Kent Forster papers. [manuscript]. 1941-1981.

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Kent Forster papers. [manuscript]. 1941-1981.

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Historian and educator. Forster served in the History Department at the Pennsylvania State University from 1941-1980. He accompanied the first Penn State summer seminars to Europe from 1949-1952 and served as the director of the Summer Workshop for International Understanding in 1957. He received 2 Fulbright Lectureships and a research grant from the American Philosophical Society for work in the diplomatic archives of Helsinki, Finland, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, the American Historical Association, the Miniature Collectors Society of Pennsylvania, and the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. The collection documents Forster's career as a researcher, author and teacher and includes correspondence, lecture notes and outlines, exams, bibliographic note cards, and research materials.

4.25 ft. (3 boxes and 2 3" x 5" card file boxes). History course lectures. (2 boxes).

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