Michael Kammen papers, 1962-2014.
Collection Number: 14-17-3649
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Michael Kammen papers, 1962-2014.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
14-17-3649
Abstract:
Theses written under Professor Kammen's direction; talks, articles, and papers written
by Michael Kammen, and drafts, galley proofs, and source material for a book he edited.
Creator:
Kammen, Michael G.
Cornell University. Department of History
Quanitities:
1.8 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Michael Kammen Papers, #14-17-3649. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Videotapes of talks given by Michael Kammen, including Public Affairs Television Moyers,
"In Search of the Constitution: In the Beginning," 1987; White House Millennium, 1998;
Fall Festival of the Arts and National Conference Keynote Address, Michigan State
University, 1999; Ball State University, 2000.
Includes Department of History senior honors theses, 1978-2007, written under Professor
Kammen's direction.
Letters re: 2013-2014 from friends, former students, and historians around the country
and essays re 2014; files: responses to each of his books and essays (by hand, e-mail,
and reviews); files: thinking about history and historians and offprints of essays;
medals and other ephemera; and books.
Drafts, galley proofs, and photocopies of primary source material from various libraries
for "What is the Good of History?": Selected Letters of Carl L. Becker, 1900-1945,
edited by Kammen.
Names:
Becker, Carl L. (Carl Lotus), 1873-1945.
Cornell University -- : Students.
Places:
United States -- History -- Study and teaching.
Form and Genre Terms:
Theses.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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Senior honors theses
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Changing American Perceptions of Puritanism, 1915-1944; Grant, Elizabeth M.
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1978 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Family and Community in Leominster, Massachusetts, 1740-1800; DiNardo, Bennie
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1979 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
History by the House: a case study in the Political, Social and Urban Context of Patriotic
Preservationism; Relkin, Ellen
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1980 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
The Vision of an Historical Novelist: A Biographical Study of Esther Forbes, 1891-1967;
McCabe, Beth
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1981 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
The Influence of Slavery Upon the California Constitution of 1849; Berger, Matthew
D.
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1987 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
"The Whole Gospel of National Newspaper Advertising": American Newspapers and Newspaper
Advertising, 1885-1925; Konstance, Suzanne
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1988 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Educational Policy in American History Museums, 1940-1975; Schafer, Julie
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1988 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Creating a Spirit of Place: Ward Melville, The Three Villages and visions of community
in 20th century America; Hull, Jennifer
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1992 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
War in Four Colors: The Portrayal of War in American Comic Books, 1940-1955; Soffer,
Philip
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1992 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Melting Pot to Mosaic: The Movement for Recognition of White Ethnic American, 1969-1975;
Kelman, Matthew S.
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1993 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
"The Happier Side of Negro Life": Moderation, Imitation, and African-American Identity
in Ebony's "Photo-Editorials," 1945-1978; Smith, Arthur C.
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1996 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
The Fine Print: Diversity Within the Groups Involved in "The Perfect Moment" Controversy
and the Role of the American Press; Swarz, Lynn M.
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1996 |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Confronting the Doorkeeper: Assessing Myth in American Law, 1930-1960; Greenblatt,
Joshua
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1997 |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
"On the Other Side of the Wall": The Role of the Media During the 1971 Attica Prison
Uprising; Kraft-Stolar, Tamar
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1999 |
| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Photographing the Landscape of the Soul: Sites of Identity in Nineteenth-Century American
Portrait Photographs and Regional Narratives; Anderson, Alicia Kate
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2002 |
| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
The Double and Its Wilderness in two parts; Anderson, Erica Kendall
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2002 |
| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
"I Am With You, You Men and Women of Generations Hence": Walt Whitman's Influence
on Arts and Writers of the American Scene; Guarneri, Julia A.
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2002 |
| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
A Camera Lucida: Antebellum British Travelers' Narratives and the Invention of America;
Peters, Justin
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2003 |
| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
The Elusive Life of Robert Hare or A Contextualized Profile of an Individual Lamentably
Lost from the Annals of History; Silberman, Michael J.
