Max Ludwig Wolfram Laistner papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 14-17-442

Scope and content

Papers relating largely to Laistner's position as chairman of the history department, including general correspondence (1935-39), and papers and correspondence on summer school (1936-46), former students (1936-54), music committee (1937-46), assistantships and scholarships (1939-40), deferment from the Selective Service (1939-40), Semitic Studies (1940), and the history of science appointment; Laistner's report (1938) on current research and research needs to the Trustee-Faculty Committee on Research, and individual reports on the same subject from Carl Becker, Preserved Smith, Carl Stephenson, Philip E. Mosely, Paul W. Gates, Frederick G. Marcham, and Julian P. Bretz; correspondence, notes, and manuscripts relating to Laistner's writings on classical history; and printed material.