Annette Kar Baxter Papers, 1905-1984
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Baxter, Annette Kar, 1926-1983
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Biographical Note Annette Kar Baxter was born on 12 November 1926 in New York, New York. She attended New York University for one year before transferring to Barnard College. In 1947 she received an A.B. from Barnard, and began working full-time as an editorial assistant at Random House, a position that she began on a part time basis her senior year. In the fall she returned to school, earning an A.M. from Smith College in 1948 and another A.M. from Radcliffe College in 1949. She worked as an assistant curator for the collection of regional history at Cornell University from 1949 to 1951. She enrolled in the Ph.D. program in American Civilization at Brown University, where she was a Carnegie Teaching Fellow for the academic year 1951-52. She then began her life-long career at Barnard, working at first as a lecturer and then as an associate in the history department. She served as the executive secretary for the University Seminar on American Civilization at Columbia from 1953-59, and served as the secretary for the American Studies Bibliography Project of the American Studies Association from 1953-56. In 1955, she married psychiatrist James E. Baxter. Her first child, Justin McDonald, was born in 1959, and her daughter, Adrienne Marshall, was born in 1962. She received her Ph.D. from Brown in 1958 and was promoted to the status of lecturer in the History Department at Barnard. Two years later she became an associate in History. In 1966 she was appointed as an assistant professor of history and was quickly promoted to associate professor status. She reached full professorship in 1971, and in 1975 had the honor of being one of a handful of women to be awarded an endowed chair, named for Adolph and Effie Ochs. Annette Baxter was a pioneer in the field of women's studies, teaching one of the earliest women's history classes to undergraduates in 1966. Her course served as a model for many future classes at other institutions. She remained involved in a wide variety of activities at Barnard throughout her career, including serving as an advisor to the class of 1962, membership on the Board of Trustees, regularly participating in the Seven College Conference, advising the Thursday Noon Meetings, and playing a vital role in the creation and expansion of the Women's Center at Barnard. She was acting chair of the American Studies Program in 1960-61 and 1963-64, and was made permanent chair of the department in 1967; she also served as chair of the history department from 1974 to 1983. In addition to her career at Barnard, Baxter involved herself in many other organizations. She served on the Board of Trustees for Conference in Theology for College and University Faculty, Kirkland College (Clinton, New York) and Middlesex School (Concord, Massachusetts). She was a consultant for the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ford Foundation, National Council of Women, and Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. She served on committees for the American Association of University Women, American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, American Studies Association, and many others. She participated in panels and gave speeches on the value of women's history and women's education. Baxter published numerous book reviews and articles, and edited several series on women's autobiographies and women's studies. Her books include To Be a Woman in America, 1850-1930; Inwood House, 1839-1980; and a biography, Henry Miller, Expatriate, as well as four books in progress when she died in 1983. She has been called "one of the nation's foremost authorities on the history of women." Throughout her career, Annette Baxter remained dedicated to the cause of women's education, women's studies, and women's rights. She fought to keep Barnard independent from Columbia. In 1979-80, "the politics and problems of the Barnard History Department in its struggle for survival in Columbia University" consumed much of her energy. In the prime of her career, Annette Baxter died in a fire that also killed her husband, at their summer home on 18 September 1983. She was fifty-six years old.
Scope and Contents of the Collection The Annette Kar Baxter Papers consist of 30 linear feet, dating from 1905 to 1984, and primarily document her professional and public life. Types of material include correspondence, memoranda, speeches, publications, articles, photographs, address books, agendas, organization files, bibliographies, lecture notes, research material, manuscripts, minutes, newsletters, notes, and journal and newspaper articles. Baxter's papers provide a rich and detailed view of the life of an academic--at both the departmental and college-wide level- and a woman who combined career and motherhood. Baxter filled her days with committee meetings, student recommendations, and inter-departmental disputes; she even entertained her students in her home on a regular basis. She found time to research and write and speak on a wide range of topics, even as she made an effort to spend summers away from the city with her family. At the forefront of emerging American and women's studies, her correspondence, writing, teaching, and subject files reveal the thrills and frustrations that come with advancing new disciplines, while advocating traditional, single-sex educational programs. While the bulk of the papers date from 1943 to 1983, and focus on Baxter's academic career, the collection also contains material related to her home life. James Baxter's writings, correspondence, and alumni activities are fairly well represented in SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS and correspondence with the rest of the family can be found in SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE. Although the series designations flow naturally from the types of materials within the collection, significant portions needed to be rearranged because a specific order was not discernable. As the chair of two departments, Baxter often had numerous copies of materials. She also kept home and work files for important work-related matters that needed to be sorted through and integrated. Correspondence files were scattered throughout the collection, and sometimes were arranged chronologically, sometimes segregated between personal and professional, and sometimes not arranged at all. Other areas of the collection, however, such as her class notes while a student and her research notes for writing projects remain very near her original order. For example, in her unfinished book, Foreign Views of American Women, one can see which items she decided to discard and why. Also, while her class files were purged of social security numbers and grades, these files remain in much the same arrangement as she kept them, by class and year.
Feminism and education--History--Sources
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Women--Education (Higher)--History--20th century
College teachers--United States--Biography--Sources
Historiography--Women--United States
History--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States
Women college students--United States--History--20th century--Sources
Women historians--United States--Biography--Sources
Women--Historiography
Women's studies--History--Sources
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Baxter, James
Kerber, Linda K.
Stevenson, Louise L.
Rauch, Basil, 1908
Barnard College--Faculty--History--Sources
Columbia University--Administration--History--Sources
series
SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS (1943-1983)
This series provides an overview of Annette Baxter's personal and professional life, and contains additional biographical information about her family. The subseries Biographical information summarizes her academic career and achievements, as well as providing some material on her personal life. The Family subseries includes information on her parents, children, and especially her husband. Correspondence written to her husband by others can be found here. Annette Baxter kept very detailed records of her collegiate and graduate educational experiences; the Education subseries is composed of class notes, arranged in chronological order and alphabetical by subject within the chronology, and materials from her alma maters. Most of the publications from her alma maters were removed, as the material is located in other repositories. Address books and some Photographs of Annette Baxter and other family members are also included in this series. Some items in this series closed until 2025.
