Hugh Hawkins Papers, 1914-2012 (bulk 1950-1990)
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Hugh Hawkins Papers
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Hawkins, Hugh
Biographical History for: Hugh Hawkins Papers
Biographical Note Hugh Hawkins was born in Topeka, KS on September 3, 1929, and raised in El Reno, OK. He received a Bachelor's degree from DePauw University in 1950 and a Ph.D from John Hopkins University in 1954. He served in the U.S. Army, 1954-1956, and taught at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1956-1957. Hawkins began teaching History and American Studies at Amherst College in 1957. He was active in several notable social movements and causes, including academic freedom and anti-McCarthyism, the Civil Rights movement, nuclear disarmament, the anti-war movement (both the Vietnam War and the Gulf War), and LGBT rights. In 1976 Prof. Hawkins was instrumental in designing the first-year introduction to Liberal Studies curriculum at Amherst College and helped build both the History and American Studies departments. He is a distinguished scholar of American higher education, the American South, and of cultural and intellectual history, and in particular is the author of several notable publications on the history of higher education in the United States. These include The Emerging University and Industrial America (1972); Between Harvard and America: The Educational Leadership of Charles W. Eliot (1972); Banding Together: The Rise of National Associations in American Higher Education, 1887-1950 (1992); and Pioneer: A History of the Johns Hopkins University, 1874-1889 (1960 and 2002). In 2006 he published Railwayman's Son: a Plains Family Memoir. Upon his retirement from the faculty in 2000 after a teaching career of forty-three years at Amherst, Hawkins was the Anson D. Morse Professor of History and American Studies.
The papers were donated to the Amherst College Archives and Special Collections by Hugh Hawkins in increments between 1996 and 2012.
Scope and Contents of the Collection Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, appointment books, committee records, printed materials, audiotapes, and newspaper clippings related to Hugh Hawkins. Much of the collection consists of correspondence between Hawkins, his colleagues, family, and friends. Manuscripts include fiction, poetry, plays, academic writings, lectures, and notes. Much of the material relates to Hawkins's career as a professor, historian, and activist.
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American Studies Department Records Amherst College Curriculum Reports Collection Amherst College Committee Records, 1826-2010Hugh D. Hawkins, interviewed by Douglas C. Wilson. Friends of the Amherst College Library Oral History Project, 2009 (available on DVD and streaming video as of 2012)Non-Alumni Biographical Files -- Hawkins, Hugh
Processed Oct-Nov 2012 by Colleen O'Connor (AC 2011)
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
lcsh
Korean War, 1950-1953
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Persian Gulf War, 1991
Gay liberation movement
Education, Higher -- History -- United States
Lattimore, Owen, 1900-1989
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Greene, Theodore P., 1921-
O'Connell, Barry, 1943-
Guttman, Allen
DeWitz, Friedel
Arkes, Hadley
Wilson, Douglas C.
Ward, John William, 1922-1985
Amherst College. Dept. of American Studies
Amherst College. Dept. of Black Studies
Amherst College. Dept. of History
Harvard University -- History
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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SERIES 1: CORRESPONDENCE
Series 1 is organized into three sub-series, each arranged chronologically: Sub-Series A: GENERALSub-Series B: EVENTSSub-Series C: COMMITTEES, REPORTS, MEETINGS, AND PANELS
subseries
Sub-series A: GENERAL
Sub-Series A: GENERAL, spanning over fifty years, includes letters between Hawkins and his family, friends, and colleagues. There are many letters from friends regarding the draft in 1950-51. There are several letters from Hawkins to his family during his time in the army between 1954 and 1956. There is a good deal of material regarding Amherst College beginning in 1957 until present day, including first impressions of the college and faculty. In box 4, folder 32, there are letters from Senators Kennedy and Kerry, as well as White House statements regarding US intervention in Kuwait.
Hawkins Family Letters 1914-1949
Correspondence 1950-1962
Correspondence 1963-1973
Correspondence 1974-1986
Correspondence 1987-2011
Sub-series B: EVENTS
Includes correspondence regarding specific events in Hawkins's personal and professional life, including topics such as the Westover Protest and the arson of the Plainfield home that Hawkins shared with Walter Richard.
