Reference Request
Finding Aids to Personal Papers and Special Collections in the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 97-093
Washburn, Wilcomb E.
Wilcomb E. Washburn Papers, 1956-1997
Collection Overview
| General Information About This Collection | |
|---|---|
| Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
| Creator: | Washburn, Wilcomb E. |
| Title: | Wilcomb E. Washburn Papers |
| Dates: | 1956-1997 |
| Quantity: | 23.19 cu. ft. (22 record storage boxes) (1 document box) (1 16x20 box) |
| Collection: | Accession 97-093 |
| Language of Materials: | English |
| Summary: | This accession consists of materials that document aspects of the personal life and career of Wilcomb E. Washburn and were removed from his home after his death. The largest single group of papers deals with Washburn's membership in various organizations and societies. There is also subsantial information on a projected biography of James Smithson. The papers also contain information on Washburn's scholarly writings, his travel, and other aspects of his life. Washburn was curator of political history at the National Museum of American History, later becoming chair of the Department of American Studies. Some materials are in electronic format. |
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of materials that document aspects of the personal life and career of Wilcomb E. Washburn (WEW) and were removed from his home after his death. The largest single group of papers deals with Washburn's membership in various organizations and societies. There is also substantial information on a projected biography of James Smithson. The papers also contain information on Washburn's scholarly writings, his travel, and other aspects of his life. Washburn was curator of political history at the National Museum of American History, later becoming chair of the Department of American Studies. Some materials are in electronic format.
Restrictions
Access RestrictionBoxes 14 and 15 contain materials restricted indefinitely; see finding aid; Contact reference staff for details.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Political History
- National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.). Department of American Studies
- Smithson, James, 1765-1829
- Washburn, Wilcomb E.
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 97-093, Wilcomb E. Washburn Papers
Container List
Box 1
Organizations and Societies
ABC-CLIO Information Services
Academic Year in New York City
Accuracy Media, Inc.
National African-American Heritage Museum
American Academy for Liberal Education
American Anthropological Association
American Anthropological Association - Ethics Committee
American Anthropological Association - Bulletin of the General Anthropology Division
American Anthropological Association - Annual Meeting, 1988; Resolution on Burundi
American Antiquarian Society
American Antiquarian Society - Newsletters, 1980-1983
American Antiquarian Society - Newsletters, 1990-1995
American Association of Museums (2 folders)
American Association of Museums - Newsletters
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Council of Learned Societies - General correspondence
American Council of Learned Societies - Newsletter
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
American Ethnological Society (AES)
American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
American Foundation for Resistance International
American Historical Association - Pacific Coast Branch
American Historical Association
American Indian Quarterly
American Indian Studies Center, UCLA
American Indian Workshop - Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Portugal
American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, John Hopkins University
American Philosophical Society
American Political Science Association
American Society for Ethnohistory
American Studies Association
American Studies Center
American Trust for the British library
Americans for Educational Choice
Americans for Indian Opportunity
Anthropological Society of Washington
Anthropological Society of Washington - Newsletters
Asociacion de Historiadores Latino-Americanos y del Caribe (ADHILAC)
The Association for the Anthropological Study of Play (TASP)
The Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
Assumption College
Brazilian Cultural Board
Camara Municipal De Viana Do Castelo
Camoes Center
Camoes Center Quarterly
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Center for Asia-Pacific Exchange (CAPE)
Center for Equal Opportunity
Center for Individual Rights
Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIOCM)
Center for Social Design
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions
Center for the Study of the Presidency
Center for the Study of Popular Cultures
Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi
Centre D'Etudies Superieures De La Renaissance
Champlain Society
The Claremont Institute
College of William and Mary, Commonwealth Center for Study of American Culture
Colonial Society of Massachusetts
Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution
Commission on the Study of Peace
Committee to Review National Standards
Competitive Enterprise Institute
North American Conference on British Studies (CBS)
Cosmos Club
Cosmos Club - Proposed Members
Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington
Cultural Survival
William H. Donner Foundation
Eastern National Park and Monument Association
The Eccles Centre for American Studies
Educational Excellence Network
Eric Voegelin Institute, Louisiana State University
Ernest Martin Hopkins Institute
Essex Institute
Ethics and Public Policy Center
Box 2
European Association for American Studies (EAAS)
EAAS - Indian Workshop
EAAS - Indian Workshop - Indian book proposed by Jacqueline Fear
European Review of Native American Studies
Exeter Association of Washington, D.C.
Exhibit Communications Research, Inc.
The Folger Institute Newsletters
Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village
Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge
Freedom House
German Historical Institute
George Washington University - American Studies International
J. Paul Getty Museum
Gorsebrook Research Institute, Saint Mary's University
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation - Newsletter
Hagley Museum and Library - Newsletter
Hakluyt Society
Harvard Nuclear Psychology Program
Harvard Pierian Foundation, Inc.
Heritage Foundation (2 folders)
Hillsdale College, imprints
Historical Research & Development, Inc.
Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
History of Anthropology Newsletter, University of Chicago
History of Cartography Newsletter, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Hofstra University
Horizons Television
Indian Rights Association
Institute for the Classical Tradition newsletter
U.S. Institution of Peace
Institute for Public Policy Studies
Institute for Anthropology, Florence, Italy
Institute of Arctic Studies, Dartmouth College
Institute of Early American History and Culture (IEAHC)
IEAHC newsletters
Instituto Historico e Geografico Brasoleiro
Instituto Lombardo Academia di Scienze e Lettere - Milan - Pigafetta
Institute of the North American West
Institute of World Capitalism
Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Inc.
Intercollegiate Studies Institute - Wilcomb E. Washburn Interview
International Research & Exchanged Board
International Special Events Society
International Committee for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions
International Commission for Maritime History
International Conference Group on Portugal
International Laboratory for Visitor Studies, University of Wisconsin
International republican Institute
International School of Law
International Society for the Classical Tradition (ISCT)
Iowa Indian Defense Network (IIDN)
The Jamestown Foundation
J. Franklin Jameson Papers
Jamestown Rediscovery Advisory Board (3 folders)
The Japan-America Society of Washington
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Commission
John Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies
Box 3
John Hopkins University, The Program in Atlantic History, Culture and Society
John Hopkins University, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
John Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute
Kendall Whaling Museum
The Korea Foundation
Landfall
Latin American Population History Bulletin, University of Minnesota
The Clements Library Associates, University of Michigan
Huntington Library
Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro
James Ford Bell Library
John Carter Brown Library
John Carter Brown Library, Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction
John Carter Brown Library, "Proto-Committee for Advancement of Historical Research in latin American"
John Carter Brown Library, Newsletter
Library Company of Philadelphia
The Library of America
Lingua Franca
Madison Center for Educational Affairs
The Manhattan Institute
Marine Corps Command and Staff College Foundation
Marine Corps Historical Foundation
Marine Corps Historical Foundation - Newsletters
George C. Marshall Institute
Maryland Historical Society
Maryland Historical Society - Newsletter
Massachusetts Historical Society
Media Research Center
Meridian House International
Mystic Seaport Museum
National Alumni Forum for Academic Freedom and Excellence (2 folders)
National Archives
Massachusetts Association of Scholars
National Capital Association of Scholars (2 folders)
National Capital Association of Scholars - Conference
National Endowment for the Arts
National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)
National Indian Policy Center, George Washington University
National Latino Communications Center
Native American Policy Network
Native American Policy Network - Newsletter
Native American Journalists Association
National Advisory Committee for Conference of Native American Studies
Native American Rights Fund (NARF)
Native History Study Group Newsletter
Newberry Library - General
Newberry Library - Fellowships
Newberry Library - Folger Institute Newsletter
Newberry Library - D'Arcy McNickle Center for History of American Indian
Newberry Library - D'Arcy McNickle Center for History of American Indian - Meeting Ground newsletter
Newberry Library Associates
Newberry Library - Newspaper clippings
Newberry Library - Cartographic Center
The National Faculty
National Forum Foundation
National Wilderness Institute
Naval Historical Foundation
The New England Quarterly
New York State Historical Association
New York Historical Society - Wilcomb E. Washburn Professional Services
Box 4
New York Historical Society - Correspondence re. travel
The Nonproliferation policy Education Center
Norline, University of Oslo
North American Society for Oceanic History (NASOH) (2 folders)
North Pacific Studies Center
Organization of American Historians - Resolution on "necklacing"
Organization of American Historians - AHA Divesture Resoolution
Organization of American Historians
Oxford University Press
Parliaments, Estates & Representation
The Peabody Museum, Harvard
The Peabody Museum, The American Neptune
The Pentland Press, Ltd.
Phi Beta Kappa
Portuguese Studies Newsletter
The Philosophical Society of Washington
President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities
Programme de Recherche Ethnohistorique sur Le Groeland L'Amerique du Nord et Le Mexique (PREGANEM) (3 folders)
Psychology Institute, Jacksonville State University
Psychology Institute, Jacksonville State University - Newsletter
Remington Art Museum
The American Foundation for Resistance International
Resources for the Future
Robbins Center for Cross Cultural Communication
Rockefeller Archive Center - Newsletter
The Rockford Institute
Rockwell Museum, Corning, New York
Lois Roth Fund
St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Friends of Old St. Mary's City
St. Mary's City - Proposal
Search for Common Ground
The Shakespeherian Rag
Society for Cultural Anthropology
The Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship
Society for Historical Archaeology
Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
Society for the History of Discoveries (2 folders)
Society of American Historians
Society of American Historians - Parkman Prize
Sunstone Films
Supreme Court Historical Society
Supreme Court Historical Society - Newsletters
Survival International U.S.A.
Synapse Technologies Education Project - Columbus/A Sense of Discovery
U.S. Capitol Historical Society
University Centers for Rational Alternatives
Universita Di Genova; Instituto Di Storia Del Medioevo
University of Maryland, Latin American Studies Center News
Vernacular Architecture Group (U.K.)
Vienna Centre
Virginia Historical Society
Virginia Historical Society - "History Notes" newsletter
Visitor Studies Association
Washington International Studies Center
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
White House Endowment Fund
The Women's Freedom Network
Worldwatch Institute
Young America's Foundation
Box 5
James Smithson Research, 1979-1994
Pending projects - James Smithson, 1981
The Smithson Book (3 folders)
James Smithson Biography Project 1979 - Authorization, budget, and organization
SI Policy on Manuscripts
Smithson File - General correspondence
Federal budget - Five year plan - "Whither History & Art?"
