Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 92-096
Smithsonian Institution. Office of American Studies
Records, 1983-1990
Collection Overview
General Information About This Collection | |
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Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
Creator: | Smithsonian Institution. Office of American Studies |
Title: | Records |
Dates: | 1983-1990 |
Quantity: | 12.5 cu. ft. (12 record storage boxes) (1 document box) |
Collection: | Accession 92-096 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | This accession consists of records that document the activities of the Office of American Studies, particularly its head, Wilcomb E. Washburn, and concern scholarly conferences, papers given, book reviews, and related correspondence. |
Descriptive Entry
These records document the activities of the Office of American Studies, particularly its head, Wilcomb E. Washburn, and concern scholarly conferences, papers given, book reviews, and related correspondence.
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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 92-096, Smithsonian Institution, Office of American Studies, Records
Container List
Box 1
Brazilian Cultural Foundation Files (New York Public Library Exhibition: Portugal-Brazil: The Age of Atlantic Discoveries, June-September 1990)
Folder 1 Miscellaneous correspondence about Behaim Globe
Folder 2 Minneapolis: J. F. Bell Library
Folder 3 Miscellaneous books and book catalogues
Folder 4 Portugal-Brazil: The Age of Atlantic Discoveries exhibition, possible Brazilian opening
Folder 5 Brochure of exhibition
Folder 6 Exhibition catalogue
Folder 7 Correspondence with Columbus Quincentenary Jubilee Comm.
Folder 8 Assignment of copyright
Folder 9 Miscellaneous correspondence: members of curatorial commission
Folder 10 Design for proposed New York Public Library (NYPL) exhibition
Folder 11 Exhibition catalogue (Francis Rogers)
Folder 12 Approximate breakdown of exhibition items by type and section
Folder 13 Re: express mail
Folder 14 General correspondence
Folder 15 Invitations
Folder 16 Invitation list for opening of exhibition
Folder 17 Role of Jews in the discoveries
Folder 18 Lecture to docents, May 1990
Folder 19 Correspondence with lenders to proposed NYPL exhibition
Folder 20 Library of Congress
Folder 21 Opening of Portugal-Brazil: The Age of Atlantic Discoveries exhibition in Lisbon
Folder 22 List of objects for NYPL exhibition (revision of November 9, 1988)
Folder 23 Outline of objects for "Portugal-Brazil" exhibition, 1987
Folder 24 List of objects for NYPL exhibition - 1988 revisions
Folder 25 List of objects for NYPL exhibition (revision of February 2, 1989)
Folder 26 Portugal-Brazil: The Age of Atlantic Discoveries exhibition - January 31, 1989 revision of list
Folder 27 Bibliography
Box 2
Folder 1 Final list of objects for NYPL exhibition, February 1990
Folder 2 Correspondence re: list of objects for exhibition, 1988
Folder 3 Agenda for curatorial meetings
Folder 4 Meeting in Lisbon, Portugal, October 19-20, 1987
Folder 5 Meeting in Lisbon, Portugal, October 14, 1988
Folder 6 Membership correspondence, 1987
Folder 7 Minutes of Portuguese Commission for NYPL exhibition, 1987
Folder 8 Minutes of Board of Directors of Brazilian Cultural Foundation
Folder 9 Minutes of Brazilian Commission for NYPL exhibition, 1987
Folder 10 Minutes of U.S. Commission for NYPL exhibition, 1987
Folder 11 Vasco Graco Moura, 1988
Folder 12 Implementation grant proposal to NEH, 1987
Folder 13 Miscellaneous printed material, 1987
Folder 14 Miscellaneous correspondence exchanged with NYPL re: exhibition, 1987
Folder 15 NYPL - Schomburg Collection
Folder 16 American objects proposed for NYPL exhibition, 1987
Folder 17 Brazilian objects proposed for NYPL exhibition, 1987
Folder 18 German objects proposed for NYPL exhibition, 1987
Folder 19 Miscellaneous objects proposed for NYPL exhibition, 1987
Folder 20 Portuguese objects proposed for NYPL exhibition, 1987
Folder 21 Miscellaneous offprints
Folder 22 Personnel matters, 1987
Folder 23 Poster exhibition, 1990
Folder 24 Press coverage of exhibition, publicity, etc., 1990
Folder 25 NYPL project - Registrar and indemnification materials, 1989
Folder 26 Reports on the NYPL exhibition, 1987
Folder 27 "Image of Brazil in German Books and Prints of 16th and 17th Centuries," Thesis of Dagmar Schaeffer, August 1987
Folder 28 Correspondence re: travel, etc., 1987
