Papers, [ca. 1950]-[ca. 1990]. 1970-1985 (bulk).

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Papers, [ca. 1950]-[ca. 1990]. 1970-1985 (bulk).

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This unprocessed collection contains personal and professional correspondence, postcards, flyers, clippings and memorabilia. Topics documented are Foner's relations with family, universities and other employers, the publication of his various works, and his far-flung travels and teaching positions throughout the former socialist bloc and in several developing countries.

4 linear feet.

Churchill County Museum

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Foner, Philip Sheldon, 1910-1994

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Philip Foner, a prominent and prolific historian of the American labor movement, was born in 1910. Radicalized by the Great Depression, he has been politically close to the Communist Party, and taught courses at several of its schools for workers. While he is best known for his multi-volume History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Foner is the author and editor of dozens of books, pamphlets and articles. For many years, Foner taught at Lincoln College, in Pennsylvania. Fro...

Lincoln University, Pa.

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Ashmun Institute was founded in 1854 by John Miller Dickey, a Presbyterian minister, with the purpose of preparing freedmen to christianize Africa; named after Jehudi Ashmun, the first governor of Liberia, it was the first college established in the U.S. to have as its original purpose the higher education of youth of African descent; interracial and international; renamed Lincoln University in 1866, becoming the first educational institution named for the assassinated president; first recorded ...