Cornell University Department of History records, 1923-19811946-1974
Collection Number: 14-17-1573

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Cornell University Department of History records, 1923-1981 1946-1974
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
14-17-1573
Abstract:
History department correspondence, memoranda, catalogs, inventories, reports, and minutes; financial records including payrolls, accounts, budgets, invoices, and vouchers; student records; teaching applications and faculty appointments; department chairman's records of L. Pearce Williams, Paul W. Gates, and others; personnel files; items regarding the Messenger Lecture Series; and related materials.
Creator:
Cornell University. Department of History
Quanitities:
15.2 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

History department correspondence, memoranda, catalogs, inventories, reports, and minutes; financial records including payrolls, accounts, budgets, invoices, and vouchers; materials pertaining to the department's move from Boardman to West Sibley Hall, and later to McGraw Hall; student records including correspondence, gradebooks, course evaluations, draft deferment requests, applications, and other materials pertaining to study abroad, curriculum, fellowships, scholarships, assistantships, the Admissions Advisory Committee, advanced placement, honors program, prizes, quotas, and graduate study; Summer Session; teaching applications and faculty appointments; department chairman's records of L. Pearce Williams, Paul W. Gates, and others; personnel files; items regarding the Messenger Lecture Series; and related materials.
Includes Honors theses.
NOTES

Includes collection #14-17-1241.


INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Department of History records, #14-17-1573. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Access Restrictions:

Access restricted to the permission of the office of origin.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Gates, Paul W. (Paul Wallace), 1901-1999.
Williams, L. Pearce, 1927-2015.
Cornell University. Admissions Advisory Committee
Cornell University -- : Addresses, essays, lectures.
Cornell University -- : Admission.
Cornell University -- : Buildings.
Cornell University -- : Curricula.
Cornell University -- : Employees.
Cornell University -- : Entrance requirements.
Cornell University -- : Faculty.
Cornell University -- : Funds and scholarships.
Cornell University -- : Graduate students.
Cornell University -- : Students.
Subjects:
Draft.
History -- Study and teaching.
College students.
Form and Genre Terms:
Reports.
Inventories.
Grade books.
Budgets.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Joel Silbey's Department Files
Box 16
Department meetings and notes
1966-1978
Box 16
Search committee files
1970-1984
Scope and Contents
All the material in the collection may not be covered by this guide.
Series I. Department Files
Teaching applications and appointments
1946-1947
Teaching applications
1947
Teaching applications
1947-1948
Teaching applications
1948-1949
Teaching applications
1949-1950
Teaching applications (summer session)
1950
Teaching applications
1950-1951
Teaching applications
1950-1951
Teaching applications
1951-1952
Teaching applications
1952-1953
Teaching applications
1953-1954
Teaching applications
1954-1955
Summer session
1947-1951
Summer session
1954
Teaching applications and appointments, American Intellectual and Social History
date unknown
American Intellectual History
1954-1955
European History
1950-1951
European History
1950-1951
Latin-American appointment
1940-1949
Grades, Spring term
1952-1953
Grades, Fall term
1953
Grades, Spring term
1954
History Assistants Fund
1949-1950
Graduate, Special Action
1946
Graduate Inquiries
1946
Graduates (Summer session)
1946
Graduate Assistants
1946
Graduate applications - not accepted
1946-1947
Graduate applications - accepted, students decline
1946-1947
Graduate Inquiries
1947-1948
Graduate Assistants
1947-1948
Graduate applications - accepted
1947-1948
Graduate applications - rejected
1947-1948
Graduate applications
1947-1948
Graduate correspondence with Cunningham
1946-1947
Graduates (Summer session)
1946-1947
Graduate fellowships, scholarships, and assistantships
1946-1950
Graduate Students
1946-1950
Graduate quotas
1946-1950
Graduate bulletins and notices
1947-1950
Graduate applications
1948-1949
Graduate inquiries
1948-1949
Graduate applications
1948-02
Graduate assistants
1948-1949
Graduate applications
1949-1950
Graduate applications (Summer session)
1950
Graduate inquiries
1950-1951
Summer session
1951
Graduate applications - rejected
1950-1951
Richard Birdsall
date unknown
William Bouwsma
date unknown
Howard Braverman
date unknown
William L. Calderhead
date unknown
Emmanuel Chill
date unknown
Sherman L. Davis
date unknown
Richard Douglas
date unknown
Leslie H. Fishel, Jr.