Correspondence - Daniels, George H.
GAO Report on Smithsonian Operations
Talk on Smithsonian Institution, 1979-1980
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Smithson Book - Period of Joseph Henry (2 folders)
Smithson Book - Period of Spencer F. Baird
Smithson Book - Period of Samuel P. Langley
Science in the time of Smithson
Smithson Book - Period of Charles D. Walcott (2 folders)
Smithson Book - Period of Alexander Wetmore
Smithson Book - Period of Leonard Carmichael
Smithsonian History folder
Smithson Book - Period of S. Dillon Ripley (4 folders)
Box 6
Smithson Book - Period of Robert McCormick Adams (6 folders)
Smithson Book - Scottish trip
James Smithson Project - SI materials (2 folders)
James Smithson Biography Project 1979 - Research materials (3 folders)
Harvard University Archives - Joseph Henry materials (2 folders)
Proposed scheme for using Smithson Fund for National Normal School
Smithson Book - Period of Ira Michael Heyman
Box 7
Materials for Edinburgh Celebration
Smithson and Smithsonian Secretary Administrative memos, etc.
James Smithson Project - English material
Research on James Smithson and his Family; Thoughts on Alnwick Castle
Correspondence - Hellman, Geoffrey
Brown University manuscript research material
Smithson letter to Cuvier, April 2, 1806
New York manuscript research materials
London trip, March 17-April 2, 1979
Boston/New Haven manuscript research material
Reproductions of correspondence and articles (3 folders)
Scholarly Presses - Reader files, 1961-1992
Young American's Foundation: Engalitcheff Award to Jeffrey Hart
Center for Individual Rights
Landmark Legal Foundation
University Centers for Rational Alternatives - Measure
Continuity Magazine - Burt Folsom correspondence
Manuscript readings for university and commercial presses
Review of "The Education of Little Tree"
Reader's reports for publishers (3 folders)
Box 8
Readers' Encyclopedia of American History - "Indian-White Relations, 1500-1990," April 1, 1990
Age of Discovery - New edition, 1972-1973 (4 folders)
Lectures, Conferences and Articles
Association of Former Intelligence Officers (2 folders)
Jamaica - Valerie Facey et. al., 1991
Millersville University - Talk on Columbus, Tom Tirado
Oxford Companion to U. S. Military History - Advisory Committee, 1992
Greenwood Publishing group - 100 Key Documents in American Democracy - Advisory Board
Talk to John Vance's Indian History class at Trinity College, February 13, 1991
Bacon's Rebellion - A Play by Margaret Collins
Encioclopedia Italiana, Istituto Della - "Marvels, Maps, and Monsters"
Second Thoughts about Race in America conference, May 3, 1990
Cartography - Ptolemy and Closed Indian Ocean
Conference - "The Columbus Paradox" - Los Angeles, California, January 1992 (2 folders)
Pending project - Article on cartography for UNESCO Courier (2 folders)
"Resolved, That Columbus Discovered America" - Annenberg Washington Program Debate, March 18, 1992
Columbus Symposium - Young America's Foundation, November 20, 1991 (2 folders)
"Sowing the Seeds of Change: Columbus' Voyages," December 19, 1991
Box 9
Maps and the Columbian Encounter
The Columbus Paradox (UCLA speech)
Founders Society dinner commemorating Christopher Columbus, October 14, 1992 (The American Studies Center)
Barnsley, George Scarborough - Possible paper for Instituto Historico of Rio
Exploration of U.S. Atlantic Coast
Pending project - "Geography Prior to the Age of Discovery" - International Journal of Anthropology
Wolfson Initiative Corporation and Collection
"The Meaning of Discover" - Lecture at New York Historical Society
Columbus and Discoveries Bibliography - George Washington University Historiography Class
Columbus Radio and TV interview material, 1991
"Vinland and Mars" - Roundtable - NASM, October 9, 1991
Brunetto Chiarelli et al, Florence Institute
Smithsonian Historical Atlas of the U.S.
"U.S. Role in Asian Century" - Laguna Nigel, California, October 13-16, 1994
Possible new edition of Red Man's Land/White Man's Law, 1993
"Justice, Violence and the Multi-Ethnic State," Journal for Ethnic Studies, 1988
"The Frontier in American Culture" - Comment on Newberry Library exhibit, 1994
USPS25 - Material Culture seminar materials
Russell Means' Autobiography - Review for Washington Post
"The Collapse of Communism and Historiography," AHA Perspectives, vol. 33, no. 8, November 1995
AHA Communication on International Congress of Historical Sciences
Communication to American Historical Association (AHA) in reply to Limerick, 1995
Health - Depression
"Liberty in America" Conference, Liberty Fund, Mohonk Mountain House, October 29 - November 1, 1992
"Liberty in Interpretation of American West" - Liberty Fund Symposium, September 20 - October 3, 1993 (2 folders)
"Liberty in Civil Society and State" - Independent Institute Conference, Claremont Hotel, September 10-13, 1992
Lectures on Oriental Religion and Pacific Exploration for Ocean Pearl
American Biographical Encyclopedia
Proposed - George Braziller book, 1973
American History
Urban Areas
Talk to Cum Laude Society - St. Albans School, October 30, 1975
Dr. Washburn's publications
Chubb - Washburn correspondence
University Publications of America
Box 10
Book review correspondence, techniques
"Boston and the Indians, 1660-1720" - Paper delivered September 1962
The History of the Relationship Between the Indian and the White Man - For German Art Exhibition Catalog; ed. Gerhard Hoffman
Book reviews
Talk at Worcester State College, February 12, 1977 on "Legal Status of Indian Today"
Talk to Association of American Geographers (Mid-Atlantic Division), June 9, 1977
Talk at Amerika Institut, Munich, February 8, 1978 - "How American is Jimmy Carter's Concern for Human Rights?"
