourth of July and attended Cutler School (1895-1897) and Columbia University (1898), both in New York City. He left in 1898 to fight in the Spanish-American War, and in 1899 entered West Point where he was a classmate of Douglas MacArthur. In 1907 he married Edith Root, daughter of Elihu R...

Pomeroy, Earl S. (Earl Spencer), 1915-2005

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Clark, Robert D. (Robert Donald), 1910-2005

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Robert Donald Clark was born in Frontier County, Neb., in 1910, and was educated at Pasadena College and the University of Southern California. Beginning in 1931, Clark taught speech at Pasadena College, the College of the Pacific, Stockton Junior College, and finally at the University of Oregon from 1943 to 1964. He also served as pastor of Riverside Nazarene Church in 1936. At the University of Oregon, Clark was appointed Assistant Dean of the College of Liberal Arts in 1947, Dean of the Colle...

Current, Richard Nelson.

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Richard Nelson Current is a globally recognized Lincoln scholar, author and American Civil War historian. During the course of his career, Current has authored or co-authored over 15 books and has written dozens of articles published in journals, encyclopedias, and dictionaries, and has written over 300 book reviews. Among his various faculty positions, Richard Current has served as head of the Department of History and Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro from 195...

Cole, Arthur Charles, 1886-1976

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Fishel, Leslie H.

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Smith, Alice E. (Alice Elizabeth), 1896-

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Younger, Richard D. (Richard Davis)

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Pelzer, Louis, 1879-1946

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McNeil, Don, 1941-

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Wolf, Hazel Catherine

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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...

Nettels, Curtis P. (Curtis Putnam)

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Lord, Clifford L. (Clifford Lee), 1912-1980

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Lord was President of Hofstra University from 1964 to 1972 and Chancellor from 1972 to 1973. From the description of Papers, 1965-1971. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155550569 Clifford Lord was president of Hofstra from 1964-1972 and Chancellor from 1972-1973. From the description of Clifford Lee Lord collection. (Hofstra University). WorldCat record id: 46437933 ...

Zorn, Roman

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

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Woodward, C. Vann (Comer Vann), 1908-1999.

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Historian. From the description of Reminiscences of C. Vann Woodward : oral history, 1969. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419190 C. Vann Woodward was born in Vanndale, Arkansas, on November 13, 1908. He received his Ph.B. from Emory University in 1930; his M.A. from Columbia University in 1932; and his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1937. He began his professional career as an assistant professor of history at the Univer...

Smiley, David, 1916-2009

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Hesseltine, William Best, 1902-1963

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Ambrose, Stephen E.

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Hofstader, Richard, 1916-1970.

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Davis, Anna Mae.

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Catton, Bruce, 1899-1978

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American journalist and historian of the American Civil War. From the description of Bruce Catton papers, 1861-1865 and 1951-1961. (The Citadel, Daniel Library). WorldCat record id: 624071973 Bruce Catton (1899-1978), a Civil War historian, was a newspaper reporter in Cleveland and Boston before working for the War Production Board and the U.S. Department of Commerce during World War II. The first of his 15 Civil War histories was published in 1951. Catton's "A Stillness at ...

Stampp, Kenneth M. (Kenneth Milton)

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Kenneth M. Stampp taught United States history at U.C. Berkeley with a special emphasis on the Civil War. From the description of Kenneth M. Stampp papers, 1938-2007. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 213506501 ...

Jensen, Merrill, Mrs

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Easum, Chester Verne, 1894-1979

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La Follette, Isabel Bacon.

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McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957

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Gara, Larry, 1922- .

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La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion), 1895-1953

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Hicks, John Donald, 1890-

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Charles D. Hicks (b. 1890) was chairman of History Department at University of California, Berkeley (1947-?). He received his Ph. D. from University of Wisconsin (1916) and was author of several works, including: "The Populist Revolt" (1931) and "The American Nation" (1941). Essay in collection is incomplete. From the description of "The California background: Spanish or American?", 1950. (University of the Pacific). WorldCat record id: 36350260 ...

