Lecture Programs and Announcements, 1950s-1960s
An assortment of programs and announcements of lectures given by Richard Hofstadter between 1955 and 1969.
<span>Box 23: Lectures and Speeches, </span><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/findingaids/scans/pdfs/001_24_HOB-HOW_07.pdf" target="_blank">Richard Hofstadter Papers</a><span>, </span><a href="http://library.columbia.edu/locations/rbml.html" target="_blank">Rare Book and Manuscript Library</a><span>, Columbia University in the City of New York</span>
Benjamin Serby
1955-1969 (digitized 2016)
Estate of Richard Hofstadter
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Letter concerning campus demonstrations, 1967
A two-page letter from Richard Hofstadter to Columbia University President Grayson Kirk regarding the punishment of antiwar undergraduates who protested CIA recruitment on campus in February, 1967.
Richard Hofstadter
Box 2: Uncatalogued Correspondence (Folder: Columbia - General), <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/findingaids/scans/pdfs/001_24_HOB-HOW_07.pdf" target="_blank">Richard Hofstadter Papers</a>, <a href="http://library.columbia.edu/locations/rbml.html" target="_blank">Rare Book and Manuscript Library</a>, Columbia University in the City of New York
Benjamin Serby
Estate of Richard Hofstadter
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Letter from Charles A. Beard
<span>Letter from </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_A._Beard" target="_blank">Charles A. Beard</a><span>, written May 8, 1944, congratulating Hofstadter for his article, "</span><a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/2715306" target="_blank">U.B. Phillips and the Plantation Legend</a><span>," which appeared in the April 1944 issue of </span><em>The Journal of Negro History</em><span>.</span>
Charles A. Beard
<span>Catalogued Correspondence, </span><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/findingaids/scans/pdfs/001_24_HOB-HOW_07.pdf" target="_blank">Richard Hofstadter Papers</a><span>, </span><a href="http://library.columbia.edu/locations/rbml.html" target="_blank">Rare Book and Manuscript Library</a><span>, Columbia University in the City of New York</span>
Benjamin Serby
May 8, 1944 (digitized 2016)
Estate of Richard Hofstadter
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Letter from Columbia, 1944
Letter from John A. Krout, professor of history at Columbia University, 1944.
John A. Krout
<span>Box 20: Article Reviews, </span><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/findingaids/scans/pdfs/001_24_HOB-HOW_07.pdf" target="_blank">Richard Hofstadter Papers</a><span>, </span><a href="http://library.columbia.edu/locations/rbml.html" target="_blank">Rare Book and Manuscript Library</a><span>, Columbia University in the City of New York</span>
Benjamin Serby
October 19, 1944 (digitized 2016)
Estate of Richard Hofstadter
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Letter from Taylor Caldwell, 1956
A 1956 letter to Richard Hofstadter from right-wing novelist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Caldwell" target="_blank">Taylor Caldwell</a> in response to his 1954 article, "The Pseudo-Conservative Revolt," which was later republished in the 1965 collection, <em>The Paranoid Style in American Politics</em>.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Caldwell" target="_blank">Taylor Caldwell</a>
Catalogued Correspondence, <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/findingaids/scans/pdfs/001_24_HOB-HOW_07.pdf" target="_blank">Richard Hofstadter Papers</a><span>, </span><a href="http://library.columbia.edu/locations/rbml.html" target="_blank">Rare Book and Manuscript Library</a><span>, Columbia University in the City of New York</span>
Benjamin Serby
January 11, 1956 (digitized 2016)
Estate of Richard Hofstadter
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Letter of Condolence from President Richard Nixon
Condolence letter to Beatrice Hofstadter from President Richard Nixon, October 27, 1970.
President Richard M. Nixon
<span>Box 19: Biographical Material, </span><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/findingaids/scans/pdfs/001_24_HOB-HOW_07.pdf" target="_blank">Richard Hofstadter Papers</a><span>, </span><a href="http://library.columbia.edu/locations/rbml.html" target="_blank">Rare Book and Manuscript Library</a><span>, Columbia University in the City of New York</span>
Benjamin Serby
October 27, 1970 (digitized 2016)
Estate of Richard Hofstadter
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Letter regarding Goldwater, 1964.
Letter from Richard Hofstadter to the editors of <em>The New York Times </em>regarding Arizona senator Barry Goldwater, June 16, 1964.
Richard Hofstadter
<span>Box 22: Article Reviews, </span><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/findingaids/scans/pdfs/001_24_HOB-HOW_07.pdf" target="_blank">Richard Hofstadter Papers</a><span>, </span><a href="http://library.columbia.edu/locations/rbml.html" target="_blank">Rare Book and Manuscript Library</a><span>, Columbia University in the City of New York</span>
<p class="p1"><em>The New York Times</em></p>
June 16, 1964 (digitized 2016)
Estate of Richard Hofstadter
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Letter to Irving Kristol, 1967
A four-page letter written by Richard Hofstadter to Irving Kristol regarding Kristol's 1967 article in <em>Foreign Affairs</em> magazine entitled "<a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/1967-07-01/american-intellectuals-and-foreign-policy" target="_blank">American Intellectuals and Foreign Policy</a>." Also included is the title page of Hofstafter's copy of the article.
