John Charles Livingston was born on February 24, 1935, in New Haven, Connecticut and died on October 25, 1999, in Denver, Colorado. Livingston graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard College in 1956, with a B.A. in history. He continued his education at the University of Wisconsin, earning an M.S. in 1958 and a Ph.D. in 1965.
John Livingston was initially appointed visiting assistant professor of history at the University of Denver for the 1963/64 school year. From 1964-1968, Livingston was assistant professor of history at Colorado Women's College (Temple Buell College). In 1968, Dr. Livingston rejoined the University of Denver History Department as associate professor. "Dr. John", as he was affectionately known, served as Acting Chairperson, then Chairperson of the DU History Department from 1977 to 1983 and again from 1993 to 1999.
Dr. Livingston's area of emphasis was American Intellectual and Social History. Courses taught while at DU included America in the 60's, the Civil Rights Movement and Black Power, and American Jewish history. He received many awards for his teaching excellence while at DU, including the Pioneer Award in 1980, Office of Student Life, Special Recognition Award in 1981, and the Distinguished Teaching Award in 1988.
Professor Livingston was a prolific author and editor. His books include Clarence Darrow: Sentimental Rebel (Garland Press, 1988) and Jews in the American West (Wayne State University Press, 1989), for which he was co-editor with Moses Rischin. He wrote numerous biographical sketches and book reviews in professional journals and encyclopedias such as History: A Review of New Books, American Jewish Historical Quarterly, The Colorado Magazine, Rocky Mountain Social Science Journal, and Encyclopedia USA.
Livingston was very active in the Jewish community. He was a founder and Research Director of the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society & Ira M. Beck Archives, and served as editor of the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Notes from 1980-1999. With Rich Castro, Livingston founded Chicano-Jewish Dialogues, 1981-1985. He received the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society Annual Heritage Award in 1995 and the Human Relations Award as President of the Colorado Chapter, American Jewish Committee in 1984.
Dr. Livingston is survived by his wife Nancy and daughter Julie.
The collection is primarily arranged alphabetically.
The collection contains University of Denver history department files, personal correspondence, lecture notes and readings for classes Dr. Livingston taught at the University, manuscripts of books, curriculum guides, book reviews, and articles published during his career. In addition, there are files from the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society and the American Jewish Committee. A section on the history of Denver includes photographs. The collection also contains Dr. Livingston's class notes, papers and final exams from his bachelor's, masters and doctoral education. The collection includes audiocassettes of various historical programs from television and two VHS videotapes.
The collection is open to qualified researchers. Contact Special Collections Department, Penrose Library, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado.
Permission for use or reproduction must be obtained from the Curator/Archivist, Special Collections and Archives, Penrose Library, University of Denver. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.
John C. Livingston papers, Special Collections and Archives,
Penrose Library, University of Denver.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the repository's online public access catalog:
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Ad-Hoc Faculty Committee on Student Unrest |
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Allied Jewish Federation |
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American Israelite: Mr. Bellamy and Nationalism |
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The American Jewish Committee |
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American Jewish Historical Society 1978-1983 |
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American Jewish Historical Society 1979 |
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American Jewish Historical Society 1985-1986 |
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American Jewish Historical Society 1988-1989 |
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American Jewish Historical Society 1989 |
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American Jewish Historical Society 1989-1990 |
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American Jewish Historical Society 1990-1991 |
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American Jewish Historical Society 1991-1992 |
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American Jewish Historical Society - Academic Council |
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American Jewish Historical Society - Board Meetings |
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American Jewish Historical Society - Board of Trustees 1990-1991 |
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American Jewish Historical Society - Centennial 1892-1992 |
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American Jewish Historical Society - Grant 1987-1988 |
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American Jewish Historical Society - Student Essays 1989 |
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American Jewish Historiography |
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American Jewish History - as Associate Editor |
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American Jewish History - Mid Term Examination |
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American Jewish History - Papers |
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American Jewish History - Readings |
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American National Character Course |
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Ames, Oakes 1804-1874 |
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Armour, Philip Danforth 1832-1901 |
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Article - "Denver Federation"
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Ashley, James Mitchell 1822-1896 |
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Awards - Teaching |
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Benjamin, Carrie Shevelson (circa 1861)
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Bibliographies |
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Bibliographies on Progressivism & Populism (1) |
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Bibliographies on Progressivism & Populism (2) |
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Binswanger, Isadore 1820-1890 |
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Book Contracts |
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Book Review: The American Jewish Woman, 1654-1980 by Jacob Marcus
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Book Review: Back to the Soil, The Jewish Farmers of Clarion, Utah and their world by Robert Goldberg |
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Book Review: A Clash of Heroes: Brandeis, Weizmann, and American Zionism by Ben Halpern |
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Book Review: Galveston: Ellis Island of the West by Bernard Marinbach |
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Book Review: A History of the Jews in America by Howard Sachar |
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Book Review: Jacksonian Jew: The Two Worlds of Mordecai Noah by Jonathan Sarna |
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Book Review: Pioneer Jews: A new life in the far West by Harriet and Fred Rochlin |
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Book Review: Hooded Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Colorado by Robert Goldberg |
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Book Review: The New Deal and the West by Richard Lowitt |
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Book Review: Practical Dreamer: Israel Friedlaender and the shaping of American Judaism by Baila Shargel |
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Book Review: The Sun Flower by Simon Wisenthal |
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Book Review: West Publishing's American History Textbook (MSS) |
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Boycott the Olympics: Denver Jews and the 1936 Olympics
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Bromley, John - Correspondence |
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The Business Elite in Business Bureaucracies by William Miller |
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Center for Judaic Studies Committee |
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Chairs + 1 Curriculum Committee Meetings AHUM 1986-1987 |
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Chairs + 1 Curriculum Committee Meetings AHUM 1987-1988 |
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Chairs + 1 Curriculum Committee Meetings AHUM 1988-1989 |
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Chairs + 1 Curriculum Committee Meetings AHUM 1989-1990 |
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Chairs + 1 Curriculum Committee Meetings 1990-1991,1992-1993 |
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Chicago's A Century of Progress World's Fair by Edward Gray Sr. |
