Norman A. Graebner Papers, 1935-2004 | University of Illinois Archives

Description: Papers of Norman A. Graebner (1915-  ), professor of history (1956-67), including correspondence, newspaper and magazine clippings, programs, menus, photographs, manuscripts, course notes, and household financial ledgerbooks relating to teaching at Iowa State College (1948-56), the University of Illinois (1956-67), and the University of Virginia (1967-  ); student recommendations and placement; research on American politics, diplomacy and the West in the mid-nineteenth century and American foreign policy in the twentieth century; lecturing; academic publishing; teaching and traveling in England (1958, 1990) and Australia (1962); teaching in Germany (1998-1999) as a Fulbright Scholar; Program and Historical Records Committees of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians (1956-75); the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod; family affairs; the Fulbright Alumni Association (1988-90); The Harry S. Truman Book Awards (1987-92, 1996); the General Accounting Office History Program Advisory Committee (1989-92, 1995); and Graebner's courses as a student at Milwaukee State Teachers College (1938-41, 1947-48).  Principal correspondents include Gilbert Fite, Edward M. Bennett, Richard Van Alstyne, McGraw-Hill Book Company, and Ronald Press.  The papers also include materials relating to Graebner's directorship of the Pennsylvania State University Bicentennial Program "Freedom:  Then, Now, and Tomorrow" (1975-76).