Folder 29 Miscellaneous notes by Wilcomb E. Washburn
Folder 30 Notes on materials in NYPL
Folder 31 Notes on materials in New Haven
Folder 32 Miscellaneous correspondence with S. Bedini
Folder 33 Portugal-Brazil: The Age of Atlantic Discoveries exhibition, 1987
Folder 34 Brazilian exhibition meeting, December 4, 1987
Folder 35 Meeting notes of January 31, 1989
Folder 36 Project letterhead and brochures
Folder 37 Research notes on exhibition
Folder 38 Portugal-Brazil: The Age of Atlantic Discoveries exhibition, manuscript of catalogue, December 1989
Folder 39 Portugal-Brazil: The Age of Atlantic Discoveries exhibition, essays by various authors
Folder 40 Portugal-Brazil: The Age of Atlantic Discoveries exhibition, contents, December 1989
Box 3
Wilcomb E. Washburn Articles and Reviews
Folder 1 "Indian Symbol" article, May 18, 1981, Dartmouth Review
Folder 2 "Perceived Crisis in History," April 15, 1981, OAH Newsletter
Folder 3 Book reviews and general correspondence, 1974-1983
Folder 4 Review notes and correspondence, 1964-1978
Folder 5 Miscellaneous requests for evaluation of manuscripts, 1982-1988
Folder 6 Book reviews - American Anthropologist, 1964-1989
Folder 7 Book reviews - American Heritage, 1984
Folder 8 Book reviews - American Historical Review, 1961-1981
Folder 9 Book reviews - American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 1987-1989
Folder 10 Book reviews - American Indian Quarterly, 1974-1979
Folder 11 Book reviews - American Indian Quarterly, 1980-1984
Folder 12 Book reviews - American Indian Quarterly, 1984
Folder 13 Book reviews - American Neptune, 1984-1987
Folder 14 Book reviews - American Philosophical Society, 1964-1975
Folder 15 Book reviews - American Political Science Review, 1971-1972
Folder 16 Book reviews - American Quarterly, 1966-1989
Folder 17 Book reviews - The American West, 1968-1970
Folder 18 Correspondence about Wilcomb E. Washburn's forward to Removal and Its Aftermath
Folder 19 Book reviews - The Business History Review, 1978-1982
Folders 20-21 Ethnohistory, 1958-1988
Folder 22 Book reviews - Georgia Historical Quarterly, 1982
Folder 23 Book reviews - Great Plains Quarterly, 1986-1988
Folder 24 Book reviews - Hispanic American Historical Review, 1956-1958
Folder 25 Book reviews - The Historian, 1975-1978
Folder 26 Book reviews - Historical Archaeology, 1970
Folder 27 Book reviews - History News, 1960
Folder 28 Book reviews - Isis, 1965
Folder 29 Book reviews - Journal of American History, 1963-1984
Folder 30 Book reviews - Journal of American Studies, 1979
Folder 31 Book reviews - Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 1971-1985
Folder 32 Book reviews - The Journal of Modern History, 1968
Folder 33 Book reviews - The Journal of Southern History, 1961-1989
Folder 34 Book reviews - Manuscripta, 1967
Folder 35 Book reviews - Museum News, 1959-1980
Folder 36 Book reviews - Natural History, 1984-1998
Folder 37 Book reviews - New England Quarterly, 1963-1966
Folder 38 Book reviews - New Mexico Historical Review, 1977-1983
Folder 39 Book reviews - New York Historical Society, 1967-1970
Folder 40 Book reviews - New York History, 1965
Folder 41 Book reviews - North Carolina Historical Review, 1983-1989
Folder 42 Book reviews - Ohio Historical Quarterly, 1957-1962
Folder 43 Book reviews - Oxford University Press, Inc., 1957-1958
Folder 44 Book reviews - Pacific Historical Review, 1963-1990
Folder 45 Book reviews - Pennsylvania History, 1958-1959
Folder 46 Book reviews - Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography,1958-1989
Folder 47 Book reviews - Program in the History of Discovery Journal, 1979-1980
Folder 48 Book reviews - Public Historian, 1982-1983
Folder 49 Book reviews - Renaissance Quarterly, 1979
Folder 50 Book reviews - Reviews in American History, 1972-1973
Folder 51 Book reviews - Science 80, 1980
Folder 52 Book reviews - Science, 1980
Folder 53 Book reviews - Smithsonian Journal of History, 1966
Folder 54 Book reviews - Smithsonian, 1976
Folder 55 Book reviews - South Carolina Historical Magazine, 1970-1971
Folder 56 Book reviews - Terrae Incognitae, 1967-1974
Folder 57 Book reviews - University Press of Virginia, 1964
Folder 58 Book reviews - Virginia Historical Society, 1956-1975
Folder 59 Book reviews - Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 1980
Folder 60 Book reviews - Virginia Quarterly Review, 1963-1971
Folder 61 Book reviews - Washington Post, "Book World," 1983-1985
Folder 62 Book reviews - Washington Works