Some items in this series closed until 2025.
SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE (1959-83)
This series is organized into two subseries: Family and Friends and associates, arranged in alphabetical order by last name. The Family subseries includes letters written to Annette Baxter and her immediate family by other members of the family. There are no letters written from Annette to her family, nor is there any correspondence between Annette and her husband. This subseries is closed until 2025. The Friends and associates subseries contains the bulk of the material in this series. People with whom Annette Baxter exchanged significant correspondence and well-known individuals have their own folders, with letters arranged alphabetically by last name and chronologically within each folder. They include Marilyn Bender, Karen Blair, Bill Chafe, Jill Conway, Paula Fass, Estelle Freedman, Lynn Gordon, Jacqueline Hall, Eva Hansl, Iola Haverstick, Elizabeth Janeway, Linda Kerber, Lillian Schlissel, Ann Firor Scott, Barbara Sicherman, Catherine Stimson, and Barbara Welter. Correspondence with Darline Levy and Ann Fagan is closed until 2035. Other individuals are included within the general correspondence for each letter of the alphabet. The general correspondence is also alphabetical by last name. Materials include both actual correspondence as well as published and unpublished materials written by or about the author. Recommendations written by Annette Baxter are also found in this series, although personal information such as social security numbers and transcripts have been removed. Christmas cards were removed unless they contained correspondence in addition to signatures. This series includes letters written to both Annette and James Baxter. There is additional correspondence throughout the collection; the organization files of Barnard College contain significant amounts.
The Family subseries is closed until 2025. Correspondence with Darline Levy and Ann Fagan is closed until 2035.
SERIES III. WRITINGS (1963-88)
This series is organized into twelve subseries: Monographs, Contributions to books, Series edited, Articles, Encyclopedia entries, Book reviews, "Women in Politics" exhibit, Tributes, Letters to the editor, Interviews, Miscellaneous statements, and Unpublished materials. The subseries are arranged in chronological order by genres. The years listed in the subseries Contributions to books, Articles, Encyclopedia entries, and Book reviews indicate date of publication, not dates of the materials within the folders. The years indicated in the remaining subseries indicate the date ranges within the folder. Landmark Dissertations in Women's Studies started out as a publication by Arno Press, was transferred to Garland Publishing and ended up with the publisher Praeger. Significant material on Baxter's dissertation-turned-book, Henry Miller, Expatriate, is missing from this subseries. There is however, a review of the book, as well as an article, an encyclopedia entry, and several book reviews on Miller found within this series. In addition, there is a small amount of material on Miller in SERIES VII. SUBJECT FILES. Most of the drafts sent to Baxter by colleagues have been removed. The one that remains, due to Baxter's written response to the work, is in the subseries Unpublished materials. Most of the books that Baxter took notes in have been removed. A few remain in the subseries Unpublished materials, arranged in chronological order of the books' publication date.
SERIES IV. SPEECHES (1958-82)
This series contains three subseries: Speeches, Declined invitations, and Miscellaneous correspondence. The subseries Speeches includes the texts of speeches, panels, and conference papers, as well as the correspondence, notes, and publicity materials associated with the event. Many of her speeches focus on women's education, single sex education, women's studies, etc.
SERIES V. BARNARD COLLEGE (1952-84)
Annette Baxter dedicated much of her career to Barnard as evidenced by the large amount of material in this series. The Barnard College series, which forms the bulk of the collection, is arranged alphabetically by topic. The numerous subseries include committees, departments and programs, subjects, rules and regulations, communications to faculty and staff, campus organizations, and studies. Material related to her education and most of her alumnae activities is in SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION. Most of the print publications from Barnard and Columbia were removed; newspapers that remained were kept for their relevance to Baxter's interests, such as the relationship between Columbia and Barnard, student demonstrations, as well as subject specific material including coeducation and women's studies. Most of these newspapers and newspaper clippings are either in OVERSIZE MATERIALS or SERIES VII. SUBJECT FILES. There is some correspondence relating to Barnard in SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE. Speeches made at Barnard are located in SERIES IV. SPEECHES. Most information on candidates for searches, excepting material about Annette Baxter as a candidate, was removed. The Columbia University subseries includes materials relating to University committees, the University seminar, and most significantly, the relationship between Columbia and Barnard. Additional information about the connection between the two institutions can be found throughout the papers, especially in the History department subseries. Annette Baxter kept meticulous records of every class she taught, including correspondence, grades, papers that weren't picked up or were exceptionally written, and student's add/drop cards. Most student papers have been removed from the series, as has anything relating to grades, severe discipline problems, financial status, or social security information. Much of the student correspondence, especially that relating to recommendations, is located in SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE. The History, American Studies and Women's Studies subseries includes information on each program, its major, classes, syllabi, and department or committee business. Syllabi that were not related to American history and/or Barnard College were removed. Classes taught by Baxter are arranged within each department/program by number, then by academic year. There are records relating to Baxter's teaching of history of women in America under the subseries, History, in the classes section. Her first class on women's history is located under History 41 and 42. Most of the dates on the folders of this section refer to the semester the class was taught, not the dates of the materials within the folder. When a folder has material from multiple semesters, then the date range of the materials within the folder is included. For her records on a class she taught at Brown University, see SERIES VI. OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES. A sampling of student recommendations and graded student papers are found in this series, with names removed to protect student privacy. A small portion of the material in the History subseries is restricted; the confidential departmental business files include the minutes of the tenured faculty, grievances, and other confidential issues within the department. They are closed until 2012. Most tenure and promotion materials are closed until 2032. A few files are closed until 2057. Some of the materials within these files, such as manuscripts, reports, and publications by the faculty member in question, were removed from the collection.
