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Michael Kammen papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-17-3649

Scope and content

Videotapes of talks given by Michael Kammen, including Public Affairs Television Moyers, "In Search of the Constitution: In the Beginning," 1987; White House Millennium, 1998; Fall Festival of the Arts and National Conference Keynote Address, Michigan State University, 1999; Ball State University, 2000.

Scope and content

Includes Department of History senior honors theses, 1978-2007, written under Professor Kammen's direction.

Scope and content

Letters re: 2013-2014 from friends, former students, and historians around the country and essays re 2014; files: responses to each of his books and essays (by hand, e-mail, and reviews); files: thinking about history and historians and offprints of essays; medals and other ephemera; and books.

Scope and content

Drafts, galley proofs, and photocopies of primary source material from various libraries for "What is the Good of History?": Selected Letters of Carl L. Becker, 1900-1945, edited by Kammen.

Dates

  • 1962-2014.

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Conditions Governing Access

Boxes 5-12 are closed until processed.

Extent

1.8 cubic feet. (1.8 cubic feet.)

Abstract

Theses written under Professor Kammen's direction; talks, articles, and papers written by Michael Kammen, and drafts, galley proofs, and source material for a book he edited.

SERIES LIST

Senior honors theses: Box 1-2

Articles/papers/book by Michael Kammen: Box 3-4

Videos/CD's: Box 3

Physical Description

23 senior honors theses, articles, videos.

General

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
Julia Parker
Date completed:
January 28, 2008
EAD encoding:
Julia Parker, January 28, 2008
Date modified:
Margaret Nichols, July 2016
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by Julia Parker
Date
January 28, 2008
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
ENG

Revision Statements

  • 12/07/2018: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
  • 2007-05-29: converted from EAD 1.0 to EAD 2002

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)