"The American Story" papers, 1954
Summary Information
Abstract
Manuscripts, correspondence, and documents relating to the radio program, "The American Story."
At a Glance
- Call No.:
- MS#0030
- Bib ID:
- 4078599 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Broadcast Music, Inc.; Dangerfield, George, 1904-1986; James, Marquis, 1891-1955; Mott, Frank Luther, 1886-1964; Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971; Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007; Catton, Bruce, 1899-1978; Morris, Richard B (Richard Brandon), 1904-1989; Jones, Howard Mumford, 1892-1980; Society of American Historians
- Repository:
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Physical Description:
- 2.5 linear feet (estimate 750 items in 5 boxes)
- Language(s):
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English
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- Access:
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Description
Summary
The collection consists of original manuscripts, correspondence, and related documents for "The American Story" the prize-winning, continuing script series prepared and distributed to radio stations as a public service by Broadcast Music, Inc., in association with the Society of American Historians. Designed to bring authoritative American history before wide audiences"The American Story" was inaugurated in July 1954. Contributors to this series of 212 papers have been such outstanding historians as George Dangerfield, Marquis James, Frank Luther Mott, Allan Nevins, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Bruce Catton, Richard B. Morris, Howard Mumford Jones--115 altogether, faculty members of 48 colleges and universities as well as private individuals.
Arrangement
Using the Collection
Restrictions on Access
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Curator of Manuscripts/University Archivist, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML). The RBML approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Name of Collection; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Source of acquisition--Haverlin, Carl. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1958. Accession number--M58-04-18.
Gift of Carl Haverlin, 1958.
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processing Information
Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 03/23/89.
Collection is processed to folder level.
Revision Description
2009-06-26 File created.
2012-01-09 XML document instance created by Catherine C. Ricciardi
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
History
"The American Story," was created by Broadcast Music, Inc., in association with the Society of American Historians. Designed to bring authoritative American history before wide audiences, "The American Story" was inaugurated in July 1954.
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Box 1
THE UNIQUE AMERICAN STORY - Allan Nevins
Box 2
1. THE AGE OF DISCOVERY AND COLUMBUS - Irving A. Leonard
Box 2
2. EXPERIMENT IN COLONIZATION: JAMESTOWN AND THE VIRGINIA COLONY - Louis B. Wright
Box 2
3. THE PILGRIMS, PLYMOUTH AND THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT - George Willison
Box 2
4. THE DUTCH AND NEW NETHERLAND - Richard B. Morris
Box 2
5. WILLIAM PENN, FOUNDER OF COLONIES - Carl Bridenbaugh
Box 2
6. ROGER WILLIAMS: DISSENTER AND DEMOCRAT - Max Savelle
Box 2
7. NATHANIEL BACON: "TORCHBEARER OF THE REVOLUTION" - Thomas J. Wertenbaker
Box 2
8. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN by Whitfield J. Bell, Jr.
Box 2
9. APOSTLES OF FREEDOM: SAM ADAMS AND TOM PAINE - Philip Davidson
Box 2
10. GEORGE WASHINGTON - Bernhard Knollenberg
Box 2
11. THOMAS JEFFERSON - Dumas Malone
Box 2
12. ALEXANDER HAMILTON - Nathan Schachner
Box 2
13. ESTABLISHING A GOVERNMENT - Irving Brant
Box 2
14. A CHALLENGE TO FREEDOM: THE ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS - Claude G. Bowers
Box 2
8a. THE BATTLE FOR NORTH AMERICA - Lawrence H. Olpeon
Box 2
15. THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE AND THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION - John Bakeleae
