Richard Hofstadter papers, 1944-1970

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Series I: Cataloged Correspondence



Box CC1 Barnes, Harry Elmer


Box CC1 Barzun, Jacques


Box CC1 Beard, Charles A.


Box CC1 Boorstin, Daniel J.


Box CC1 Caldwell, Taylor


Box CC1 Carman, Harry J.


Box CC1 Clemens, Cyril


Box CC1 Commager, Henry Steele


Box CC1 Curti, Merle


Box CC1 Dupee, Frederick Wilcox


Box CC1 Fox, Dixon Ryan


Box CC1 Frankenthaler, Helen


Box CC1 Goodrian, Paul


Box CC1 Haydn, Hiram


Box CC1 Howe, Irving


Box CC1 Jackson, Barbara Ward (Lady)


Box CC1 Kazin, Alfred


Box CC1 Knopf, Alfred A.


Box CC1 Kronenberger, Louis


Box CC1 Lerner, Max


Box CC1 Malone, Dumas


Box CC1 Morison, Samuel Eliot


Box CC1 Morris, Richard B.


Box CC1 Moynihan, Daniel Patrick


Box CC1 Nevins, Allan


Box CC1 Potofsky, Jacob S.


Box CC1 Riesman, David


Box CC1 Schapiro, Meyer


Box CC1 Schlesinger, Arthur M.


Box CC1 Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.


Box CC1 Trilling, Diana

Series II: Uncataloged Correspondence



Box UC1 A-Ca



Box UC2 Ce-Da



Box UC3 De-Go



Box UC4 Gr-Ho



Box UC5 Hu-Ko



Box UC6 Kr-Ow



Box UC7 P-Ro



Box UC8 S-Un



Box UC9 Ut-Z

Series III: Manuscripts



Box 1 America at 1750



Box 2 America at 1750



Box 3 American Political Tradition



Box 4 American Political Tradition



Box 5 American Violence



Box 6 American Violence



Box 7 American Violence



Box 8 Idea of A Party System



Box 9 Idea of A Party System



Box 10 Idea of A Party System



Box 11 People and the Nation



Box 12 People and the Nation



Box 13 People and the Nation



Box 14 Progressive Historians



Box 15 Progressive Historians



Box 16 Progressive Historians



Box 17 Progressive Historians



Box 18 Biographical Material



Box 19 Biographical Material



Box 20 Article Reviews



Box 21 Article Reviews



Box 22 Article Reviews



Box 23 Lectures and Speeches --Notes on the Works of Other Authors



Box 24 Notes on Radical Right



Box 25 Age of Reform



Box 26 Turner Anthology- Paranoid Style in America, Issues in American History, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Miscellaneous Essays (published), Social Darwinism, American Higher Education



Box 27 Letters of Permission to Reprint: Course Materials, Columbia 1968



Box 28 Article Reviews about Hofstadter



Box 29 Printed Materials



Box 30 Printed Materials



Box 31 Misc. Unpublished Works: Senior Tutorial Thesis, Misc. Material



Box 32 Manuscript: Paranoid Style in American Politics



Box 33 Manuscript: Anti-Intellectualism in American Politics



Box 34 Misc. Notes and Drafts



Box 35 Misc. Notes and Drafts



Box 36 Misc. Notes and Drafts



Box 37 The Hofstadter Aegis: A Memorial, Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick, eds. New York, Knopf, 1974. Transcript, galley and page proofs, photographs.

Series IV: Books



Box B1 American higher education: a documentary history / edited by Richard Hofstadter and Wilson Smith

Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, c1961, 1968] 2 v. Paperbound.


Box B1 American higher education: a documentary history / edited by Richard Hofstadter and Wilson Smith

Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, c1961, [1970] 2 v. Clothbound.


Box B1 American violence: a documentary history / edited by Richard Hofstadter and Michael Wallace. -- 1st ed.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970 A Borzoi book.


Box B1 American violence: a documentary history / edited by Richard Hofstadter and Michael Wallace. -- 1st Vintage Books ed.

New York: Vintage Books, c1970, [1971]


Box B1 The business establishment / edited by Earl F. Cheit

New York; London; Sydney: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., c1964 Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley


Box B1 Great issues in American history: a documentary record / edited by Richard Hofstadter. -- 1st ed.

New York: Vintage Books, 1958 2 v. V. 2: Signed by Richard Hofstadter.


Box B1 Great issues in American history / edited by Clarence L. Ver Steeg and Richard Hofstadter. -- 1st Vintage ed.

New York: Vintage Books, c1969 [3] v.


Box B1 Great issues in American politics: a series of study and discussion programs for adult groups / [prepared by Richard Hofstadter]

S. l.: S. n., c1956 2 v. 2 copies.


Box B1 Coin's financial school / by William H. Harvey; edited by Richard Hofstadter

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1963 The John Harvard library


Box B1 Coin's financial school / by William H. Harvey; edited by Richard Hofstadter

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c1963, [1965] First paperback issue. The John Harvard library


Box B1 Academic freedom in the age of the college / by Richard Hofstadter

New York and London: Columbia University Press, c1955, [1964]


Box B1 The age of reform from Bryan to F. D. R. / by Richard Hofstadter

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956 A borzoi book.



Box B2 The age of reform from Bryan to F. D. R. / Richard Hofstadter

London: Jonathan Cape, [1962]


Box B2 The age of reform from Bryan to F. D. R. / by Richard Hofstadter. -- 1st Vintage ed.

New York: Vintage Books, 1960


Box B2 The age of reform from Bryan to F. D. R. Italian. L'eta delle riforme: da Bryan a F. D. Roosevelt / Richard Hofstadter; introduzione di Vittorio de Caprariis.

[Bologna ]: Societa Editrice il Mulino, c1962 Collezione di storia americana; 10


Box B2 America at 1750: a social portrait / by Richard Hofstadter. -- 1st ed.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971


Box B2 The American political tradition: and the men who made it / by Richard Hofstadter

New York: Alfred. A. Knopf, 1949 A Borzoi book.


Box B2 The American political tradition: and the men who made it / Richard Hofstadter

London: Jonathan Cape, [1962]


Box B2 The American political tradition / Richard Hofstadter. --Paperback ed.

London: Jonathan Cape, [1967]


Box B2 The American political tradition. Chinese. The American political tradition / Richard Hofstadter; translated by Chiu-Sen Yang

Hongkong: Hsien Hua Press, c1948, [1957]


Box B2 The American political tradition. French. Batisseurs d'une tradition / Richard Hofstadter; [traduction Denise Wandby]

Paris: Editions Seghers, 1966 Vent d'ouest


Box B2 The American political tradition. Hebrew. The American political tradition / Richard Hofstadter

Israel: Yachdav, United Publishers Co. Ltd., 1969


Box B2 The American political tradition. Italian. La tradizione politica americana / Richard Hofstadter; [traduzione di Giuseppe Vetrano]

[Bologna ]: Societa Editrice il Mulino, c1960 Collezione di storia americana; 3


Box B2 The American political tradition. Japanese. The American political tradition and the men who made it / by Richard Hofstadter

[Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1957]


Box B2 The American political tradition. Spanish. La tradicion politica americana: y los hombres que la forjaron / Richard Hofstadter; [traduccion de Rafael Albisu].

Barcelona: Editorial Seix Barral, 1969 3 copies. Biblioteca breve de bolsillo; libros de enlace



Box B3 The American republic / Richard Hofstadter; William Miller; Daniel Aaron

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1959 2 v.


Box B3 The American republic / Richard Hofstadter; William Miller; Daniel Aaron. -- 2nd ed.

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., c1970 2 v.


Box B3 Anti-intellectualism in American life / Richard Hofstadter

London: Jonathan Cape, c1963, [1964]


Box B3 Anti-intellectualism in American life / Richard Hofstadter

New York: Vintage Books, c1963


Box B3 Anti-intellectualism in American life. Italian. Societa e intellettuali in America / Richard Hofstadter

[Torino]: Giulio Einaudi editore, c1968


Box B3 Anti-intellectualism in American life. Spanish. Anti intelectualismo en la vida norteamericana / Richard Hofstadter; [traduccion de Federico Fernandez de Castillejo]

Madrid: Editorial Tecnos, c1969 Semillo y surco; coleccion de ciencias sociales; serie de sociologia


Box B3 The development and scope of higher education in the United States / by Richard Hofstadter and C. DeWitt Hardy

New York: Columbia University Press; published for The Commission on Financing Higher Education, c1952, [1954]


Box B3 The development of academic freedom in the United States / by Richard Hofstadter and Walter P. Metzger

New York: Columbia University Press, 1955


Box B3 The idea of a party system: the rise of legitimate opposition in the United States, 1780-1840 / by Richard Hofstadter

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969


Box B3 The idea of a party system: the rise of legitimate opposition in the United States, 1780-1840 / by Richard Hofstadter. -- Paper-bound ed.

Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1970



Box B4 The Hofstadter aegis: a memorial / edited by Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick. -- 1st ed.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974 A Borzoi book.


Box B4 The paranoid style in American politics: and other essays / Richard Hofstadter. -- 1st ed.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965 A Borzoi book.


Box B4 The paranoid style in American politics: and other essays / Richard Hofstadter

London: Jonathan Cape, c1965, [1966]


Box B4 The paranoid style in American politics: and other essays / Richard Hofstadter

New York: Vintage Books, c1965, [1967]


Box B4 The progressive historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington / Richard Hofstadter. -- 1st ed.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968 A Borzoi book.


Box B4 The progressive historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington / Richard Hofstadter

London: Jonathan Cape, c1968, [1969]


Box B4 The progressive historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington / Richard Hofstadter. -- 1st Vintage Books ed.

New York: Vintage Books, c1968, [1970] 3 copies.


Box B4 The progressive historians. Spanish. Los historiadores progresistas: Turner, Beard, Parrington / Richard Hofstadter; [version castellana Eduardo J. Prieto]

Buenos Aires: Editorial Paidos, c1970 Biblioteca de historia; serie mayor; 5


Box B4 Social Darwinism in American thought, 1860-1915 / by Richard Hofstadter

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1945, [1948] Prepared and published under the direction of the American Historical Association.


Box B4 Social Darwinism in American thought / Richard Hofstadter. -- Revised ed.

New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1959 Signed by Richard Hofstadter.


Box B4 Social Darwinism in American thought / Richard Hofstadter. -- Revised ed.

Boston: The Beacon Press, c1955 Beacon paperbacks Beacon contemporary affairs series


Box B4 The structure of American history / Richard Hofstadter; William Miller; Daniel Aaron

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., c1964



Box B5 Paths of American thought / edited by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. and Morton White. -- Sentry ed.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970 First Sentry printing. Contributors include Richard Hofstadter.


Box B5 Ver Steeg, Clarence L. A people and a nation / Clarence L. Ver Steeg; Richard Hofstadter

New York; Evanston; London: Harper & Row, c1971


Box B5 The progressive movement, 1900-1915 / edited and with an introduction by Richard Hofstadter

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1963 A Spectrum book.


Box B5 The radical right: the new American right, expanded and updated / edited by Daniel Bell. -- 1st ed.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963


Box B5 The radical right: the new American right, expanded and updated / edited by Daniel Bell. -- 1st ed.

Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, Doubleday & Company, Inc., c1963, [1964]


Box B5 Sociology and history: methods / edited by Seymour Martin Lipset and Richard Hofstadter

New York; London: Basic Books, Inc., c1968 The sociology of American history; 1


Box B5 Ten major issues in American politics / Richard Hofstadter. -- New ed.

New York; London; Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1968 Paperback.


Box B5 Turner and the sociology of the frontier / edited by Richard Hofstadter and Seymour Martin Lipset

New York; London: Basic Books, Inc., c1968 Hardcover. The sociology of American history; 2


Box B5 Turner and the sociology of the frontier / edited by Richard Hofstadter and Seymour Martin Lipset

New York; London: Basic Books, Inc., c1968 Paperback. The sociology of American history; 2