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History -- Study and teaching.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:

Mack Buckley Swearingen papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2637
Abstract

Includes personal and professional correspondence, material related to Swearingen's career as professor of history. Pamphlets, books, articles, research materials, essays, book reviews, photographs, cartoons, tapes, radio broadcasts, speeches, material concerning Vietnam and Turkey, journals, and other records. Also, genealogical material, and draft of Swearingen's unpublished book about Turkey. Correspondents include Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty.

Dates: 1920-1969.

Ralph C. H. Catterall papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-17-559
Scope and content

Lecture notes, speeches, articles, and a diary kept while traveling through Russia, Germany, and Poland. Also, a composition book containing notes on the Navigation Acts of 1651 in Britain, and on the opposition to the Second Bank of the United States in the 1830s.

Dates: 1906-1914.

Richard Polenberg papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-17-3804
Abstract

Professional papers relating to his research, teaching, and writings about American History.

Dates: 1961-2000.

Sarah E. Thomas papers

 Collection
Identifier: 37-5-4021
Abstract

Includes notes and exams from courses and miscellaneous Cornell publications and alumnae information.

Dates: 1933-1987.

The story of prose and poetry

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065442224]
Identifier: 4859
Scope and content

Typescript draft for a children's book on the history of western civilization.

Dates: 1925.

Thomas Curran notebook

 Collection — Manuscript box 20 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065306262]
Identifier: 37-5-747
Scope and content

The bulk of the notebook consists of notes (January 9, 1871-March 10, 1871) on Prof. W.C. Russel's lectures on Ancient History; also notes (September 27, 1870-October 13, 1870) on Prof. Hiram Gorson's lectures on elocution.

Dates: 1871.