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Series I: Correspondence
Series II: Manuscripts
Series III: Off Prints, Reprints, Clippings, Photographs, and Books

Charles Austin Beard collection, 1911-1976

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Series II: Manuscripts

By Beard:


Box 4 Folder 18 "The Big Railway Wreck" by Charles A. Beard

(Photocopy from Hoover Institute)


Box 6 Folder 1 "American Nationalism the Foe of Peace and Prosperity for the Whole World", 1944

(A report on the formula for The Reader's Digest)

Box 6 Folder 2 "An Unforgettable Woman"

(About Beard's grandmother, Sarah Payne)

Box 6 Folder 3 "Report to Governor Cross on Milk Situation", 29 August 1933

Box 6 Folder 4 Lectures on "The Scope of Politics" at The Bureau of Municipal Research, 1918

Box 6 Folder 9 "Note on Pearl Harbor"

Columbia Resignation:


Box 4 Folder 21 "Columbia Controversy" manuscript material


Box 6 Folder 8 Essay by Beard on the Columbia University and the Great War

Box 6 Folder 6 Columbia University Special Committee on Subversive Beliefs or Disloyalty, 1917

(Includes manuscripts, reports, and photocopies)

Box 6 Folder 7 "Statement of Facts in the Matter of the Committee of Education of the Board of Education of trustees of Columbia University and professor Charles A. Bead"

Research Photocopies:


Box 4 Folder 16 Photocopies of Raymond Moley correspondence from the Hoover Institute Archives, 1934-1936

Box 4 Folder 17 "Debts and Credits: An Economic Balance Sheet Drawn Up to Meet Political Necessities" by W. Y. Elliott

(Photocopy from Hoover Institute)

Box 4 Folder 19 Notes as to Military Record of Colnel Edward David

(Photocopy from Hoover Institute)

Box 4 Folder 20 Photocopies of correspondence from Harvard and other institutions

Biography of Charles A. Beard:


Box 5 Original manuscrips (ca 1000pp)

(Includes notes, drafts of chapters,  photocopies, and other archival materials compiled for Vagts's biography of C.A.B. The manuscript  appears to be fragmentary, with only a few chapters having proceeded to the finished stage. Materials  arranged as received, many pages clearly out of sequence; completeness impossible to gauge but still a  substantial archive of primary biographical material relating to Beard. )

Meetings:


Box 6 Folder 5 Meeting of the Commission on Direction American Historical Association Investigation of the Social Studies in the Schools, 7-8 May 1931