Papers of Albert Bushnell Hart, 1841-1943.

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Papers of Albert Bushnell Hart, 1841-1943.

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This collection documents Hart's professional activities, including teaching at Harvard and historical research; involvement in professional societies and Howard University affairs; and other business and personal matters and political and social activities. The collection contains student papers and other materials from history and government courses taught at Harvard and Radcliffe by Hart, dated 1894-1926, correspondence about student statistics gathered by Hart in 1921, Harvard Department of Government records, and speeches he gave at Harvard clubs around the country. Additionally included are correspondence and subject files related to Harvard colleagues and administrators, student groups and publications, and former students and doctoral advisees like W. E. B. Du Bois, journalist and civil rights activist Oswald Garrison Villard, and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. There is also correspondence with publishers respecting articles and books written or edited by Hart, including Commonwealth History of Massachusetts and The American Year Book, as well as manuscripts and research materials. The collection further contains lectures delivered by Hart on slavery and the American South at the Lowell Institute in 1907-1908 and related correspondence with Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. Hart's role in professional societies, such as the American Historical Society and American Political Science Association, and his association with organizations like the Association for the Study of Negro Life & History, the National Security League, Massachusetts Historical Society, and Boston and Cambridge social clubs, is reflected in correspondence and other papers. Hart's political activities are documented in correspondence with Theodore Roosevelt about the Republican Convention of 1912, and in lectures, manuscripts, and subject files. The collection also includes personal papers such as Hart's family correspondence; real estate records; notes taken by Hart during his graduate studies in Europe in 1881-1883; household accounts; and his early schoolwork.

35.75 cubic feet (102 document boxes, 4 pamphlet binders, 1 card box, 1 accordion folder)

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