A small portion of the material in the History subseries is restricted; the confidential departmental business files include the minutes of the tenured faculty, grievances, and other confidential issues within the department. They are closed until 2012. Most tenure and promotion materials are closed until 2032. A few files are closed until 2057.
[see also SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION-Education-Barnard]
SERIES VI. OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (1943-84)
This series includes materials regarding aspects of Annette Baxter's professional life that are not included in the writings, speeches or Barnard College series. There are three subseries, all arranged in alphabetical order by institution, organization, or conference: Fellowships and grants, Job opportunities, and Organizations and conferences. Notes on the class that Annette Baxter taught at Brown University are in the Organizations and conferences subseries. Some materials related to conferences in which Baxter was a participant are located in SERIES IV. SPEECHES, and the rest are in this series. If Baxter attended by special invitation, the conference has its own folder; otherwise, information on the conference is at the end of the series under Miscellaneous conferences. Requests for consultation (without additional materials) are also at the end of the series.
SERIES VII. SUBJECT FILES (1905-83)
The subject files are arranged alphabetically and contain a wide variety of printed material, most of which is related to the three subseries on American history/studies, Women, and Women's history/women's studies. Baxter's papers offer a unique look at the founding of these disciplines. Material relating to conferences, programs, and early writings on and in the three fields of study illuminate the development of the early days of the disciplines. The series also contains a large subseries on the Status of women. There are also a few biographical files on specific individuals, such as Henry Miller. Annette Baxter's reference books have either been removed from the collection or relocated to the Browsing Collection of the Sophia Smith Collection.
Contents
Biographical information
Vitas, 1965-82
Notes for vitas, 1965-82, n.d.
Biographical statements, 1962-79, n.d.
Church of Saint James the Less, Scarsdale, NY, 1961-75, n.d.
Lenox Hill Neighborhood Association, 1981
Family
General, 1962-75, n.d.
Baxter, Adrienne, 1972-75
[Closed until 2025]
Biographical information, 1983, n.d.
Letters to, 1959-74
Financial and legal, 1959-70
Georgetown, 1966
Invitations to speak, 1961-66
Telluride Association/Deep Springs Alumni Association, 1957-81
Writings, 1954-83
Baxter, Justin, 1962-81, n.d.
Education
New York University, 1943-44
Barnard College
Class notes
Undergraduate, 1944-47
Audit, 1954
Alumnae Association
General, 1955-82, n.d.
Fundraising, 1967
Alumnae Council, 1959-80, n.d.
Barnard-in-Westchester, 1961-65, n.d.
Financial contributions to Barnard, 1959-82, n.d.
Smith College
Class notes, 1947-48
Thesis, 1948, n.d.
Alumnae Association, 1971-80, n.d.
Radcliffe College
Class notes, 1948-49
Alumnae Association, 1959-82, n.d.
Cornell University: class notes, 1949
Brown University
Class notes, 1950-52
Orals, n.d.
Dissertation abstract, 1959
Alumni Association, 1968-80, n.d.
American Civilization News Bulletin, 1968-82
Legal and financial documents, 1960-83
Address books, n.d.
Photographs, 1961, 1982, n.d.
Family, 1959-83
Friends and associates
Altman, Dara and Emily, 1977-80, n.d.
Anastos, Rosemary Park
Armstrong, Lisa A., 1981-82
Avedis, Lynn, 1964
Babbitt, Nathalie and Sam, 1970-79
Bender, Marylin, 1968-69
Bendheim, Susan, 1974-75, n.d.
Berch, Bettina, 1974-83, n.d.
Berkin, Carol, 1969-83
Biral, Jane, 1968-74
Blair, Karen, 1980-82
Boorse, Henry, 1960-81
Breunig, Leroy C., 1970-76
Burden, Carter, 1969, n.d.
Burns, Kathy
Carnes, Mark, 1982-83
Chafe, Bill, 1978-79
Chambers, John, 1974-82, n.d.
Conway, Jill, 1982
Costikyan family, 1969-82
Cott, Nancy, 1982
Crisp, Eleanor and Jack, 1959-69
Cross, Barbara and Robert, 1965-70
Densen-Gerber, Judianne, 1971-72
Dobkin, Marge, 1961-83, n.d.
Elliott, Eleanor, 1969-82, n.d.
Elsberg, Constance N. Waeber, 1966-80
Fagan, Ann, 1972-76, n.d.
[Closed until 2035]
Farkas, Suzanne and Robin, 1968-72, n.d.
Fass, Paula, 1966-82
Field, Daniel, 1976, n.d.
Fleming, Donald, 1959-82
Frank, Ruth, 1973-76, n.d.
Frankel, Toby, 1974-79
Freeman, Marge
Freedman, Estelle, 1969-81, n.d.
Futter, Ellen, 1980-82
Gatje, Barbara and Robert and family, 1962-78
Gillespie, Louise L.
Goldberg, Robert, 1972-76
Gordon, Bill, 1963-72, n.d.
Gordon, Carol, 1959-72
Gordon, Lynn, 1977-81
Gould, Jane, 1971-83
Gould, Sarah E., 1979-82
Graff, Ellen, 1971-77, n.d.
Graham, Pat and Loren, 1968-72
Griffith, Lucille, 1959-71
Hall, David, 1973-82, n.d.
Hall, Jacqueline, 1970-75
Hamalian, Leo, 1965-75
Hansl, Eva, 1967-68
Harrington, Virginia, 1962-82, n.d.
Harrison, Marge Freeman, 1974-78
Hathaway, Robert, 1982-83
Haverstick, Iola and family, 1970-83
Hechinger, Grace, 1971-75
Hofstadter, Bea and Richard, 1970-71, n.d.
