15/13/33 Guide to the Michael Scher Papers Michael Scher Papers

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Guide to the Michael Scher Papers 1969/1974 University of Illinois Archives Overview of the Collection Michael Scher Papers 1969-74 15/13/33 Scher, Michael, 1942-1975 6.30 English University of Illinois Archives
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Biographical Information:

Michael Roger Scher (1942-1975) was assistant professor of history (1972-75) at the University of Illinois (UI). He was an educator and scholar of nineteenth-and-twentieth-century French history.

Scher was born on March 24, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois. He earned a bachelor's degree (1964), a master's degree (1966), and a doctorate (1972) at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was an instructor at UCLA (1971-72) before joining the faculty at UI in 1972. Scher taught courses in nineteenth-and-twentieth-century European history as well as on the contemporary Western world. In 1974, he participated in the Seventh Annual Illinois Conference of Community College, College, and University Teachers, presenting his paper, "Involvement in Teaching and Learning: A Lesson in Dynamics." At the time of his death, he had recently published "Neither War Nor Nation: The Rise of Antimilitarism in France, 1870-1900" in La Revue Roumaine d'Histoire and had nearly finished a significant manuscript on French politician and pacifist Gustave Herve (1871-1944).

Scher died suddenly and prematurely on January 25, 1975. He was remembered as "an extremely enthusiastic and popular teacher" and a promising young scholar (History at Illinois). The UIUC Department of History's Michael Scher Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Paper was named in his honor.

Sources:

"Michael Roger Scher," History at Illinois (1974â??76), accessed May 21, 2020, https://history.illinois.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/1974-76_20160310133139.pdf.

"Michael Scher Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Paper," Department of History, accessed May 21, 2020, https://history.illinois.edu/award/michael-scher-award-outstanding-undergraduate-paper.

Access Terms

This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.

Genre/Form of Material: Papers Topical Term: Antimilitarism Faculty Papers France -- Politics and Government Herve, Gustave Socialism
Administrative Information Accruals:

2/13/1975; 2/14/1975; 5/3/1982

Arrangement of Materials:

By type of material (correspondence and research material).

Scope and Contents

Papers of Michael Scher (1942-75), professor of history (1972-75), including correspondence, microfilm, thesis material, papers, outlines, notes on interviews, primary and secondary source documents and notes concerning his academic work at UCLA  and research interests in Gustave Herve as a journalist, his writings and those of contemporary political writers with emphasis on the pre-World War I period. The source documents acquired at the Archives Nationales in Paris and the College at Lesneven in Brittany relate to the Department of Yonne, the proceedings of international and national socialist congresses prior to World War I, governmental reports on anarchist, antimilitarist and socialist movements and the French publications, La Vie Socialiste (1904-05) and La Revue Socialiste (1905-13).