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2003 |
| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Biennale as Battlefield: The Museum of Modern Art and the CIA at the Venice Biennale,
1948-1956; Somerstein, Rachel
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2004 |
| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
When Push Comes to Shove: A Comparative Analysis of the Changing role of Dance Within
the French and American State Funding Institutions; Faissié, Nathalie
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2004 |
| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Burt Green Wilder: Scientific Pioneer in American Racial Thought, 1841-1925; Harris,
Brianna Noelani
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2007 |
| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Conflicted Critics: Culture, Politics and the New York intellectuals; Noonan, Madeline
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2007 |
| Box 2 |
Blumenfeld, L. H. (1989). Thesis. The great turn in American-Russian diplomatic relations:
changes in the United States Public and official perspective of Tsarist Russia, 1867-1881.
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1989 | |
| Box 2 |
Ovodenko, A. (n.d.). Thesis. Interpreting Threats: American Intelligence in the Korean
and Vietnam Wars. Cornell University.
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Undated | |
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Articles/papers/book by Michael Kammen
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| Box 3 |
"Richard Watson Gilder and the New York Tenement House Commission of 1894"
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1962 | |
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Scope and Contents
-article in Bulletin of the New York Public Library
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| Box 3 |
"The Origins of Representative Government in British North America"
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1968 | |
| Box 3 |
"The American Colonies and the 'Seasons of Business' in Eighteenth-Century Britain"
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1970 | |
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Scope and Contents
-article in Anciens Pays et Assemblees D'Etats
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| Box 3 |
"A Machine That Would Go of Itself"
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1988 | |
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Scope and Contents
-in Korean
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| Box 3 |
Two articles in Cyrillic script
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1981, 1998 | |
| Box 4 |
"What is the Good of History?" drafts, galley proofs, and source material
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1973 | |
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Scope and Contents
Drafts, galley proofs, and photocopies of primary source material from various libraries
for "'What is the Good of History?": Selected Letters of Carl L. Becker, 1900-1945,
edited by Kammen.
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| Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Becker Research materials / Cornell History Club
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Scope and Contents
1921 Cornell History Club photo includes: Julian P. Bretz, Nathaniel Scmidt, George
Lincoln Burr, Charles Hull, Blance Hazard, William Westermann, Carl Becker, Ernest
W. Nelson, George G. Andrews, Edgad Riley, William Graves, Wallace Notestein, NellisM.
Crouse, Gussie E. Gaskill, Louis R. Gottschalk, Harold Hulme.
1922 Cornell History Club photo includes: Preserved Smith, David H. Wilson, John H.
Nelson, Amy A. Wilson, Frances Relf, Catherine Young, John G. McGuire, Lloyd H. Hatch,
Thomas P. Harrison, Albert N. Thompson, Clifford Martin, Leo Gershoy.
Also a photo of history graduate students preparing to attend an event for Becker,
including Ruth Emery, Walter Balderston, Seymour N. Dunn, James E. Seaver, Carl G.
Gustavson, Chris Morley, Virgina Seaver, Charlotte Maxson, Gussie Gaskill, David M.
Ellis, Scott H. Lytle, William McNeill.
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| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Postcard from Kammen to Michael Ebner regarding Ebner's article in the New York Times.
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2010-04-25 |
| Box 2 |
Flick, A. C. (1975, January). New York history: quarterly journal of the New York
State Historical Association. [Albany, N.Y.?]: New York State Historical Association.
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1975 | |
| Box 2 |
Epstein, J. (1975) The American scholar. Washington: United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa.
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1975 | |
| Box 2 |
Colonial Society of Massachusetts, & Northeastern University (1968, December). The
New England Quarterly. Boston, Mass: New England Quarterly.
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1968 | |
| Box 3 |
Videos/CD's
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| Box 3 | V-5970 |
"In Search of the Constitution: In the Beginning"
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1987 |
| Box 3 | V-5971 |
"White House Millennium"
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1998 |
| Box 3 | V-5972 |
Tocqueville lecture, Library of Congress
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1998 |
| Box 3 | V-5973 |
Fall Festival of the Arts and National Conference, keynote address
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1999 |
| Box 3 | V-5974 |
"1950 at Fifty: A Watershed Year in American Culture and Its Legacy", Ball State University
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2000 |
| Box 3 | V-5990 |
"Booknotes: Michael Kammen"
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1999 |
| Box 3 | CD-1680 |
"Visual Shock" by Michael Kammen - Off The Page
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2007 |