Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Robert O. Paxton Papers; Box and
Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
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Summary Information
At a Glance
| Bib ID: | 5439898MS#0983 View CLIO record |
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| Creator(s): | Paxton, Robert O. |
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| Title: | Robert O. Paxton
Papers
1968-2004
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| Physical description: | 3 linear ft. (6 document boxes)
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| Language(s): | In English and French.
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| Access: |
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This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material from the
Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least two business days in advance to use
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Arrangement
Arrangement
This collection is arranged into 5 series:
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Description
Scope and Content
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.
The collection also features extensive photocopied and original clippings on the
French presidential election of 1981; clippings of French reviews for
La France de
Vichy
(published 1972); and seventeen severely embrittled books covering legislative
and parliamentary election results in France before World War II. All books are in
French; publication dates range from 1911 to 1936.
Series I: Arranged Correcpondence
Series II: Research for
Vichy France and The
Jews
Series III: Course Materials
Series IV: Research
Regarding the 1981 French Presidential Election
Series V: Printed Material
Subseries V.1: Clippings
Subseries V.2: Books
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Using the Collection
Offsite
Access Restrictions
This collection has no restrictions.
This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material from the
Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least two business days in advance to use
the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
Restrictions on Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material
from the collection must be requested from the Curator of Manuscripts/University
Archivist, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML). The RBML approves permission to
publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright
permission rests with the patron.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Robert O. Paxton Papers; Box and
Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
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About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries. Rare Book and
Manuscript Library; machine readable finding aid created by Columbia University
Libraries Digital Library Program Division
Processing Information
Papers processed April 2005 Daniel Eshom
Machine readable finding aid generated from MARC-AMC source via XSLT
conversion June 26, 2009
Finding aid written in English.
2010-02-18
Legacy finding aid created from Pro Cite.
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Subject Headings
The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches at Columbia University through the Archival Collections Portal and through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, as well as ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives.
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History / Biographical Note
Biographical Note
Robert Owen Paxton [B.A. (1954), Washington & Lee
University; B.A. (1956) and M.A. (1961), Oxford University; Ph. D. (1963), Harvard
University], was born June 15, 1932, in Lexington, Virginia. An esteemed historian
and the award-winning author of numerous books including
The Anatomy of Fascism
(2004),
Vichy France and the Jews
(1981), and
Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order,
1940-44
(1972), Paxton is professor emeritus at Columbia University, where he taught
from 1969 to 1997. He read history at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar from 1954 to 1956.
His subsequent awards and honors include fellowships from the American Council of
Learned Societies (1974-75) and the Rockefeller Foundation (1978-79), as well as
designations as chevalier by the Ordre National des Arts et des Lettres and officier
by the Ordre National du Merite (France).
Widely regarded as the premier scholar on the history of
Vichy France, Paxton was the first historian to fully explore the circumstances and
extent of France's collaboration with Nazi Germany during World War II. His work is
particularly renowned in France. Elisabeth Bumiller wrote in The New York Times that
Paxton is the “intellectual godfather to a new and influential generation of French
historians.” A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and numerous
other publications, Paxton taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and the
State University of New York at Stony Brook before he joined the Columbia
faculty.
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