date unknown
Benjamin Fogel
date unknown
Charles Forcey
date unknown
Ralph E. Giesey
date unknown
John Greene
date unknown
Archie Jones
date unknown
James Leiby
date unknown
Arthur Mann
date unknown
Thomas G. Manning
date unknown
George Matthews
date unknown
William H. Pease
date unknown
James H. Stone
date unknown
Richard Wade
date unknown
B
date unknown
S
date unknown
Miscellaneous correspondence
1948-1949
Miscellaneous correspondence
1949-1950
Miscellaneous correspondence
1946-1955
Cheating cases
date unknown
Navy contract
1951
Navy contract
1951-1955
Inventory
1944-1950
Barnard College
1950
Boardman Hall
1948-1949
Survey Course
1938-1947
Student gradebooks
1946-1947
Department correspondence
1946-1947
American History Replacement
date unknown
Ancient History Appointment (11 folders)
date unknown
Benson, Robert
date unknown
Boxer, Charles
date unknown
Cairns, John Campbell
date unknown
Dedijer, Vladimir
date unknown
DeNovo, John
date unknown
Diplomatic History (4 folders)
date unknown
Guha, Ranajit
date unknown
Hall, George, D.E.
date unknown
Hay, Denys (2 folders)
date unknown
Indian History
date unknown
Latin American Historian (4 folders)
date unknown
Leith, James Andrews
date unknown
Lorch, Jacob
date unknown
Matousek, Otakar
date unknown
Medieval History Appointment
date unknown
Mexican History
date unknown
Mints, Issak Israilevich
date unknown
Morner, Magnus
date unknown
Russian History Appointment (9 folders)
date unknown
Strauss, Gerald
date unknown
Strout, Cushing
date unknown
Tinker, Hugh
date unknown
U.S.S.R. Visitors
date unknown
Von Laue, Theodore
date unknown
Wangerman, Ernst
date unknown
Yamamoto, Tatsuro
date unknown
Department records pertaining to Professors Finley, Rice and Simon.
date unknown
Restricted to permission of the Chairman of the Department.
Box 6 Folder 1
Miscellaneous File - Graduate Students
1938-1954
Box 6 Folder 2
Assistants
1947-03-1949-05
Box 6 Folder 3
Fellowships & Scholarships
1953
Box 6 Folder 4
Graduate Students History
1953-1954
Box 6 Folder 5
Miscellaneous File
1948-1951
Box 6 Folder 6
Admitted Graduate Students
1953-1954
Box 6 Folder 7
Rejected (Graduate School Applications)
1953-1954
Box 7 Folder 1
Graduate Applications
1953-1954
Box 7 Folder 2
Inquiries for Graduate Assistants from other Educational Institutions
1953
Box 7 Folder 3
Graduate Applications
1952-1953
Box 7 Folder 4
Applications for Graduate School
1952-1953
Box 7 Folder 5
Graduate Applications of Admissions
1952-03-1953
Box 7 Folder 6
Graduate School Correspondence
1952-1953
Box 7 Folder 7
Graduate Applications (Rejected)
1951-1952
Box 7 Folder 8
Graduate Applications (Accepted)
1951-1952
Box 7 Folder 9
Graduate Inquiries
1951-1952
Box 7 Folder 10
Graduate Admissions, etc.
1949
Box 7 Folder 11
Graduate Applications Accepted
1950-1951
Box 7 Folder 12
Graduate Admissions, etc.
