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History -- Study and teaching.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:

Eugene Marx Kaufmann papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065203550]
Identifier: 37-5-916
Scope and content

Includes lecture notes, papers, and other material relating to course work in government, history, and philosophy at Cornell University; also, his Phi Beta Kappa key.

Dates: 1922-1977.

Frank Monaghan papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3085
Abstract

Pamphlets, notes, and correspondence concerning World's Fairs and Expositions, ca.1894-1968; correspondence and pamphlets concerning Cornell University, ca.1931-1968; pamphlets, correspondence, notes, news clippings, typescripts of books, and a list of illustrations for a book; and five plaques of Frank Monaghan.

Dates: 1894-1968.

Hendrik Willem van Loon Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3292
Abstract

Collection consists of correspondence with family, friends, literary and other public figures, pertaining to his career as an author and his varied humanitarian concerns; much of the correspondence between 1939 and 1942 deals with refugees from Nazi persecution and van Loon's participation in war relief fund raising and committees.

Dates: 1884-1972.

Herbert Tuttle papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-17-163
Abstract

Manuscripts, lectures notes, course grade books; scrapbooks containing reviews of his published works, obituaries, letters of condolence; personal account books, and correspondence.

Dates: 1880-1896.

History Club minutes

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065488672]
Identifier: 37-6-2906
Scope and content

Minutes of meetings of the History Club, and some loose manuscript and typescript pages of minutes.

Dates: 1913-1929.

Ira E. Clark and Henry G. Pollock Class of 1872 items

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065172813]
Identifier: 37-5-338
Scope and content Ira E. Clark and Henry G. Pollock were roommates and both members of the Class of 1872, Cornell University. The collection consists of student items saved by the two boys: a Directory of the Cornell University for 1872 and an Outline of a Course of History...by A.D. White under the imprint of the University Press; programs for the Philalatheian and Irving Literary Societies (1870); broadsides of the courses given at Cornell, one of which has titles of books with prices that were used by the...
Dates: 1870-1873.

Isabel V. Hull papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-17-4059
Scope and content Scholarly notes to two of her books: The Entourage of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Sexuality, State, and Civil Society; records concerning her committee activities at Cornell, including notes and articles on the Divestment movement at Cornell; notes, agendas, drafts, background information and statistics from the committee chaired by Hull on the revision of the curriculum of the College of Arts and Sciences (i.e. distribution requirements, including foreign language requirement); and early papers...
Dates: 1960-2000.

Julian P. Bretz papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-17-140
Scope and content

Correspondence received as secretary of the Trustee-Faculty Committee appointed to choose a successor to President Livingston Farrand, and correspondence relating to the Department of History. Also, family correspondence, articles, speeches, and clippings relating to the Tompkins County Non-Partisan Committee, and to Bretz' campaign for Congress.

Dates: 1905-1951.

Llewellyn Elsbree student notebooks

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065193660]
Identifier: 37-5-1435
Scope and content

Five notebooks of Cornell student Llewellyn Elsbree, including three on William C. Russel's history lectures (1870, 1871); one concerning optics (1873), philosophy of history (1872), and Andrew Dickson White's French history lectures; and a notebook of miscellaneous notes (1871).

Dates: 1870-1873.

Louis Livingston Seaman notes

 Collection — Manuscript box 11 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065267423]
Identifier: 37-5-m.194
Scope and content

Notes taken in President White's printed outline for his course of lectures on history.

Dates: 1870.