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Finding Aid for the LeRoy Graf Collection, 1625-1982 (Bulk 1939-1982)


MS-1609

University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN


Encoded by: Elizabeth Dunham, June 22, 2006.

Summary Information
Title: LeRoy Graf Collection

Date/Date Range :   1625-1982 (Bulk 1939-1982)

Extent: 7.5 linear feet

Abstract:
This collection contains materials principally from the time of LeRoy Graf's service as chairman of the history department. Materials include correspondence, his political and historical publications, research files, records of the History Department, and many University of Tennessee reports and publications.

Call number: MS-1609

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Access and Use
Aquisition Information:
Dr. LeRoy Graf donated this collection to the University of Tennessee Special Collections Library.
Access Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Copyright:
The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of Item], LeRoy Graf Collection, MS-1609. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Arrangement

Collection consists of five boxes divided into four series: Census Material, Correspondence, Publications, and University of Tennessee Material.


Biography / History

Dr. LeRoy Graf (1915-1993) received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. He taught at Harvard, Radcliffe College, Tufts College, and the Ohio State University before coming to the University of Tennessee. Long considered one of the University's most distinguished professors, Dr. Graf was instrumental in the forming of the local Phi Beta Kappa Chapter on the University of Tennessee campus. Also, Dr. Graf was well known for his editing of the Andrew Johnson Papers, a project he began in 1956. Dr. Graf was head of the History Department at the University of Tennessee from 1965 to 1980.


Collection Scope and Content Note

These papers are principally from the time of LeRoy Graf's service as chairman of the history department and many relate to Dr, Graf's research interests. Materials include correspondence, his political and historical publications, research files, records of the History Department, and many University of Tennessee reports and publications.

Subject Terms

  • University of Tennessee (Knoxville) -- History Department.
  • Graf, LeRoy, 1915-1993.
  • University of Tennessee (Knoxville campus).
Contents List
   

Series I: Census Material, 1950-1960
Box   1     Folder   1    
Agricultural Census Forms, 1950-1959
Box   1     Folder   2    
Blank Individual Census Reports, 1950-1960
Box   1     Folder   3    
Enumerator's Reference Manual, 1950
Box   1     Folder   4    
Misc. Census Forms, Documents, etc., undated
Box   1     Folder   5    
Clippings on the Census, undated
Box   1     Folder   6    
Area Census Report-(Knoxville, TN), 1950
Box   1     Folder   7    
Enumerator's Workbook, undated
   

Series II: Correspondence, 1943-1982
Box   1     Folder   8    
Correspondence, 1943-1945
Box   1     Folder   9    
Correspondence, 1957-1968
Box   1     Folder   10    
Correspondence, 1971-1975
Box   1     Folder   11    
Correspondence, 1976-1979
Box   1     Folder   12    
Correspondence, 1980-1982
   