Bellagio Study and Conference Center, February 16 - March 19, 1978
Library Resources, Inc. (Encyclopedia Britannica)
Correspondence with newspapers
Overemphasis on Human Rights, Under emphasis on Elections
"Fight for Social Justice" for Change (Cooper-Hewitt publication, 1983)
"On Defining 'The Will of the People,'" May 18, 1983
Magna Carta exhibition/Chermayeff & Geismar, Fall 1979
Non-voting as Expression of Political Opinion
Compassion in Jimmy Carter - Proposed op-ed piece, November 1980
"Is America's Love Affair with the Ideal Over?" - Proposed op-ed piece, December 1980
Affirmative action op-ed piece, December 11, 1980
Personality and the Media: The Seen and the Unseen, January 1981
Reflections on American Anthropologists Association Meeting, December 1982
America's Internal Foreign Policy, January - April 1980
The U.S. "Commitment" to Israel, June 1981
Human Rights Policy, 1981
Native Homeland/Palestinia Comparison, October 1981
History and Poland op-ed piece, December 1981
On Bullets and Ballots: A. Lincoln, etc., April 1983
Answer to Bill Means' letter to New York Times, February 6, 1983
Response to "A 'Reagan Doctrine'?," May 1983
"Washington: A Classical City" - Talk at Latin Day, University of Maryland, November 20, 1981
Reflections on Columbus Day, October 12, 1982
The Post on Central America: A Brezhnev or Reagan Doctrine?, July 12, 1983
"On Elections and Central America," July 1983
From Sagres to Siberia: The Moral Dimension, July 12, 1983
On the Grenadan Invasion, October 1983
"The 'Spectre' of Free Elections," September 28, 1983
President Reagan and the Promise of the American Revolution - Proposed op-ed piece, December 1, 1983
Of "Hogs" and "Redskins," February 1983
"Arresting People by the Numbers" - Response to op-ed piece, May 1982
Ptolemy manuscript facsimile project, 1983
Reagan's Ideological Offensive, August 20, 1984
When does Human Life Begin?, September 1982
Letter on Teddy Kennedy, January 14, 1985
SDI: Protection Against American Weakness as well as Soviet Strength, December 27, 1984
"Constructive Engagement" and the USSR, August 1985
Switching Roles in Nicaragua, April 29, 1985
Ethnicity and Sovereignty, November 1985
The Coming Struggles of the Unmeltable Ethnics, February 1986
Is it time to eliminate ethnic and racial categories in the 1990 census?, April 1984 (2 folders)
"On the Triumph of Socialistic Democracy," February 2, 1985
Where Group Preferences Lead: The Example of India, February 15, 1984
Declarations not Treaties, November 12, 1986
Historians and the "Struggle for Peace" - Stuttgart CISH 16th ICHS, September 2, 1985
"Sure About Apartheid" - Comment on Ellen Goodman column (January 18, 1986), January 23, 1986
"A 'Necklace' in Old Shanty Town," July 1986
Box 11
The Ghost of "History," October 1985
"William Rehnquist, Historian," June 27, 1986
Shall We Derecognize the Sandinista Regime?, July 1984
Politics on Campus article for A. de Borch grave, Washington Times academic journal, December 1985
"What if the Contras Start Wining?," August 13, 1985
"Which Big Power," Washington Post, June 14, 1986
Nicaraguan piece, untitled, June 2, 1986
"Promises, Promises!," (arms control), July 24, 1986
Will history Judge Ronald Reagan a "Man of Peace?," July 7, 1986
Letter to Editor on South Africa, New York Times, August 8, 1986
October 1, 1986 in Dominican Republic
"A Potential 'Necklace' Victim?," January 23, 1987
U.S. Marines and American Foreign Policy, December 19, 1986
Budapest High School of Genius, 1986
Porposed article on Will
"Original Intent" and the ABM Treaty, February 11, 1987
Shcharansky (human rights)
Testing the Sincerity of Comrade Gorbachev, February 18, 1987
Senator Pressler's "Necklacing" Amendment, June 1987
"Recognition as a Flexible Weapon in C. A.," May 6, 1987
Shaare Tefila Congregation v. Cobb etc., May 1987
Reopening the American Mind (Reaction to William E. Simon's Wall Street Journal piece of July 8, 1988)
Letter to Editors, New York Times and Washington Post on Civil Rights Act of 1990
Asians and the Future of Group Preferences, January 23, 1987
