Records of the American Council of Learned Societies, 1919-1989.

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Records of the American Council of Learned Societies, 1919-1989.

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Correspondence, reports, general office files, files from the offices of the president, the vice president, and the executive associate, financial papers, records of the Dictionary of American Biography, unpublished and published manuscripts of writings (many from the council's translation programs), and other records containing extensive material on programs of international intellectual cooperation, especially with Latin America and the Far East, and material relating to Slavic and East European studies, scholarship programs in the humanities funded by the council, and the activities of the Union académique internationale. Includes personal papers of Waldo G. Leland, one of the founders of the council, who served as permanent secretary (1927-1946). Other council officers prominently represented include Frederick Burkhardt, Mortimer Graves, and Gordon B. Turner. Correspondents include Arthur I. Andrews, Edward C. Armstrong, H. Hale Bellot, Joseph P. Chamberlain, J. Franklin Jameson, Halvdan Koht, John Marshall, Henri Pirenne, James T. Shotwell, and George M. Whicher.

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Chamberlain, Joseph P. (Joseph Perkins), 1873-1951

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Turner, Gordon Brinkerhoff, 1915-

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Leland, Waldo Gifford, 1879-1966

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Union académique internationale.

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Koht, Halvdan, 1873-1965

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Shotwell, James T., 1874-1965

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Bellot, H. Hale, 1890-1969

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Hugh Hale Leigh Bellot was born on 26 January 1890 and received his early education at Bedales School and then went to Lincoln College Oxford with a scholarship. He became master at the Battersea Polytechnical Secondary School and later at the Bedales School and then, in 1915, he was appointed a clerk at H. M. Customs and Excise where he remained until the end of the First World War. In 1921, on being appointed an assistant in the department of History at University Coll...

Pirenne, Henri, 1862-1935

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Burkhardt, Frederick, 1912-2007

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Frederick H. Burkhardt received a scholarship to study at Columbia University and earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1933. With a fellowship at Oxford University, he earned another bachelor's degree in 1935. Returning to Columbia, he completed a Ph.D. in philosophy 1940. His first teaching position was in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During World War II, he was recruited to work for the Office of Strategic Services. Burkhardt served as president of Bennington Colle...

American Council of Learned Societies. Meeting

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Founded in 1919 to promote advancement of the humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies represents about 30 societies and association. Serves as the spokesgroup for the International Union of Academics. The Council publishes "Speculum" and "The Journal of the History of Ideas", and also helps administer the Fulbright Program. From the description of Collection, 1956-1964. (Texas Tech University). WorldCat record id: 23196764 ...

Marshall, John, 1903-

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Whicher, George Meason, 1860-1937

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Author, poet, Latin and Greek professor at Hunter College. From the description of Letter to Curtis Hidden Page, 1931 February 28. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 63167619 ...

Armstrong, E. C. (Edward Cooke), 1871-1944

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Andrews, Arthur L.

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Graves, Frederick Mortimer, 1893-

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Jameson, J. Franklin (John Franklin), 1859-1937

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American educator and historian. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Baltimore, to Paul L. Ford, 1887 Jan. 30-1887 Feb. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269544451 Historian and librarian. From the description of Papers of J. Franklin Jameson, 1604-1994 (bulk 1900-1930). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82730569 J. Franklin Jameson was a prominent American historian in the early 20th century. From the guide to the J. Franklin...