Series III: Publications, 1625-1982 (Bulk 1939-1982)
Box   2     Folder   1    
Article: "The Explosive Excitement of History," Saturday Review. (Nevins, Allan), 1968 April 6
Box   2     Folder   2    
Article: "Many Abolitionists Fought on After the Civil War." Princeton Quarterly. (McPherson, James), 1969
Box   2     Folder   3    
Article: "A Quarter Century of Glorious Creation-and a Downfall." Fortune. (Sloan, Alfred, P.), 1963
Box   2     Folder   4    
Article: "Teaching History Today." (Guth, DeLloyd J.), undated
Box   2     Folder   5    
Article: "The Uses of History." (Berrowman, Merle), undated
Box   2     Folder   6    
Articles, Pamphlets, Reports on Church and State, undated
Box   2     Folder   7    
Clippings: Clippings from Tennessee Papers concerning thedonation of a Civil War account to Univ. of Tennessee. undated
Box   2     Folder   8    
Clippings: The Century Gazettee, 1960 January 9
Box   2     Folder   9    
Clippings: Misc. Clippings. undated
Box   2     Folder   10    
East Tennessee Historical Society Documents undated
Box   2     Folder   11    
Newsletter: American Assn. for the Advancement of the Humanities, 1981
Box   2     Folder   12    
Newsletter: American Assn. of University Professors, 1980-1981
Box   2     Folder   13    
Newsletter: American Historical Assn., 1981
Box   2     Folder   14    
Newsletter: American Studies Assn., 1958
Box   2     Folder   15    
Newsletter: Behavioral Research Council Bulletin, 1963
Box   2     Folder   16    
Newsletter: Center for Editions of American Authors, 1969-1975
Box   2     Folder   17    
Newsletter: Committee on History in the Classroom, 1980-1982
Box   2     Folder   18    
Newsletter: "Energy History Report" , 1981
Box   2     Folder   19    
Newsletter: European History Newsletter, 1980-1982
Box   2     Folder   20    
Newsletter: "Feminist Findings," Newsletter of the Office of Special Services, Women's Programs, 1974-1975
Box   2     Folder   21    
Newsletter: GRE Board., undated
Box   2     Folder   22    
Newsletter: Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1964
Box   2     Folder   23    
Newsletter: Musical Americana Newsletter, 1958
Box   2     Folder   24    
Newsletter: Southern Humanities Conference, 1958-1981
Box   2     Folder   25    
Newsletter: Tennessee Arts Report, 1982
Box   2     Folder   26    
Newsletter: Tennessee Conference of Historians, 1981
Box   2     Folder   27    
Newsletter: Tennessee State Museum, 1981
Box   2     Folder   28    
Newsletter: Tennessee Committee for the Humanities, undated
Box   2     Folder   29    
Periodical: The Nation, 1950 May 20
Box   2     Folder   30    
Periodical: Steel Making in America, 1956
Box   2     Folder   31    
Periodical: These Times, 1959
Box   2     Folder   32    
Periodical: Williamsburg, 1980-1981
Box   2     Folder   33    
Newsletter: Central Mississippi Valley American Studies Assn., 1957
Box   3     Folder   1    
American Historical Review, 1940
Box   3     Folder   2    
American Historical Association Final Report, 1975
Box   3     Folder   3    
The Archaic Horizon in Western Tennessee, 1947
Box   3     Folder   4    
A Brief History of the Hudson's Bay Company, undated
Box   3     Folder   5    
Can We Write African History., 1965
Box   3     Folder   6    
A Century of Historiography on the Origins of the Crimean War, undated
Box   3     Folder   7    
The Constitution of the United States of America, undated
Box   3     Folder   8    
The David Davis Family Papers, 1816-1843
Box   3     Folder   9    
Erie Railroad: Its Beginnings and Today, 1951
Box   3     Folder   10    
French Bibliographical Digest: History I, II, 1956
Box   3     Folder   11    
The Forum Series, 1979
Box   3     Folder   12    
Guide to Tennessee Historical Markers, 1953
Box   3     Folder   13    
Historical Magazines (Korean Survey, Mankind), undated
Box   3     Folder   14    
More Books, The Bulletin of the Boston Public Library, 1947
Box   3     Folder   15    
More Books, The Bulletin of the Boston Public Library, 1948
Box   3     Folder   16    
The Boston Public Library Quarterly, 1949
Box   3     Folder   17    
Manuscript: The Role of the Tennessee Woman Journalist in anEmerging South. (Adamson, June), undated
Box   3     Folder   18    
Manuscript: Barbour Lewis: A Carpetbagger Reconsidered, undated
Box   3     Folder   19    
Manuscript: Estes Kefauver: Freshman Congressman. (Gorman, Joseph), 1939-1941
Box   3     Folder   20    
Historical Interpretations of the Spanish Intrigue in Tennessee: A Study, undated
Box   3     Folder   21    
J.G.M. Ramsey, Historian of the Annals, undated
Box   3     Folder   22    
"Polk's War" and the State Press in the Tennessee Gubernatorial Campaign of 1847. (2 copies), undated
Box   3     Folder   23    
The Water Care Establishment in Franklin County, 1858-1859
Box   3     Folder   24    
The Unholy Alliance: The White Agrarian Movement and Blacks in Tennessee, 1888-1891, undated
Box   3     Folder   25    
Report of the New York Public Library, 1946
Box   3     Folder   26    
Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 1947
Box   3     Folder   27    
The New South, 1961-1962
Box   4     Folder   1    
Various Political Publications, undated
Box   4     Folder   2    
Proclamation For Settling the Plantation of Virginia, 1625
Box   4     Folder   3    
The Races of Mankind (Benedict and Weltfish), 1943
Box   4     Folder   4    
Unscrewing the Inscrutable: The Story of Sterling and Harman Elliot, undated
Box   4     Folder   5    
Miscellaneous Historical Publications, undated
   

