Curtis Putnam Nettels papers

Collection — Box: 8

Identifier: 14-17-1256

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes correspondence, clippings, congressional voting lists, articles, letters to editors, and other papers relating to political issues such as the Panama Canal treaties (Feb. 1978-Dec. 1979), the Taiwan Treaty (1979), U.S. isolationism, foreign aid, the Marshall Plan, and other topics; book reviews; articles by Nettels; correspondence with politicians including Robert Dole, Samuel J. Ervin, Gerald R. Ford, William Loeb, George McGovern, Matthew F. McHugh, Edmund Muskie, William Proxmire, Margaret Chase Smith, and John Tunney; other correspondence files, including correspondence with Van Wyck Brooks; autobiographical sketch, "Boyhood Days in a Prairie Town: Memories of Life in Topeka, Kansas, 1905-1917;" statement by Nettels, "The Doctrine of Containment," and a revised edition of the statement; American history bibliography; and other papers of Curtis Putnam Nettels.

Dates

1917-1981.

Creator

Nettels, Curtis P. (Curtis Putnam) (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor of American history.

Curtis Putnam Nettels taught American History at Cornell University from 1945-1967. His memberships included the American Historical Association and Phi Beta Kappa.

Extent

3 cubic feet. (3 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

Includes papers relating to political issues.

Physical Description

Includes correspondence, clippings, congressional voting lists, articles and letters to editors.

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: A. LipskyM.E. Warren
Date completed:: July 1982August 1992
EAD encoding:: Ann Hubert, December 2003