Found 50 collections related to Historians

Sydney Howard Gay (1814-1888) was an American journalist, author and abolitionist. He was an editor at the Anti-Slavery Standard, the New York Tribune, the Chicago Tribune, and the New York Evening Post. His other activities included lecturing for the American Anti-Slavery Society and writing biographies and the multi-volume History of the United States (with William Cullen Bryant). Collection consists of writings, correspondence, notes, account books, and reports. Writings include manuscripts of the History of the United States and his biographies and other works. Correspondence, notes, reports, and account books are from the American Anti-Slavery Society and the Anti-Slavery Standard. less

Robert McNutt McElroy (1872-1959), an historian, taught at Princeton University and various universities in Great Britain and China. After teaching history at Princeton from 1898 to 1916, he became the first American exchange professor to China, lecturing on government and education from 1916 to 1917. During the 1920s and 1930s he taught in Great Britain at Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Bristol, Manchester, and Leeds. His publications included works on Grover Cleveland and Jefferson Davis. Collection consists of McElroy's notes and manuscript of his biography of Jefferson Davis and galley proofs for critical bibliography on Davis. less

Edward Smith was an historian. Scrapbook contains material relating to his biography of William Cobbett, including copies of Cobbett's correspondence, an autograph, clippings, and Smith's correspondence regarding Cobbett; also, clippings, etc., relating to Thomas Paine, Sir Joseph Banks, and Smith's published works. less

Samuel Gardner Drake (1798-1875) was an American historian, antiquarian, genealogist, and bookseller. He wrote about New England history, Indians and witchcraft. Collection consists of Drake's manuscript transcripts of documents, 1633-1792, relating to Indians, particularly Indians of New England. Also, letters, 1838-1857, relating to his bookselling business in Boston, the history of the Drake family, and other business and personal matters; a part of a manuscript relating to witchcraft; and miscellaneous notes, genealogical charts, writings, and printed materials. less

Collection consists of correspondence and introduction written by García Icazbalceta. Correspondence includes letters to Wilberforce Eames primarily concerning bibliographies of Mexican history; and correspondence, 1891-1893, with Thomas Janvier. Also, unfinished introduction to Nueva Colección de Documentos para Historia de México, 1886-1892. less

James Benedict Ossory Fitzpatrick (1881-1964), an English author, teacher, journalist, and editor, worked for the London Daily Mail and wrote for various journals. His pro-Irish and anti-British views led to the publication of two histories of Ireland. His other works included historical studies, articles, book reviews, short stories, and plays. Collection consists of correspondence, writings, literary journals, notes, diary, photographs, printed matter, and estate papers. Correspondence, 1912-1963, is with colleagues, publishers and U.S. government officials concerning publication of his books. Typescripts of his writings include biography of Anne Boleyn, literary memoir, travel articles, book reviews, short stories, and other published and unpublished works. Also, literary journals written during the 1930s, notes for articles, 1901 diary, photographs of Fitzpatrick and his family and friends, printed reviews of his books, promotional materials, and papers relating to the estate of Cecilia Harrigan. less

Harman C. Westervelt was an American historian. Collection consists of Westervelt's essays on various features of New York City, miscellaneous papers and letters, and newsclippings. Essays concern churches, parks, prisons, fire department, the Dutch governors, and New City mayors from the Revolutionary War to 1835. less

Harry Nelson Gay (1870-1932) was an American author and scholar who lived in Italy from 1898 until his death. His personal library was renowned for the collection of resources on the history of Italy from 1815 to 1870. He wrote works on the Risorgimento and biographies for Americani Illustri. Collection consists of Gay's letters to William Roscoe Thayer, an American historian and biographer. Letters, 1907-1923, were written chiefly in Italy and concern Gay's opinions of other historians and scholars; his writings and search for publications for his library; current events in Italy; the diplomatic scene in Europe; World War I from the Italian viewpoint; founding of the Library for American Studies in Italy; affairs of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association; and relief work in earthquakes and on war fronts. less

Henry Adams (1838-1918) was an American historian, novelist, and critic. The collection consists of twenty-eight autograph letters signed by Henry Adams, 1871-1899; his undated autograph memoranda on the art of writing biography (4 p.); transcripts of letters to, from, and about Henry Adams made by Worthington C. Ford relating to his work The Letters of Henry Adams, 1867-1917; clippings and note concerning Henry Adams, 1938; and miscellaneous letters, including eight letters to Ford from various correspondents regarding Ford's book and Henry Adams, and one letter from Frances Adams to Mrs. Lowes, 1920-1937. The Henry Adams autograph letters, excepting letters to Samuel J. Tilden (9 Nov. 1871), and Mrs. Gordon Lester Ford (30 Mar. 1886), are written to Paul Leicester Ford and his brother Worthington Chauncey Ford, 1886-1899, the bulk to the latter in his capacity as Chief of the Bureau of Economic Statistics in Washington, D.C., discussing contemporary U.S. economic conditions. less