Hugh Hawkins personal information
[RESTRICTED]
Visit to Belgrade 1956
Student recommendations, grades, disciplinary concerns 1959-2000
Letter to Senators Saltonstall and Kennedy regarding nuclear testing; includes the signatures of 50 faculty members 1960
Re: Edward Jones (AC 1826) 1961-1973
Recommendations not affiliated with Amherst College 1962-1990
Honoraria 1963-1987
Recommendations to and about Amherst faculty 1964-1994
FBI file on "Faculty for the Resistance" 1967
Selective services and military recruiting ca. 1967
Conscientious objector status materials 1967-1969
Letters from H. Hawkins and W. Richard to Freidel DeWitz (American Studies secretary) 1970-1980s
Letters from Freidel DeWitz to Hugh Hawkins 1970-1980s
Letters from American Studies Dept. faculty to Freidel DeWitz 1970-1980s
Between Harvard and America: Critiques of MS and reviews of book 1971-1973
Faculty involvement with Westover protest and reactions 1972
Re: John Mason "Tip" Tyler 1975-1976
Plans for a general history of American higher education 1978-1979
Arson of Plainfield home 1992-1993
Fellowship in Germany 1993-1994
Re: Amherst history 1991-2011
Sub-Series C: COMMITTEES, REPORTS, MEETINGS, AND PANELS
Contains correspondence and other materials of the many panels, committees, and events that Hawkins was involved in. Highlights include SCLC's SCOPE project (which Martin Luther King Jr. participated in), which includes an audiotape of speeches, newspapers, and more. Several academic committees are included, such as the Task Force on Admission and Financial Aid.
JHU Students for Academic Freedom (re: Owen Lattimore) 1953-1990
"Report on a Questionnaire" George Rogers Taylor 1955
Curriculum Review Committee 1957-1960
[PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED]
Re: Faculty salary and tenure 1958-1988
History Dept. minutes and curriculum planning 1959-1967
Faculty Ad Hoc Committee on grades 1963
New England American Studies Association 1963-1969
American Studies Dept. minutes and course planning materials 1963-1996
SCLC's SCOPE Project: correspondence 1965
SCLC's SCOPE Project: notes 1965
SCLC's SCOPE Project: print material (see also box: OS1, folders: 2-10) 1965
SCLC's SCOPE Project: audiotape of speeches 1965
SCLC's SCOPE Project: accounts 1965
Group on Disadvantaged Students (later: Black and White Action Committee) 1966-1967
Library Committee 1967-1969
Committee on Educational Policy 1967-1969
Ad Hoc Curriculum Committee 1968
Five-College Committee on Social Responsibility (Mary Holmes College) 1968
Association for the Study of Negro Life and History 1968
Black and White Action Committee: working draft of first report 1968
Black and White Action Committee 1968-1969
African-American student activism (Ralph Ellison visit) 1968-1969
Plan for exchange program with Black colleges 1969
Moratorium 1969
Black Studies major, founding 1969-1970
Task Force on Admission and Financial Aid 1970-1971
Task Force on Admission and Financial Aid 1971
College archives upgrading 1971, 1976
Need-blind admission follow-up 1972
Select Committee on the Curriculum 1975-1977
Early history of ILS courses 1977-1982
Five-College Public School Cooperation Program, planning 1983-1984
Advisory Committee on Student Residential and Social Life 1984
Jakob Holdt's American Pictures presentation 1985
Committee of Six: miscellaneous notes 1970-1999
American Studies Visiting Committee Report and response from Frank Couvares 1989
Reports on the History of Amherst College Departments 1989-1990
Dept. History: External Review Committee Report 1995
"Coeducating Amherst:" Panel on Coeducational History at Amherst 1997
SERIES 2: WRITINGS
Sub-series A: FAMILY
Includes a notebook that was shared by the Hawkins family, audiotapes, and notes regarding genealogy.
