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Haverford College History Department Junior Seminar Papers and Papers of Courses Based on Haverford Collections HC.Coll.811 Haverford College History Department Junior Seminar Papers and Papers of Courses Based on Haverford Collections HC.Coll.811 This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit May 03, 2013 Describing Archives: A Content Standard Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections 370 Lancaster Ave Haverford, PA, 19041 610-896-1161 [email protected] Haverford College History Department Junior Seminar Papers and Papers of Courses Based on Haverford ... Table of Contents Summary Information ................................................................................................................................. 4 Biographical/Historical note.......................................................................................................................... 5 Administrative Information .........................................................................................................................5 Controlled Access Headings..........................................................................................................................6 General note...................................................................................................................................................6 Collection Inventory...................................................................................................................................... 7 History 100 - February 1970...................................................................................................................7 History 361- December 1970.................................................................................................................. 8 History 361 - 1972.................................................................................................................................. 9 History 361 - 1973.................................................................................................................................. 9 History 361 - 1974................................................................................................................................ 14 History 361 - 1975................................................................................................................................ 16 History 361 - 1976................................................................................................................................ 19 History 361 - 1977................................................................................................................................ 21 History 361 - 1978................................................................................................................................ 23 History 361 - 1979................................................................................................................................ 26 History 361 - 1980................................................................................................................................ 30 History 361 - 1981................................................................................................................................ 33 History 361 - 1982................................................................................................................................ 37 History 361 - 1983................................................................................................................................ 41 History 361 - 1984................................................................................................................................ 45 History 361 - 1985................................................................................................................................ 48 History 361 - 1986................................................................................................................................ 51 History 361 - 1987................................................................................................................................ 54 - Page 2 - Haverford College History Department Junior Seminar Papers and Papers of Courses Based on Haverford ... History 361 - 1988................................................................................................................................ 58 History 361 - 1989................................................................................................................................ 61 History 361 - 1990................................................................................................................................ 66 History 361 - 1991................................................................................................................................ 70 History 361 - 1992................................................................................................................................ 73 History 361 - 1993................................................................................................................................ 77 History 361 - 1994................................................................................................................................ 81 History 361 - 1995................................................................................................................................ 85 History 361 - 1996................................................................................................................................ 88 History 361 - 1997................................................................................................................................ 91 History 361 - 1998................................................................................................................................ 93 History 361 - 1999................................................................................................................................ 96 History 361 - 2000................................................................................................................................ 99 History 361 - 2001.............................................................................................................................. 102 History 361 - 2002.............................................................................................................................. 105 History 361 - 2003.............................................................................................................................. 107 History 361 - 2004.............................................................................................................................. 111 Independent College Programs - 2012: Picturing War: Goya to Abu Ghraib; Prof. Carol Solomon............................................................................................................................................... 114 - Page 3 - Haverford College History Department Junior Seminar Papers and Papers of Courses Based on Haverford ... Summary Information Repository Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections Title Haverford College History Department Junior Seminar Papers and Other Course Papers Based on Haverford Collections Date [inclusive] 1969-2012 Extent 31.0 Boxes Language English Abstract In 1969, the history faculty of Haverford College created a seminar for its student history majors requiring significant papers concerned with historical evidence and based on documents in Haverford's manuscript and photography collections. The papers are described here under the course number: History 361. The seminar came to an end in 2004. Papers resulting from other coursework within the history department which faculty also deemed worthy for research purposes are also here, but housed separately from the 361 papers. Thus, here are papers from History 240, History of Quakerism (1991, 1999); papers from History 347a, Quakers in Asia (1989); and one paper from History 347b (1989). (Note: There is also 1 paper from 340a, spring 1990, filed in Box 1989-1). In 2012, papers from Independent College Program, Picturing War: Goya to Abu Ghraib were added to this collection. Preferred Citation note Haverford College Library, Haverford PA, Special Collections, Coll. no. 811. - Page 4 - Haverford College History Department Junior Seminar Papers and Papers of Courses Based on Haverford ... Biographical/Historical note In 1969, the history faculty of Haverford College created a seminar for its student history majors requiring significant papers concerned with historical evidence and based on documents in Haverford's manuscript collections. The papers are described here under the course number: History 361. From 1970-1992, the papers are arranged by the call number of the document (e.g. collection #720). From 1993 on, the papers are arranged alphabetically by the student's last name. Over time, some of the documents were selected from Bryn Mawr College's manuscript collections and this is indicated as appropriate. The seminar came to an end in 2004. In 1991, photographs from Haverford's collections were used as artifacts. The papers resulting from their documentation have been added as an exception to the above. (Note: no papers from 1991 can be found) A decision was made in 1990 that only those papers considered by the department as worthy of future reference would be preserved here. Over the years some papers have been misplaced or perhaps were never even received. At one time they probably did
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