"The American Story" papers, 1954

"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):
English .
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.

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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.

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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.

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2009-06-26 File created.

2012-01-09 XML document instance created by Catherine C. Ricciardi

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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.

Subject Headings

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Genre/Form
Scripts (documents)
Place
United States -- History
Subject
History -- Study and teaching
Public service radio programs
Radio in education
Radio programs

Indices


Box 1

Author and Chronological Index


Box 7

Subject Index

Papers


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