Lecture notes collection, 1817-1969, bulk 1877-1913

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Series XII: Harold Wechsler, 1963-1969

Series XII contains lecture notes taken by Harold Wechsler (Columbia College, A.B. 1964; GSAS, M.A.1969, Ph.D. 1974) when he was an undergraduate and graduate student in history. Classes were taken with such notable professors as James Shenton, Walter Metzger, Richard Morris, Robert K. Merton, Frank Tannenbaum, and Jacques Barzun. Multiple classes are often found in one notebook and sometimes class notes are continued in a subsequent notebook. If multiple class notes are found in a notebook, flags have been placed within the notebook to delineate where notes for a particular class begin.



Box 8 Folder 1 Contemporary Civilization C1101x – C1102y: Development of Western Institutions and Social Ideas, 1963-1964

(course taught by Robert Dullete)


Box 8 Folder 1 Anthropology C1201y: Human and Cultural Evolution, 1965 Spring

(course taught by Robert Stegler)


Box 8 Folder 2 Math C1001x – C1002y: Intro to the Basic Concepts of Math, 1963-1964

(course taught by Serge Lang)


Box 8 Folder 3 Physics C1006y: General Physics I: Mechanics and Heat, 1964 Spring

(course taught by Jack Sternberger)


Box 8 Folder 4 Government C1201x – C1202y: Democracy and Dictatorship in the 20th Century, 1964-1965

(course taught by Joseph Rothschild)


Box 8 Folder 5 Humanities C1121x: Readings in European and American Literature and Philosophy of the 19th and 20th Centuries, 1964 Fall

(course taught by W. David Noakes)


Box 8 Folder 5 Government C1201x – C1202y "Democracy and Dictatorship in the 20th Century, 1965

(notes continued; course taught by Joseph Rothschild)


Box 8 Folder 6 Government 10 (Barnard): American State and Municipal Politics, 1965

(course taught by Demetrois Caraley)


Box 8 Folder 7 History C3121x: The U.S. in the 19th Century: 1789 – 1900, 1964 Fall

(course taught by James Shenton)


Box 8 Folder 8 History C3122y: The U.S. in the 19th Century: 1789 – 1900, 1965 Spring

(course taught by James Shenton)



Box 9 Folder 1 History C3133x – C3134y: The United States in the 20th Century, 1965-1966

(notebook 1 of 3; course taught by Walter Metzger)


Box 9 Folder 2 History G6661x – G6662y: Colonial America 1607 – 1763, 1965 Fall

(course taught by Richard Morris)


Box 9 Folder 2 English C3007y: English Speech and Pronunciation, 1966 Spring

(course taught by Ronald Baken)


Box 9 Folder 2 Science and Society 3001y: Philosophical and Social Implications of 20th Century Physics, 1966 Spring

(course taught by I.I. Rabi)


Box 9 Folder 2 History C3134y: The United States in the 20th Century, 1966 Spring

(notebook 3 of 3; course taught by Walter Metzger)


Box 9 Folder 3 History C3134y: The United States in the 20th Century, 1966 Spring

(notebook 2 of 3; course taught by Walter Metzger)


Box 9 Folder 4 History C4882y: Russia through Foreign Eyes, 1966 Spring

(course taught by Alexander Dallin)


Box 9 Folder 4 Sociology G4050y: History of Sociological Theory, 1966 Spring

(course taught by Robert K. Merton)


Box 9 Folder 5 History C3204y: Europe, 1714 – 1870, 1966 Spring

(course taught by Jeffry J. Kaplow)


Box 9 Folder 6 Economics G4311x – G4312y: American Economic History, 1965-1966

(course taught by Louis Hacker)


Box 9 Folder 7 Government C3611x – C3612y: International Politics, 1965-1966

(course taught by Donald Puchala and Waynde A. Wilcox)


Box 9 Folder 8 Sociology C3666x: Political Sociology, 1965 Fall

(course taught by Allen Silver; supplementary lectures: Sociology G6047x; Political Sociology: Structures and Processes, 1968 Fall)


Box 9 Folder 9 Contemporary Civilization C1201x – C1202y: Development of Western Institutions and Social Ideas, 1965-1966

(course taught by Milton Hassol)