Series IV: University of Tennessee Material, 1946-1982
Box   4     Folder   6    
Academic Guides, Catalogs, Reports, and Programs of Instruction, undated
Box   4     Folder   7    
University of Tennessee Academic Curricula, 1967-1969
Box   4     Folder   8    
University of Tennessee Commission for Women Annual Report, 1976-1977
Box   4     Folder   9    
Education for Public Administration in Vietnam, 1969
Box   4     Folder   10    
University of Tennessee Daily Beacon Clippings with the University Constitutiony, undated
Box   4     Folder   11    
University of Tennessee Newspaper: >The Graduate Cause, 1976
Box   4     Folder   12    
University of Tennessee Graduate Fellowships, 1966-1967
Box   4     Folder   13    
University of Tennessee Course/Teacher Evaluations, 1969
Box   5     Folder   1    
Academic Personnel Evaluations-History Department, 1979
Box   5     Folder   2    
Academic Evaluation of Dr. Graf, 1982
Box   5     Folder   3    
Blueprint of History Department Offices-McClung Tower, 1967
Box   5     Folder   4    
History Course Guidelines: History 362, undated
Box   5     Folder   5    
History Course Guidelines: History 363, undated
Box   5     Folder   6    
History Course Guidelines: History 464, undated
Box   5     Folder   7    
History Course Guidelines: History 465, undated
Box   5     Folder   8    
History Course Guidelines: History 466, undated
Box   5     Folder   9    
History Course Guidelines: History 561, undated
Box   5     Folder   10    
History Course Guidelines: History 562, undated
Box   5     Folder   11    
History Course Guidelines: History 694, undated
Box   5     Folder   12    
Course Syllabus: History 2230, 1972
Box   5     Folder   13    
Course Syllabus: History 5620, 1972
Box   5     Folder   14    
Miscellaneous History Department Material, undated
Box   5     Folder   15    
Historical Notes on President Andrew Johnson, undated
Box   5     Folder   16    
Pamphlet on The Papers of Andrew Johnson, undated
Box   5     Folder   17    
Pamphlet: President Thomas Humes: His Life and Work, 1976
Box   5     Folder   18    
List of Honor Students in College of Liberal Arts, 1958
Box   5     Folder   19    
List of Faculty members in College of Liberal Arts, undated
Box   5     Folder   20    
List of Deans, Directors, Department Heads, 1978-1980
Box   5     Folder   21    
Maps (Universities, Colonial States, etc.), undated
Box   5     Folder   22    
McClung Award Judges, undated
Box   5     Folder   23    
Minutes of the Univ. of Tennessee Committee on Retirement, 1951
Box   5     Folder   24    
Univ. of Tennessee Newsletters, 1956-1957
Box   5     Folder   25    
Newsletters, Clippings, and Correspondence concerning Dr. Graf's stepping down as History Dept. Head, undated
Box   5     Folder   26    
Alvin H. Nielsen Scholarship Fund, undated
Box   5     Folder   27    
Notes from American Studies Institute, 1958
Box   5     Folder   28    
University Theatres Opening Night Club (Memos, Minutes, etc.), undated
Box   5     Folder   29    
University Theatres Opening Night Club, 1975-1980
Box   5     Folder   30    
Personal Documents, undated
Box   5     Folder   31    
Miscellaneous University Publications, undated
Box   5     Folder   32    
Univ. of Tennessee Reports, Recaps, and Records, 1960-circa 1970
Box   5     Folder   33    
Univ. of Tennessee Record: "Facing Atomic Energy" , 1946
Box   5     Folder   34    
The Speaker Ban Controversy: A statement by the University of Tennessee Student Government Assn, undated
Box   5     Folder   35    
Speeches, undated
Box   5     Folder   36    
Miscellaneous Notes, Papers, etc., undated