<p class="p1">Irving Kristol; Richard Hofstadter</p>
<span>Box 6: Uncatalogued Correspondence (Folder: Kristol, Irving), </span><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/findingaids/scans/pdfs/001_24_HOB-HOW_07.pdf" target="_blank">Richard Hofstadter Papers</a><span>, </span><a href="http://library.columbia.edu/locations/rbml.html" target="_blank">Rare Book and Manuscript Library</a><span>, Columbia University in the City of New York</span>
<em>Foreign Affairs</em> magazine; Benjamin Serby
July 1967; August 19, 1967 (digitized 2016)
<em>Foreign Affairs</em> magazine; Estate of Richard Hofstadter
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Letter to President Johnson
A five-page letter written by Daniel Bell, and co-signed by four other Columbia University faculty members (including Richard Hofstadter), expressing their concerns to President Lyndon B. Johnson regarding the Vietnam War, 1966.
Daniel Bell; Herbert Deane; Richard Hofstadter; Robert K. Merton; Fritz Stern
<span>Box 2: Uncatalogued Correspondence (Folder: Columbia Dept. of History), </span><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/findingaids/scans/pdfs/001_24_HOB-HOW_07.pdf" target="_blank">Richard Hofstadter Papers</a><span>, </span><a href="http://library.columbia.edu/locations/rbml.html" target="_blank">Rare Book and Manuscript Library</a><span>, Columbia University in the City of New York</span>
Benjamin Serby
May 18, 1966 (digitized 2016)
Estate of Richard Hofstadter
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Letters in response to "America As A Gun Culture"
A collection of letters to the editors of <em>The American Heritage </em>in response to Richard Hofstadter's article, "America as a Gun Culture," which appeared in that magazine in October, 1970. Hofstadter did not live to see these replies, all of which were highly critical to the point of hostility.
J.C. Greene
S.E. Garner
George A. Olson
Frank Hawthorne
Anonymous
Robert J. Sprinkman
Jack M. Fulton
Russell L. Metz
Richard L. Paugh
<span>Box 31: Miscellaneous Material, </span><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/findingaids/scans/pdfs/001_24_HOB-HOW_07.pdf" target="_blank">Richard Hofstadter Papers</a><span>, </span><a href="http://library.columbia.edu/locations/rbml.html" target="_blank">Rare Book and Manuscript Library</a><span>, Columbia University in the City of New York</span>
Benjamin Serby
1970 (digitized 2016)
<em>The American Heritage</em>
Estate of Richard Hofstadter
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List of Historians Who Marched From Selma to Montgomery
A list of American historians who participated in the <a href="http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_selma_to_montgomery_march/" target="_blank">historic march for African-American civil rights</a> in Alabama, March 25, 1965
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<div class="element-text"><span>Box 19: Biographical Material, </span><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/findingaids/scans/pdfs/001_24_HOB-HOW_07.pdf" target="_blank">Richard Hofstadter Papers</a><span>, </span><a href="http://library.columbia.edu/locations/rbml.html" target="_blank">Rare Book and Manuscript Library</a><span>, Columbia University in the City of New York</span></div>
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Benjamin Serby
n.d. (digitized 2016)
Estate of Richard Hofstadter
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Memorial Service, Columbia University
Program for Richard Hofstadter's memorial service at Columbia University, October 30, 1970.
<span>Box 19: Biographical Material, </span><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/findingaids/scans/pdfs/001_24_HOB-HOW_07.pdf" target="_blank">Richard Hofstadter Papers</a><span>, </span><a href="http://library.columbia.edu/locations/rbml.html" target="_blank">Rare Book and Manuscript Library</a><span>, Columbia University in the City of New York</span>
Benjamin Serby
October 30, 1970 (digitized 2016)
Estate of Richard Hofstadter
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Merle Curti Letter
Letter from Merle Curti to Hofstadter, 1946.
Merle Curti
<span>Box 20: Article Reviews, </span><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/findingaids/scans/pdfs/001_24_HOB-HOW_07.pdf" target="_blank">Richard Hofstadter Papers</a><span>, </span><a href="http://library.columbia.edu/locations/rbml.html" target="_blank">Rare Book and Manuscript Library</a><span>, Columbia University in the City of New York</span>
Benjamin Serby
April 15, 1946 (digitized 2016)
Estate of Richard Hofstadter
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New Deal and American Liberalism Cover Page
Notes on "the Spoilsmen," for <em>The American Political Tradition</em>
Notes for Chapter 7 of <em>The American Political Tradition</em>, "The Spoilsmen: An Age of Cynicism"
Richard Hofstadter
<span>Box 3: <em>The American Political Tradition</em>, </span><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/findingaids/scans/pdfs/001_24_HOB-HOW_07.pdf" target="_blank">Richard Hofstadter Papers</a><span>, </span><a href="http://library.columbia.edu/locations/rbml.html" target="_blank">Rare Book and Manuscript Library</a><span>, Columbia University in the City of New York</span>
Benjamin Serby
1940s (digitized 2016)
Estate of Richard Hofstadter
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One-act play
A one-act play written by Richard Hofstadter while a high school student in Buffalo, NY.
