Dexter Perkins Papers
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Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester Rush Rhees Library Second Floor, Room 225 Rochester, NY 14627-0055 [email protected] URL: https://www.library.rochester.edu/spaces/rbscp Dexter Perkins Papers
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Summary Information ...... 3 Biographical/Historical note ...... 3 Scope and Contents note ...... 4 Administrative Information ...... 4 Controlled Access Headings ...... 5 Collection Inventory ...... 5 Series I: Correspondence ...... 5 Series II: Book correspondence and revisions ...... 5 Series III: Lectures, lecture notes, and course notes ...... 6 Series IV: Subjects ...... 7 Series V: Personal records ...... 10 Series VI: Publications ...... 11
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Summary Information
Repository: Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester Creator: Perkins, Dexter, 1889-1984 Title: Dexter Perkins papers ID: D.73 Date [inclusive]: 1905-1975 Physical Description: 12 boxes Language of the English Material:
Preferred Citation
(Name of item, if applicable), Dexter Perkins Papers, 1905-1975. Rare Books Special Collections & Preservation Department, University of Rochester.
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Biographical/Historical note
Dexter Perkins was born in Boston, graduated from Harvard in 1909 and earned his doctorate in philosophy there in 1914. He joined the Rochester Faculty that year as an assistant professor of history. He advanced to full professor in 1925, when he became head of the history department.
Dr. Perkins was an official United States historian at the 1945 San Francisco Security Conference that preceded the organization of the United Nations. Later that year, he was the first to teach a new course on American History and Institutions at Cambridge University. He also taught at Uppsala University in Sweden and was instrumental in creating the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies in Austria, presiding over annual gatherings from 1950-1961. During his long association with the American Historical Association he served as both president and secretary.
Dr. Perkins was the author of 17 books, many of them on the formation and conduct of America foreign policy. He was regarded by his contemporaries as a leading expert on the Monroe Doctrine, about which he wrote several volumes. After his retirement in 1954, he became the first John L. Senior Professor of American Civilization at Cornell University and held that chair until 1959. He also continued to write
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He died in May, 1984 at the Brightonian Convalescent Care Center in Rochester. He was 94 years old.
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Scope and Contents note
The collection consists of correspondence (personal and about book and articles published); outline of courses taught at the University of Rochester; subjects of interests; and some of his published articles and speeches.
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Administrative Information
Publication Statement Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rush Rhees Library Second Floor, Room 225 Rochester, NY 14627-0055 [email protected] URL: https://www.library.rochester.edu/spaces/rbscp
Restrictions on Access The Dexter Perkins Papers is open for research use. Researchers are advised to contact the Rare Books Special Collections & Preservation Department prior to visiting. Upon arrival, researchers will also be asked to fill out a registration form and provide photo identification.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note The material was received from the President's office on July 9, 1971. Correspondence received from Dr. Perkins on October 19, 1973.
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Restrictions on Use In consultation with a curator, reproductions may be made upon request. Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from a curator. Researchers are responsible for determining any copyright questions.
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Controlled Access Headings
• United Nations Conference on International Organization • World War (1914-1918) • Europe • Historians • Correspondence • Lectures • Manuscripts • Perkins, Dexter, 1889-1984 • University of Rochester -- Faculty
Collection Inventory
Series I: Correspondence Title/Description Instances Correspondence, October 1905-July 1920 Box 1 Folder 1-19
Correspondence, August 1920-1955 Box 2 Folder 1-9
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Series II: Book correspondence and revisions Title/Description Instances American attitude towards war (Yale Review, Winter, 1949) Box 3 Folder 1