Hawkins family household notebook 1940s
Hawkins family history: notes, 2 audiotapes (1-J.A. Hawkins, 1-Hugh Hawkins on family history) 1978-1986
Sub-series B: DIARIES AND APPOINTMENT BOOKS
Documents the daily life of Hugh Hawkins.
Appointment books 1967-1993
Sub-series C: ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE WRITINGS
Consists of poems, short stories, plays, novels, academic writing, lectures, recollections, notes, and schoolwork.
High School writings 1939-1946
Washburn papers for freshmen English 1946
Assorted poems, plays, stories, essays and sketches 1946-1950s
DePauw freshmen history research papers 1947
Boys of Distinction (Coursework for English 102) 1947
"American Governments" (DePauw coursework) 1947
Notes for DePauw debate tournaments 1947-48
And Make Them Laugh Again (radio play) ca. 1948
Sweet Stolen Waters (play) late 1940s
"The Glory of Motion" (story) late 1940s
"Murder Mystery" (story) 1948-1949
"West in American History" (DePauw coursework, Prof. W.W. Carson) 1949
Application for Rhodes scholarship 1949
A History of the Paris Rebellion of 1871 (DePauw thesis) 1950
Johns Hopkins graduate student papers 1950-1952
"The Political Exploitation of the Name Abraham Lincoln from the Time of His Death Through the Election of 1866" (JHU paper, Prof. C. Vann Woodward) 1951
William James (JHU papers, Prof. Victor Lowe) 1951
Fraternity (novel) 1953-1956
Writings from time in the army 1956
"My Visit to Belgrade" (essay) 1956
Amherst College recollections (includes: "The Importance of Dogs at Amherst College," notes on challenging proposed courses, notes for interview with President Cole, "Henry Steele Commager as a Colleague," "Recollections of JFK visit to Amherst College," "Post-Interview Recollections of Amherst College," "Vietnam War at Amherst College," notes for oral history interview, quotes from George Kateb, notes on Polarities in American Religion 1800-1860, notes for oral history interview with Theodore Greene, notes on M.C. Bateson Composing a Life) 1959-2012
"John Hopkins University: Opening Years" (notes) ca. 1960
Book reviews ca.1960s
Chapel addresses 1963-1966
Unpublished scholarly papers and addresses 1963-1989
"The Student Revolution: Civil Rights and Southern Negro Colleges" (lecture) 1964
"Recollections of Selma" (essay) ca. 1965
"Negro Protest: Past and Present" (lecture) 1966
"Reflections on Comparative History" (notes) 1969
"Dissent and Rational Inquiry" (lecture) 1970
"Abolitionists in the Civil War Crisis" (lectures) 1972
"Emergence of a Regional Party" and "Problems of the 1850s" (lectures) 1972, 1974
"The Ideal of Objectivity Among American Social Scientists in the Era of Professionalization 1876-1916" (essay) 1973
"Black Americans and the Legacy of Reconstruction" (lecture) 1974
Harvard under Eliot: Leader in the Professionalization of American Life?" (remarks) 1974
"On Professionalism in the American University" (remarks) 1976
"The Changing Publics of American Universities" (lecture) 1977
"The Specialness of America" (lecture) 1980, 1987, 1990
Orientation talk to incoming freshmen 1981
"Urban Universities in Historical Perspective" (lecture) 1984
"Colleges, Churches, Changes" (address) 1984
National Coming Out Day (remarks) 1991
"Race, Sex, and Justice: Anita Hill vs. Clarence Thomas" (lecture) 1994
"American Higher Education: The Last One Hundred Years" (lecture) 2000
History of Education Society (remarks) 2001
In Goodland: a 1930s Boyhood (memoir) 2003
Railwayman's Son: a Small-Town Family in the Great Depression (memoir) 2006
"My Connections to the Civil Rights Movement" (notes) 2012
"The District School: Its Rise, Decline, and Nature" (lecture) n.d.
SERIES 3: COURSE MATERIALS
Sub-Series A: HAWKINS'S MATERIALS
Consists of syllabi, lecture notes, and other documents arranged chronologically.