Janeway, Elizabeth, 1972-80
Jaffe, Irma, 1969-71
Jong, Erica, 1982
Kalibbala, Norma Livingston, 1973-75
Kaufman, Helen L., 1966-69
Kempsell, George, 1962-63, n.d.
Kerber, Linda K., 1964-80, n.d.
Kluge, Svetlana, 1962-73, n.d.
Koss, Stephen, 1969, n.d.
Kouvenhaven, John, 1962-81
Labalme, Patricia, 1960-75, n.d.
Laden, Vicki, 1972-73
Larrabee, Harold and family, 1959-71, n.d.
Levy, Darline, 1973-83
Linden, Janine, 1979-82, n.d.
Livingston, Norma
Losee, Carole, 1973-81
Long, Pamela, 1982-83
Lowe, Ann Wenig, 1968-72
Malement, Barbara, 1976-79
Mandel family, 1959-82
Marcus, Celine, 1979-83
Marstellar, Julie, 1968-79, n.d.
Martineau, Barbara, 1966-73, n.d.
McCaughey, Bob, 1969-82
McIntosh, Millicent, 1960-80, n.d.
Miller, Jeannie, 1972-81, n.d.
Murdoch, Mary-Elizabeth, 1983
Nelbach, Inez. G., 1961-72, n.d.
Nelson, Peggy, 1972-73
Oberholzer, Emil, 1964-75
Park, Rosemary, 1962-81
Peterson, Martha, 1963-75, n.d.
Pockman, Lee, 1962-80, n.d.
Rauch, Basil, 1959-82, n.d.
Rendigs, Chuck Jr., 1981-82, n.d.
Robinson, Michael, 1963
Rockland, Michael, 1977-82
Rosenblum, Naomi, 1977-81
Ryan, William, 1959-68
Sabre, Nancy, 1959-70
Sanford, John, 1980-82, n.d
Santore, John, 1980-82, n.d.
Schlissel, Lillian, 1974-81
Schrader, Kathy Burns, 1972-74
Scott, Anne Firor, 1968-69
Selby, Cecily, 1971-78, n.d.
Shange, Nzotake
Shikoh, Jane Allen, 1972-82
Sicherman, Barbara, 1975-82
Sprague, Claire, 1968-75, n.d.
Srebnik, Amy, 1981-83
Stearns, Winifred, 1971-82
Stevenson, Louise L. Gillespie, 1970-83, n.d.
Stewart, Peg Wright, 1981-82
Stimson, Catherine, 1973-74, n.d.
Stix, Carol, 1964-71, n.d.
Sturtevant, Susan Armeny, 1976-81
Tananbaum, Duane, 1982
Thomas, Cammy, 1972-74
Waeber, Constance N.
Weiner, Cheryl, 1970-71, n.d.
Welter, Barbara, 1968-75
[Closed]
Wemple, Susanne (and family), 1971-82, n.d.
Wenig, Ann
Wensberg, Erik, 1961-75
White, Penny Conrad, 1970-73, n.d.
Whitney, Frances, 1960-68, n.d.
Williams, Paulette [Ntozake Shange], 1970-71
Williamson, Chilton and Elizabeth, 1960-83, n.d.
Wright, Margaret (Peg)
Yoffe, Amy J., 1971-73
Unidentified, 1959-83, n.d.
Monographs
Henry Miller, Expatriate: book review, 1961
To Be a Woman in America, 1850-1930
Contracts and sales, 1978-82
Captions, n.d.
Drafts of manuscript, 1979, n.d.
Reviews, advertisements, and reactions by readers, 1978-79, n.d.
Inwood House, 1839-1980
Correspondence, 1979-80
Notes, 1941-80, n.d.
Contributions to monographs
Drafts, n.d.
Published version, 1980
"Archetypes of American Innocence: Lydia Blood and Daisy Miller," chapter in The American Experience ed. by Hennig Cohen, 1966
Introduction, The Universal Self-Instructor, 1970
Dorsey Press
General, 1975-82
"Breaking through the Male Barrier," chapter in Men, Women, and Issues in American History, vol. 2, 1975, 1980
"American Women from 1876 to the Present: The Search for Identity," chapter in Main Problems in American History, vol. 2, 4th ed, 1978
Preface, Clubwoman As Feminist: True Womanhood Redefined, 1868-1914 by Karen J. Blair, 1980
Foreword, To Feed Their Hopes: A Book of American Women by John Sanford, 1980
"Women's Education and Women's Values," chapter in Race, National Origin, and Gender Desegregation in Public Education: Political, Social, and Policy Issues, 1985
Series edited
Co-editor, American Women: Images and Realities, 44 vols.
Co-editor, Women in America: From Colonial Times to the 20th Century, 59 vols.
Co-editor, and general introduction, Signal Lives: Autobiographies of American Women, 51 vols.
Correspondence, 1978-80
Notes, 1978-79, n.d.
Introductions, 1979, n.d.
Publicity, 1979, n.d.
Editor-in-chief, Landmark Dissertations in Women's Studies
Arno Press
General, 1978-81, n.d.
Data sheets, 1980, n.d.
Garland Publishing, 1980-82, n.d.
Praeger
Correspondence, 1982-83
Notes, 1983, n.d.