1948
Box 8 Folder 1
Accounts: 348 and 349
1965-1966
Box 8 Folder 2
Accounts: A720500 and A720120
1966-1967
Box 8 Folder 3
Accounts: A720500 and A500120
1967-1968
Box 8 Folder 4
Accounts: A720120
1969-1970
Box 8 Folder 5
Accounts: A7205 and A500120
date unknown
Box 8 Folder 6
Accounts, Analysis Statement: Duniway Book Prize
date unknown
Box 8 Folder 7
Accounts, Analysis Statement: Dekiewiet Scholar
date unknown
Box 8 Folder 8
Accounts, Analysis Statement: Macy Foundation Fellowship
date unknown
Box 8 Folder 9
Accounts, Analysis Statement: Litchfield Prize
date unknown
Box 8 Folder 10
Accounts, Analysis Statement: Chrsystall Prize
date unknown
Box 8 Folder 11
Accounts, Analysis Statement: Warren Biography
date unknown
Box 8 Folder 12
Advanced Placement
date unknown
Box 8 Folder 13
Advisees
1964-1966
Box 8 Folder 14
Annual Report
date unknown
Box 8 Folder 15
Applications for Teaching Positions
1967-1968
Box 8 Folder 16
Applications for Teaching Positions
1968-1970
Box 8 Folder 17
Applications for Teaching Positions
1970-1972
Box 8 Folder 18
Applications for Teaching Positions
1972-1973
Box 9 Folder 1
Modern European Appointments
date unknown
Box 9 Folder 2
Latin American Appointments
date unknown
Box 9 Folder 3
Positions Available
1967-1968
Box 9 Folder 4
Positions Available
1968-1969
Box 9 Folder 5
African Appointments
date unknown
Box 9 Folder 6
Ancient Appointments
date unknown
Box 9 Folder 7
English Appointments
date unknown
Box 9 Folder 8
European Intellectual Appointments
date unknown
Box 9 Folder 9
Modern European Appointments
date unknown
Box 9 Folder 10
Appointment Papers, Academic Leaves, Resignations
date unknown
Box 9 Folder 11
Assistants Budget
date unknown
Box 9 Folder 12
Assistants Budget
1955-1965
Box 9 Folder 13
Assistants Budget
1965-1966
Box 9 Folder 14
Buildings and Properties
1959
Box 9 Folder 15
Buildings and Properties
1964-1965
Box 9 Folder 16
Catalog
date unknown
Box 9 Folder 17
Cornell Smoker
1964-1966
Box 9 Folder 18
Correspondence: Members of the Department
1963-1965
Box 9 Folder 19
Correspondence: President, Provost, Dean, Vice President
1964-1968
Box 9 Folder 20
Correspondence: Deans of Colleges, Graduate Schools
1961-1968
Box 9 Folder 21
Miscellaneous Correspondence
1964-1969
Box 9 Folder 22
Department Meetings
1957-1967
Box 9 Folder 23
Department Meetings
1963-1965
Box 9 Folder 24
Evaluation, Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Vol. I Cornell University
1957
Box 9 Folder 25
Evaluation, Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Vol. III College of Arts and Sciences
1957
Box 9 Folder 26
Fellowship: General Correspondence
date unknown
Box 9 Folder 27
Thyssen Stiftung Fellowship
date unknown
Box 9 Folder 28
Graduate Fellowships
date unknown
Box 9 Folder 29
Graduate Students
1956-1959
Box 9 Folder 30
Graduate Students
1960-1967
Box 10 Folder 1
Correspondence: Graduate Students
1961-1967
Box 10 Folder 2
Job Lists and Proposed Graduate Teaching Program
1958-1966
Box 10 Folder 3
Honors Program
1958-1965
Box 10 Folder 4
Inventory (Boardman Hall)
1952-1959
Box 10 Folder 5
Lecture Series, Messenger, etc.
1954-1967
Box 10 Folder 6
Library
1955-1967
Box 10 Folder 7
Oral History
1963-1965
Box 10 Folder 8
Master of Arts in Teaching
1960
Box 10 Folder 9
Memoranda (University)
1958-1969
Box 10 Folder 10
Mommsen Fund
1959-1965
Box 10 Folder 11
Undergrad: Prizes, etc.
