christopher_lasch_papers This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on September 29, 2021. English. Describing Archives: A Content Standard 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 christopher_lasch_papers Table of Contents Summary Information .................................................................................................................................... 3 Biographical/Historical note .......................................................................................................................... 3 Scope and Contents note ............................................................................................................................... 3 Chronology ..................................................................................................................................................... 4 Administrative Information ............................................................................................................................ 9 Related Materials ......................................................................................................................................... 10 Controlled Access Headings ........................................................................................................................ 10 Collection Inventory ..................................................................................................................................... 10 Series I: General Correspondence (includes Letter to and from Christopher Lasch) ............................... 10 Series I: General Correspondence (includes Letters to and from Christopher Lasch) .............................. 80 Series IIa: Publications and Conference Material, 1956-1994 (includes Notes, Drafts, Clippings, and Related Correspondence) ......................................................................................................................... 353 Section IIb: Publications Material, 1983-1994 ....................................................................................... 415 Series III: Academic Lecture Notes ........................................................................................................ 434 Series IV: Student Files (includes Correspondence, Letter of Reference Copies, Student Drafts, Grant Proposals, etc.) ......................................................................................................................................... 451 Section V: (1948-1965) Early Notes and Typescripts; General Clippings ............................................. 465 Series IV: Fiction and Miscellany .......................................................................................................... 471 Section VII: Juvenalia (1939-1948) and Other Kinds of Materials ........................................................ 476 2015 Lasch Accrual ................................................................................................................................. 479 Abbreviations Key ................................................................................................................................... 481 - Page 2 - christopher_lasch_papers Summary Information Repository: Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester Creator: Lasch, Christopher Title: Christopher Lasch papers ID: D.250 Date [inclusive]: 1939-1994 Physical Description: 74 boxes Language of the English Material: Preferred Citation (Name of item, if applicable), Christopher Lasch Papers, 1939-1994. Rare Books Special Collections & Preservation Department, University of Rochester. ^ Return to Table of Contents Biographical/Historical note One of the most important intellectuals and social critics in postwar America, Christopher Lasch was also a historian and well-respected teacher who left an indelible imprint on the life of the University of Rochester. He taught at the school for nearly twenty-five years, contributing immeasurably to the national reputation of its history department. ^ Return to Table of Contents Scope and Contents note The Christopher Lasch collection consists of over seventy boxes of Lasch's papers, including eleven boxes of general correspondence; thirty-five boxes of manuscripts, typescripts, notes, and correspondence relating to Lasch's major publications and speaking engagements; eleven boxes of - Page 3- christopher_lasch_papers academic lecture notes; four boxes of student files with correspondence and related material; and seven boxes of early typescripts, manuscripts and notes. Much of the collection dates from the last ten years of Lasch's life, but the years between Lasch's admission as an undergraduate to Harvard in 1950 and his appointment as chair of the Rochester Department of History in 1985 are also well represented. The guide to the register provides more specific information about the organization of the collection and the nature of the available material. Special features of the collection include: rough drafts of Lasch's college papers (including his honors and graduate theses), lectures, and publications; boxes of notes for major works such as The Culture of Narcissism and The True and Only Heaven; numerous unpublished drafts in manuscript and typescript form; clippings of Lasch's published reviews and essays (and copies of scholarly reviews of his own work); and correspondence with family, friends, publishers, colleagues, and prominent American and European intellectuals. ^ Return to Table of Contents Chronology 1898--Lasch's mother, Zora Schaupp Lasch, born in Nebraska 1907--Lasch's father, Robert Lasch, born in Lincoln, Nebraska 1925--Lasch's mother, Zora Schaupp Lasch, receives PhD from Bryn Mawr; later teaches philosophy and logic at the University of Nebraska, Washington University, and the University of Missouri, St. Louis 1928-1930--Lasch father, Robert Lasch, attends Oxford as Rhodes Scholar; soon becomes reporter and editorial writer for the Omaha World-Herald, 1931-41 1932, June 1--Robert Christopher Lasch born, Omaha, Nebraska 1942--Moves with family to Chicago; father becomes editorial writer on Chicago Sun 1950--Graduates from Barrington High School, Barrington (a Chicago suburb) 1950--Family moves to St. Louis; father works for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch 1950--Enrolls at Harvard College in the fall 1954--Receives Bowdoin Prize for honors senior thesis, "Imperialism and the Independents: A Conflict of Allegiance," and awarded A.B. in history 1954--Enrolls at Columbia University in the fall as a graduate student in history - Page 4- christopher_lasch_papers 1955--Submits A.M. thesis "Donald Richberg and the Idea of a National Interest" and awarded Masters Degree 1956--Marries Nell Commager in June; hired as a summer research assistant for the Historical Division of the National Foundation for Infant Paralysis 1957--Father appointed editor of Post-Dispatch editorial page 1957-59-- Teaches history as Instructor at Williams College; moves with wife to Williamstown, Massachusetts 1958--Son Robert Evans born in January; first major publication "The Anti-Imperialists, the Philippines, and the Inequality of Man" appears in Journal of Southern History (Aug 58) 1959--Moves with family to Washington, D.C. to finish PhD research; daughter Elizabeth Dan born in September 1960--Awarded SSRC fellowship in March; becomes Assistant Professor at Roosevelt University in Chicago in the fall 1961--Finishes dissertation, receives PhD in history from Columbia; becomes Assistant Professor of History at the University of Iowa 1962--American Liberals and the Russian Revolution published by Columbia University Press; "American Intervention in Siberia: a Reinterpretation" appears in Political Science Quarterly (Jun 62) 1963--Becomes Associate Professor at Iowa; "'Two Kindred Spirits'" (with William Tayor) published in New England Quarterly (Mar 63); daughter Catherine Thomas born in May; receives SSRC fellowship; "Understanding the Russians and Understanding Ourselves" published in Teachers College Record (Nov 63) 1964--Goes to Cambridgeshire with family, finishes writing second book 1965--The New Radicalism in America published by Knopf; son Christopher Nelson born in April; "A New Curriculum for Teach-Ins" appears in Nation (Aug 65); The Social Thought of Jane Addams, edited by Lasch, published by Bobbs-Merrill 1966--Becomes Professor of History at Northwestern University in the fall; Robert Lasch awarded Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for editorials critical of war in Vietnam; "What Shall a Moral Man Do?" appears in Nation (Nov 66); Organization of American Historians sponsors panel on New Radicalism in Cincinnati 1967--"The Cultural Cold War" appears in Nation (Sep 67); participates in the Third Annual Socialist Scholars' Conference in New York 1968--"The Cold War, Revisited and Re-Visioned" published in NYT Magazine (Jan 68); "The Cultural Cold War" published in Towards a New Past, ed. by Barton Bernstein; The Trouble with Black Power - Page 5- christopher_lasch_papers published in New York Review (Jul 68); co-chairs committee to protest the dismissal of Staughton Lynd from Columbia College in Chicago; receives ACLS fellowship 1969--Agony of the American Left published by Knopf; "The Education and the University We Need Now" (with Eugene