Box 2
16. ELI WHITNEY - PIONEER OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE - Nathan Miller
Box 2
17. MR. MADISON'S WAR - George Dangerfleld
Box 2
18. THE FACTORY COMES TO NEW ENGLAND - Thomas C. Cochran
Box 2
19 CLINTON'S DITCH AND ITS INFLUENCE ON WESTERN DEVELOPMENT - Carl Carmer
Box 2
20 . THE MONROE DOCTRINE: CORNERSTONE OF AMERICAN POLICY - Dexter Perkins
Box 2
21. ANDREW JACKSON: THE COMMON MAN'S HERO - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Box 2
22. SAM HOUSTON AND THE SOUTHWESTERN FRONTIER - Marquis James
Box 2
23. THE MEXICAN WAR AND MANIFEST DESTINY - Robert Selph Henry
Box 2
24. UTOPIA IN AMERICA - Odell Shepard
Box 2
25. THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE - Jay Leyda
Box 2
26. THE ARTIST IN 19TH CENTURY AMERICA - Olive Larkin
Box 2
27 . DANIEL WEBSTER: VOICE OF NORTHERN INDUSTRIALISM - Arthur C. Cole
Box 2
28. JOHN C. CALHOUN: SPOKESMAN FOR THE COTTON KINGDOM - Charles M. Wiltse
Box 2
29. AGITATING THE SLAVERY QUESTION - David
Box 2
Donald
Box 3
30. ABRAHAM LINCOLN - Benjamin P. Thomas
Box 3
31. THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA - E. Merton Coulter
Box 3
32. THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION - Paul M. Angle
Box 3
33. GRANT AND LEE: A STUDY IN CONTRASTS - Bruce Oatton
Box 3
34. LOYALTY TESTS IN THE CIVIL WAR - Harold M. Hyman
Box 3
35. RADICAL RECONSTRUCTION: THE IMPEACHMENT OF ANDREW JOHNSON - H.K. Beale
Box 3
36. THE GILDED AGE - Leland D. Baldwin
Box 3
37. THE FARMER PROTESTS: POPULISM - J.D. Hicks
Box 3
38 .LABOR PROTESTS: THE PULLMAN STRIKE - Henry
Box 3
David
Box 3
39. THE AGE OF ENTERPRISE - Allan Nevins
Box 3
40. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN - Eric Goldman
Box 3
41. THE CITY, THE MUCKRAKERS, AND TOM L. JOHNSON Arthur Schlesinger, Sr.
Box 3
42. THEODORE ROOSEVELT - Elting Morison
Box 3
43. MANIFEST DESTINY AND THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR - Julius W. Pratt
Box 3
44. PASSAGE TO INDIA: THE STORY OF THE PANAMA CANAL - James Shenton
Box 3
45. THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPORTS IN AMERICA Robert S. Holzman
Box 3
46. THE AMERICAN INDIAN Walter S. Campbell
Box 3
47. THE FRONTIER DISAPPEARS: ITS MEANING IN AMERICAN HISTORY - Ray A. Billington
Box 3
48. THE IMMIGRANT IN AMERICAN HISTORY - Carl Wittke
Box 3
49. REALISM IN AMERICAN LITERATURE - Howard Mumford Jones
Box 3
50. FROM THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARTISTS TO THE "ASH CAN" SCHOOL - James Thomas Flexner
Box 3
51. WOODROW WILSON Arthur S. Link
Box 3
52. AMERICA WITHDRAWS FROM EUROPE: THE VERSAILLES TREATY AND THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS John A. Garraty
Box 3
53. THE CHANGING STATUS OF WOMEN - Agnes Rogers Allen
Box 3
54. LA FOLLETTE AND PROGRESSIVISM - Pola La Follette
Box 3
55. BACK TO NORMALCY: THE DECADE OF THE 1920S - Quincy Howe, 1920S
Box 3
56. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND THE NEW DEAL - Frank Freidel
Box 3
57. AMERICAN LABOR ORGANIZES - Irving Howe
Box 3
58. GLOBAL CONFLICT: AMERICA ENTERS WORLD WAR TWO - Nathaniel Peffer
Box 3
59 . THE SAN FRANCISCO CONFERENCE AND THE UNITED NATIONS - Virginia O. Glidersleeve
Box 3
60. THE DOCTRINE OF COMMUNIST CONTAINMENT - David J. Dallin
Box 3
61 . SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE MODERN WORLD - Waldensar Kaempffert
Box 3
Ex. THE AMERICAN FIREMAN - Robert S. Holzman
Box 3
15a-c. THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE AND THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION - John Bakeless (3 Items)
Box 3
62. WASHINGTON IRVING - Claude- G. Bowers
Box 3
63. MARY TODD LINCOLN - Ruth Painter Randall
Box 3
64. JEDEDIAH SMITH - Ray A. Billington
Box 3
65. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN - Whltfield J. Bell, Jr.