Henry Atherton Forster (1868-1932) was a lawyer and historian in New York City. Collection consists of Forster's correspondence, questionnaires and scrapbook of newspaper clippings. Correspondence, 1916-1932, is with prominent American and foreign lawyers, journalists, politicians, and scholars. There are also many letters from American patriotic organizations in New York City. Topics include espionage in the U.S. during World War I, confiscation of enemy alien property, payment of allied war debts, peace diplomacy, U.S. entry into the war, and financial situation of U.S. after the war. Papers also contain questionnaires, 1914-1917, by the New York Bar Association on the judicial power over legislation and clippings about the war. less

Henry Barton Dawson was an American editor, historian and antiquarian bookseller. Collection consists of correspondence, research papers, diary, and other papers of Dawson and his son. Includes correspondence, 1859-1889; papers relating to Dawson's investigation in 1862 of records pertaining to the period of British occupation of New York City during the American Revolution which were missing from the archives of the Finance Department of the New York City government; transcript of parts of Judge Thomas Jones' History of New York During the Revolutionary War, 1879, with editorial notes by Dawson; miscellaneous notes and transcripts; newspaper reviews of Dawson's writings; diary of Henry Barton Dawson, Jr., recording weather and his daily activities as a printer in his father's office in 1870; record of his personal expenses, 1872-1873; and other papers. less

Herbert George Gutman (1928-1985) was a historian and professor of history at Fairleigh Dickinson University and various New York universities. His published works concerned the social and economic structure of American labor. Bulk of the collection consists of Gutman's correspondence and writings. Included are his papers as a student and as a university professor, personal miscellany, research notes, and printed matter. His correspondence with historians, professors of history, academic colleagues, graduate students, and others relates mainly to matters of historical method, to the historiography of the black family and of the working class in America, and to Gutman's and his colleagues' research and writings. Also, papers relative to Gutman's professorships, especially at Fairleigh Dickinson University; manuscripts of his writings including his book The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925 (1976); and personal miscellany such as photographs of Gutman, his family and associates, and audio tape recording. Correspondents include the American Association of University Professors, Howard K. Beale, Merle Curti, Michael Feldberg, John Hope Franklin, Michael A. Gordon, Samuel Pfrimmer Hays, H. Wayne Morgan, Richard B. Morris, Howard H. Quint, Richard Sennett, Martin J. Sklar, Charles Vivier, William Appleman Williams, C. Vann Woodward, and Alfred Young. less

The James Riker Papers document the literary activity and family background of the New York historian and genealogist. The collection consists of original documents from colonial-era New York in Dutch and English, extracts and transcripts from New York and New Jersey historical records, genealogical notes, correspondence, writings, notebooks, printed matter and photographs. Also included are Civil War correspondence and military records of James Riker's brother, Colonel John Lafayette Riker of the New York 62nd Regiment Volunteer Infantry. less

Frank Wuttge, Jr. was a writer and researcher with interests in the history of New York City, Edgar Allan Poe and poetry. His father, Frank Wuttge, Sr. was a photographer active in German-American organizations. Collection consists of correspondence and other papers of Frank Wuttge, Jr. and his father. Papers of Frank Wuttge, Jr. include personal correspondence; correspondence with Ewald Vorsteher concerning European refugees; and writings about Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Rodman Drake, German history, New York City, and Biblical Greek. Papers concerning his father include biographical information with correspondence and memorabilia. Collection also contains scrapbooks, newspaper and magazine clippings, slides, and posters. less

DeWitt Clinton Falls (1864-1937) was a military historian. Collection consists of reports, articles and manuscripts of writings by Falls, clippings, photographs, and drawings. Includes materials related to European and American military uniforms; the armies of Belgium and Great Britain in 1914; and military affairs in England, France, Italy, and elsewhere in Europe, 1926-1930. less

Collection consists of correspondence, dispatches, writings by Bancroft and others, legal papers and accounts, clippings, notes, photographs, and research materials. General correspondence, 1823-1890, contains Bancroft's correspondence, 1847-1849, as U.S. Minister to Great Britain with Cave Johnson, Postmaster-General of the U.S., concerning postal communications and postal treaties with Great Britain; correspondence, 1863-1889, of Bancroft and J. Dickinson Logan, with the librarian and historian, George Moore, on historiographical matters; correspondence, 1887, with J.G. Harris relating to the presidency of James K. Polk; and general correspondence with other political figures. There are also dispatches of the U.S. legations at London, 1847-1849, and Berlin, 1867-1870, reflecting Bancroft's tenure as U.S. Minister to Great Britain and Germany. The bulk of the other papers concerns Bancroft's writings and includes some poetry, articles, addresses and notes, drafts, proofs, and various printed editions of History of the United States and writings about John Adams and Martin Van Buren. There are also a few photographs, clippings, book catalogs and lists, lists of source material in European archives, some legal papers and accounts, notes taken at Göttingen University, transcriptions of rare books, and materials relating to the San Juan water boundary dispute between the U.S. and Great Britain in 1872. less