Williams, William Appleman

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William Appleman Williams, an American historian, was known as the father of the "revisionist school" of American diplomatic history. Born in Atlantic, Iowa in 1921, he attended the United States Naval Academy and spent fifteen months as a naval officer in the Pacific during World War II. After the war, he enrolled in the history department at the University of Wisconsin and received his doctorate in 1950. He taught at several schools before joining the faculty of the University of Wisconsin in ...

LeDuc, Thomas Harold.

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Hill, Jim Dan, 1897-

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Major general, United States National Guard; author of The Minute Man in Peace and War : A History of the National Guard (Harrisburg, Pa.: Stackpole, 1964). From the description of Jim Dan Hill correspondence, 1956, with university libraries. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754867636 A soldier, educator, and author, Jim Dan Hill was born in 1897 in Leon County, Texas, and educated at Baylor University, the University of Colorado, and the University of Minnesota. He served in ...

Wittke, Carl Frederick, 1892-1971

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Wittke earned his Harvard AM in 1914 and his PhD in 1921. From the description of Notes in History 9, 1913-1914. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77075090 From the description of Notes in History 3, 1915-1916. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77075225 Historian, Dean of College of Arts and Sciences, Oberlin College. From the description of Correspondence, with Agnes Inglis, 1942-1950. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 343680...

Quarles, Benjamin

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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...

Dale, Edward Everett, 1879-1972

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Knaplund, Paul, 1885-1964

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Carstensen, Vernon Rosco, 1907-

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Harrington, Fred Harvey, 1912-

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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...

Beard, Charles Austin, 1874-1948

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American historian and educator From the guide to the Charles Austin Beard letters, undated, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Historian, political scientist. From the description of Austin Charles Beard letters, 1929-1939. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 465279213 Charles Austin Beard was born in 1874 and died in 1948. He was a political science professor and historian at Columbia Univer...

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...

Ross, Sam, 1912-

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Sam Ross is a writer, Charlotte Rothstein Ross is his wife; California. From the description of Sam and Charlotte Rothstein Ross interview, 1965 May 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220195995 Writer; Chicago, Ill. From the description of Sam and Charlotte Ross radio scripts, 1938-1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122455777 Sam Ross (originally Rosen) was born Mar. 10, 1912 in Kiev, Russia; came to the US; BS in journalism, Northwestern Univ., 1934; ...

Wall, Bennett H.

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Bennett H. Wall, professor of history at the University of Georgia at Athens and secretary of the Southern Historical Association. From the description of Bennett H. Wall papers, 1960-1966 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 25696787 From the guide to the Bennett H. Wall Papers, 1960-1966, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Cunliffe, Marcus

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Thomas Norman Mattoon, 1884-1968

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Norman Mattoon Thomas (1884-1968), was a leading American socialist, pacifist, author, and six-time presidential candidate on the Socialist Party of America ticket, between 1928 and 1948. Born in Marion, Ohio, he was a graduate of Princeton University, attended Union Theological Seminary, where he became a socialist, and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1911. Thomas opposed the United States' entry into the First World War, a position that earned him the disapproval of many in his soci...

Van Tassell, David Dirk, 1928- .

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Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009

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Dean of African American historians, John Hope Franklin was born January 2, 1915 in Rentriesville, Oklahoma. His family relocated to Tulsa, Oklahoma shortly after the Tulsa Disaster of 1921. Franklin's mother, Mollie was a teacher and his father, B.C. Franklin was an attorney who handled lawsuits precipitated by the famous Tulsa Race Riot. Graduating from Booker T. Washington High School in 1931, Franklin received an A.B. from Fisk University in 1935 and went on to attend Harvard University, whe...

Byrne, Frank L. (Frank Loyola), 1928-

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Curti, Merle (Merle Eugene), 1897-1996

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