Box 4
Folder 1 Book reviews - Western Historical Quarterly, 1969-1989
Folder 2 Book reviews - William and Mary Quarterly, 1955-1984
Folder 3 Review of Jaulin, Robert, Notes d'Ailleurs (Paris, 1980)
Folder 4 Miscellaneous reviews, 1974-1985
Folder 5 Rejected requests for reviews, 1959-1988
Folder 6 Rejected requests for contributions to books, 1982-1986
Folder 7 Miscellaneous promotional comments on books, 1983-1991
Folder 8 Vinland Map Conference publicity, 1974
Folder 9 Vinland Map Conference reviews, 1973-1980
Conferences and Meetings
Folder 10 "American Attitudes Toward Integration of Minorities," Bombay Conference, India January 1984
Folder 11 IEAHC Iroquois Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia, March 30-31, 1984
Folder 12 "Ethical Perspectives in North American Ethnology," Annual Meeting of American Ethnological Society, Asilomar Conference Center, California, April 18-22, 1984
Folder 13 Third Conference on Maryland History, St. Mary's College , May 17-20, 1984
Folder 14 Association of American Museums (AAM) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, June 10-14, 1984
Folder 15 "Longitude Zero" Symposium, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England, July 1984
Folder 16 American Political Science Association Meeting, Washington, DC, August 30 -September 2, 1984
Folder 17 "Preparations and Problems of Preparing for the 500th, Anniversary of Columbus's Discovery of America," 5th International Reunion for History of Nautical Science & Hydrography, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 8-12, 1984
Folder 18 "Images of the World: The Atlas Through History," Library of Congress, October 25, 1984
Folder 19 "Perspectives on Liberation Theology," Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, DC, October 31, 1984
Folder 20 American Society for Ethnohistory Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 1984
Folder 21 Indian Rights Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 1984
Folder 22 "Increasing Our Knowledge of Pre-Columbian Civilizations by Not Collecting Pre-Columbian Objects," European Coordination Center for Research and Documentation in Social Sciences Meeting, Moscow, USSR, February 23-26, 1985
Folder 23 Conference on American Revolution, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, March 1985
Folder 24 Semi-Annual Meeting of American Antiquarian Society, Charlottesville, Virginia, April 1985
Folder 25 Ninth Annual Meeting of NASOH, Salem, Massachusetts, April 24-26, 1985
Folder 26 "Do the American Indian Nations Possess an International Legal Character?," Nordic Association for American Studies Triennial Conference, Bergen, Norway, May 9-22, 1985
Folder 27 Fifth North American Fur Trade Conference, Montreal, Canada, May 29 - June 2, 1985
Folder 28 AAM Meeting, Detroit, June 9-13, 1985
Folder 29 Eleventh International Conference on the History of Cartography, Ottawa, Canada, July 8-12, 1985
Folder 30 International Congress of Historical Sciences, Stuttgart, Germany, August 25 - September 1, 1985
Folder 31 Seventh Naval History Symposium, Annapolis, Maryland, September 26-17, 1985
Folder 32 Princeton-Lawrenceville Trip, September 29-30, 1985
Folder 33 Newberry Library/SI Conference on Impact of New History on Teaching of U.S. History, Washington, DC. October 1985
Folder 34 U.S. Inter-American Indian Congress, Santa Fe, October 28-November 1, 1985
Folder 35 American Studies Association Convention, San Diego, California, October 31 - November 3, 1985
Folder 36 Society for History of Discoveries Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 1985
Folder 37 Southern History Association Meeting, Houston, November 1985
Folder 38 UCLA Academic Senate's Exam of Interdepartmental Degree Program in American Indian Studies, December 2-3, 1985
Folder 39 American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, December 4-8, 1985
Folder 40 "History Died a Little at Stuttgart," (Perspectives, December 1985), WEW's AHA Divestiture Resolution, American Historical Association 1985 Business Meeting, New York, New York, December 29, 1985
Folder 41 Plains Indian Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska, March 1986
Folder 42 Cincinnati Historical Society, April 9, 1986
Folder 43 Organization of American Historians (OAH) Annual Meeting, New York, New York, April 10-13, 1986
Folder 44 IEAHC Conference on Captain John Smith, Williamsburg, Virgina, April 1986
