Edwin Charles Rozwenc (AC 1937) Papers, 1952-1972
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Rozwenc, Edwin Charles, 1915-
Biographical History for: Rozwenc Papers
Biographical Note Edwin Charles Rozwenc was born on May 21, 1915 in Dover, New Jersey. He graduated from Amherst College in the Class of 1937 and obtaining his M.A. (1938) and Ph.D. (1941) from Columbia University. After teaching history at Clark University from 1942 to 1946, Rozwenc returned to Amherst as a professor of History. During his professorship, which began in 1946 and continued until his death in 1974, Rozwenc wrote or edited many books on American history and served as chairman of the Department of American Studies at Amherst College. He is the author of Cooperatives Come to America (1941), Slavery as a Cause of the Civil War (1949), Reconstruction in the South (1952), The New Deal (1958), The Cause of the American Civil War (1961), Ideology and Power in the Age of Jackson (1964), and The People Make a Nation (1971).
Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection consists chiefly of professional correspondence, manuscripts, course materials and research materials documenting Rozwenc's career as a historian, editor, and teacher of American Studies at Amherst College, 1946-1974.
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series
Series 1: Professional Correspondence, ca. 1960-1972
Allyn and Bacon 1970-1972
Allyn and Bacon 1960-1969
Allyn and Bacon n.d.
Basic Concepts in History and the Social Sciences Series 1971-1972
Basic Concepts Series 1970
Basic Concepts Series 1969
Frederick Bauer Jr. n.d.
Contracts - Basic Concepts Series n.d.
Cooperatives Come to America (by Rozwenc) n.d.
The Dorsey Press n.d.
John D. Glasheen n.d.
Judith Mara Gutman (Vol. II) n.d.
Judith Mara Gutman 1971
Judith Mara Gutman n.d.
Hole, Rinehat and Winston, Inc.: Herbert J. Addison n.d.
Law in American Society Project n.d.
Edward C. Martin n.d.
M.R.S.: Team n.d.
Helen McIntyre n.d.
The People Make a Nation n.d.
A. Wesley Roehm n.d.
Doubleday & Co., Inc.: Royalties n.d.
M.R.S.: Eighth grade text n.d.
Sandler and Martin: The People Make a Nation n.d.
Martin Sandler n.d.
E. Charles Sanborn n.d.
Don Schultz n.d.
John Spencer n.d.
The Restless Americans n.d.
Roger Thompson, Educational Services, Inc. n.d.
James Wilson n.d.
Inquiries about Basic Concepts Series 1966
Inquiries about Basic Concepts Series 1967
Inquiries about Basic Concepts Series 1968
D.C. Heath and Co., High School Series n.d.
Original proposal for Basic Concepts Series n.d.
Liberty and Power in the Making of the Constitution, Permissions n.d.
Slavery and the Breakdown of the American Consensus, Permissions n.d.
Realism and Idealism in Wilson's Peace Program, Permissions n.d.
The Status Revolution and the Progressive Movement, Permissions n.d.
Presidential Power in the Era of the New Deal, Permissions n.d.
Basic Concepts- D.C. Heath n.d.
Democracy in the Age of Jackson, Permissions n.d.
Warren E. Breniman, D.C. Heath n.d.
Reconstruction and the Negro n.d.
Conflict and Consensus in the American Revolution, Permissions n.d.
Populism and the Agrarian Myth, Permissions n.d.
The Entrepreneur in the Gilded Age, Permissions n.d.
Kenneth Lindfors n.d.
Guy P. Livingstone n.d.
The Loomis Institute n.d.
Thomas Lyons, Reconstruction and the Race Problem n.d.
Alonzo Hamley, Harry S. Truman and the Fair Deal n.d.
Allyn & Bacon, The People Make a Nation, letters n.d.
Brochures and Teacher's Guide for The People Make a Nation n.d.
The People Make a Nation, Revisions n.d.
Newspaper clippings- xeroxed n.d.
The Restless Americans, Part I, printed materials n.d.
D.C. Heath & Co.- General correspondence 1969-1972
G. Carl Oelgeschlager, Francis Fox- D. C. Heath & Co. n.d.
Frank N. Paparello, D. C. Heath & Co. n.d.
D. C. Heath & Co., General Correspondence 1965-1966
D. C. Heath & Co., General Correspondence 1964-1965
D. C. Heath & Co., General Correspondence 1956-1962
Kathleen Cushman-Miller, Assistant Editor, D.C. Heath & Co. n.d.