1963-1965
Box 10 Folder 12
Recommendations: Graduate (not History)
date unknown
Box 10 Folder 13
Recommendations: Undergraduate
date unknown
Box 10 Folder 14
Summer School
1958-1967
Box 10 Folder 15
Urban History Project
1967-1969
Box 13 Folder 19
Accounts 348 & 349, Invoices, vouchers, receipts, payrolls, mss. notes, typescript letter
1960-1961
Box 13 Folder 20
Accounts 348 & 349, Receipts, vouchers, invoices, payroll, mss. notes
1961-1962
Box 13 Folder 21
Account 349, list of expenses, receipts, payrolls
1962-1963
Box 13 Folder 22
Accounts 348 & 349, Receipts, vouchers, invoices, payroll, lists of expenses
1963-1964
Box 13 Folder 23
Accounts 348 & 349, Accounts, vouchers, receipts, invoices, payroll authorization, payrolls, mss. notes, lists of expenses
1964-1965
Box 13 Folder 24
Admissions Advisory Committee: Typed letters, application forms, statistics, newspaper article, photocopied letters
1960
Box 13 Folder 25
Annual Reports of Department members to the chairman: Reports, memos, mss. letters, mss. Notes, annual reports, typed letters
1936-1962
Box 13 Folder 26
Arts College, Curriculum revision: Programs, lists of proposed new courses, typed letters, curriculum proposals, mss. Letters, mss. Notes, admissions report
1959-1961
Box 13 Folder 27
Architecture: correspondence
1962
Box 13 Folder 28
Advanced Placement: Mss. Notes, typed letters, listings
1959-1963
Box 13 Folder 29
Advisees: Advisers note book, listings, typed letters, memos
1956-1964
Box 13 Folder 30
Advisers, Undergraduate: Schedule, listings, typed letters, memos, mss. Notes
1960-1964
Box 13 Folder 31
American Colonial: Correspondence
1965
Box 13 Folder 32
Assistants: typed letters, appointment forms, telegram, mss. Letters, memos, statements, mss. Notes
1956-1963
Box 13 Folder 33
Assistantships: Correspondence, listings, appointment forms
1964
Box 14 Folder 1
Chinese History: Correspondence, listings
1963-1966
Box 14 Folder 2
Appointment in Pre-modern Chinese History: typed letters, mss. Notes, mss. Letters, photocopied letters
1963-1966
Box 14 Folder 3
Colonial History: Correspondence
1963
Box 14 Folder 4
Comparative studies, Society & History, University of Chicago: Correspondence
1957
Box 14 Folder 5
Cornell Reception, AHA: Correspondence
1956-1963
Box 14 Folder 6
Dean of Colleges & Graduate School: Correspondence
1955-1961
Box 14 Folder 7
Members of the Department: Correspondence
1956-1963
Box 14 Folder 8
Miscellaneous Correspondence, invoices
1958-1964
Box 14 Folder 9
Drescher Correspondence
1967
Box 14 Folder 10
Drescher (monographs): photocopied essay, paper, pamphlet, photocopied articles, typed letter
1967
Box 14 Folder 11
Kutler: Correspondence, pamphlets
1965
Box 14 Folder 12
Nettles: Appointment forms, Correspondence
1943-1966
Box 14 Folder 13
Skotheim: Correspondence, Pamphlets
1965
Box 14 Folder 14
Curriculum vitae, Correspondence
1948-1960
Box 14 Folder 15
Departmental committees and representatives: listing, correspondence
1957-1962
Box 14 Folder 16
Enrollment Reports
1936-1957
Box 14 Folder 17
Early Modern History Correspondence
1964
Box 14 Folder 18
European History: Correspondence, reports
1950-1953
Box 14 Folder 19
18th Century Position, Preliminary: Correspondence
1965-1966
Box 14 Folder 20
Enrollment Information, Other Universities: Correspondence, photocopied list of courses
1962
Box 14 Folder 21