"It's Not the Name 'Redskins' that Maligns Indians," Washington Post, April 23, 1988
"Guerrilla Archeology," February 1987
Letter to ACLS re. Katz on Cheney, December 1988
"How the Left is Reacting to the Demonstrations Abroad: The Case of Marcus Raskin," May 22, 1989
"Of Dead Bulls and Dead Historians" - Reflection on Madrid Congress of History, September 1990
"American Historians and the Collapse of Communist 'History,'" April 20, 1990
"Don't Celebrate or Mourn 1492: Understand It," August 22, 1990
Letter to Editor on Ross Perot, April 13, 1992
"Virginia Under Charles II & Cromwell, 1625-60," Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, 1957
"The Humble Petition of Sarah Drummond," William & Mary Quarterly, July 1956
"A Book to Emulate," Virginia Quarterly Review Winter 1964
"Sir William Berkeley's 'A History of Our Miseries,'" William & Mary Quarterly, July 1957
"Governor Berkeley & King Philip's War," New England Quarterly, September 1957
"The Rebel Answers to the Instructor," Alumni Gazette of College of William & Mary, March 1958
"Effect of Bacon's Rebellion on Government in England and Virginia," Contributions from Museum of History & Technology, 1962
"Law & Authority in Colonial America," ed. by G. A. Billias, 1965
"Virginia's First Families & the First Families of Virginia," Chapter 1 in Exploring Virginia's Human Resources, 1965
Logan's Speech: 1774: An American Primer, ed. by Daniel Boorstin, 1966
Dedication to Lester Cappon, William & Mary Quarterly, July 1969
"James Adair's 'Noble Savages,'" The Colonial Legacy, Harper & Row, 1973
"Bacon's Rebellion," Dictionary of American History, 1976
"A Contribuicao da Marinha Brasileira para a Exposicao Universal de 1876 em Filadelfia," Navigator, June 1976 - December 1977
"Samuel Eliot Morison, Historian," William & Mary Quarterly, July 1979
Commission on parliamentary procedure within ICHRPI in Parliaments, Estates & Representations, p. 172, December 1981
"The Southeast in the Age of Conflict & Revolution," Alabama & the Borderlands, 1985
"Stephen Saunders Wedd's Interpretation of Bacon's Rebellion," Virginia Magazine of History & Biography, July 1987
WEW Review - Magna Carta for America (Jack P. Greene et al, eds.), Parliaments, Estates & Representation, December 1991
The Civil Rights Act of 1990 (Proportionate Talens) (Folders 1-2 of 4)
Box 12
The Civil Rights Act of 1990 (Proportionate Talens) (Folders 3-4 of 4)
Group preferences and definitions (3 folders)
Publishers' proposals
Miscellaneous requests for WEW to evaluate manuscripts
SI - "Encouraging Excellence: A Center for Historical Studies at the SI"
World Business Council - Conference, Palm Springs, California, January 21-25, 1978
American Studies Association - Historical Development
ACLS meeting, April 28-29, 1984
Office of American Studies Files
Memos relating to termination of American Studies Program, 1992-1993
American Studies Program re. Abolishment, 1992
Drafts of memos relating to termination of American Studies Program, 1992-1993
Materials supporting continuance of American Studies Program
Notes, memos, etc. on future of American Studies program, Fall 1993, written by WEW
Miscellaneous materials
Personal Files, 1969-1991
WEW paper given at International Colloquium on Colonial History, Ottawa, Canada, November 26-29, 1969
WEW miscellaneous correspondence (2 folders)
WEW miscellaneous letters, etc.
WEW's bibliography - Master copy, 1982
Copies of memoranda transmitting honoraria checks to OAFS
Miscellaneous requests for WEW's articles
Comments on miscellaneous newspaper articles
WEW miscellaneous letters to editors, etc.
Request to be put on miscellaneous mailing lists
Invitations to speak
Books borrowed from WEW
Navy V-12 program
Honorary degree, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, May 19, 1991
Honorary doctorate at Assumption College, Worcester, Massachusetts, May 14, 1983
Various people met by WEW and sent his offprints
Miscellaneous questionnaires
Miscellaneous addresses
WEW vita
Box 13
Miscellaneous requests to write books, articles, etc.
