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Felice Swados Writing Novel, 1940. Oil on canvas by Margaret LeFranc.

Cover image of Felice Swados's Reform School Girl from 1948, originally published in 1941 as House of Fury.

Richard Hofstadter, review of Georgia Harkness, "The Recovery of Ideals," New York Herald Tribune, June 6, 1937

Richard Hofstadter, review of Vida Dutton Scudder, "On Journey," New York Herald Tribune, April 18, 1937.

Satirical description of the world of academia, written by Richard Hofstadter around 1940.

Letter from Merle Curti to Hofstadter, 1946.

"Jefferson's Ideas of Class Relations," an essay written by Richard Hofstadter for a graduate seminar in intellectual history taught by Merle Curti at Columbia University in the late 1930s.

A research paper, written by Richard Hofstadter while a graduate student at Columbia University, about the politics of New York City's working class in the 1830s and '40s.

Photograph of evicted sharecroppers, 1939.

Advertisement for Social Darwinism In American Thought, early 1940s.

William Graham Sumner, apostle of rugged individualism in the Gilded Age.

Letter from John A. Krout, professor of history at Columbia University, 1944.

Book jacket for Richard Hofstadter's copy of The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It, original edition, 1940s.

Cover of Hofstadter's article, "William Leggett, Spokesman of Jacksonian Democracy," in Political Science Quarterly, December, 1943.

Notes for Chapter 7 of The American Political Tradition, "The Spoilsmen: An Age of Cynicism"

Notes taken by Richard Hofstadter on President Andrew Jackson, for chapter 3 of his book, The American Political Tradition,entitled "Andrew Jackson and the Rise of Liberal Capitalism"

1948 review of The American Political Tradition, with accompanying photograph of Richard Hofstadter. Publication unknown.

Photograph of Richard Hofstadter, ca. 1948, which accompanied a review of The American Political Tradition entitled "History Debunked Realistically but to Excess."

Review of American Political Tradition in The New York Herald Tribune (Weekly Book Review), September 19, 1948, written by Avery Craven.

Cover page of a draft of Richard Hofstadter's article, "From Calhoun to the Dixiecrats," which appeared in the June 1949 issue of Social Research.

Included below are (1) "Politics and Classes," a review of The American Political Tradition in The New International, a Trotskyist newspaper; (2) reviews of the same book from The Washington Star and The Columbus Dispatch, Sept. 26, 1948; (3) "Some…

Hostile letter to Richard Hofstadter in response to his 1948 book, The American Political Tradition.

The cover page of Richard Hofstadter's unpublished introduction to The American Political Tradition, with marginalia and drawings by the author.