William Edward Leuchtenburg papers, ca. 1948-2003.

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William Edward Leuchtenburg papers, ca. 1948-2003.

Papers consists primarily of Leuchtenburg's professional correspondence with various individuals, including other historians and former students at Columbia University and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and with historical and other organizations and publications. Files contain letters, articles, and clippings concerning Leuchtenburg's involvement with politics, professional historical organizations, and teaching and writing about history. Correspondence with Leuchtenburg's former students contains information on their student work, copies of works that they had written or were writing, articles, questions, and general information about them. There are some personal letters in the general correspondence.

About 35000 items (49.5 linear feet)

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Columbia University

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Leuchtenburg, William E. (William Edward), 1922-

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Historian, educator. From the description of Reminiscences of William Edward Leuchtenburg : oral history, 1969. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122481274 William Edward Leuchtenburg is a historian whose primary scholarly focus has been the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the continuing influence of Roosevelt's New Deal programs on the United States. Leuchtenburg had long teaching careers at both Columbia University and the Universit...