Folder 45 Semi-annual Meeting of American Antiquarian Society, Wilmington, Delaware, April 15-16, 1986
Folder 46 Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Princeton, New Jersey, May 16, 1986
Folder 47 Peabody Museum Advisory Board Meeting, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 3, 1986
Folder 48 Search for Common Ground Conference, July 9-11, 1986
Folder 49 "Museum Education: A Profession in Search of its Proper Place," George Washington University and Decatur House, July 14, 1986
Folder 50 Columbus Convocation, Phileas Society, Dominican Republic, October 9-12, 1986
Folder 51 U.S. Capitol Historical Society Symposium, M. L. King, Jr., Washington, DC, October 15, 1986
Folder 52 Hakluyt Society/Society for History of Discoveries, Providence, Rhode Island, October 16-19, 1986
Folder 53 SI Council Meeting, October 24-25, 1986
Folder 54 American Society for Ethnohistory, Charlotte, South Carolina, November 6-9, 1986
Folder 55 Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 3-7, 1986
Box 5
Folder 1 Proposed JHU-SI Program in American Culture at JHU, Baltimore, Maryland, March 20, 1987
Folder 2 Organization of American Historians Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 2-5, 1987
Folder 3 Trip to Rio de Janeiro (Brazilian Cultural Foundation), Buenos Aires and Uruguay, April 8-17, 1987
Folder 4 Judge-Obregon Debate, Nassau, The Bahamas, April 27-28, 1987
Folder 5 50th Anniversary, History of American Civilization Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 9, 1987
Folder 6 Society for History of Discoveries Meeting, London, England September 2-5, 1987
Folder 7 12th International Congress on the History of Cartography, Paris, September 7-12, 1987
Folder 8 Columbus Quincentennial Conference, Library of Congress, September 22-25, 1987
Folder 9 Americans Before Columbus: Ice Age Origins, September 26, 1987
Folder 10 6th International Reunion for Historical and Nautical Science and Hydrography, October 1987
Folder 11 American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, October 19-23, 1987
Folder 12 SI Council Meeting, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Washington, DC, October 23-24, 1987
Folder 13 American Anthropology Association, November 18-22, 1987
Folder 14 American Studies Association - Canadian Association for American Studies International Convention, New York, New York, November 20-24, 1987
Folder 15 Program Officers' Workshop, National Council for International Visitors, Washington, DC, December 10, 1987
Folder 16 Human Rights Day, U.S. State Department, December 10, 1987
Folder 17 American Historical Association Meeting, Washington, DC, December 27-30, 1987
Folder 18 Federal Bar Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 7-8, 1988
Folder 19 Museum Studies Conference, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, April 9, 1988
Folder 20 "Tidewater Dwelling: The Early Years," University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, Maryland, April 15-16, 1988
Folder 21 American Antiquarian Society, Atlanta, Georgia, April 20, 1988
Folder 22 American Indian Perceptions of European Colonization, NMAH, SI, April 28-30, 1988
Folder 23 "Glorious Revolution in America -- 300 Years After," University of Maryland, April 30, 1988
Folder 24 Phileas Society Meeting, Genoa, Italy, October 1-7, 1988
Folder 25 Society for History of Discoveries Meeting (CANCELED), Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 13-15, 1988
Folder 26 Smithsonian Council Meeting, October 21-23, 1988
Folder 27 American Studies Association, Miami Beach, Florida, October 27-30, 1988
Folder 28 American Society for Ethnohistory, Williamsburg, Virginia, November 1988
Folder 29 National Defense University, Institute of Higher Defense Studies, Ft. McNair, December 1-2, 1988
Folder 30 "Indian-White Relations in Southern California: Accommodation and Resistance, 1769-1987," special panel (NOT ATTENDED), Redlands, California, April 1, 1989
Folder 31 Organization of American Historians Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, April 6-9, 1989
Folder 32 "The Glorious Revolution, 1688-89: Changing Perspectives," co-sponsored by The George Washington University and the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, April 13-15, 1989
Folder 33 "Violence and Resistance in the Americas," S. Dillon Ripley Center, SI, May 5-6, 1989
Folder 34 1989 Visitors Studies Conference, Dearborn, Michigan, May 10-13, 1989