John Hearney, Editor in Chief, College Division, D. C. Heath & Co. n.d.
Barbara Hamelburg, History Editor, D. C. Heath & Co. n.d.
"Problems in American Civilization," Correspondence 1972
Bertrand W. Lummus, History Editor, D. C. Heath & Co. 1969-1971
Bertrand W. Lummus, History Editor, D. C. Heath & Co. 1972
Basic Manuscript Proposals- forms n.d.
General Instructions and information for editors of "Problems in American Civilization" series n.d.
D. C. Heath & Co., Production Department n.d.
D. C. Heath & Co., American Studies Department- Royalties n.d.
D. C. Heath & Co., Permissions Forms, "Problems in American Civilization" series n.d.
"Problems in American Civilization" Contracts and Amendments 1971-1972
"Problems in American Civilization" Contracts and General Editor's Amendments n.d.
"Problems in American Civilization" Contracts n.d.
D. C. Heath & Co.- Current Revisions, Plans and Sales n.d.
PAC General Correspondence 1971
PAC General Correspondence 1970
PAC General Correspondence 1969
PAC General Correspondence 1968
PAC General Correspondence 1964-1967
Correspondence with "Problems in American Civilization" participants
Richard H. Abbott, "Radicals, Race, Republicans and Reconstruction n.d.
Robert Asher n.d.
Professor Graham Adams, Jr. n.d.
Professor Charles C. Alexander n.d.
Ralph L. Andreano n.d.
Robert L. Branyan, The City in Crisis n.d.
Professor George A. Billias n.d.
Professor Monroe Billington n.d.
Professor Richard D. Brown n.d.
John Boettiger n.d.
Richard Buel, Jr. n.d.
David M. Chalmers n.d.
Professor Warren Cohen n.d.
Richard H. Collin n.d.
H. S. Commager, ed., Why Did the South Lose the Civil War? (Permissions and Other Material) n.d.
Alfred H. Cope n.d.
Norman L. Crockett n.d.
Raymond J. Cunningham n.d.
Professor Roger Daniels n.d.
Doris Dashew n.d.
Professor Kenneth E. Davison n.d.
Henry C. Dethloff n.d.
Lyle W. Dorsett n.d.
Professor Richard N. Ellis n.d.
Alfred E. Eckes, Jr. n.d.
Professor Richard F. Fenno n.d.
Professor John. E. Fisher n.d.
Professor Louis Filler n.d.
Professor John B. Frantz n.d.
Allen Guttman, "The Korean War," Revision n.d.
Allen Guttman, "The Korean War" n.d.
Alonzo L. Hamby n.d.
Roland W. Hogeland n.d.
Robert Himmeberg n.d.
Professor M. Paul Holsinger n.d.
Professor John Howe, "Republican Ideology of the American Revolution" n.d.
Professor R. Christian Johnson, Contemporary Clio n.d.
Professor Peter d'A. Jones n.d.
Warren F. Kimball n.d.
Professor Lawrence S. Kaplan, NATO n.d.
Professor William C. Pratt n.d.
Richard L. Rapson, New College n.d.
Richard L. Rapsonson, (Hawaii), Individualism and Conformity in America n.d.
Professor Kent Richards n.d.
Civil War, Permissions n.d.
Reconstruction in the South, E.C. Rozwenc n.d.
Professor Edward N. Saveth n.d.
Professor Herbert Shapiro, Muckraker n.d.
Professor June Sochen, The New Feminism in Twentieth Century America n.d.
Bruce M. Stave, "Bosses, Machines and Urban Reformers: Progressive Politics of the City" n.d.
Professor Richard W. Steele n.d.
Professor John L. Stipp n.d.
Isaac H. Strain n.d.
Arvarh E. Strickland "Toward the Promised Land: Afro-American Migrations 1879-1930" n.d.
George R. Taylor, Jackson vs. Biddle, Revision n.d.
George R. Taylor n.d.
William Taubman, Foreign Policy 1960s n.d.
Professor Jack Ray Thomas n.d.
Professor Betty Unterberger n.d.
George M. Waller n.d.
John Wahlke n.d.
Ronald G. Walters n.d.
Arthur I. Waskow n.d.
George and Harriet Whicher, Transcendentalism volume revised n.d.
Professor Joel Williamson, Origins of Segregation n.d.
Benjamin M. Ziegler n.d.
Stanley Holwitz, D. C. Heath & Co. n.d.
Daniel R. Sortwell, Jr. 1966-1967 n.d.
Warren Slesinger, D. C. Heath & Co. n.d.
