COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Professional papers relating to his research, teaching, and writings about American history.
Dates
- 1961-2000.
Creator
- Polenberg, Richard. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY
Emeritus professor of American History, Cornell University.
Polenberg came to Cornell in 1966 and is a recipient of the Clark Distinguished Teaching Award and the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award. He has offered seminars on Justice Cardozo and the judicial process and has written books on American History, the Constitution, Robert Oppenheimer, Benjamin Cardozo, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jacob Abrams, class, race, and ethnicity in the United States, and war and society.
Extent
6.8 cubic feet. (6.8 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Professional papers relating to his research, teaching, and writings about American History.
Physical Description
Correspondence, Manuscripts, Printed Materials, Research Materials
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:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- March 2010
- EAD encoding:
- RMC Staff, March 2010
- Date modified:
- RMC Staff, June 2012
- Cornell University. Department of History
- Ethnicity -- United States.
- Freedom of speech -- United States.
- Historians.
- History -- Study and teaching.
- Judicial process -- United States.
- Photographs.
- Social classes -- United States.
- Trials (Anarchy) -- New York (State) -- New York.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- March 2010
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu