Glenn Altschuler papers, 1950s-2020s
Collection Number: 14-5-4429

Images of Altschuler and various events and in his office. Includes New York Governor David Paterson at the 2010 Sy Katz parade. Joseph A. Burns faculty office dedication 2016. Peter Meinig; Atkinson family; Bob and Helen Appel; Cornell Adult University students in London; Adrienne McNair; Anthony Caputi; Alain Seznec; University of Minnesota Law School talk with David Wippman; Russia trip with Preston Mendenhall; Sesquicentennial Dinner in Hong Kong with Sherman Cochran; R. Laurence Moore; Lauris McKee; Stephen and Evalyn Milman, Suzanne Weiss; Stephen Weiss; Altschuler in his office with Kevin Morris, Greg Schneider, Kim Leffert, Anthony Zega, 1983; Isaac Kramnick, Miriam Brody; Cornell Young Alumni Event in San Francisco at Giants stadium.

Speakers include Penny Haitkin, Isaac Kramnick, David Dase, Patrick Burns, Rachel Solarsh, Matt Goldberg, Karen Paul Zimmer, Rob Summers, Kevin Morris, Hunter Rawlings, and Altschuler

Namely from former students and advisees or parents.

Namely from former students and advisees or parents. Includes thanks for Altschuler's efforts organizing the transfer of students displaced by hurricane Katrina to Cornell from Tulane.

Includes, acknowledgements and thank yous for work done by Altschuler during his career, comments from readers of Altschuler's books including a note from Senator Daniel Inouye aknowlding the G.I. Bill book, Organization of American Historians Binkley-Stephenson Award, other recognitions and professional correspondence. Notable items include a letter from Provost Biddy Martin thanking Altschuler for his role in leading efforts for the Administration's response to the movement to unionize the graduate, teaching and research assistants at Cornell; a copy of Harold Bloom's Cornell graduation address and a letter in which he says he will give the address in part because of a personal debt owed to Altschuler (for mentoring his son); a letter from Dan McCall explaining his exchanges with R. Laurence Moore about whether he used details from the suicide of Todd Moore, Professor Moore's son, in his novel, Triphammer; correspondence upon the death of Isaac Kramnick. Other correspondents include John Ammons, Sandy Berger, Abe Eisenstadt, Walter LaFeber.

Authors responding to reviews by Altschuler of their books.

Contain recollections by students, colleagues, and friends about Altschuler's career

CAU Moments , a Tribute to Glenn Altschuler book containing memories from Cornell Adult University and else where upon retirement; Cornell Adult University Great American Trials memory book 2005; album from London 2010; other CAU items.

letters of endorsement. Also includes comical volume "A Pictorial History of Recent Events at Ithaca College" utilizing historic images with captions relating Ithaca's tenure process.

Includes materials relating to talks given and the talks themselves, eulogies, articles and other items mainly by Altschuler, but some about him. Speeches often show Altschuler's humor. Subjects include, Patsy Brannon, Kyle Dake, Abraham Seldin Eisenstadt, Kent Fuchs, Jeff Haitkin, Alfred Kahn, Isaac Kramnick,Phil Lewis, Dorothy and Thomas Litwin, Peter Meinig, Porus Olpadwala, Hunter Rawlings, Curtis Reis, Frank Rhodes, Joel Silbey, Debbie Halpern Silverman, David Skorton. topics include higher education, baseball, Cornell Penn football, Cornell history, Class of 1955, Class of 1964, Race at Cornell. Also includes song lyrics written by Altschuler as part of his speeches or for Cornell events.

Articles and programs mentioning Altschuler, including New York Times article about students displaced by hurricane Katrina coming to Cornell, book review of Rude Republic.

Topics include higher education, Peter Debye.

Includes materials relating to All Shook Up, Rude Republic, The G.I.Bill, and The Rise and Fall of Protestant Brooklyn. Also material from Stuart Blumin, David Hackett Fischer, Ron Formisano.

Includes reposnes providing biographical material from or related to some of the individuals included in the book.

Exams for American Studies 102, Introduction to American Studies: History and Literature, the Twentieth Century; syllabus for American Studies 2010, Popular Culture in the Unitied States 1900-1950 and American Studies 2020 Popular Culture in Modern America, 1950-Present. Index of Altschuler's lectures on popular culture and copies of each.

Digital audio and video files of lectures of this four credit course at Cornell University. The course description was listed as follows:

AMST 2020 treats the period from 1950 to the present as we examine best-sellers, films, sports and television, radio, ads, newspapers, magazines, and music. We try to better understand the ways in which popular culture shapes and/or reflects American values. The course also depicts popular culture as "contested terrain," the place where social classes, racial and ethnic groups, women and men, the powerful and less powerful seek to "control" images and themes. Topics include The Honeymooners and 1950s television, soap operas; "gross-out" movies; Elvis; the Beatles, and Guns 'n Roses; gothic romances; and People Magazine and USA Today.

Correspondence to and from David I. Grossvogel, John P. Roche, Altschuler and TV Guide employees regarding the research project. Correspondence is namely concerning their thoughts on the Guide's work relating to women and people of color. Includes discussions of articles regarding civil rights, women's liberation, and race in TV Guide. Correspondents include Merrill Panitt, Leslie Raddatz, Edith Efron. Efron includes an annotated article showing issues in writing about African Americans. Also notes from an interview with Carolyn See.

Includes correspondence from Triangle Publications Inc., namely items relating to Martin Lewis and Merrill Panitt. Correspondence regarding writers and others in the business. Includes information about the promotion of TV Guide including in the sets of television shows, photos of the newsstand prop from the Lucille Ball Show. Promotional booklet titled "Inside TV Guide." Photographs of celebrities holding TV Guide issues or other items relating to celebrities including Pat Boone, Lawrence Welk, Lucille Ball, Roy Rogers. Copies of thank you notes from Bing Crosby, Lucille Ball, and Fred Astaire.

Triangle Publications Inc. correspondence namely relating to Dwight Whitney, Merrill Panitt, and Roger Youman concerning articles and content for TV Guide and the need for increased production. Also a letter regarding a Mental Health Special from 1973 and a letter from writer Howard Fast expressing concerns about an article he wrote.

Includes correspondence, articles, and a history by Hobson of his time at TV Guide