Eugene P. Schlerman, D. C. Heath & Co. n.d.
Orion M. Barer, Daniel Sortwell, Janet S. Beal, Clayton E. Mottaz n.d.
D. C. Heath & Co., Business and Royalties n.d.
Bibliography- Socialization and Reform n.d.
Series 2: Course Material, ca. 1965-1974
The American Revoluation I (The Nature of the Revolution) n.d.
An Emerging American Identity n.d.
The American Revolution (New Political Structures), Articles of Confederation n.d.
The American Revolution and Institutional Change n.d.
The Federalist System n.d.
Jeffersonian Democracy n.d.
Republican Nationalism n.d.
The Rise of the New West n.d.
The Supreme Court and Legitimacy n.d.
The Growth of the American Economy n.d.
Critique of the Tocqueville Model n.d.
Ideology in the Jacksonian Generation n.d.
The Emergence of Mass Politics- Jacksonian Era n.d.
Jacksonian Democracy etc. (Mt. Hermon and Loomis) n.d.
Jacksonian Dmeocracy n.d.
Interpretation of Jacksonian Democracy n.d.
Education and Democratic Culture n.d.
Reforms and Utopia n.d.
The Disruption of American Democracy II n.d.
The Disruption of American Democracy I n.d.
Civiil War and Reconstruction n.d.
Civil War Lectures (Clark University) n.d.
Corporate Capitalism- Structure and Ideology n.d.
Wage Workers and Industrial Warfare n.d.
Politics in the Gilded Age n.d.
Third Parties and Populism n.d.
The Expansionist Urge, 1898 n.d.
Economic Thought- Ely, Patten, Clark, Veblen n.d.
Social Darwinism n.d.
Urbanization and American Society n.d.
The Progressive Era n.d.
The First World War n.d.
The Twenties n.d.
The New Deal n.d.
The End of Isolation (History 34) n.d.
The Cold War and McCarthyism n.d.
Civil Rights and the War on Poverty n.d.
The New Industrial State and the Crisis of Liberalism n.d.
History 55-56, The History of American Society, Syllabus 1972-1973 1972-1973
History 55, Originals (Reading Material) n.d.
History 55, 1972 Syllabus 1972
History 55, 1972 Student Papers 1972
History 55, 1972 Reading Material 1972
History 55, 1973, Miscellaneous 1973
History 55, 1973 Final Exam 1973
History 56, Spring 1973 Miscellaneous 1973
History 56, 1973 Syllabus 1973
History 56, 1973, Student Papers, Mid-term 1973
History 56, 1973, Exams, including Final Exam 1973
History 59, America in the Sixties n.d.
History 59, 1973, applicants for course, student papers 1973
History 59 Student Papers 1972
History 59 Fall Syllabus 1973
History 59, Fall Syllabus 1972
History 98 Spring Student Papers (Independent Reading Course) 1973
History 55-56 Reading Materials 1973-1974
History 56, Spring Syllabus 1974
History 56, Spring 1974, Syllabus 1974
History 60, Radialism and Reform in the New Deal, Spring 1974, Syllabus 1974
History 55, Fall Student Papers 1972
Four student papers written for the Comprehensive Examination in History 1973
Photocopied course readings for American Studies 2 1969
Syllabus for American Studies 12 1962-1974
History 34 Spring Syllabus 1962
American Studies 2 Syllabus 1969
History 60 Syllabus 1970
History 97 Syllabus 1970
History 55 Syllabus 1971
History 59 Syllabus 1971
History 55 Syllabus 1972
History 66 Syllabus 1973
American Studies 12 Syllabus 1974
History 60 Syllabus 1974
History 60 applications 1974
Series 3: Manuscripts, 1941-1973 (bulk 1952-1972)
subseries
Sub-Series A: The Making of American Society, Vol. 1
Original manuscript Volume 1, Chapter 1 "The Discovery of America": The Beckoning Myth, The Gathering Forces of European Expansion, The Discoveries, The New Feudalism n.d.
Original manuscript Volume 1, Chapter 2 "The English Enterprisers": New Myths for Old, The Sinews of English Enterprise, The Protestant Spirit, America Encountered- Virginia and Plymouth n.d.
Original manuscript Volume 1, Part 2, The Seventeenth Century Foundations of American Society, Chapter 3 "New Patterns of Wealth and Status": The Great Migration, Feudal Tenure vs. Freehold Tenure, The Pursuit of Private Gain, The Shaping of Class Structures n.d.
Original manuscript, Volume 1, Chapter 4, "The Web of Authority": The Instruments pf Government, The Prevailing Conceptions of Authority, The Uses and Abuses of Authority, The Uncertain Yoke of Imperial Authority n.d.
Original manuscript Volume 1, Chapter 5, "First Embellishments of Civilization": Schhols in a New Setting, The Inculcation of Values, Scientific Strivings, A Developing Literary and Historical Imagination n.d.
Original manuscript Volume 1, Chapter 6, "The Complex Course of Empire": Along the Imperial Way, Colonial Capitalism and the Common Market of Empire, Social Cross-Pressures, The Rise of the Assemblies n.d.
Original manuscript Volume 1, Chapter 7, "Children of the Enlightenment": Education in a Changing Social Order, New Currents of Thought, The Pursuit of Science, The Changing Concept of Legitimacy n.d.
Original manuscript Volume 1, Chapter 8, "Amherica's Revolution": A New Configuration of Imperial Power, The Rise of Revolutionary Politics, The Ideology of Revolution, The Winning of Independence n.d.
Original manuscript Volume 1, Chapter 9, "The Revolution Consummated": The Shaping of Republican Institutions, The Winnowing of America's Social Relations, The Problem of National Power, A Liberal and Energetic Constitution, The Constitutional Consensus n.d.
Original manuscript Volume 1, Chapter 10, "The Federalists": The Executive Impulse, The Hamiltonian System, The Party Spirit and the Problem of Neutrality, The Crisis of Federalism n.d.
Original manuscript Volume 1, Chapter 11, "The Jeffersonians": The Transfer of Power, The Jeffersonian Program, The Perils of Peaceful Separation, The Republican Nationalism n.d.
Original manuscript Volume 1, Chapter 12, "The Genteel Republic": The Democratic Aristoi, The Education of Worth and Genius, The Makers of Taste and Opinion, The Search for Authentic Fables and Heroes n.d.
Original manuscript Volume 1, Chapter 13, "The Market Revolution": The General Pattern of Economic Growth 1815-1860, The Enveloping Web of a National Market System, Regional Economic Patterns, The Rise of the Factory System, The Emergence of the Wage Earner n.d.
Original manuscript Volume 1, Chapter 14, "The Emergence of a Populistic Democracy": The Twilight of the Old Order, The Emergence of Mass Politics, Towards a Redefinition of Party Ideologies, The New Polarization of National Politics n.d.
Original manuscript Volume 1 fragment "American Whiggery" n.d.
Original manuscript Volume 1, Chapter 16, "The Flowering of a Democratic Culture": Revivalism and Humanitarian Reform, The Popularization of Knowledge, The Literature of a Democratic Social Order, The Democratic Mythopeist, A Useable Past for a Democratic Culture n.d.
Original manuscript Volume 1, Chapter 17, "The Disruption of American Democracy": Manifest Destiny, The Dose of Arsenic, A Pathwork Consensus, Triggering an Irrepressible Conflict, Two Cultures of One? n.d.
Volume 1, Original Typed Manuscript, Chapters 1-19 n.d.
Photocopyof original typed manuscript with handwritten editorial comments in margins, Chapters 1-15 n.d.
Photocopyof original typed manuscript without editorial comments in margins, Chapters 1-17 n.d.
Volume 1 typed revision of original typed manuscript with additional handwritten revisions, Chapters 1-19, 1st revision n.d.
Duplicate Volume 1, xeroxed duplicate of revision in Boxes 28 and 29 n.d.
Duplicate Volume 1, 2nd xeroxed duplicate of revision in Boxes 28 and 29 n.d.
Volume I xeroxed revision of Boxes 28 and 29 with additional handwritten divisions. Includes table of contents, Preface Appendix and notes on illustrations; Chapters 1-18, 2nd revision n.d.
Duplicate Volume 1, 2nd xeroxed duplicate of revision in Box 32, 3rd revision n.d.
Volume 1 xeroxed copy of revision in Box 32 with additional handwritten revisions and final chapter headings and subheadings, Chapters 1-18. Includes xeroxed copies of Bibliography, Preface and Index, lette4rs with critical comments on the book (volume 1 only). Extra od pages. 4th revision n.d.
Volume 1 xeroxed copy of revision in Box 32 with additional handwritten revisions and final chapter headings and subheadings, Chapters 1-18. Includes xeroxed copies of Bibliography, Preface and Index, letters with critical comments on the book (volume 1 only). Extra od pages. 4th revision n.d.
Sub-Series B: The Making of American Society, Vol. 2
Volume 2 original manuscripts n.d.
Volume 2, 1st revision, Chapters 2-16 n.d.
Volume 2, 2nd revision, Chapters 4-16, Chapter 7 missing n.d.
Volume 2, 3rd revision, Chapters 1-15 including preface and Table of Contents, original chapter 1 (omitted in final version) n.d.
Volume 2, 4th revision with selected bibliography n.d.
Volume 2, 5th revision, Chapters 1-14 and original Chapter 1 omitted in final version with selected bibliography at end n.d.
Volume 2, 5th revision, Chapters 1-14 and original Chapter 1 omitted in final version with selected bibliography at end; Volume 2, miscellaneous pages of revision, brochures advertising Volumes 1 and 2 n.d.
Sub-Series C: The People Make a Nation
Photocopy manuscript of Units I-VI, The People Make a Nation, pp. 1-100 n.d.
Photocopy manuscript of Units I-VI, The People Make a Nation, pp. 101-200 n.d.
Photocopy manuscript of Units I-VI, The People Make a Nation, pp. 201-300 n.d.
Photocopy manuscript of Units I-VI, The People Make a Nation, pp. 301-400 n.d.
Photocopy manuscript of Units I-VI, The People Make a Nation, pp. 401-477 n.d.
Photocopy manuscript of Unit VII, The People Make a Nation, pp. 478-689 n.d.
The People Make a Nation, Volume 1 n.d.
The People Make a Nation Teacher's Guide n.d.
The People Make a Nation Activity Book (6 copies) n.d.
The People Make a Nation, bound book n.d.
Sub-Series D: Other Works
The Restless Americans (High School Textbook), Rozwenc, Martin and Sandler xeroxed manuscript of instructors guide, permission charts n.d.
The Causes of the American Civil War (PAC series) bound copy and miscellaneous manuscript pages. n.d.
Slavery as a Cause of the Civil War, two incomplete bound copies n.d.
Cooperatives Come to America, Ph. D. Thesis 1941, 5 bound copies 1941
Captain John Smith's Image of America, pamphlet reprinted from William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 1, January 1959, 7 copies n.d.
Edmundo O'Gorman and the Idea of America, pamphlet reprinted from the American Quarterly 16 copies n.d.
George Taylor and the Discipline of Conscious Choice, pamphlet reprinted from the American Quarterly, 18 copies n.d.
"Re-examination of the Idea of America," complete typewritten copy n.d.
"America in Historical Imagination," original typewritten copy, chapters 1-4 only. n.d.
Series 4: Miscellaneous, ca. 1961-1973
"NUMA letters" typewritten copies of letters written to the Hampshire Gazette in 1787 (?) n.d.
Main Problems in American History, vols. 1-2, Quint, Cantor and Albertson n.d.
Social Scientist and Farm Politics in the Age of Roosevelt, Richard. S. Kirkendall, xeroxed copy chapters 4-7 n.d.
The Farm Bureau, a Study in the Making of Farm Policy, Christiana McFayden Campbell, xeroxed copy of chapter 10 n.d.
"A List of References for the History of the Farmers' Alliance and the Populist Party" 1973 n.d.
Vital Speeches of the Day, Vol. 34, no. 13, April 15, 1968 1968
Reports and Speeches of the Eigth Yale Conference on the Teaching of Social Studies, April 26-27, 1963 1963
Comment Sheets with handwritten comments on books n.d.
"A Rationale for American Studies," handwritten manuscript of speech presented at American Studies conference at Mount Hermon School 1968 n.d.
Commentary, Vol. 55, No. 4; xerox copy of Ethnicity bibliography; untitled manuscript by Jerome M. Mileur with critical comments by Rozwenc, xeroxed n.d.
"American Institution and Ecological Ideals," Leo Marx, reprinted from Science, vol. 170 (?), 1970. 1970
Catalogues and brochures, D.C. Heath & Co., College Division 1971 Catalog 1971
D.C. Heath & Co. College Division, Guide for the author, 3 copies n.d.
Series in American Studies, Johnson Reprint Corporation catalog 1969-1970
Index to the Bobbs-Merrill Reprint series in European History n.d.
Index to the Bobbs-Merrill Reprint series in History n.d.
Index to the Bobbs-Merrill Reprint series in American History 1969-1970
Brochures listing films in the anthology of films entitled America in the 1970s n.d.
Photocopied manuscript of Harry S. Truman and the Fair Deal, Alonzo L. Hamley n.d.