Europe 1648-1815: Correspondence, photocopied resumes, mss. Letters
1963-1964
Box 14 Folder 22
Fellowships: Correspondence, listings
1956-1960
Box 14 Folder 23
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship: Correspondence, leaflet
1956-1961
Box 14 Folder 24
National Defense Fellowship: Programs, memos, typed letters
1958
Box 14 Folder 25
German History Appointment: Mss. Notes, typed letters, telegram, mss. Letters
1964-1966
Box 14 Folder 26
History Department Planning: Correspondence, mss. Listings
1957-1959
Box 14 Folder 27
Introductory courses: Memos, typed letters, schedules
1954-1956
Box 14 Folder 28
Latin-American Year: Correspondence, leaflet
1964-1965
Box 14 Folder 29
Minutes: Minutes of Meetings, correspondence
1936-1946
Box 14 Folder 30
Minutes: Minutes of Meetings, memos
1946-1956
Box 14 Folder 31
Recommendations, U. S. Simon: Correspondence
1954-1965
Box 14 Folder 32
Recent American: Correspondence, pamphlet
1964-1965
Box 14 Folder 33
Recent American: Correspondence, voucher
1964
Box 14 Folder 34
Renaissance and Reformation: typed letters, mss. Letters, telegram, photocopied letters
1963-1964
Box 14 Folder 35
Sabbaticals: correspondence, mss. Notes
1954-1961
Box 14 Folder 36
School of Education, Dean of Agriculture Engineering: Correspondence
1963-1964
Box 14 Folder 37
Summer Session Placement: Correspondence
1964-1965
Box 14 Folder 38
Temporary Replacements: Mss. Letter, mss. Notes, typed letters
1959-1965
Box 14 Folder 39
Undergrad Courses taken abroad: Mss. Letters, mss. Notes typed letters
1962-1963
Box 15
Draft deferment requests
date unknown
Box 15
Clyde A. Duniway Prize
date unknown
Box 15
Clark Award
date unknown
Box 15
Course evaluations
date unknown
Box 15
First Honors Program in History
date unknown
Box 15
Advanced Placement records
date unknown
Box 15
John F. Wibel
date unknown
Box 15
Building File: move from Boardman Hall to W. Sibley Hall; move from W. Sibley to McGraw Hall
date unknown
Box 15
Telephone Information
date unknown
Box 15
Miscellaneous
date unknown
Mapcase Folder 1
Posters for the LaFeber-Silbey Endowment lectures
2006-2015
Series II. Personnel Files
Box 10 Folder 16
Knight Biggerstaff (Annual Reports)
1960-1967
Box 10 Folder 17
John F. Bosher
1965-1969
Box 10 Folder 18
David M. Davidson
1968-1973
Box 10 Folder 19
David B. Davis
1955-1969
Box 10 Folder 20
Paul W. Gates
1956-1971
Box 10 Folder 21
Richard Graham
1961-1968
Box 10 Folder 22
Donald Kagan
1960-1968
Box 10 Folder 23
Dennis Kelley
1971
Box 10 Folder 24
John R. Kirkland
1965-1968
Box 10 Folder 25
Helmut G. Koenigsberger
1964-1973
Box 10 Folder 26
Frederick G. Marcham
1923-1969
Box 10 Folder 27
John E. Martin
1967-1971
Box 10 Folder 28
Gilbert Osofsky
1971-01-1971-12
Box 10 Folder 29
Clinton Rossiter
1967-1969
Box 10 Folder 30
James Morton Smith
1965-1970
Series III. Reports, Minutes, and memoranda
Box 11 Folder 1
September-December
1972
Box 11 Folder 2
July-August
1972
Box 11 Folder 3
May
1972
Box 11 Folder 4
February-May
1972
Box 11 Folder 5
September
1971
Box 11 Folder 6
September
1971
Box 11 Folder 7
August
1971
Box 11 Folder 8
August
1971
Box 11 Folder 9
July
1971
Box 11 Folder 10
June
1971
Box 11 Folder 11
May
1971
Box 11 Folder 12
April
1971
Box 11 Folder 13
January-April
1971
Box 11 Folder 14
Untitled
1969-1970
Series IV. Correspondence and Memoranda of L. Pearce Williams, History Department Chairman
Box 11 Folder 15
May
