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Found 9 collections related to Historians -- United States
Meier, August, 1923-2003
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division | Sc MG 340
73.6 linear feet (149 boxes)
Since the early 1960's August Meier has been a major force in the study of African-American history in his examination of late nineteenth and twentieth century America by his application of rigorous social and intellectual analysis. Meier was...
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Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division | Sc MG 974
54.21 linear feet (116 boxes)
The Lawrence D. Reddick papers (1864-1997) reflect Reddick's activities as a historian, professor, and advocate for the study of Black history, as well as his involvement in the civil rights movement as both participant and documentarian. The bulk...
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Herskovits, Jean
Photographs and Prints Division. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture | Sc Photo Jean Herskovits collection
0.42 linear feet (1 box)
Jean Frances Herskovits (1935-2019), was a historian of African history. The Jean Herskovits photographs, dating from 1950 to 2000, depict friends, colleagues, political leaders, and Herskovits' travels.
Diggins, John P.
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 18353
5 linear feet (12 boxes)
John Patrick Diggins (1935-2009) was an intellectual historian, university professor, and the author of numerous publications, including Mussolini and Fascism; the view from America (1972), The American Left in the Twentieth Century (1973), The...
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Herskovits, Jean
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division | Sc MG 994
77.08 linear feet (182 boxes, 4 tubes)
Jean Frances Herskovits (1935-2019) was a historian and educator of African history with a focus on Nigeria. The collection, dated 1920 to 2018, documents her scholarly research of the economic and political changes that were happening in West and...
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Weinberg, Herman G.
Billy Rose Theatre Division | *T-Mss 1980-003
12.38 linear feet (49 boxes)
Herman G. Weinberg was an American writer, foreign film translator, teacher, and film historian working from the 1920s to the 1980s. The Herman G. Weinberg collection consists of scrapbooks containing clippings, correspondence, halftones,...
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Proulx, Annie
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature | Berg Coll MSS 22245
119.71 linear feet (433 boxes, 183 volumes, 1 tube, 7 folders). 4.3 gigabytes (3,989 computer files). 60 audio recordings. 20 moving image recordings
E. Annie Proulx (1935-) is an American author, journalist, and historian who has published eleven books, including the novels Postcards, The Shipping News, Barkskins,...
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Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 17775
242.99 linear feet (574 boxes, 1 tube)
The Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. papers document the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1917-2007), noted for his political activities in the Democratic Party and for his acclaimed accounts of...
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Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995
Photographs and Prints Division. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture | Sc Photo Lawrence D. Reddick Collection
5.04 linear feet (13 boxes)
Lawrence Dunbar Reddick (March 3, 1910 – August 2, 1995) was a professor, historian, biographer of Martin Luther King, Jr., and former curator of the New York Public Library's Schomburg Collection. Reddick was a scholar in the field of African...
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