Box 3
66. EDGAR ALLAN POE - Howard Mumford Jones
Box 3
67. MATTHEW CALBRAITH PERRY - Nathaniel Peffer
Box 3
68. JOHN JAMES AUDUBON - Donald Culross Peattie
Box 3
69. EDWARD PREBLE - Fletcher Pratt
Box 3
70. HORACE MANN - Philip Davidson
Box 3
71. SAMUEL P. B. MORSE - James Thomas Plexner
Box 3
72. ULYSSES S. GRANT - Bruce Catton
Box 3
73. JAMES K. POLK - Robert Selph Henry
Box 3
74. CARL SCHURZ, INDEPENDENT - Carl Wittke
Box 4
75. HENRY HUDSON - Richard B. Morris
Box 4
76. ALBERT EINSTEIN - Waldemar Kaempffert
Box 4
77. ABIGAIL ADAMS - Jane Carson
Box 4
78. GEORGE ROGERS CLARK - Walter Havighurst
Box 4
79. JOHN PAUL JONES - Rear Admiral Edward Ellsberg
Box 4
80. JEFFERSON DAVIS - E.M. Coulter
Box 4
81. THE PONY EXPRESS - Lee Jensen
Box 4
82. SAMUEL COLT - Roger Burlingame
Box 4
83. FATHER MARQUETTE AND THE GREAT RIVERS - August Derleth
Box 4
84. OLD JOHN BROWN OF OSAWATOMIE - Boyd Stutler
Box 4
85. RICHARD BOURNE, THE WHITE SACHEM OF MASHPEE - Virginia C. Gildersleeve
Box 4
86. WOODROW WILSON - Arthur S. Link
Box 4
87. COCHISE, CHIEF OF THE CHIRICAHUA APACHES - Elliott Arnold
Box 4
88. JAMES MADISON - Irving Brant
Box 4
89. JAMES MADISON - George Dangerfield
Box 4
90. JOSEPH HENRY - Paul H. Oehser
Box 4
91. DE WITT CLINTON - Nathan Miller
Box 4
92. WILLIAM BRADFORD - Bradford Smith
Box 4
93. GENERAL ABNER DOUBLEDAY - Robert S. Holzman
Box 4
94. WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN - Earl Schenck Miers
Box 4
95. KIT CARSON - Stanley Vestal (William S. Campbell)
Box 4
96. OLIVER EVANS - Roger Burlingame
Box 4
97. JOHN DICKINSON - Bernard Bailyn
Box 4
98. THE MAYFLOWER - Kenneth Allsop
Box 4
99. MARTIN VAN BUREN - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Box 4
100. AMELIA EARHART - Adele de Leeuw
Box 4
101. JOHN MORGAN AND AMERICAN MEDICINE - Whitfield J. Bell, Jr.
Box 4
102. SIR WALTER RALEIGH - John Bakeless
Box 4
103. AMERIGO VESPUCCI - Irving A. Leonard
Box 4
104. EMILY DICKINSON - Jay Leyda
Box 4
105. ANDREW JOHNSON - Howard K. Beale
Box 4
106. TECUMSEH, SHAWNEE CHIEF - Augusta Stevenson
Box 4
107. EDWIN McMASTERS STANTON - Benjamin P. Thomas
Box 4
108. THE TEXAS RANGERS - Lee McGiffen
Box 4
109. THOMAS EAKINS, GREAT AMERICAN REALIST - Oliver W. Larkin
Box 4
110. NELLIE BLY - Iris Noble
Box 4
111. NATHANIEL GREENE - Howard Peckham
Box 4
112. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES - James Shenton
Box 4
113. CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH - Bradford Smith
Box 4
114. THE REVEREND JOHN WISE - Clarence Ver Steeg
Box 4
115. P.G.T. BEAUREGARD - T. Harry Williams
Box 4
116. JUSTIN MORRILL AND THE LAND GRANT COLLEGES - Lewis Webster Jones
Box 4
117. GENERAL "STONEWALL" JACKSON - Burke Davis
Box 4
118. ABRAHAM LINCOLN - Paul Angle
Box 4
119. JACQUES CARTIER - Esther Averill
Box 5
120. ANDREW JACKSON - Charles M. Wiltse
Box 5
121. WILLIAM BREWSTER - George P. Willison
Box 5
122. STEPHEN DECATUR - Bradford Smith
Box 5
123. SAMUEL CHAMPLAIN - Cecile Pepin Edwards
Box 5
124. ANDREW CARNEGIE - Thomas C. Cochran
Box 5
125. MARK TWAIN - Robert Cantwell
Box 5
126. PETER HARRISON: COLONIAL ARCHITECT - Carl Bridanbaugh
Box 5
127. ALEXANDER WILSON - Robert Cantwell
Box 5
128. DOLLY MADISON - Dumas Malone
Box 5
129. WILLIAM BYRD II: BUSY CAVALIER - Louis B. Wright
Box 5
130. CHARLES SUMNER - David Donald
Box 5
131. PATRICK HENRY - Thomas J. Wertenbaker
Box 5
132. JOHN CHARLES FREMONT - Ray A. Billington
Box 5
133. FRANCIS LIEBER: GERMAN-AMERICAN PATRIOT - Frank Freidel
Box 5
134. JOHN C. CALHOUN - Claude G. Bowers
Box 5
135. HERMAN MELVILLE - Jay Leyda
Box 5
136. CHARLES WILLSON PEALE - James Thomas Flexner