1974
Box 11 Folder 16
April
1974
Box 11 Folder 17
March
1974
Box 11 Folder 18
February
1974
Box 11 Folder 19
January
1974
Box 11 Folder 20
December
1973
Box 11 Folder 21
November-December
1973
Box 11 Folder 22
November
1973
Box 11 Folder 23
November
1973
Box 11 Folder 24
October
1973
Box 11 Folder 25
September-October
1973
Box 11 Folder 26
September
1973
Box 11 Folder 27
September
1973
Box 11 Folder 28
August
1973
Box 11 Folder 29
July
1973
Box 11 Folder 30
July
1973
Box 11 Folder 31
June
1973
Box 11 Folder 32
May
1973
Box 11 Folder 33
May
1973
Box 11 Folder 34
April
1973
Box 11 Folder 35
April
1973
Box 11 Folder 36
March
1973
Box 11 Folder 37
March
1973
Box 11 Folder 38
February
1973
Box 11 Folder 39
February
1973
Box 11 Folder 40
January
1973
Box 11 Folder 41
January
1973
Box 11 Folder 42
January
1973
Box 11 Folder 43
December
1972
Box 11 Folder 44
November
1972
Box 11 Folder 45
November
1972
Box 11 Folder 46
November
1972
Box 11 Folder 47
October
1972
Box 11 Folder 48
October
1972
Box 11 Folder 49
September
1972
Box 11 Folder 50
September
1972
Box 11 Folder 51
August
1972
Box 11 Folder 52
August
1972
Box 11 Folder 53
July
1972
Box 11 Folder 54
July
1972
Box 11 Folder 55
June
1972
Box 12 Folder 1
May
1972
Box 12 Folder 2
April-May
1972
Box 12 Folder 3
April
1972
Box 12 Folder 4
March
1972
Box 12 Folder 5
March
1972
Box 12 Folder 6
March
1972
Box 12 Folder 7
February
1972
Box 12 Folder 8
February
1972
Box 12 Folder 9
January
1972
Box 12 Folder 10
January
1972
Box 12 Folder 11
January
1972
Box 12 Folder 12
December
1972
Box 12 Folder 13
December
1972
Box 12 Folder 14
December
1972
Box 12 Folder 15
November
1971
Box 12 Folder 16
November
1971
Box 12 Folder 17
November
1971
Box 12 Folder 18
October-November
1971
Box 12 Folder 19
October
1971
Box 12 Folder 20
October
1971
Box 12 Folder 21
September
1971
Box 12 Folder 22
September
1971
Box 12 Folder 23
August
1971
Box 12 Folder 24
August
1971
Box 12 Folder 25
August
1971
Box 12 Folder 26
July-August
1971
Box 12 Folder 27
July
1971
Box 12 Folder 28
July
1971
Box 12 Folder 29
June
1971
Box 12 Folder 30
May
1971
Box 12 Folder 31
May
1971
Box 12 Folder 32
April
1971
Box 12 Folder 33
April
1971
Box 12 Folder 34
March
1971
Box 12 Folder 35
March
1971
Box 12 Folder 36
February
1971
Box 12 Folder 37
February
1971
Box 12 Folder 38
January
1971
Box 12 Folder 39
January
1971
Box 12 Folder 40
January
1971
Box 12 Folder 41
December
1970
Box 12 Folder 42
November-December
1970
Box 12 Folder 43
November
1970
Box 12 Folder 44
November
1970
Box 12 Folder 45
October
1970
Box 12 Folder 46
October
1970
Box 12 Folder 47
October
1970
Box 12 Folder 48
September
1970
Box 12 Folder 49
September
1970
Box 12 Folder 50
August
1970
Box 12 Folder 51
August
1970
Box 12 Folder 52
July
1970
Box 12 Folder 53
June-July
1970
Box 12 Folder 54
June
1970
Box 13 Folder 1
May-June
1970
Box 13 Folder 2
May
1970
Box 13 Folder 3
May
1970
Box 13 Folder 4
May
1970
Box 13 Folder 5
April-May
1970
Box 13 Folder 6
April
1970
Box 13 Folder 7
March
1970
Box 13 Folder 8
February-March
1970
Box 13 Folder 9
February
1970
Box 13 Folder 10
January
1970
Box 13 Folder 11
January
1970
Box 13 Folder 12
November-December
1969
Box 13 Folder 13
July-October
1969
Box 13 Folder 14
March-May
1969
Box 13 Folder 15
February
1969
Box 13 Folder 16
January
1969
Box 13 Folder 17
Correspondence
1968
Box 13 Folder 18
Correspondence
1965-1967