Life of James Monroe Box 3 Folder 2
Book for Harvard Press Box 3 Folder 3
The New Deal End World War II book Box 3 Folder 4
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Hands off - revisions Box 3 Folder 5-6
Charles Evans Hughes book Box 3 Folder 7
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Series III: Lectures, lecture notes, and course notes Title/Description Instances Benjamin Franklin: philosopher and public servant Box 4 Folder 1
Declaration of Independence: American idealism Box 4 Folder 2
The Constitution: American imperialism Box 4 Folder 3
George Washington: soldier and statesman Box 4 Folder 4
Harry S. Truman: the growth of a politician Box 4 Folder 5
Woodrow Wilson: idealist Box 4 Folder 6
Pearl Harbor Box 4 Folder 7
Theodore Roosevelt: pragmatist Box 4 Folder 8
Note on my family Box 4 Folder 9
Twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, 1943 Box 4 Folder 10
Lectures, 1951-1953 Box 4 Folder 11
San Francisco conference Box 4 Folder 12
William H. Seward, Secretary of State Speech at Union College Box 4 Folder 13 celebration
American approach to foreign policy, Sweden Box 4 Folder 14
Lectures Box 4 Folder 15-16
Lecture notes: miscellaneous Box 4 Folder 17-18
Lectures: History 132 Box 5 Folder 1
Lectures: History 137-8 (1789-1815) Box 5 Folder 2
Lectures: History 137-8 (1815-1848) Box 5 Folder 3
Lectures: History 137-8 (1848-1865) Box 5 Folder 4
Lectures: History 137-8 (1865-1898) Box 5 Folder 5
Lectures: History 137-8 (1898-1921) Box 5 Folder 6
Lectures: History 137-8 (1933- ) Box 5 Folder 7
Lectures: History I Box 5 Folder 8
History III Box 5 Folder 9
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History IV: through the Spanish American War Box 5 Folder 10
History IV: senior thesis on the Spanish American War Box 5 Folder 11
Cornell course, Spring 1954 Box 5 Folder 12
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Series IV: Subjects Title/Description Instances American expansionism Box 6 Folder 1
American nationality and American ideals Box 6 Folder 2
American reparation policy Box 6 Folder 3
Agriculture Box 6 Folder 4 Physical Description: Pamphlets
Articles of Confederation and Constitution Box 6 Folder 5
American Revolution: military Box 6 Folder 6
Some aspects of the revolution social forces Box 6 Folder 7
Blaine, James G. Box 6 Folder 8
British politics and the American Revolution Box 6 Folder 9
Can we learn from experience, 1918-194? Box 6 Folder 10
Central America Box 6 Folder 11
Civil War: political aspects, military and naval aspects Box 6 Folder 12
Cleveland and Harrison: financial questions Box 6 Folder 13
Colonial conflict on the eve of the revolution Box 6 Folder 14
Colonial economic organization and social life Box 6 Folder 15
Coolidge Box 6 Folder 16
Cuba Box 6 Folder 17
Defense, 1952 Box 6 Folder 18
Depression of the 1870's, two depressions, 1873 and 1929 Box 6 Folder 19
Diplomacy to 1800: introductory lectures on diplomacy Box 6 Folder 20
Diplomacy to 1800: diplomacy of American Revolution Box 6 Folder 21, 23
Diplomacy to 1800: Constitution and diplomacy, principle of Box 6 Folder 22 isolation
Diplomacy to 1800: Constitution and diplomacy, rupture with Box 6 Folder 24 France - Page 7- Dexter Perkins Papers
Diplomacy to 1800: French alliance and peace negotiations Box 6 Folder 25
Diplomacy to 1800: foreign policy of the Confederacy Box 6 Folder 26
Diplomacy to 1800: Washington diplomacy Box 6 Folder 27
Diplomacy 1800-1822: Madison and the War of 1812 Box 6 Folder 28
Diplomacy 1823-1860: diplomacy of the Mexican War Box 6 Folder 29
Diplomacy 1823-1860: Anglo-American relations, 1837-1846 Box 6 Folder 30
Diplomacy 1823-1860: Texas Box 6 Folder 31
Diplomacy 1823-1860: diplomacy of Jefferson's second Box 6 Folder 32 administration, Louisiana Purchase
Diplomacy 1860-1876 Box 6 Folder 33
Diplomacy 1860-1876: diplomacy of the Civil War Box 6 Folder 34
Diplomacy of WWI Box 6 Folder 35
Diplomacy in the 1920s Box 6 Folder 36
Diplomacy of the Hoover administration Box 6 Folder 37
Diplomacy 1932-1950 Box 6 Folder 38
Diplomacy since 1945 Box 6 Folder 39
Disarmament: war debts and reparations Box 6 Folder 40
Dred Scott Case: Bleeding Kansas War Box 7 Folder 1
Economic development to 1860 Box 7 Folder 2
Eighteenth century rationalism: Benjamin Franklin Box 7 Folder 3
Economic development, 1865-1880: business boom after Civil Box 7 Folder 4 War
Election of 1860 Box 7 Folder 5
Evolution of the courts Box 7 Folder 6
Financing the revolution: supply of gunpowder in 1776 Box 7 Folder 7
The fine arts Box 7 Folder 8
Grant Hayes and Garfield Box 7 Folder 9
Haiti Box 7 Folder 10
Holy alliance Box 7 Folder 11