Richard Hofstadter
<a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/findingaids/scans/pdfs/001_24_HOB-HOW_07.pdf" target="_blank">Box 19: Biographical Material, Richard Hofstadter Papers</a>,<span> Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University.</span>
Benjamin Serby
Early 1930s (digitized 2016)
Estate of Richard Hofstadter
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Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards
Photograph of Richard Hofstadter with the other recipients of the 1963 Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards. Hofstadter won for <em>Anti-Intellectualism in American Life</em>.
<em>The American Scholar</em>, Winter 1963-64
<p class="p1"><span>Box 21: Article Reviews, </span><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/findingaids/scans/pdfs/001_24_HOB-HOW_07.pdf" target="_blank">Richard Hofstadter Papers</a><span>, </span><a href="http://library.columbia.edu/locations/rbml.html" target="_blank">Rare Book and Manuscript Library</a><span>, Columbia University in the City of New York</span></p>
Benjamin Serby
Winter 1963-64 (digitized 2016)
Estate of Richard Hofstadter
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Photo of William Graham Sumner
William Graham Sumner, apostle of rugged individualism in the Gilded Age.
<table style="height:40px;" width="221" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><colgroup><col width="65" /></colgroup><tbody><tr><td class="xl64" width="65" height="15"><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo1.ark:/13960/t3kw5zc27;view=1up;seq=10;size=150">War, and Other Essays</a></td>
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<a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001305550" target="_blank">Hathi Trust</a>
1895 (digitized 2015)
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Photograph of Richard Hofstadter, ca. 1948
Photograph of Richard Hofstadter, ca. 1948, which accompanied a review of <em>The American Political Tradition </em>entitled "<a href="http://richardhofstadter100.omeka.net/items/show/48" target="_blank">History Debunked Realistically but to Excess</a>."
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<span>Box 20: Article Reviews, </span><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/findingaids/scans/pdfs/001_24_HOB-HOW_07.pdf" target="_blank">Richard Hofstadter Papers</a><span>, </span><a href="http://library.columbia.edu/locations/rbml.html" target="_blank">Rare Book and Manuscript Library</a><span>, Columbia University in the City of New York</span>
Benjamin Serby
1948 (digitized 2016)
Estate of Richard Hofstadter
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Politics of the 1840s
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.
Richard Hofstadter
<span>Box 36: Miscellaneous Notes and Drafts, </span><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/findingaids/scans/pdfs/001_24_HOB-HOW_07.pdf" target="_blank">Richard Hofstadter Papers</a><span>, </span><a href="http://library.columbia.edu/locations/rbml.html" target="_blank">Rare Book and Manuscript Library</a><span>, Columbia University in the City of New York</span>
Benjamin Serby
Late 1930s (digitized 2016)
Estate of Richard Hofstadter
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Politics of the 1840s, page three
Politics of the 1840s, page two
President Harry S. Truman Signing National Security Act Amendment of 1949
President Harry S. Truman, with military advisors, signing the National Security Act Amendment of 1949. Under his administration, military operations were expanded and consolidated into a single, unified Department of Defense.
United States Air Force
<a href="http://www.trumanlibrary.org/photographs/view.php?id=1790" target="_blank">Harry S. Truman Library & Museum</a> (accession #58-443)
August 10, 1949
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Pulitzer Prize recognition
Certificate from Columbia University in recognition of Richard Hofstadter's 1956 Pulitzer Prize, which was awarded for <em>The Age of Reform</em>.
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<p>Box 19: Biographical Material, <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/findingaids/scans/pdfs/001_24_HOB-HOW_07.pdf" target="_blank">Richard Hofstadter Papers</a>, <a href="http://library.columbia.edu/locations/rbml.html" target="_blank">Rare Book and Manuscript Library</a>, Columbia University in the City of New York</p>
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Benjamin Serby
May 7, 1956 (digitized 2016)
Estate of Richard Hofstadter
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Reply from President Johnson
President Lyndon B. Johnson's seven-page reply to five Columbia faculty members (including Richard Hofstadter) regarding the war in Vietnam, 1966.
President Lyndon B. Johnson
<span>Box 2: Uncatalogued Correspondence (Folder: Columbia Department of History), </span><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/findingaids/scans/pdfs/001_24_HOB-HOW_07.pdf" target="_blank">Richard Hofstadter Papers</a><span>, </span><a href="http://library.columbia.edu/locations/rbml.html" target="_blank">Rare Book and Manuscript Library</a><span>, Columbia University in the City of New York</span>
Benjamin Serby
June 16, 1966 (digitized 2016)
Estate of Richard Hofstadter
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