Miscellaneous requests for WEW to serve on boards
Requests for miscellaneous publications
Requests for WEW to act as consultant on various programs
Miscellaneous requests to meet with WEW on various matters
Pentagon Officer's Athletic Club, Tennis and the Redskins (2 folders)
Senate hearing, 1967
To answer - Air to Europe, 1971
European trip, 1963
European trip, 1965 (2 folders)
European travel
Future trips, 1966
Trip to Greece, August 1961
Trip, January 23, 1963
Travel folder
Trip to Japan, 1995
Album - Presented to WEW to commemorate his first trip to Finland, 1980
Al Young proposal
Talk at Virginia Tech: What Role did Indians Play in American Revolution and in Formation of Constitution
Remarks by WEW on unveiling of portrait of Anne, Princess Royal (1709-1759), October 13, 1979
Football article for Science, Fall 1980
Palaver Club (3 folders)
Carl Bode
Africa: Foundation for Africa's Future (Phil Nicolaides)
Angelo Codevilla
Alan Keyes for U.S. Senate Campaign, 1988
Menges, Constantine (2 folders)
Box 14
John Norton Moore
Richard Pipes
John Lenczowski
Edward Luttwak
Richard Staar
Harvard - Radcliffe Orchestra Newsletter
Harvard Club of Washington
Harvard Graduate Society Newsletter
Harvard - Program in History of American Civilization
Pending projects - Lewis & Clark lecture series/exhibit, Peabody Museum, Fall 1988
Harvard University (3 folders)
Washburn's file of correspondents, post 1968
Miscellaneous materials (4 folders)
RESTRICTED FOLDERS - Non-Circulating (4 folders)
Box 15
RESTRICTED FOLDERS - Non-Circulating (5 folders)
Seminar - Material Aspects of American Culture, 1994-1996
Material Aspects seminar - Fall 1995 (4 folders)
Mergen and Washburn
Material Aspects seminar - Fall 1994
John K. Donaldson - Ph. D. exam, December 15, 1994
Material Aspects seminar - Fall 1993
Material Aspects seminar - Fall 1993 (backup material)
Material Aspects seminar 1996 - Plans (2 folders)
Material Aspects seminar 1996 - Other materials (2 folders)
Material Aspects seminar - Fall 1972 (3 folders)
Information for students in the American Studies Program
American Studies Program
Material Aspects of American Culture Seminar - Miscellaneous materials (Folder 1 of 6)
Box 16
Material Aspects of American Culture Seminar - Miscellaneous materials (Folders 2-6 of 6)
Articles on Native American History and Culture, 1973-1995
"James Adair's 'Noble Savages,'" Chapter 5, Vol. III of The Colonial Legacy, ed. L. H. Leder, 1973
"The Clash of Morality in the American Forest," First Images of America, 1976
"Part II; Discussion," American Indian Culture & Research Journal, vol. 2, nos. 3 and 4 (pp. 28-46), 1978
"An Indian Media Play," New York Times, July 20, 1978
"17th Century Indian Wars," v. 15, Northeast Handbook of North American Indians, 1978
"Can Tribal Government Survive?," California Tribal Chairmen's Association (CTCA) Newsletter, vol. 2, no. 1, March/April , 1979
"On the Trail of the Activist Anthropologist: Response to Jorgensen & Clemmer," Journal of Ethnic Studies, 1979
Narratives of North American Indian Captivities Catalog, Garland Publishing Co., Newberry Library, 1980
"Of Indians & Anthropologists: A Response to Karl Schesier," American Anthropologist, September 1980
"The Indian Symbol: A Positive Steretype," Dartmouth Review, February 1, 1981
"Symbol Must Emanate from College Culture," Dartmouth Review, June 1, 1981
"The Russell Tribunal - Who Speaks for Indian Tribes?," Indian Trust (Indian Rights Association Newsletter), July-August 1981
"Representative Institutions Among Contemporary American Indian Tribal Societies," Parliaments, Estates and Representation, June 1982
Op-ed piece, Washington Times, Leftist Academics and Ethnic Minorities, December 30, 1982
Foreword to Captivity of the Oatman Girls, 1982
"Skins as Free Speech Defenders," Washington Times, January 20, 1984
"Indian Policy Since the 1880s," Chapter in Aggressions of Civilization, ed. by Cadwalader and Deloria, 1984
"A Fifty-Year Perspective on the Indian Reorganization Act," American Anthropologist, June 1984
Offprint from Irredeemable America: The Indians' Estate and Land Claims, ed. by Imre Sutton, 1985
"Emotion and Reason in American Indian Studies," Sociologus, vol. 35, no. 2, 1985
"The American Indian in U.S. Society," American Studies Newsletter, USIS, May 1985
"Response to Biolsi," American Anthropologist, 87 (3), September 1985
The History of the relationship between the Indian and the White Man, for German Art Exhibition Catalog, ed. G. Hoffman, 1985
"The Coming of the Europeans: Epilogue" (chapter in The Smithsonian Book of North American Indians Before Coming of Europeans), 1986
Reply to Edmund Hanauer, American Studies Newsletter, September 1986
Foreword to Beyond the Covenant Chain: The Iroquois and Their Neighbors in Indian North America, 1600-1800, 1987
"Distinguishing History from Moral Philosophy and Public Advocacy," American Indian and the Problem of History, ed. by Calvin Martin, 1987
Introduction to L'Indianite: Contexte et Perspective, ed. Joelle Rostkowski, 1988
WEW Introduction to vol. 4, Indian-White Relations, Handbook of North American Indians, 1988
"It's Not the Name 'Redskins' that Maligns Indians," Washington Post, April 23, 1988
"The First European Contacts with the American Indians," Revista da Universidade de Coimbra, 1988
"Anthropological Advocacy in the Hopi-Navajo Land Dispute," American Anthropology, September 1989
Comment on Richard Stoffle's commentary, "The Hopi, Navajo, Paiute, Zuni Land Disputes," American Anthropologist, September 1990
"The Chop Revisited," Heterodoxy, vol. 1, no. 1, April 1992
"Indios y Colonos," Europa/America 1492/1992, La Historia Revisada, 1992
"Jefferson and the American Indian," Japanese Journal of American Studies, 1995
"The Clash of Morality in the American Forest"
Native American Files
Foundations relating to Indians
Americans for Indian Opportyunity
History of the American Indian Course, George Washington University, May-June 1982
Tribal Sovereignty Program - The Youth Project
Indigenous World, 1983-1984
Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill, Native Americans' Book reviews
Nations: The Native American Magazine Premier issue, 1981
Lakota Times
D-Q University, 1981-1989
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Zuni Indians
Klamath Indians, 1985-1988
Western Shoshone Traditionalists
National Indian Youth Council, 1985
Indigenous Populations documentation Research and Information Center, 1981
American Indian, International Treaty Council, New York City
Anthropology Resource Center, 1980
Iroquois, 1977-1984
Memoniee Indians
St. Regis Mohawk Tribe
Quinault Indian Tribe, 1980-1986
Indian Law Resource Center, 1980-1984 (2 folders)
Hopi Indians (2 folders)
American Indian Movement (AIM), 1983-1984 (3 folders)
Arrow, Inc.
