Research Catalog

Title

John P. Diggins papers, 1966-2008.

Author

Diggins, John P.

Supplementary Content

Collection guide

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Additional Authors

• Bell, Daniel, 1919-2011.
• Burnham, James, 1905-1987.
• Didion, Joan.
• Draper, Theodore, 1912-2006.
• Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006.
• Herberg, Will.
• Hook, Sidney, 1902-1989.
• Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990.
• Riesman, David, 1909-2002.
• Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007.
• Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.

Description

5 linear feet (12 boxes)

Summary

John Patrick Diggins (1935-2009) was an intellectual historian, university professor, and the author of numerous publications, including Mussolini and Fascism; the view from America (1972), The American Left in the Twentieth Century (1973), The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority (1994), and Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom and the Making of History (2007). John Patrick Diggins (1935-2009) was an intellectual historian, university professor, and the author of numerous publications, including Mussolini and Fascism; the view from America (1972), The American Left in the Twentieth Century (1973), The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority (1994), and Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom and the Making of History (2007). His papers consist of correspondence, chiefly letters from colleagues and other readers of his work; project files relating to his published works; and teaching files containing correspondence, typed lecture notes, syllabi, examination questions, and research material used in classroom and public presentations.

Subjects

• History > Study and teaching > United States
• University of California, Irvine Faculty
• City University of New York > Graduate School and University Center > Faculty
• College teachers > United States
• Authors > United States
• United States > Intellectual life > 20th century
• San Francisco State College Faculty
• Historians > United States > Correspondence

Access (note)

• Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.

Source (note)

• Gift of Elizabeth Harlan, April 2010;

Location of Other Archival Materials (note)

• Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

Call Number

MssCol 18353

OCLC

681547793

Author

Diggins, John P.

Title

John P. Diggins papers, 1966-2008.

Restricted Access

Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.

Location of Other Archival Materials

John P. Diggins letters received, 1969-1989; Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

Finding Aids

Collection guide available online and in repository.

Source

Gift of Elizabeth Harlan, April 2010; 2010; MSS2010M08.

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Collection guide

Occupation

Authors United States

College teachers United States

Historians United States

Added Author

Bell, Daniel, 1919-2011.

Burnham, James, 1905-1987.

Didion, Joan.

Draper, Theodore, 1912-2006.

Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006.

Herberg, Will.

Hook, Sidney, 1902-1989.

Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990.

Riesman, David, 1909-2002.

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007.

Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.

Research Call Number

MssCol 18353