George Henry Moore (1823-1892) was an American librarian, historian and bibliographer. He was librarian at the New York Historical Society from 1850 to 1876. He also was elected superintendent and trustee for the Lenox Library in 1872 and became administrator for the library in 1876. As a historian he concentrated on the colonial and revolutionary periods of American history. Collection consists of correspondence, writings and printed matter mainly concerning American history during the colonial and revolutionary periods. General correspondence, 1851-1891, pertains to Moore's tenure as librarian of the New York Historical Society and the Lenox Library. Subject correspondence, 1865-1885, relates to monographs on Native American languages in the Lenox Library and Moore's acquisition of 18th century Massachusetts government journals. Writings are primarily Moore's notes on the history of printing in New York and transcripts copied from historical documents relating to 17th and 18th century New York. less

The Jonathan Ned Katz Papers include correspondence, writings, research notes, audiotapes, moving picture films, and textile designs. They reflect Katz's personal life and career as author, playwright, gay rights activist, teacher, textile designer, and as chronicler and historian of the gay, lesbian and African-American experience in the United States. less

Martin B. Duberman, b.1930, is a historian and playwright who taught history in universities for over fifty years. He is the author of the play In White America, biographies of Charles Francis Adams, James Russell Lowell, Paul Robeson, and Lincoln Kirstein; histories of Black Mountain College and the Stonewall Rebellion; as well as numerous other books, plays, essays, and reviews. The collection contains personal and professional correspondence (1930s-2006) documenting Duberman's academic career and theatrical activities; organizational files from REDRESS, the Gay Academic Union, the National Gay Task Force, and the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS); syllabi and lecture notes for courses taught at Yale, Princeton, and Lehman College; manuscripts, typescripts and published copies of his books, plays, and essays, as well as press clippings and personal, family and theatrical memorabilia, sound recordings of interviews, personal and family photographs, and films. less

Lyman Horace Weeks (1851-1942) was an American genealogist, historian and editor. His specialty was genealogical research and he wrote and edited monographs and serials. His biography of Sir Peter Warren, British naval officer who aided in the capture of Louisbourg in 1745, was based on genealogical research. Collection contains Weeks's correspondence, writings, notes, photograph, and printed matter. Correspondence consists of incoming letters primarily concerning Weeks's research on Peter Warren. Writings include original holograph, drafts of chapters and condensed biography of Warren. Also, notes, lists, photograph, and printed materials. less

Judith Mara Gutman is a New York-based author of books on popular and academic topics, and a specialist in the field of the social history of photography. The collection consists of personal and professional correspondence; typescript drafts and supporting material of her writings; course and lectures notes; files from the estate of Herbert George Gutman and sound recordings. less

Koppel Shub Pinson (1904-1961) was an American educator and historian who specialized in German and Jewish history. He taught at Queens College of the City University of New York from 1937 to 1961. Collection consists of correspondence, a few personal papers, writings, lecture notes and outlines, teaching and student records, research notes, and printed material pertaining largely to Pinson's academic career. Correspondence, 1930s-1960s, is with colleagues and other scholars in the U.S. and abroad. Personal file contains photograph of Pinson, announcements of his lectures and tributes to him. Writings include typescripts of his articles, notes and outlines for his public lectures, and teaching file consisting of materials for courses he taught at Queens College and the New School. Also, student records as an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania and as graduate student at Columbia University; research notes for his dissertation and book, Modern Germany; bibliographies of works relating to Russian history and literature and to Jews and antisemitism; and scrapbook of clippings. less

Benson John Lossing (1813-1891) was a historian, wood engraver and editor. Collection consists of correspondence, drawings, manuscripts of writings, and miscellaneous papers, many from printers and publishers relating to Lossing's writings. Includes draft of his article "The Shakers" (1857). less

The Authors Club of New York was founded in 1882. Members included Robert Louis Stevenson, Stephen Crane, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain, and Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The club was disbanded and its assets were turned over to the New York Public Library in 1973. Collection consists of negative photostats of materials collected by the Authors Club of New York. Papers include correspondence, poems, speeches, essays, documents, and photographs of American and European (mostly British) authors, historians and public figures. less

Constance Lindsay Skinner (1882-1939) was a Canadian-born author, critic, historian, and playwright. Her writings included poetry, novels, plays, literary and music criticism, historical works, and adventure stories for children. She wrote histories of the American southwest, Canadian northwest and Indian tribes of British Columbia. Collection contains correspondence, writings, photographs, movie stills, drawings, printed matter, and additional personal papers of Skinner and her parents. Correspondence, 1899-1939, is with authors, artists, editors, publishers, theatrical people, explorers, scholars, and journalists. Writings include typescripts of Skinner's short stories, articles, novels, poetry, children's stories, and criticism. Photographs are of family and friends, Indians of North America, and views of British Columbia and remote areas of the Canadian northwest. Also, drawings and illustrations, movie stills, clippings of criticism of her books and stories, and newsclippings relating to World War I. Other papers consist of her personal accounts, literary notebooks, cookbooks, address books, as well as letters and papers, 1876-1891, of her parents, Robert James Skinner and Annie Lindsay Skinner. less

Charles Penrose (1886- ) was a consulting engineer and historian. Collection consists of Penrose's letters to his son Julian d'Este Penrose concerning Christmas in colonial New England and Philadelphia, shipping, 18th-century New England, and related topics. Also, several letters to H.M. Lydenberg, director of the New York Public Library. less