Eric L. McKitrick Papers, 1934-2001

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Series III: Teaching Activities Outside of Columbia University, 1955-2000

This series includes personal business files and teaching material on positions and visiting professorships that McKitrick held outside of Columbia University.


Subseries III.1: Personal Business Files, 1955-2000

documents personal business issues and activities related to McKitrick's appointments and visiting professorships, and include information on the appointments, housing, departmental meetings, social and speaking engagements, and invitations. There is some general information related to courses taught during these appointments filed with this material.


Cambridge, 1973-1974



Box 15 Folder 2 Pitt Professorship


Box 15 Folder 3 Academic-Professional


Box 15 Folder 4 Cambridge Classes


Box 15 Folder 5 Social Life, Etc.


Box 15 Folder 6 Speaking Invitations England, 1973-1974


Oxford, 1979-1980


Box 15 Folder 7 Harmsworth Professorship Oxford


Box 15 Folder 8 Oxford Faculty of Modern History


Box 15 Folder 9 Oxford Classes, Lectures, and Seminars


Box 15 Folder 10 Queen's College Oxford


Box 15 Folder 11 England Speaking Invitations



Box 16 Folder 1 Social and Miscellaneous


University of Chicago, 1955-1959


Box 16 Folder 2 Evaluations of Student Papers, 1956, Undated, 1956, Undated


Box 16 Folder 3 Appointment, Salary, University College, Etc., 1954-1959


Box 16 Folder 4 Students--Veysey-Kelley et al., 1958-1964


Box 16 Folder 5 Course Syllabi, Undated


Box 16 Folder 6 Smith College Seminar, 1973


Douglass - Rutgers, 1959-1960


Box 16 Folder 7 Miscellaneous/Business, 1958-1960, 1976, 1958-1960, 1976


Box 16 Folder 8 Grades-Courses-Miscellaneous


Box 16 Folder 9 Vassar, 1968-1970


Smith College


Box 16 Folder 10 On Leave, 1967-1968


Box 16 Folder 11 Ziskind Lectures, 1968


Box 16 Folder 12 to 13 Smith-Northampton, 1970s-2000, (2 Folders)

(Some of this material is related to summer research trips)


Subseries III.2: Courses, 1955-1980

includes teaching material for individual classes taught at the University of Chicago, Douglass College at Rutgers University, Vassar College, Cambridge University, and Oxford University. The files include detailed lecture outlines, examination questions, and syllabi.


University of Chicago & Douglass College/Rutgers, circa, 1955-1960



Box 46 Folder 6 Growth of American Civilization Part I

(1492-1840 and 1492-1865, respectively)


Box 46 Folder 7 Growth of American Civilization Part III

(1898-1941 and 1865-1941, respectively)


University of Chicago, circa, 1955-1959


Box 46 Folder 8 Techniques of Argument in Theoretical Writing


Box 46 Folder 9 Problems in American History 1828-1860 (History 373C)


Box 46 Folder 10 Post-Civil War America 1865-1900 (History 373D), 1865-1900



Box 47 Folder 1 Douglass College/Rutgers--Development of Western Civilization (History 101-102),, 1959-1960



Box 46 Folder 4 Vassar College--Political History of the United States 1860-1877 (Columbia University G6676y & Vassar College 385a), 1967-1968, 1860-1877, 1967-1968


Cambridge University, 1973-1974



Box 47 Folder 2 The Era of Federalism: Politics and National Identity, 1787-1801


Box 47 Folder 3 The Civil War and Reconstruction


Box 47 Folder 4 Untitled

(Lecture notes for American History 1492-1877)


Oxford University, 1979-1980


Box 47 Folder 5 The Early American Republic 1787-1809 plus Harmsworth Inaugural Lecture, 1787-1809


Box 47 Folder 6 American Nationalism and the Jacksonian Era, 1812-1844