Martin B. Duberman papers, 1917-1992.

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Creator

Duberman, Martin B.

Location

Manuscripts and Archives Division

Extent

• 25 linear feet (75 boxes)

Access Restrictions

Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Some personal correspondence and student self-evaluations closed until 2023.

Audiovisual materials are available only with advance notice.

Scope/Contents Note

The Martin B. Duberman Papers contain personal and professional correspondence, organizational and topical files, manuscripts, typescripts, and drafts of his writings, teaching files, recorded interviews, photographs,films and memorabilia documenting his personal and professional life from childhood through 1979. Some materials, chiefly book manuscripts and photographs, date from a later period. The materials most heavily reflect his career as an academic historian. There is correspondence with students, colleagues, publishers, journals and libraries, as well as syllabi and lecture notes, and materials documenting his experimental seminarson American radicalism. Much of the material reflects the intellectual and social ferment at the universities duringthe 1960s. Beginning in 1973 with the publication of his book, Black Mountain, in which Duberman came out publically as a homosexual, the papers reflect Duberman's position as a spokesman for the gay rights movement and his research interest in the history of human sexuality.

Biographical/Historical Note

Martin Bauml Duberman (1930- ), American historian and playwright, has taught history at Yale University, Princeton University and Herbert Lehman College, City University of New York. He wrote biographies of Charles Francis Adams, James Russell Lowell and Paul Robeson as well as historical studies, plays, essays, and reviews. His plays include In White America (1963) about the struggle of African-Americans for freedom and civil rights. Since 1972 he has been active in the gay rights movement and the study of gay and lesbian history. He was a founder of the Gay Academic Union and the National Gay Task Force and has been the director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City University of New York.

Controlled Access Terms

• Adams, Charles Francis, 1807-1886.
• Duberman, Martin B.
• Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891.
• Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976.
• Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.) -- History.
• Harvard University -- Students.
• Princeton University -- Faculty.
• Yale University -- Faculty.
• American drama.
• American literature -- 20th century.
• Civil rights movements.
• History -- Study and teaching.
• Homosexuality -- History.
• Race relations.
• Slavery -- United States.
• United States -- History -- Study and teaching (Higher)
• Audio cassettes.
• Motion pictures.
• Phonograph records.
• Photographic prints.
• Scrapbooks.
• Wire recordings.
• College teachers.
• Dramatists.
• Historians.

Additional Creator Names

• Bernays, Edward L., 1891-
• Brodie, Fawn McKay, 1915-
• Butterfield, L. H. (Lyman Henry), 1909-
• Challener, Richard D.
• Davis, David Brion.
• Donald, David Herbert, 1920-
• Edel, Leon, 1907-
• Gara, Larry.
• Gatell, Frank Otto.
• Genovese, Eugene D., 1930-
• Handlin, Oscar, 1915-
• Herlihy, James Leo.
• Hofstadter, Richard, 1916-1970.
• Holt, John Caldwell, 1923-
• Janney, Peter W.
• Lasch, Christopher.
• Lemisch, L. Jesse.
• Lynd, Staughton.
• McPherson, James M.
• Middlekauff, Robert.
• Murray, Pauli, 1910-
• Palmer, R. R. (Robert Roswell), 1909-
• Potter, David Morris.
• Rose, Willie Lee Nichols, 1927-
• Ruchames, Louis, 1917-
• Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007.
• Stone, Lawrence.
• Sullivan, Edward.
• Ward, John William, 1922-
• Young, Alfred Fabian, 1925-
• Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010.