Box 10 Folder 1 Sociology F1105x: Problems of Complex Societies, 1966 Fall

(course taught by Amitai Etzioni)


Box 10 Folder 1 Sociology C2208y: The Logic of Social Inquiry, 1967 Spring

(course taught by William Martin)


Box 10 Folder 2 Philosophy G4060y: Society and its Institutions: A Pluralistic Institutional Social Theory, 1967 Spring

(course co-taught by John H. Randall, Horace L. Friess, James Gutman, Frank Tannenbaum and Robert P. Wolff)


Box 10 Folder 3 Oriental Studies V3355x: Oriental Civilizations: Introduction to the History and Culture of Oriental Societies, 1966 Fall

(course co-taught by Myron Cohen and Ellen M. Gumpertz)


Box 10 Folder 4 Oriental Studies V3356y: Intro to the History and Culture of Oriental Studies, 1967 Spring

(course co-taught by Ainslee T. Embree and Morton Klass)


Box 10 Folder 5 Government G4471x: Political Institutions of China, 1966 Fall

(course taught by A. Doak Barnett)


Box 10 Folder 5 Government G6868y: Communism in Asia, 1967 Spring

(course taught by Donald Zagoria)


Box 10 Folder 6 History 12 (Barnard): England from the Norman Conquest to the 20th Century, 1967 Spring

(course taught by Stephen E. Koss)


Box 10 Folder 7 Sociology G8015y – G8016y: Analysis of Social Structures, 1967-1968

(course taught by Robert Merton)


Box 10 Folder 7 NYU Summer Class: Philosophy of Education, 1968 Summer


Box 10 Folder 7 Mathematical Statistics – Sociology G4181x – G4182y: Statistical Methods in the Social Sciences, 1968-1969


Box 10 Folder 8 History G6693x – 6694y: American Economic History, 1607 – 1960, 1967-1968

(course taught by Stuart W. Bruchey)


Box 10 Folder 9 History G6697x – G6698y "History of the Foreign Relations of the U.S., 1967-1968

(course taught by Henry F. Graff)



Box 11 Folder 1 History TW3162: History of American Social Thought, 1967 Fall

(course taught by Frederick D. Kershner)


Box 11 Folder 1 History G6000x: Nature and Types of History and Historiography, 1967 Fall

(course taught by Jacob W. Smit)


Box 11 Folder 2 History G8707x – G8708yy "American Social History, 1967-1968

(course taught by David J. Rothman)


Box 11 Folder 2 History G4166y: The Passage from the 19th to the 20th Century, 1969 Spring

(course taught by Jacques Barzun)


Box 11 Folder 3 History G4670y: Political Parties and Issues, 1968 Spring

(course taught by Richard Hofstadter)


Box 11 Folder 3 Sociology G4043x: The Social Structure of the United States, 1967 Fall

(course taught by Daniel Bell)


Box 11 Folder 3 History W3501x "History of Education in the U.S, 1968 Spring

(course taught by Jonathan C. Messerli)


Box 11 Folder 4 History C3123x – C3124y: American Urban History, 1967-1968

(course taught by Robert Fogelson)


Box 11 Folder 4 History W3051x "History of Education in the U.S., 1968 Spring

(continuation of notes; course taught by Jonathan C. Messerli)


Box 11 Folder 5 Teachers College TP3000S: Psychological Foundations of Education,, 1968 Summer

(course taught by Samuel Ball)


Box 11 Folder 5 History G4667x – G4668y: Political and Social History of the U.S., 1828 – 1860, 1968-1969

(course taught by Eric L. McKitrick)


Box 11 Folder 6 Government G4411x: Political Systems of Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary Societies, 1968 Fall

(course taught by Michel Oksenberg)


Box 11 Folder 6 Sociology G4051y: Social Change: Modernization, 1969 Spring

(course taught by Immanuel Wallerstein)


Box 11 Folder 7 History G8701x – G8702y: American Economic History, 1968-1969

(course taught by Stuart Bruchey)


Box 11 Folder 8 History C3135y: Afro-American History, 1969 Spring

(course taught by Eric Foner; first pages may be Gary Becker lectures on urban economics.)


Box 11 Folder 9 Sociology G6098y: Historical Method and Documentary Analysis, 1969 Spring

(course taught by Sigmund Diamond; first pages are lecture by Arno Mayer.)