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Historians.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Ad Hoc Committee for the Gates' Festschrift records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065220463]
Identifier: 14-17-1319
Scope and content Includes information about contributors, draft outlines for the publication; correspondence with and about contributors and their essays; correspondence with the Cornell University Press concerning revisions and publication; draft of a talk by David M. Ellis, principal editor, at presentation dinner; and other materials related to the production of a festscrift in honor of Paul Wallace Gates on the occasion of his retirement from Cornell University. The festschrift was entitled The Frontier...
Dates: 1961-1969.

Carl Becker papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-17-132
Abstract

This collection contains papers from Cornell University professor of history, Carl Becker, dating 1898-1956. It primarily contains lecture and course notes, correspondence, papers and photographs.

Dates: 1898-1956.

George Lincoln Burr papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065203709]
Identifier: 14-17-22
Abstract Letters, diary fragments, notes, manuscripts, and other material documenting Burr's boyhood in Newark Valley, New York, and his student days at Cortland Academy, at Cornell University, and at Leipzig University; his travels and activities in Europe collecting rare books and manuscripts for Cornell; his relationship with Andrew Dickson White; his relationships with other American and European scholars and his students; his work for the Venezuela-Guiana Boundary Commission; and his interest in...
Dates: 1861-1942.

Goldwin Smith papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-17-134
Abstract

Correspondence; scrapbooks; journals; clippings; addresses; translations; drafts, manuscripts, and articles; printed copies of works by or about Goldwin Smith

Dates: 1819-1921,-1844-1915 (bulk).

Mary Elizabeth Bohannon papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2424
Abstract

Notes and transcripts of 17th century English documents, diaries, account books, maps, and correspondence for her doctoral dissertation, "Studies of the Barrington Family in England During the Early Seventeenth Century," and for various later studies. There is also correspondence with Carl Becker and others concerning her research, drafts of her thesis and various articles, and photostats of the proceedings of the House of Lords for 1610 and 1614.

Dates: [ca. 1930-1963]

Paul Wallace Gates papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-17-1403
Abstract

Correspondence, office files, printed material, and other papers relating to Gates's study of U.S. land policy, his role in Indian land claims, and his work as a professor of American history.

Dates: 1873 - 1996; 1934 - 1982

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.

Walter LaFeber papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 23 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065306759]
Identifier: 14-17-2624
Abstract Biographical and administrative files, extensive correspondence, research subject files, typed and handwritten research index cards, notes, teaching material, books, articles, reviews and drafts, a few photographs, memorabilia, ephemera and tributes of the professor and others, audio cassettes of history lectures and talks, CDs, DVDs and VHS of historical documentaries and Cornell related events, and digital material of the Andrew H. and James S. Tisch Distinguished University...
Dates: 1961-2008.

Whitney R. Cross papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1678
Scope and content

Correspondence and notes pertaining to graduate work at Harvard University and Cross' research; correspondence with scholars and publishers about his book THE BURNED-OVER DISTRICT, concerning religious movements in upstate New York from 1800-1850; a typed manuscript and microfilm copy of his paper "Revivalism and Eccentric Religions, 1830-1860"; and letters and talks concerning his work for the Cornell Collection of Regional History.

Dates: 1941-1951.