Weiss, Burton I.
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Burton I. Weiss collection
Collection
Identifier: 7812
Abstract
Books, manuscripts, reprints of articles, ephemera, graphics, and proofs collected by Burton Weiss, many of them on gay themes. Included are proofs of novels by Gore Vidal, James Leo Herlihy, Gavin Lambert, and others; play scripts; and film screenplays. Books and bound manuscripts (including proofs, scripts, and screenplays) are cataloged individually. Reprints of articles mainly focus on the biology of hermaphroditism, transsexualism, and sex hormones in mammals. Loose manuscripts include...
Dates:
1886-1975.
Challenge to Governance oral history project
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-1285
Abstract
Over 100 interviews with students, faculty, staff, and administrators on subjects including the Vietnam War and the peace movement; the rights of women and minorities, especially blacks' rights and the Willard Straight Hall occupation; efforts to change the governing system at Cornell; and related issues. Most of the interviews have been transcribed.
Dates:
1969-1971.
Paul Goodman collection
Collection
Identifier: 8063
Abstract
Manuscripts and publications by and about Paul Goodman and his fields of interest; also, a few social letters, two of them with poems enclosed.
Dates:
[ca. 1934-1987]
Pentagon march oral history project
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-2479
Scope and content
Interviews discuss the interviewees' backgrounds and political philosophy, as well as detailing the events of the march.
Dates:
1967-1968.
Student activism oral history project
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-2478
Scope and content
In the first interview, on June 20, 1966, David Brandt, the president of the Executive Board, was interviewed by Gould P. Colman about what led Cornell's student government to take a position on the draft exam and Vietnam and aobut the steps that the Executive Board took following the passage of the resolutions to educate the student body about the issues involved in the referendum. Brandt was also interviewed on November 22, 1966; (3 tapes, 3 transcripts). Additional interviews were...
Dates:
1966, 1968.
Additional filters:
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- College students -- Political activity. 3
- Student movements. 3
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements 3
- College student government. 2
- Oral histories. 2
- African American student movements. 1
- African Americans -- Education 1
- Book collectors. 1
- City planning -- New York (State) -- New York. 1
- College students -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 1
- Galley proofs. 1
- Gay men in literature. 1
- Hormones, Sex. 1
- Intersexuality. 1
- Lesbians in literature. 1
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Manuscripts for publication. 1
- Page proofs. 1
- Plans (maps) 1
- Printed ephemera. 1
- Scores (documents for music) 1
- Transness 1
- United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century. 1
- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century. 1
- Willard Straight Hall takeover, 1969. 1 + ∧ less
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