Title: Dr. Milton Klein Collection

Date/Date Range :   1756-1985

Extent: 4.0 linear feet

Abstract:

This collection houses papers documenting Dr. Klein's work with the University of Tennessee's Department of History and his publication of The Twilight of British Rule in Revolutionary America: the New York letter book of General James Robertson, 1780-1783 (1983).

Call number: MS-2045

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

Aquisition Information:

This collection is property of the University of Tennessee's 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], Dr. Milton Klein Collection, MS-2045. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of four boxes.

Milton M. Klein was born on August 15, 1917 in New York City. He earned his B.S.S. (1937) and M.S. (1939) at The City College in New York and his Ph.D. (1954) at Columbia University in New York. Before coming to the University of Tennessee, Klein was a Lecturer in History at Columbia University (1954-1957), the Chair of the Department of History at Long Island University (1958-1962), the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Long Island University (1962-1966), and the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at the State University of New York College at Fredonia (1966-1969). Klein joined the University of Tennessee faculty as a Professor of History in 1969. He earned a great deal of respect in this position, and was honored as the Alumni Distinguished Service Professor (1977-1985) and as the Lindsay Young Professor of History (1980-1985). After Klein's official retirement in 1985, he served as the University Historian (1988-1997). Milton Klein died on June 10, 2004 in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Klein wrote a number of books during his career, including Social Studies for the Academically Talented Student (1960), The Politics of Diversity: Essays in the History of Colonial New York (1974), New York in the American Revolution: A Bibliography (1974), The Twilight of British Rule in Revolutionary America (with Ronald Howard, 1983), The American Whig: William Livingston of New York (1990), and Volunteer Moments: Vignettes of the History of the University of Tennessee, 1794-1994 (1994).

Boxes 1 and 2 of this collection house materials documenting Dr. Klein's work with the University of Tennessee's Department of History on the undergraduate and graduate levels. Boxes 3 and 4 document the assembly, co-editing, and publication of The Twilight of British Rule in Revolutionary America: the New York letter book of General James Robertson, 1780-1783 (1983). Klein co-edited this book with Professor Ronald W. Howard of Mississippi College. Box 3 houses photocopies of General Robertson's correspondence not used in The Twilight of British Rule , rough drafts of the preface, introduction, bibliography and index, and correspondence documenting the book's editing and publication. Box 4 houses photocopies of General Robertson's correspondence used in The Twilight of British Rule , in some cases including Klein's transcriptions.

• Klein, Milton M. (Milton Martin), 1917-.
• University of Tennessee (Knoxville campus).
• Education, Higher -- Tennessee -- Knoxville.
• United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.
• Robertson, James, 1720?-1788.