University of California, Riverside - History 191Q course - North American Indians
Newberry Library Bibliographic Project
Miscellaneous materials
Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the New World - North American Volume Files
Cambridge History of Native Peoples of the New World - North American Vol. - Introduction
Cambridge History of Native Peoples of the New World - Continuation
Cambridge History of Native Peoples of the New World - Correspondence, 1984-1994 (2 folders)
Chapter 1 - Nabokov, Native American World Views
Chapter 2 - Bruce Trigger - Native Peoples in Euro-American Historiology (Folder 1 of 3)
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Chapter 2 - Bruce Trigger - Native Peoples in Euro-American Historiology (Folders 2-3 of 3)
Chapter 8 - Michael Greene - European Colonization of the Mississippi Valley
Chapter 14 - David Damas - Arctic From Viking Contact
Chapter 12 - Frederick Hoxie - Reservation Period, 1880-1960
Chapter 10 - Howard Lamar and Sam Truett - California and the Southwest to 1880 (4 folders) [Contains Digital Records]
Chapter 9 - Loretta Flower - Great Plains before 1885 (2 folders)
Contracts, Financial Records, etc.
Research file
Addresses of Contributors
Notes for Contributors
Referencing instructions, bibliography essay
Substitute folder for Chapter 15
Relationship to other histories in series
Chapter 7 - Neal Salisbury - Eastern North America 1600-1783
Chapter 6 - Bruce Trigger and Bill Swagerty - 16th Century
Chapter 5 - Bruce Smith - The Southeast
Chapter 4 - Linda Cordell and Bruce Smith - Development of Horticultural Societies
Chapter 3 - Dean Snow - Arrival of Humans
Manuscript - Chapter 2 - Native Peoples in Euro-American Historiography
Manuscript - Chapter 15 - The Native American Renaissance, 1960-1992 (2 folders)
Miscellaneous materials (3 folders)
Box 19
Office Files, 1960-1997
Castro (Saul Landau on)
Cosmos Club, 1988-1994 (4 folders)
Cosmos Club History - 1993 revision (3 folders)
Census
XVII International Conference on the History of Cartography, Lisbon, July 6-10, 1997
Southern Methodist University (SMU) - DeGolyer Library
Sicilian Mediterranean Conference, July 7-9, 1993, Syracuse, Sicily (2 folders)
"Indians and Italy" Conference Torino, October 14-15, 1996 (Gedora Giordano) (2 folders)
David Beers Quinn - Regent's fellowship, 1985-1986
Research notecards - Political symbols project, late 1960s (2 folders)
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1972-1975
Miscellaneous [Contains Digital Records]
Box 20
Project 400 of the Charitable Research Foundation, Inc., 1962-1963 (4 folders)
NSF Minority Graduate Fellowships, 1983-1984 (legal basis)
Miscellaneous materials, 1977-1994 (3 folders)
Smithsonian Programs, Offices, and Administrative Files, 1983-1996
The Smithsonian Experience
WEW ratings, memos on move from Barney Studio House
American Studies Program (ASP) - Activity reports and monthly management reports, 1991-1993
Purchase orders and correspondence re. business cards and pocket diaries
Telephone answering machine - Takachiho AT500, 1988
SI - Activities report - Material for 1992-1993
Office of American Studies - Financial Reports, 1992-1996 (2 folders)
Affirmative Action, 1988-1991
Office of Information Resources Management (2 folders)
Postal History (3 folders)
Research objectives for fundraising efforts, 1988-1989
Research Opportunities Fund, 1984-1988
Research support and resources programs (Office of Fellowships and Grants), 1988-1989
Safety at the Smithsonian, 1982-1984
Scholarly Studies Program
Smithsonian of the future, 1993
James Smithson Society
Office of Sponsored Projects
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Strategic Planning, 1988
Office of Symposia and Seminars, 1984-1986
Office of Symposia and Seminars, 1979
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)
Smithsonian Videohistory Program, 1988
Office of Committee for a Wider Audience, 1988
Smithsonian World, 1984-1985
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (WWICS), 1982-1996
Woodrow Wilson Center Reports, 1986-1995
WWICS - Symposium, "Collections and Culture: Museums & Development of American Life & Thought," October 14, 1987
WWICS - Evening Dialogue, 1986
WWICS - Cold War International History Project Bulletins, 1992
Yale/SI Meetings for Collaborative Program, 1986-1990
General memoranda, 1985-1990
Smithsonian Institution - General
Commemoration of SI's 150th Anniversary in 1996, 1992-1995