Royalty Statements, 1981-82
Articles
"Archetypes of American Innocence: Lydia Blood and Daisy Miller," American Quarterly, Spring 1953
"Independence versus Isolation: Hawthorne and James on the Problems of the Artist," Nineteenth Century Fiction, Dec 1955
"Elvis: The Man in the Blue Suede Shoes," with James E. Baxter, Harper's Magazine, Jan 1958
"Freedom: Fun and Games," with James Baxter, Columbia University Forum, Summer 1961
"Caste and Class: Howell's Boston and Wharton's New York," The Midwest Quarterly, Summer 1963
"Henry Miller and Henry James: An Imaginary Correspondence on the Morality of the Artist," Ararat, Autumn 1963
"Looking at the Literary Twenties," Ararat, Winter 1964
"The College's Leading Women and their Roles: An Interpretation," BARNARD COLLEGE Alumnae Magazine, Spring 1964 (reprinted in Congressional Record Appendix), 19 May 1964
"Searching for the Lost Sex," Ararat, Winter 1969 (reprinted in Barnard College Alumnae Magazine), Summer 1969
"Is Gloria Steinem Dead?" Newsweek, 2 Sep 1974
"Women's Studies and American Studies: The Use of the Interdisciplinary," American Quarterly, Oct 1974
"Perspectives," The Independent School Bulletin, Oct 1975
"On Women's Colleges," Op. Ed. page, The New York Times, 21 Jan 1978
Notes for articles, n.d.
Invitations to write articles, 1959-80
Encyclopedia entries
Encyclopedia Britannica: Henry Miller, 1967
Notable American Women, 1971
Isadora Duncan
Sarah Porter
Emily Putnam
Dictionary of American Biography: Mary Emma Woolley, 1974
Encyclopedia of American Women, 1974
Mary Lyon
Amy Lowell
Notable American Women: The Modern Period: Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve, 1980
Declined offers, 1968-73
Book reviews
Edith Wharton: Convention and Morality in the Work of a Novelist by Marilyn Jones Lyde in Journal of the Central Mississippi Valley American Studies Association, Spring 1961
Beer Can by the Highway by John Kouwenhoven in Barnard College Alumnae Magazine, Winter 1962
"Random Brushstrokes of a Radical Optimist" (double review of Henry Miller: Watercolors, Drawings and His Essay, "The Angel is in My Watermark," and Stand Still Like the Hummingbird by Henry Miller), New York Times Book Review, 8 Jul 1962
Arshile Gorky by Harold Rosenberg, Ararat, Summer 1962
The Bewildered Age by V.P. Held in Barnard College Alumnae Magazine, Fall 1962
In Search of Greatness by Yousuf Karsh in Ararat, Spring 1963
A Backward Glance by Edith Wharton in New York Times Book Review, 9 Aug 1964
The Man Bilbo by A. Wigfall Green in Political Science Quarterly, Sep 1964
The John Birch Society: Anatomy of a Protest by John Robinson in The Parish Messenger, Jun 1964
Vernon Lee: Violet Paget, 1856-1935 by Peter Gunn in Victorian Studies, Jun 1965
"Pleasure and Pains: The Two Lives of Edith Wharton: The Woman and Her Work" by Grace Kellogg in The New York Times Book Review, 28 Nov 1965
"An Organic Concept of Life," Ararat, 1965
A Mother in History by Jean Stafford in New York Times Book Review, 13 Mar 1966
Mind and Art of Henry Miller by William Gordon in New York Times Book Review, 15 Oct 1967
The Fighting Pankhursts by David Mitchell in New York Times Book Review, 7 Jan 1968
Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America by Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton in Political Science Quarterly, Dec 1968
Samuel Griswold Goodrich by Daniel Roselle in The American Historical Review, Oct 1969
The Child and the Republic by Bernard Wishy in New York Historical Society Quarterly, Jan 1971
Double review of A Formula of His Own: Henry Adams' Literary Experiment by John J. Conder, and Symbol and Idea in Henry Adams by Melvin Lyon in American Historical Review, Apr 1971
The Life of Ezra Pound by Noel Stock in American Historical Review, Apr 1972
Double review of The Woman Citizen: Social Feminism in the 1920s by J. Stanley Lemons, and Women, Resistance and Revolution by Shelia Rowbotham in Political Science Quarterly, Dec 1973
Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life in Letters by Justin G. and Linda Levitt Turner in American Historical Review, Jun 1974
Mary Wollstonecraft by Eleanor Flexner in Women's Studies, Fall 1974
Woman's Consciousness, Man's World by Sheila Rowbotham in Political Science Quarterly, Fall 1974
"Women's Studies and American Studies: The Uses of the Interdisciplinary," review essay of The Novels of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Alice Crozier and The Oven Birds: Women on Womanhood in American Quarterly, Oct 1974
A Minority of Members: Women in the U.S. Congress by Hope Chamberlain in The Social Studies, Mar/Apr 1975
Hidden from History by Sheila Rowbotham in Political Science Quarterly, Winter 1975-76
Women and Equality: Changing Patterns in American Culture by William H. Chafe in Political Science Quarterly, Spring 1978
The Female Experience: An American Documentary by Gerda Lerner in The New York Historical Society Quarterly, Jul 1978
The Half-Opened Door: Discrimination and Admissions at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, 1900-70 by Marcia Graham Synnott in The Journal of American History, Jun 1980
A Timeless Affair: The Life of Anita McCormick Blaine by Gilbert A. Harrison in The American Historical Review, Oct 1980
"Myths, Mediums and Money: The Transformation of Evangelicalism," review essay, Mission for Life by Joan Jacobs Brumberg in Reviews in American History, Dec 1981
Double review, Mary Lyon and Mount Holyoke: Opening the Gates by Elizabeth Alden Green, and The Making of a Feminist: Early Journals and Letters of M. Carey Thomas ed. by Marjorie H. Dobkin in Labor History, Winter 1982
Wage-Earning Women: Industrial Work and Family Life in the United States, 1900-1930 by Leslie W. Tentler, in The New York Historical Society Quarterly, Spring 1982
"Good Man's Poor Wife": Being a Chronicle of Harriet Hanson Robinson and her Family in Nineteenth Century New England by Claudia L. Bushman in The Journal of American History, Jun 1982
Double review, European Women on the Left: Socialism, Feminism, and the Problems Faced By Political Women, 1880 to the Present ed. by Jane Slaughter and Robert Kern, and Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920 by Mari Jo Buhle in Political Science Quarterly, Spring 1983
Daughters of the State: A Social Portrait of the First Reform School for Girls in North America, 1856-1905 by Barbara Brenzel in The Women's Review of Books, Nov 1983
Woman's Worth: Sexual Economics and the World of Women by Lisa Leghorn and Katherine Parker in Labor History, Spring 1984
Double review, Edwardian Childhoods by Thea Thompson, and Girls Growing Up in Late Victorian and Edwardian England by Carol Dyhouse in History of Education Quarterly, Spring 1984
Requests to review books, 1968-83, n.d.
