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Research materials, including notes, audio tapes, and original items, related to his multiple projects on Columbia and Barnard history.

Collection of research materials relating to medieval France. Includes handwritten and typed transcriptions of historical materials, and some photocopies of documents. Materials in boxes relate to information found on box titles.

The files relate to his six years as chair of the CU History Department (1988-1994), plus a couple that refer to wider professional activities of some significance outside the University.

Correspondence, manuscripts, memoranda, contracts, and miscellaneous material from the files of Don Congdon Associates, Inc., literary agency, dealing with the editing and publishing of American and English books, serial rights, reprints, dramatic rights, translations, foreign rights, promotion, and copyright restrictions. Select files pre-date the firm's establishment because some clients of Harold Matson Company, Inc. became clients of Don Congdon Associates, Inc. The cataloged correspondence include: Ray Bradbury, Lillian Hellman, William Manchester, William Shirer, William Styron, and Francois Truffaut.

The Robert O. Paxton Papers include: arranged correspondence featuring exchanges between Paxton and his occasional collaborator and one-time coauthor Michael Marrus; research materials and notes for Vichy France and the Jews (published 1981); and course materials (including lecture notes, syllabi, and exams) for two history courses Paxton taught at Columbia from 1968 to 1995. The lecture notes--which help to illuminate Paxton's teaching style, the depth of his lecture preparations, and the evolution of his topical emphases across the decades--may be of particular interest to history and pedagogy scholars alike.

Series I: Writing Projects contains manuscripts, proofs, and correspondence pertaining to Dr. Peter Gay's award-winning study "The Enlightenment: An Interpretation" as well as his files for the numerous essays, reviews, books, and anthologies he published during the period (1954-1969). Series II: The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers encompasses Dr. Gay's correspondence as Director of the Cullman Center. In 1997, Gay was named founding director of The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. The center opened in 1999 with a focus on scholarship about human society. In 2003, Dr. Gay retired as director.

Press clippings, photographs, videotapes, writings, notes, biography manuscripts, awards, etc.