Folder 35 North American Society for Oceanic History and Society for the History of Discoveries Joint Meeting, San Francisco, Califonia, June 8-10, 1989
Folder 36 13th International Conference on History of Cartography, June 26-July 1, 1989
Folder 37 Public Forum and Play Reading, Art Center, Williamsburg Regional Library, Virginia, September 16, 1989
Folder 38 Institute of Arctic Studies, Dartmouth College, September 18-20, 1989
Folder 39 IV International Meeting on Portugal, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, September 21-24, 1989
Folder 40 "Restoring American Education," Madison Center, Washington, DC, October 27-29, 1989
Folder 41 Centennial Address, State University of New York, Oneonta, New York, September 26, 1989
Folder 42 American Studies Association Convention, Toronto, Canada, November 2-5, 1989
Folder 43 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 14-19, 1989
Folder 44 National Defense University, Institute of Higher Defense Studies, Ft. McNair, Washington, DC, November 16-17, 1989
Box 6
Folders 1-5 "A Fifty-Year Perspective on Indian Reorganization Act," Paper presented at Meeting of Indian Workshop of EAAS, Published in American Anthropologist, June 1984 (Research Notes, etc.), Florence, Italy, March 3, 1983
Folder 6-14 "Professionalizing the Muses," Paper presented at AAM Annual Meeting (Research Notes, etc.), Detroit, Michigan, June 9-13, 1985
Box 7
Folders 1-7 9th Inter-American Indian Congress, Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 28, 1985 - November 1, 1985
Folders 8-13 "Trahison des Clercs: Stephen Saunders Webb's Interpretation of Bacon's Rebellion," Paper presented at Southern Historical Association Meeting, Houston, Texas, November 13-16, 1985
Folders 14-15 Biennial Conference of European Association for American Studies, Budapest, Hungary, March 24-27, 1986
Folders 16-17 "The Historian Looks at Anthropology," Lecture to Cincinnati Historical Society and University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, April 8-9, 1986
Box 8
Folders 1-2 "Representative Government and Garrison Government in the American Colonies in the Late 17th Century," Paper presented at ICHRPI Meeting, Florence, Italy, September 22-25 1986
Folders 3-4 Harvard 350th Anniversary Celebration, Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 1986
Folders 5-6 2nd Annual Columbus Convention, Phileas Society, Dominican Republic, October 9-12, 1986
Folders 7-11 17th International Congress of Historical Sciences, Madrid, Spain, August 26 - September 2, 1990
Folder 12 12th International Congress on the History of Cartography, Paris, France, September 7-12, 1987
Box 9
Folders 1-4 12th International Congress on the History of Cartography, Paris, France, September 7-12, 1987
Folders 5-7 6th International Reunion for History of Nautical Science and Hydrography, Sagres, Portugal, October 12-17, 1987 (Research Notes, etc.)
Folders 8-10 Conference on the Bahamas in the 15th Century, Freeport, The Bahamas, November 16-17, 1987
Box 10
Folders 1-7 "Anthropological Advocacy in the Hopi-Navajo Land Dispute," Paper prepared for the 86th Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association, (Research Notes, etc.), Chicago, Illinois, November 18-22, 1987
Folders 8-9 European Association for American Studies Biennial Conference, West Berlin, Germany, March 28-31, 1988
Folders 10-17 "Vexatious Oral Exchange," Draft of talk to Dartmouth Class of 1948 Reunion, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 15, 1988
Box 11
Folders 1-2 "Vexatious Oral Exchange," Draft of talk to Dartmouth Class of 1948 Reunion, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 15, 1988
Folders 3-5 Symposium on the Criticism of American Culture, Sponsored by Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and NMAH, Airlie House, June 15-16, 1989
Folders 6-8 13th International Conference on the History of Cartography, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 26 - July 1, 1989
Folders 9-14 Columbus Landfall Conference, Miami, Florida, December 9-14, 1989
Box 12
Drafts and Research Notes
Folders 1-13 Samuel Eliot Morison: Materials for article in William and Mary Quarterly, July 1979
Folders 14-22 "Chapter 8 -- Exhibiting," Contributions to The Museum: A Reference Guide, edited by Michael A. Shapiro, 1984, (Research Notes, etc.)
Box 13
Folders 1-2 "Chapter 8 -- Exhibiting," Contributions to The Museum: A Reference Guide, edited by Michael A. Shapiro, 1984, (Research Notes, etc.)
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