Edgar Eugene Robinson papers, 1880-1986.

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Edgar Eugene Robinson papers, 1880-1986.

Correspondence, journals, newsclippings, drafts and manuscripts, lecture notes, syllabi, student term papers and administrative documents relating to Dr. Robinson's tenure as chairman of the History Department, his publications, work with the Commonwealth Club, and local defense activities during World War II. Correspondents include E.D. Adams, Margery Bailey, Thomas A. Bailey, Edwin A. Cottrell, Ellwood P. Cubberley, Max Farrand, Albert Léon Guérard, David Harris, David Starr Jordan, George H. Knoles, Walter Lippman, Ralph H. Lutz, Alice M. Rose, Lewis M. Terman, Payson Jackson Treat, Frederick Jackson Turner, Ray Lyman Wilbur, John D. Works, and Yamato Ichihashi. Also includes oral memoirs (7 reels) and material relating to Herbert Hoover; correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia of his first wife Katherine Young Robinson; and correspondence of his second wife Lisette Robinson.

65 linear feet.

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BIOGRAPHY Yamato Ichihashi, born in Japan, came to the United States and received his A.B. in Economics from Stanford in 1907, A.M. in 1908, and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1914. He returned to Stanford in 1913 to become Professor of Japanese History and Government. His special interests included studies of Japanese in America and relations between Japan and the United States. He participated as observer and secretary for the Japanese Governmen...

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Harris, David, 1900-....

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American historian; associate chief, Central European Affairs Division, United States Department of State, 1943-1947; professor of history, Stanford University, 1930-1966. From the description of David Harris papers, 1926-1988. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754869184 History professor at Stanford University. From the description of David Harris letters, 1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 705271794 Biographical Note ...

Rose, Alice M.

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Adams, Ephraim Douglass, 1865-1930

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American historian; director of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, 1919-1925. From the description of Ephraim Douglass Adams papers, 1908-1929. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754866975 Ephraim Adams was professor of American history at Stanford University, 1902-1930, and head of the Department of History, 1908-1922. From the description of Ephraim Douglass Adams papers, 1730-1931 (inclusive), 1900-1931 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 7021...

Guérard, Albert Léon, 1880-1959

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Robinson, Katherine M. (Katherine Morton), 1951-

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Stanford University. Independent Studies Program.

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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...

Cottrell, Edwin A. (Edwin Angell), 1881-

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Lippman, Walter

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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...

Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson, 1868-1941

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Ellwood Patterson Cubberley, professor and Dean of the Stanford School of Education (1898-1933; emeritus, 1933-1940), was born in Indiana. He received an A.B. from Indiana University and an M.A. and PhD. from Columbia University. He served as president of Vincennes University in Indiana and superintendent of San Diego City Schools before accepting an offer from Stanford. Cubberley wrote and edited many books, most notably the Riverside textbooks of Education. From the description of ...

Knoles, George Harmon

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Knoles earned his Ph.D. in history at Stanford in 1939 and then joined the History Department as instructor. In 1951 he became a full professor and later held the Margaret Byrne Professorship in History. He taught at overseas campuses in Britain, France, Germany, and Japan; served as department chair; and directed the Institute of American History at Stanford. From the description of George Harmon Knoles papers, 1926-1994. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122383574 ...

Treat, Payson J. (Payson Jackson), 1879-1972

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Bailey, Thomas Andrew, 1902-1983

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Robinson, Lisette.

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Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931

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Works, John D. (John Downey), 1847-1928

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Terman, Frederick Emmons, 1900-1982

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Robinson, Edgar Eugene, 1887-1977

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Bailey, Margery, 1891-1963

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Margery Bailey was a professor of English at Stanford University from 1914 to 1963. From the description of The crimes of brother goose : manuscript, 1918. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122398547 Margery Bailey was a professor of English at Stanford University from 1914-1963. She was active in Stanford dramatics and was involved in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival at Ashland, Orgeon as both an actress and as a director. From the description of Margery Bailey pape...

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The Institute was founded in 1942 by Professor Edgar E. Robinson and the Stanford History Department to examine current conceptions of American History, and current methods of presenting American History in the schools, colleges and university. From the description of Stanford University, Institute of American History, records, 1938-1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702129537 Biographical/Historical Sketch The Institut...