Papers, 1862-1941.

Paxson, Frederic L. (Frederic Logan), 1877-1948

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Pulitzer Prize winning American historian. He was also a President of the Organization of American Historians. He had degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University. From 1932 to 1947 he taught at the University of California in the Dept. of History. From the description of Frederic Logan Paxson papers, 46-39 B.C.-1948 A.D. (bulk circa 1910-1948) (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 26872562 ...

University of Oregon. Center for Teaching Writing

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The Univeristy of Oregon was established on October 19, 1872 and began classes on October 16, 1876. In 1915 there were 119 professors and instructors; by 1934 that number had grown to over 174 faculty. From the guide to the Faculty bulletins and scrapbooks, 1914-1934, (Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries) The High School debating league was started by the Oregon Teacher Association. The University of Oregon contributed by publishing th...

Schafer, Joseph, 1867-1941

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Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932

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Frederick Jackson Turner, professor and historian, became a leading scholar after he published, in 1893, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," his revolutionary thesis that American society owed its distincitve characteristics to experience with an undeveloped frontier. He was born on November 14, 1861 in Portage, Wisconsin, the son of Andrew Jackson Turner, a journalist and politician. His scholary work was first carried on at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he t...

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...

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...

Dunning, William Archibald, 1857-1922

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Professor at Columbia University. From the description of William Archibald Dunning records, 1900-1920. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 493895347 Professor of history and political philosophy at Columbia University. From the description of William Archibald Dunning papers, [ca. 1781]-1922]. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 493895366 ...

Leland, Waldo Gifford, 1879-1966

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Historian. From the description of Reminiscences of Waldo Gifford Leland : oral history, 1955. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309726749 Leland earned his Harvard AM in 1901. From the description of Notes in Government 4, lectures by E. H. Strobel, 1901-1902. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074498 From the description of Notes in Economics 10, 1900-1901. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074440 ...

De Voto, Bernard Augustine, 1897-1955

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American educator, novelist, and Literary Editor of the Mark Twain Estate. From the description of Autograph and typed letters signed (11) : Lincoln and Cambridge, Mass. ; White Plains, New York, to Edward Wagenknecht, [n.d.] and 1935-1947. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270863883 Betty White was one of De Voto's students at Northwestern in the 1920's. She was literary, and the best friend of Avis MacVicar, whom De Voto shortly married. As a senior at Northwestern, Betty Whi...

Farrand, Max, 1869-1945

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Max Farrand was born in Newark, N.J., into the family of Samuel Ashbel Farrand and Louise Wilson Farrand. He graduated from Princeton University, where he also received his Ph.D.; later he continued further graduate work in Leipzig and Heidelberg, and at Wesleyan and Yale Universities. He became professor of history at Wesleyan, Stanford, Cornell, Harvard, and Yale Universities (1896-1925), Incorporator and Director of the Commonwealth Fund (1918-1927) and Director of the Huntington Library (192...

Craven, Avery, 1886-1980

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State historical society of Wisconsin

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The State Historical Society was founded in 1846, chartered in 1853, and became a trustee of the state in 1855. Chapter 75, Laws of 1967, continued the Society as an independent agency. The Society is charged by statute with the collection, preservation, and dissemination of historical and cultural resources relating to Wisconsin, the Midwest, and the nation. From the description of Agency history record. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145776528 ...

Merk, Frederick, 1887-1977

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Oliver Edwin Baker (1883-1949) was an agricultural geographer and population expert and an analyst for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He was an authority on agricultural land utilization and advocate of “rurban” living, a combination of urban employment, suburban living, and part-time farming. Baker was born in 1883 in Tifflin, Ohio, to Edwin Baker, a merchant, and his wife Martha Ranney Thomas. As a boy Baker was taught by his mother, a former school teacher, and t...