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1963-83, n.d.
"Women in Politics" exhibit
Correspondence, 1963-64
Notes, 1963, n.d.
Background information, 1956-64, n.d.
Herman/Tilton Bicentennial exhibit, 1954, n.d.
Drafts of captions, n.d.
Outline with captions, n.d.
Comments from others re: outline, 1963-64, n.d.
Articles and press releases, 1963-64
Tributes, letters to the editor, interviews, and miscellaneous statements, 1957-75, n.d.
Unpublished materials
The Child in America (with Barbara Cross), 1967-68
History of the American Association of University Women, circa 1968-76, n.d.
Foreign Views of American Women (with Michael Rockland), 1973-80, n.d.
Correspondence, 1973-80, n.d.
Drafts, 1975, n.d.
Notes
General, 1974, n.d.
A-M
N-Z
Subjects
Dates to be ascertained
Discards
American history textbook for junior and senior college, with John Chambers, 1981
Comparative Study of Women's Organizations (with Barbara Welter), 1982, n.d.
Women's History Reading Lists (with Barbara Welter), 1972-84
Revisionism and Women's History: An Historiographical Study, n.d.
"Betty Friedan, Feminine Mystique," 1963
"Privacy," 1963, n.d.
"Pressures on Women," 1965, n.d.
"Thoughts on Women's Studies at Barnard College," 1972
"Academic Scene," n.d.
" A Constable of the Forties," n.d.
"Concealment and Revelation," n.d.
Book reviews: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosche by Henry Miller
Miscellaneous fiction, n.d.
Baxter-Dintenfass project, n.d.
Potential future publications, 1963-83, n.d.
Reviews of others' works
Identified, 1965-79, n.d.
Unidentified, 1972-83
Marginalia, n.d.
Speeches, 1958-82, n.d.
Notes, talks never given, etc.
Declined invitations, 1969-80
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1962-82, n.d.
Advisory Vocational Committee, 1969-70
Alumnae Magazine Editorial Board, 1973-79, n.d.
American Studies
Department business, 1963-84
Requirements for the major, 1960-68, n.d.
Program revisions, suggestions, etc., n.d.
Unpublished reports, 1952-57
Majors exam, 1954-56
Classes
American Studies 1-2
American Studies 3-4
American Studies 5-6
Requests for information about program, 1961-83, n.d.
Syllabi from non-Barnard institutions, 1969, n.d.
Position searches at other institutions, 1972-81, n.d.
Miscellaneous, 1955-56, n.d.
Appointments and salaries
General, 1954-83, n.d.
Promotions, 1960-80
Archives, 1970-83
Barnard Bulletin
Board of Trustees, 1972-83, n.d.
Class of 1962, 1957-72, n.d.
Coeducation
Columbia University
General, 1969-83
American Culture Studies, 1982-83
Columbia Spectator
Executive Committee of the Faculty of Columbia, 1968
Faculty Affairs Committee, 1970-71
Historiography lecture, 1972
Information and Visitor Services, 1983
Oral History
Advisory Committee, 1977-83, n.d.
Women's History Conference, 1982-83, n.d.
Relationship between Barnard and Columbia, 1964-82, n.d.
Status of women, 1970-71, n.d.
Summer Institute on Women, 1971
University Committee for a Relevant Education, 1968
University Seminar
Advisory Council, 1980-83
American Civilization
Women and Society
Miscellaneous, 1966-79
Women's Affirmative Action Coalition, 1972
Committees: General, 1961-82, n.d.
Committee on Instruction, 1965-80, n.d.
Committee on the City: Danforth Foundation Report, 1968, n.d.
Committee on Honors, 1980-82
Council on Development, 1968-73
Course Guide, 1970-71
Dean of Faculty search, 1977
Deanship Committee, 1970
Department chair notices, 1974-83, n.d.
Development Committee, 1968-79
Dissertation defense notices, 1970-74
Dissertation defense questions and notes, n.d.
Education program: student teachers, 1966-72
Experimental College, 1978-80, n.d.
Experimental Studies Program, 1980-83, n.d.
Faculty and officers of instruction notices, 1960-83, n.d.
Faculty Appeal Board, 1962, n.d.
Faculty Code, 1972-79
Faculty Executive Committee, 1983
Faculty Research and Travel Committee, 1969
Faculty-Trustee relationship, 1975
Freshman advising, 1966-67
Freshman orientation, 1963-83, n.d.
Freshman seminar, 1981-83, n.d.
Greek life, 1983
Health and Society Committee
History Department
Business
General
Confidential departmental business
[Closed until 2012]
Department by-laws, 1973-83
Columbia's history department
Correspondence, 1957-83
Consultation agreements, 1973-77
Correspondence with Dean of Faculty, 1970-83
Former students teaching in history, n.d.
History Club, 1964, n.d.
Planning survey, 1976-77
History 41-42, 1965-67, n.d.
History 61-62, 1967-68, n.d.
History 71-72, 1962-67, n.d.
History 73, 1970-71, n.d.
History 74, 1968-71, n.d.
History 78, 1971, n.d.
History 81-82, 1971-83, n.d.