Box 5
137. ALEXANDER HAMILTON: A STUDY IN COURAGE - Richard B. Morris
Box 5
138. JONATHAN LETTERMAN - Charles M. Wiltse
Box 5
139. ROBERT TODD LINCOLN - Ruth Painter Randall
Box 5
140. LOUIS HENRY SULLIVAN - Oliver W. Larkin
Box 5
141. GOVERNOR NICHOLSON FALLS IN LOVE - Thomas J. Wertenbaker
Box 5
142. ROBERT ROGERS - Bradford Smith
Box 5
143. ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS - Philip Davidson
Box 5
144. ROBERT JOHN WALKER - James Shenton
Box 5
145. JAMES EDWARD OGLETHORPE - E. Merton Coulter
Box 5
146. GENERAL NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST - Robert Selph Henry
Box 5
147. WILLIAM PRESCOTT - Robert Cantwell
Box 5
148a-c. WILLIAMSBURG REVISITED: PATRICK HENRY CHANGES HISTORY - Earl S. Miers
Box 5
149. GENERAL RICHARD HENRY PRATT - Charles Coleman Sellers
Box 5
150. SIMON KENTON - Walter Havighurst
Box 5
151. NATHANIEL CURRIER - Robert Holzman
Box 5
152. THOMAS PAINE - A.O. Aldridge
Box 5
153. JOHN STARK OF NEW HAMPSHIRE - J. Duane Squires
Box 5
154. JIM BRIDGER - Stanley Vestal (William S. Campbell)
Box 5
155. ALEXANDER MITCHELL - August Derleth
Box 5
156. WILLIAM BARTRAM - Whitfield J. Bell, Jr.
Box 5
157. MYLES STANDISH - George P. Willison
Box 5
158. HERNANDO DE SOTO - Irving A. Leonard
Box 5
159. HORACE GREELEY - Prank Luther Mott
Box 5
160. KING PHILIP - Cecile Pepin Edwards
Box 5
161. CAPTAIN JAMES B. EADS - Charles van Ravensvaay
Box 5
162. JOHN MUIR - Donald Culross Peattie
Box 5
163. HENRY DAVID THOREAU - Carl Bode
Box 5
164. JOSEPH LANE - Lancaster Pollard
Box 6
165. GENERAL ENOCH H. CROWDER - David A. Lockmiller
Box 6
166. ANSON BURLINGAME - Nathaniel Peffer
Box 6
167. STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS - Oliver M. Dickerson
Box 6
168. OLD IRONSIDES - Harry Hansen
Box 6
169. COLONEL WILLIAM HILL - Hampton M. Jarrell
Box 6
170. WILLIAM H. SEVARD - Alfred J. Hanna
Box 6
171. JOSEPH PRIESTLEY - Robert E. Schofield
Box 6
172. WILLIAM HOWARD TAPT - Frank Freidel
Box 6
173. JOHN WALLACE HUTCHINSON - Philip D. Jordan
Box 6
174. CAPTAIN ELIJAH COBB - Virginia C. Gildersleeve
Box 6
175. GEORGE W. PERKINS - John A. Garraty
Box 6
176. MERIWETHER LEWIS - John Bakeless
Box 6
177. WILLIAM CLARK - John Bakeless
Box 6
178. CYRUS HALL McCORMICK - Reynold M. Wik
Box 6
179. THOMAS FITZPATRICK - LeRoy R. Hafen
Box 6
180. CHARLES EVANS HUGHES - Dexter Perkins
Box 6
181. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS - Nathan Miller
Box 6
182. MARY MOODY EMERSON - Odell Shepard
Box 6
183. THADDEUS S.C. LOWE - Waldemar Kaempffert
Box 6
184. BALBOA - Ronald Syme
Box 6
185. IGNATIUS DONNELLY - John D. Hicks
Box 6
186. JOEL BARLOW, MINISTER TO FRANCE - Irving Brant
Box 6
187. WALTER P. CHRYSLER - Thomas C. Cochran
Box 6
188. BROOKS ADAMS - Charles Vevier
Box 6
189. IDA M. TARBELL - Adele de Leeuw
Box 6
190. JONATHAN EDWARDS - Charles H. Poster
Box 6
191. THE WHITMANS - Dorothy O. Johansen
Box 6
192. SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE - David A. Lockmiller
Box 6
193. WILLIAM EATON - Louis B. Wright
Box 6
194. GRENVILLE MELLEN DODGE - Robert Selph Henry
Box 6
195. GEORGE FREDERICK ROOT - Paul M. Angle
Box 6
196. THOMAS W. GREGORY - Harold M. Hyman
Box 6
197. CHARLEMAGNE TOWER - Hal Bridges
Box 6
198. OLD BILL WILLIAMS, MOUNTAIN MAN - Ray A. Billingon
Box 6
199. SILAS WRIGHT - John A. Garraty
Box 6
200. SOCIAL SERVICE IN AMERICA - George H. Soule, Jr.
Box 6
201. RALPH WALDO EMERSON - Odell Shepard
Box 6
202. LAFCADIO HEARN - Alfred Crofts
Box 6
203. HENRY BOUQUET - Kemp Malone
Box 6
204. SOUTHERN YEOMEN IN THE CIVIL WAR - Bell I. Wiley
Box 6
205. COTTON MATHER - Max Savelle