Papers 1864-1968.

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Papers 1864-1968.

Correspondence with Eugene McCarthy, Hubert Humphrey, and others; diaries, financial records, legal documents. manuscripts, memoranda, research and writing notes, sheet music, teaching material, booklets, and clippings; concerning his career as a history professor, his travels, his political activities, his research, his advice to the administration of Cardinal Newman College, and his lifelong interest in baseball. Also the manuscript of his book The Winning of Independence (1971); and index cards containing research notes for his courses and his books The Campaign for the Sugar Islands, 1759 (1955), The Congress Founds the Navy (1959), The Democratic Republic: 1801-1815 (1968), and The Life that Ruth Built: A Biography (1975).

8 linear feet.27 linear feet of index cards.

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McCarthy, Eugene, 1916-

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Cardinal Newman College.

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Ruth, Babe, 1895-1948

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George Herman Ruth was born February 6, 1895 in Baltimore, Maryland to Katherine and George Herman Ruth Sr. In 1902, Ruth was sent to St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, an orphanage and reformatory, at the age of seven to teach him discipline. It was here that he learned to play baseball. He signed a contract with the minor league Baltimore Orioles in 1914. Ruth received his nickname "Babe" when his minor league teammates referred to him as manager Jack Dunn's new babe. He began his ma...

United States. Navy

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Smelser, Marshall

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Historian, professor at the University of Notre Dame, and biographer of Babe Ruth. From the description of Papers 1864-1968. (University of Notre Dame). WorldCat record id: 26326614 ...