Academic Hiring and Appraisal Committee - Comments on draft report of committee, 1987
Smithsonian African American Association - The Prophet, 1990-1992
American Indian Council (AIC), 1992
Office of Architectural History and Historic Preservation, 1993-1995
Arctic Studies Center, 1992
SI Archives, 1988, 1995
Administrative Highlights Calendar, 1989
Commemorations, 1983
The Common Agenda, 1988
Conservation Analytical Laboratory
Office of Congressional Relations, 1989
Office of Congressional Relations - Legislative Bulletins, 1991
Smithsonian Council, 1990-1994 (2 folders)
SI Council Meeting, October 21-24, 1993 with Report of Research Committee and handwritten notes, July 30, 1992
Council of Research Administrators, 1988
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, 1990-1994
Office of Exhibits Central
Special Exhibition Fund, 1990-1992
Fellowships and Grants Office, 1984-1994
Fluid Research Fund, 1983
Folklife News, 1990
Office of Government Relations - Legislative Bulletin Update, 1991
Handbook of North American Indians, 1992
SI History Roundtable, 1991
Office of Information Resource Management, 1992-1993
Institutional History Division Lecture - Adams bequest
Office of Interdisciplinary Studies, 1987-1989
Office of Interdisciplinary Studies - "What Shapes A City?," October 1988
International Visitors - General, 1983-1993 (2 folders)
International Activities
International Activities - Newsletter
International Activities Council, 1988
Quadrangle and International Center
International Exchanges Program, 1990
Internship Council
Joseph Henry papers, 1990-1991
Library of Congress Relations, 1987-1991
Library of Congress - American Folklife Center's Federal Cylinder Project, 1985-1994
Smithsonian Libraries, 1984-1993
Smithsonian Libraries - Translation Publishing Program, 1984
Smithsonian Libraries - Newsletters
Smithsonian Forum on Material Culture, 1987-1995
National Air and Space Museum
Museum of African Art, 1987
National Museum of American Art (NMAA)
National Portrait Gallery, 1985-1986
American Art Network Newsletter, 1988-1991
NMAA - Lunchbag seminars, 1989-1996
National Museum of American History (NMAH), 1984-1990
NMAH - Indian Program Development (Native American), 1983-1985
National Museum of the American Indian, 1989-1993
Anacostia Museum Newsletter, 1990-1991
Anacostia Museum, 1986-1987
Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 1986, 1992
Freer Gallery, 1987
Museum of Natural History, 1985-1994
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Newsletter of Dept. of Anthropology, 1989-1995
Office of Museum Programs - Native American Museums Program Newsletter
Office of Museum Programs - General
Office of Museum Programs - Newsletter, 1987-1993
Museum Shops, 1991
Center for Museum Studies
National Demonstration Laboratory, Smithsonian Institution, 1986
Smithsonian Preservation Quarterly, 1992
Office of Public Affairs, 1983-1988
Smithsonian Press, 1984-1995
Smithsonian Magazine
Regents Publication Program, 1985, 1992-1993
Resident Associate Program, 1987-1991
Research Institute on Immigration and Ethnic Studies
Miscellaneous materials (3 folders)
Photographs - Exhibition - "The Federal City," 1976
L'Enfant
Rejected - L'Enfant (4 folders)
Information desk
General information
For comparative models
Washington in 1900
Rejected - Smithsonian
Fed City rejects
Federal City
Gallery Place Metro Station
Columbia Historical Society
8th St. Housing Complex (7C)
Smithsonian Building (7D)
Ellicott and Bannaker (8B)
McMillan plan European Influences (8D and 8E)
The Capitol Building (9)
Panorama of the Mall (10)
Vistas (8J)
Bridges (8I)
Pennsylvania Ave. (8H)
Monument Information (8G)
White House (8F)
Fritz Gutheim
Introduction (4H)
Prints for Associates Area (4J and 4K)
Alleys and Suburbs (4L)
Opening panel (5A1)
Early view (5A2)
Early material - Why here? (5B1)
Downing prints (5B2)
Boschke map (5C2)
Educational institutions (5D1)
Circles (5D2)
Water (5E1)
Trees (5E2)
City (5G1)
McMillan models (7 and 7A)
Public architecture (4C)
Corrections to max
Lost Washington (4A)
Downing (4B)
Rejected plans (4D)
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Pennsylvania Ave. Community Models (4E)
Transportation - Metro, railroads, airports (4F)
General Comment (4G)
Publicity
McMillan (4I)
Miscellaneous photographs and other information (2 folders)
Box 24
Vineland Map Controversy
Photographs, oversize, relating to the "Vineland Map" controversy (3 folders)
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