History 83, 1967-69
History 93-94, 1969
History 99, 1975-82
Potential class: Women's Lives, 1983
Women in America (work in progress)
Syllabi
Requests for Women in America, 1966-77
American history and related syllabi from colleagues, 1948-83
Tenure and promotion
[Closed until 2032; a few files closed until 2057]
Housing, 1969
Library
Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1971-82
Milbank Program for Health and Society, 1974-83
Millicent Carey McIntosh Center Dedication Committee, 1968-69
Newsletter, 1980-83
Office of the Registrar, 1968-83, n.d.
Personnel Committee, 1983
Public relations, 1962-83
Reunion, 1963-82
Search Committee for Interim President, 1975,1980
Search for President: Baxter nominations, 1975, 1979-8
Self-Study, 1979
Senior class, 1977-83
Seven College Conference, 1965-81
Seventy-fifth Anniversary Year, 1961-63
Student papers (graded), 1969-82
Student protests, 1968-72
Student recommendations, 1960-83
Tenure procedures, 1971-83, n.d.
Third Year Review, 1982
Thursday Noon Committee, 1961-66
Wollman Library, 1963-83, n.d.
Women's Center
General, 1969-74, n.d.
Creation, 1970-71
Charter Committee, 1972-73
Institute for Advanced Study of Women in Society, 1977-79
Task Force on Women, 1982-83
Annual Report, 1972-82
Executive Committee, 1971-83, n.d.
Women's archives and library, 1970-82
Search Committee for Director, 1971-72, 1983
Brochures, 1971
Conferences and events, 1970-83, n.d.
Projects, 1972-83, n.d.
Women's Studies
Major, 1971-77
Classes, 1970-83
Bibliographies and reading lists, 1971-81
"Women's Studies at Barnard," 1970-82, n.d.
Study Committee, 1970-75, n.d.
Women's Studies Review Committee, 1974, n.d.
Committee on Women's Studies, 1977-83
Feminist Scholars Seminar, 1973, n.d.
Women's Studies at other institutions, 1970-81, n.d.
Requests for women's studies syllabi, 1970-83
Position searches at other institutions, 1972-74, n.d.
Miscellaneous, 1967-82, n.d.
Fellowships and grants
American Association of University Women, 1972-73
American Council of Learned Societies, 1975-78
Ford Foundation, Faculty Fellowships for Research on the Role of Women in Society, 1972-75, n.d.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1975-76
National Endowment for the Humanities, 1975-79, n.d.
Princeton University, Davis Center for Historical Studies, 1971-72
Radcliffe Institute, 1977
Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowships, 1973-77, n.d.
Social Science Research Council, 1971-75
Job opportunities
Bowdoin College, 1977
City University of New York, 1974, n.d.
Manhattanville College, 1973-74
Princeton University, 1980, n.d.
Sarah Lawrence College, 1965
Trinity College, 1981-83
Wellesley College, 1978-80
Declined offers, 1971-81
Organizations and conferences
American Association of University Women
Archives, 1965-74, n.d.
Articles, 1943-79, n.d.
Conferences and forums, 1970-78, n.d.
Correspondence, 1974-79
Education Foundation, 1964-78, n.d.
Membership, 1963-82
Newspapers
Pamphlets, 1956-79
American Heritage Foundation, 1947-49
American Historical Association
Committee on Congressional Fellowships, 1980-82
Correspondence, 1970-80, n.d.
Directory of Affiliated Societies, 1977
Panel proposal, 1979 [did not take place]
American Medical Women's Association
General, n.d.
Women's Medical Association of New York City, 1983
American National Heritage Association, 1974, n.d.
American Quarterly Editorial Board, 1976-82
American Studies Association
General, 1963-83, n.d.
Metropolitan New York branch, 1964-83
Panel proposal, 1982-83
American Woman's Association, 1948-81, n.d.
Another Mother for Peace, circa 1970
ARARAT, 1961-77
Armenian General Benevolent Union, Inc. (AGBU), 1965, n.d.
Arno Press, Inc., 1973-77, n.d.
Brown University, 1951-52
Bryn Mawr, M. Carey Thomas project, 1979-80
Celebrate Women festival, 1972
Children's Television Workshop, 1975
Columbia Forum, 1961-74
Compton Advertising Awards, 1981-83, n.d.
Compton Digest, 1982, n.d.
Conference in Theology for College and University Faculty, 1962-68
Coordinating Committee on Women in the Historical Profession, 1974-84, n.d.
Coro Foundation, 1974-83
Cosmopolitan Club
Correspondence, 1973-83
Monthly bulletin, 1973-83
Stim Committee, 1980-81, n.d.
Miscellaneous, 1978, n.d.
Council for International Exchange of Scholars, 1974-82
Danforth Foundation, 1967
Encampment for Citizenship, Inc., "Freedom & Angelina," 1978
Ford Foundation, Faculty Research Fellowship Program on Women in Society, 1973-75
Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., 1974
Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc., 1983
Intellectual History Group, 1979-83
Institute for Women, 1972
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, 1972
Kirkland College
Board of Trustees
General, 1970-75
Science curriculum, 1973
Correspondence, 1969-78
Merger with Hamilton, 1977-81
Proposal, Conference on the Gifted Woman at the Threshold, 1974
Ladies Home Journal, 1978
Lotos Club, 1981-83, n.d.
Marcus Weiner Publishing, Inc., 1983
Marymount Manhattan College, 1982
Middlesex School
Anvil Association, 1979-83
Board of Trustees, 1982-83
Coeducation Committee, 1982-83
Donation of library materials, 1982-83
Miscellaneous, 1982-83
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, 1975
Modern Language Association, 1971-72
National Advertising Review Board, 1974-75, n.d.
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, 1964-65, n.d.
