Charles Kuhlman papers, 1896-1959.

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Charles Kuhlman papers, 1896-1959.

The Charles Kuhlman papers consist of letters, research notes, literary manuscripts, and printed materials and are arranged according to Kuhlman's activities. His correspondence refers to his life as a farmer as well as to his historical scholarship, primarily on the French Revolution. The biographical materials on Kuhlman discuss both his personal and professional endeavors and contain miscellaneous personal writings, newsclippings, and Fay Kuhlman's writings on Kuhlman's life. Kuhlman's teaching materials contains outlines for the teaching of European history and a list of "suggestions" he composed to introduce new approaches for examining this history. Kuhlman's research materials has been divided into 3 subseries according to document type. Subseries 1, Notes, contains Kuhlman's notes taken as a Master's and PhD. student and come from both secondary and primary sources. His list of scholarly goals, written in the early twentieth century, is contained in Box 2, file 14. Kuhlman's notes are written in three languages: English, French and German. Subseries 2, Writings, contains Kuhlman's unpublished writings. An early draft of his dissertation essay on Mably and his larger work, an untitled history of French revolutionary societies, shows the evolution of Kuhlman's scholarship. Subseries 3, Historical Documents and Journals, contains primarily published, academic writings on the French Revolution. Journals are largely written in French. Kuhlman's notes on the texts are indicated by [marginalia] following the journal citation. Kuhlman's Published Manuscripts relate primarily to the Jacobin Club. The final series in the collection contains photographs of Kuhlman from 1903 to 1957 as well as a turn-of-the-century photograph and postcard of the La Chambre des Deputes in Paris.

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Kuhlman, Charles, 1872-1959

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Charles Kuhlman was born on 15 Jan. 1872 in Davenport, Iowa, and served in the Nebraska militia as a lieutenant. He attended the University of Nebraska, received a Master's Degree in History in 1897, and continued his historical studies in Europe. In 1900, he received a PhD. from the University of Zurich. After spending the next three years doing research in Germany and France, Kuhlman returned to teach history at the University of Nebraska and was appointed head of European History. Kuhlman tau...

University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus)

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