Hoons Box 7 Folder 12
Immigration in the United States: labor and immigration, Box 7 Folder 13 capitalism and immigration
Imperialism Box 7 Folder 14
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Internal problems in Monroe's administration Box 7 Folder 15
Introductory lecture through voyages of discovery and Christopher Box 7 Folder 16 Columbus
Inventions Box 7 Folder 17
Andrew Jackson and the Jacksonian period Box 7 Folder 18
Thomas Jefferson Box 7 Folder 19
Labor to 1860 Box 7 Folder 20
Labor since 1860: social radicalism Box 7 Folder 21
Latin American and World War I Box 7 Folder 22
Abraham Lincoln: election of 1860 Box 7 Folder 23
Loyalist side of the revolution, rebel side of the revolution Box 7 Folder 24
Manufactures and shipping Box 7 Folder 25
Medicine before 1860 Box 7 Folder 26
Mexico Box 7 Folder 27
Monroe doctrine Box 7 Folder 28
Missouri compromise Box 7 Folder 29
Money question Box 7 Folder 30
The Negro Box 8 Folder 1
Nuclear weapon Box 8 Folder 2
Orient in the 1920's Box 8 Folder 3
Pamphlets on Latin America and Central America Box 8 Folder 4
Pamphlets on the Far East Box 8 Folder 5
Pan-Americanism Box 8 Folder 6
Peace Conference and the League of Nations Box 8 Folder 7
Peace movement, Woman's movement Box 8 Folder 8
Personalities from 1815-1830: Monroe, Adams, Clay, Calhoun, Box 8 Folder 9 Webster
Political and social progress, Age of reform, National Legislator Box 8 Folder 10
Population: the Western frontier Box 8 Folder 11
Positive work of the revolution Box 8 Folder 12
Puerto Rico and Cuba Box 8 Folder 13
Relations with France and Spain Box 8 Folder 14
Rise of the new capitalism Box 8 Folder 15
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Samoa, Hawaii, and Philippines Box 8 Folder 16
Science in America doctrine of evolution Box 8 Folder 17
Roosevelt, Theodore Box 8 Folder 18
Roosevelt, Theodore: foreign policy of Latin America and Box 8 Folder 19 Morocco
Roosevelt and the Far East Box 8 Folder 20
Roosevelt: biography and domestic policy Box 8 Folder 21
Santo Domingo Box 8 Folder 22
Slavery question: United States, 1837-1850 Box 8 Folder 23
Spain, France, and England in America: the Colonies and colonial Box 8 Folder 24 conflict
South and Reconstruction results of the Civil War Box 8 Folder 25
State department speaks Box 8 Folder 26
T.R. Tap Box 8 Folder 27
U.S. policy towards China and Japan Box 8 Folder 28
Venezuela Box 8 Folder 29
Washington, George Box 8 Folder 30
West in the Revolutionary period Box 8 Folder 31
Woodrow Wilson: biography and bibliography Box 8 Folder 32
Wilson and the war Box 8 Folder 33
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Series V: Personal records Title/Description Instances Loubat prizes Box 9 Folder 1
Photograph of Dexter Perkins, 1918 Box 9 Folder 2
Cloth insignia, postcards, 1910's Box 9 Folder 3 Scope and Contents
Cloth insignia: 2 items, 3 postcards - European scenes
Schedule of trip to England, May-June 1948 Box 9 Folder 4
San Francisco conference, April-May 1945 Box 9 Folder 5
Retirement, April 1954 Box 9 Folder 6
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Newspaper clippings, faculty meeting
Planned Parenthood Box 9 Folder 7-9
"The Professor" manuscript poem by Helen A. Cramer Box 9 Folder 10
Miscellaneous notes Box 9 Folder 11-12
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Series VI: Publications Title/Description Instances The Constitution and the American spirit, 1937 Box 10 Folder 1
The love of knowledge, The guide of life, 1937 Box 10 Folder 2
Bulletin of the Robert Morris Associates, 1939 Box 10 Folder 3
Fundamental principles of American foreign policy, 1941 Box 10 Folder 4
The State department speaks, 1944 Box 10 Folder 5
Woodrow Wilson: an interpretation, 1946 Box 10 Folder 6
Geographical influence: American history, 1947 Box 10 Folder 7
Salzburg understanding: 1947-1953 Box 10 Folder 8
The memoirs of Cordell Hull, 1949 Box 10 Folder 9
PMULA, 1950 Box 10 Folder 10
Headline series: the story of US foreign policy, 1951 Box 10 Folder 11
Yale review, 1951 Box 11 Folder 1
Reprint from the Diplomats (1919-1939), 1953 Box 11 Folder 2-4
The Perkins lectures, 1956 Box 11 Folder 5
American way, 1957 Box 11 Folder 6
We shall gladly teach, 1957 Box 12 Folder 1
The satisfactions of a teacher of history, 1960 Box 12 Folder 2
Wells express, 1960 Box 12 Folder 3
The Monroe doctrine , 1963 Box 12 Folder 4 Scope and Contents
Includes 2 book reviews
Newspaper articles Box 12 Folder 5
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Official program of the Steuben Society, 1964 Box 12 Folder 6
Review of politics, 1969 Box 12 Folder 7
American Academy of Arts & Sciences records, 1973-1974 Box 12 Folder 8
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