Syllabus: The American West (History 66, Prof. Theodore Greene) 1957
Lectures: Given to introductory American Studies courses (American Studies 11, 12, 21, 22) 1957-1984
Course Materials: Problems in American Civilization (American Studies 21, 22) 1958-1963
Course Materials: Southern History (History 57) 1958-1987
Course Materials: History of American Education (History 36, 66) 1961-1989
Course Materials: The Hero in America (American Studies 70) early 1960s
Course Materials: The Military in American Life (American Studies 70) 1964
Course Planning Documents: Problems of Inquiry 1964
Course Planning Documents: Liberalism and Social Order (American Studies 21) 1965
Course Materials: The Negro in American History (Yale Summer Course) 1966
Lecture: What is Liberal Capitalist Society? (History 17) ca. 1966
Course Materials: The Negro Revolt (Course for Alumni) 1967
Course Evaluations: Race in American History (History 67) 1968
Course Materials: Slavery as Serfdom (History 75) 1968
Course Materials: Race in American History (History 67) 1968-1976
Course Materials: American Democratic Culture (American Studies 11) 1969, 1972
Proposal: Course on the 1960s (Prof. Edwin Rozwenc) 1971
Course Materials: Race in American History (History 67) 1971-1976
Course Materials: Freshmen Seminars 1972
Course Materials: Violence in America (American Studies 12) 1972
Proposal: Program in Inter-Racial Studies 1974
Syllabus: The United States in the 1890s: a Democratic Society in Urban-Industrial Crisis (American Studies 11) 1975
Course Materials: Twentieth-Century America (History 56) 1976-1979
Course Materials: Recent American History: the 1930s (History 89) 1977
Lectures and discussions on Nixon presidency 1979-1999
Course Materials: Evolution and Intellectual Revolution (ILS 2) 1980-1981
Course Materials: Artistic Autonomy and Social Responsibility (American Studies 12) 1984
Course Materials: Memory (ILS 6) 1988-1992
Lectures: American Studies (Classes in Hamburg) 1993-1994
Sub-series B: STUDENT WORK
Includes student papers, prize paper submissions, questionnaires, and tests.
Student Papers A-F 1957-2011
Student Papers G-R 1957-2011
Student Papers S-Z 1957-2011
Student Questionnaires (American Studies 11) 1958-1961
Quiz: Intro to American Studies (American Studies 22) 1959
Honors Theses Proposals: George Peterson, Jerry Cohen, and Rick Crosby 1962-1963
George Roger Taylor Prize submissions 1964
Student questionnaires: Early American Studies majors 1990
SERIES 4: PRINTED MATERIAL, 1940-2010
Contains material from organizations such as the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).
Early life 1940s
American Studies/ Mead Art Museum Armory Show 1958
Miscellaneous social justice 1960-1986
CORE (Congress on Racial Equality) 1961-1968
Faculty Opinion: Vietnam Vol. 1 No. 1 1965
Miscellaneous anti-war 1965-1969
Conference for New Politics and Thomas Boylston Adams 1966
Southwest Georgia Project Newsletter vols. 1-3 (incomplete) 1967-1969
Miscellaneous Amherst history 1984-2000
Amherst College deaths 2006-2010
SERIES 5: OVERSIZE ITEMS, 1964-1971
Contains an oversized diary and nine of ten parts of the Chapel Hill Weekly series, "Williamston," featuring the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)'s Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE) project.
Diary 1971
Valley Peace Center Newsletter vols. 1-5 (some missing) 1967-1969
"Williamston--Part I." Chapel Hill Weekly 1964
"Williamston-Part III." Chapel Hill Weekly 1964
"Williamston-Part IV." Chapel Hill Weekly 1964
"Williamston-Part V." Chapel Hill Weekly 1964
"Williamston-Part VI." Chapel Hill Weekly 1964
"Williamston-Part VII." Chapel Hill Weekly 1964
"Williamston-Part VIII." Chapel Hill Weekly 1964
"Williamston-Part IX." Chapel Hill Weekly 1964
"Williamston-Part X." Chapel Hill Weekly 1964
Miscellaneous SCOPE newsclippings 1965
Xanadu Press Vietnam poster nd
"The Teach-In Continues." The New York Times 1966