National Council of Women
American Bicentennial Monthly, 1974-76
Board of Directors, 1975
Bulletin, 1965-83
Correspondence, 1968-82
Miscellaneous, 1965-83
National Endowment for the Humanities, consultation
General, 1975-78, n.d.
Kaledin proposal, 1982-83
Media programs, 1974-79
National Organization for Women, 1970-71, n.d.
New York Public Library
Night of One Hundred Dinners, 1983
Schomburg, 1971
Organization of American Historians, 1971-79
Oxford University Press, 1979
Plenum Publishing, Encyclopedia of Women, 1973, n.d.
Political Science Quarterly, 1980-82
Princeton Club of New York, 1980-81, n.d.
Ramapo College, 1975-82
"Remember the Ladies" exhibit, 1977
Schlesinger Library, 1967-70
Smith College Library, Council of Friends, 1967-69, n.d.
Union for Experimenting Colleges and Universities, 1981-83, n.d.
Union Graduate School, 1981-83
United Hospital Fund of New York, 1979-82
USIA Consultation, evaluation of contemporary America seminar, 1972
Virginia Gildersleeve International Fund for University Women, Inc., 1978-79, n.d.
Woman's Life, 1981-82
Women in the Workforce Conference, 1980
Women's Forum, 1981-83, n.d.
Women's History Research Center, 1971-73, n.d.
Women's Interart Center, Inc., 1981, n.d.
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, conference: Violence in Our Time, 1968
Women's Medical Association of New York City
Women's Studies: An Inter-Disciplinary Journal, 1971-73, n.d.
Miscellaneous conferences, 1976-78
Requests for consultation, 1970-78
American studies/history
American history, 1964-75, n.d.
American studies, 1958-80, n.d.
"Articles in American Studies"
Bibliographies, 1950, n.d.
Conference announcements
American history, 1975-83, n.d.
American studies, 1971-82, n.d.
Journal offers
American history, n.d.
American studies, 1960-83, n.d.
Newsletters, 1961-74
Programs
American history, 1966-76, n.d.
American studies, 1967-80
Publishers' notifications
The Americanist, 1967
Arno Press, 1968, n.d.
Austin Book Shop, n.d.
Dover, 1963, n.d.
Armenian Assembly of America, 1982-83
Chopin, Kate, 1970-76
Education, 1956-80
Equal Rights Amendment, 1952-83
James, Henry, 1963-80
Miller, Henry, 1961-70, n.d.
Revolution and protest, 1964-69
Status of women
State and local reports
General, 1964-70
New York, 1966-82
United States
General, 1934-72
Citizen's Advisory Council, 1964-70
Colleges, 1934-74, n.d.
Department of Labor, 1938-67
President's Committee on the Status of Women, 1961-63
Public service, 1949
State Department, 1972
International
General, 1970
International Council of Women newsletter, 1970
International Women's Year, 1974
United Nations
Feb 1965-75
Women
Biographies, 1964-83, n.d.
Clubs, 1968-83
Demonstrations and protests, 1969-70, n.d.
Co-ed vs. single sex, 1948-83
Higher education, 1961-74, n.d.
Women faculty, 1970-83, n.d.
Family, 1948, n.d.
Feminism/feminist movement, 1970-83, n.d.
Occupations
General, 1964-83, n.d.
Housewives, 1976-80, n.d.
Medicine, 1944-75, n.d.
Ordination, 1972-75
Prostitution, 1960-78, n.d.
Science, 1940-45, n.d.
Psychology, 1964-73, n.d.
Sex differences, 1967-81
Sex roles, 1953-72, n.d.
Sexuality, 1967-69
Stereotypes, 1970-78, n.d.
Suffrage, 1968-79
Women's bodies, 1975, n.d.
Women's liberation, 1969-73, n.d.
Women's history/women's studies
General, 1959-83, n.d.
Bibliographies, 1905-83, n.d.
Conferences, 1969-83, n.d.
Curriculum, 1975, n.d.
Journal offers, 1972-74, n.d.
Newsletters, 1970-80, n.d.
Programs, 1971-73
Publisher's notifications and reading lists, 1966-83, n.d.
OVERSIZE MATERIALS
Women's history/women's studies bibliography, n.d.
Biographical material: Episcopal New Yorker, 1968, 1971
Writings
Advertisement, To Be a Woman in America, Times Books, Christmas, 1978
Galleys
The Universal Self-Instructor, n.d.
"American Women from 1876 to the Present: The Search for Identity," n.d.
Research notes, "Freedom: Fun and Games," n.d.
Interview, "Follow a Star: Four Girls Interview their Heroines," Seventeen Magazine, Jan 1959
Barnard Bulletin, 1954-78
Barnard Bull, 2 Dec 1970
Columbia Spectator, 1975-82
University Committee on Rules of Conduct, n.d.
"A Model Bill of Rights and Responsibilities," Chronicle of Higher Education, 15 Mar 1971
Other professional activities
AAUW New York Division Reports, 1975-77
AAUW New Yorker, 1977-82
Poster, "An Evening with Margaret Mead," 1978
Compton Advertising Awards: Poster, 1st Annual Advertising Journalism Awards, 1981
Conference in Theology: "A Guide to Trinity College," n.d.
Encampment for Citizenship: "Freedom & Angelina," 1978
Lotus Club: Poster, "State Dinner in Honor of President J. Roger Friedman, 1981
Subject files
Conference: American Culture Association convention poster, 1982
Programs, 1974-77, n.d.
Status of Women-International, 1970
Medicine
"Langham's Pioneer Womanhood," 1963
"Odessa Zionist Put Down in India," n.d.
Publication notices, n.d.
Arno Press, n.d.
AAUW Insurance Plan poster, n.d.
Barnard's Women's Center brochure, "A Woman's Place in the World," n.d.
American Studies, publication notice: Temple University Press, circa 1980
Women's Studies, publication notices, 1972-82, n.d.