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<p>Yearbook photograph of Richard Hofstadter in the Fosdick-Masten Park High School <em>Chronicle</em>, 1933.</p>
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<a href="http://www.buffalolib.org/">Department of Special Collections, Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, 1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY, 14203</a>
<a href="https://grogenealogylocalhistory.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Grosvenor Room Genealogy and Local History blog</a>
1933 (digitized 1-7-2015)
<span>City Honors School at Fosdick-Masten Park, Buffalo, NY</span>
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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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"The Tariff and Homestead Issues in the Republican Platform of 1860"
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<p>Richard Hofstadter's senior thesis, written at the University of Buffalo, May, 1936.</p>
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Richard Hofstadter
Box 31: Miscellaneous Unpublished Works, <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>, </span><span>Columbia University in the City of New York.</span>
Benjamin Serby
May, 1936 (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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The New Deal and American Liberalism
Full text of an unpublished essay that Richard Hofstadter wrote around 1950, entitled "The New Deal and American Liberalism." Scroll down to "Document Viewer" to browse.
Richard Hofstadter
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<p>Box 36: Miscellaneous Notes and Drafts, <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
Late 1940s (digitized 2016)
Estate of Richard Hofstadter
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<em>Social Darwinism in American Thought</em> (1944)
<span>Advertisement for </span><em>Social Darwinism In American Thought</em><span>, early 1940s.</span>
<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
Early 1940s
Estate of Richard Hofstadter
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Jefferson's Ideas on Class Relations
"Jefferson's Ideas of Class Relations," an essay written by Richard Hofstadter for a graduate seminar in intellectual history taught by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Curti" target="_blank">Merle Curti</a> at Columbia University in the late 1930s.
Richard Hofstadter
<span>Box 3: The American Political Tradition, </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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The Need of New Values
<span>Richard Hofstadter, review of </span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2691507" target="_blank">Georgia Harkness, "The Recovery of Ideals</a><span>," </span><em>New York Herald Tribune</em><span>, June 6, 1937</span>
Richard Hofstadter
<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
June 6, 1937 (digitized 2016)
Estate of Richard Hofstadter
<span>Hofstadter, Richard. "The Need of New Values." </span><em>New York Herald Tribune (1926-1962)</em><span>: 1. Jun 06 1937. </span><em><a href="http://www.proquest.com/" target="_blank">ProQuest</a>. </em><span>Web. 1 Nov. 2016</span>
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University Scholarship Certificate, September 1933
Certificate announcing Richard Hofstadter's scholarship award for his university education.
<span>Box 19: Biographical Materials, <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>, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University.</span>
Benjamin Serby
September 1933 (digitized 2016)
Estate of Richard Hofstadter
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High School Commencement Program
Program for Hofstadter's commencement ceremony, Fosdick-Masten Park High School, June, 1933.
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>, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University.
Benjamin Serby
June 28, 1933 (digitized 2016)
Estate of Richard Hofstadter
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<em>The American Political Tradition</em>: The Unpublished Introduction
Full text of the unpublished introduction to Richard Hofstadter's <em>The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It</em>.
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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