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Cohen, Josiah (circa 1840)
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Clarence Darrow Sentimental Rebel - Source Materials |
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Colloquium in American History - Bibliographies |
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Colloquium Precis - Colonial History of America |
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Colloquium - Reports on Articles |
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Colloquium: U.S. Social History - 20th Century |
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Colorado Democratic Party 1920-1924 - Manuscript
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Colorado Endowment for the Humanities - Conversations 2000
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Conceptual Approach to the Introductory American History Course |
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CORE AHUM 0600 |
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CORE 2206 - Film & Contemporary Culture |
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CORE 2206 "Do the Right Thing"
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CORE 2206 "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" |
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CORE 2206 "Malcolm X" |
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Correspondence (1) |
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Correspondence (2) |
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Correspondence - "History of Jews in America" Series |
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Course on Community AHUM 0600 (1) |
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Course on Community AHUM 0600 (2) |
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Crypto-Jews in Colonial Mexico by Norma Hitch |
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Curriculum for General Education |
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The De Sola Prayer (in Congress) |
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Denver - History |
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Denver - History - Colonial Debtor Economy |
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Denver - History - Cultural Wasteland or Cultural Center? |
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Denver - History - Images |
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Denver - History - Introduction; Population Trends |
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Denver - History - Melting Pot or Fragmented Metropolis? |
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Denver - History - Metropolitan Mind |
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Denver - History - Modern Power Elite |
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Denver - History - Myrtle Hill - Washington Park |
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Denver - History - Post World War II Growth |
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Denver - History - Soil Problem |
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Denver - History - Survey of Periodical Literature |
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Denver's First Jewish Federation 1912-1915 |
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Dropsie, Moses Aaron (circa 1821)
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Early Jews of Cheyenne by Carl Hallberg |
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The Elephant and the Angels... Incivil Irritatingness of Jewish Theodicy |
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The Encyclopedia of Jewish-American History and Culture |
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Faculty Papers - Various |
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The Failure of Cotopaxi (Jewish Colony in CO) |
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The Ruth B. Fein Fellowship |
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(The Hirsh and Rosalind) Freed Young Scholars Award |
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Genealogy - Jewish |
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Governor William Sweet Appointment of Alva Adams |
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Governor William Sweet and the Senate Vacancy |
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Hackenburg, William Bower (circa 1837)
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Hamantaschen and Civilization: A Scholar's Odyssey |
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Hadassah Proposal |
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Hebrews in America - Platzek, Sanger, Seligman, Solomons |
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History Department - Internal Review |
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History Department - Levine Committee Report |
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History Department - Program Review Committee - Responses |
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Immigrant Women: Nowhere at Home? by Donna Gabaccia |
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Industrial Removal Office, the Galveston Project and Denver Jews |
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The Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy |
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Intermountain Jewish News - History |
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Jacobs, George |
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The Jewish Calendar |
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Jewish Community, The Organization of |
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Jewish History, The Symbol of the Statue of Liberty |
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Jewish Life in America |
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Jewish Messenger, Untyped References |
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Jews in America, References |
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Jews in Colonial America |
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Jews of the American West: Contributors (MSS) |
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Jews of the American West: Correspondence |
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Jews of the American West, Introductions by John Livingston |
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Jews of the American West (MSS) |
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Jews of the American West, Manuscript with Editions |
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Jews of the American West, Photographs |
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Jews of Boise and Southwest Idaho |
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Joachimsen, Philip J. (circa 1817)
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Judaic Studies Advisory Committee |
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Judaic Studies Evaluation |
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Judaic Studies Policy and Review Committee |
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Klein, David 1831-1891 |
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Lecture (MSS): "From Many, One" American Issues Forum 1975 |
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Lecture Notes: America in the 50's & 60's and McCarthyism |
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Lecture Notes: America in the 60's |
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Lecture Notes: American Jewish History (1) |
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Lecture Notes: American Jewish History (2) |
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Lecture Notes: American Jewish History (3) Jewish Life in America |
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Lecture Notes: American Jewish History (4) |
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Lecture Notes: American Jewish History: ...Modernization |
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Lecture Notes: Black History |
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Lecture Notes: Black Muslims, Black Power |
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Lecture Notes: Blacks, Whites and Civil Rights 1930-1954 |
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Lecture Notes: Civil Rights Movement |
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Lecture Notes: Civil Rights Movement 1964-1966 - Black Power
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Lecture Notes: Civilization, Barbarism & the Rights of Humanity |
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Lecture Notes: Cold War Historigraphy |
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Lecture Notes: Cold War Liberalism |
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Lecture Notes: Colonial America 1607-1789 |
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Lecture Notes: End of Ideology in the West |
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Lecture Notes: Fascism |
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Lecture Notes: The Future of American Jewish History |
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Lecture Notes: History of Denver |
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Lecture Notes: Denver's Response to Eastern Europe |
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Lecture Notes: Holocaust |
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Lecture Notes: Ideas and Men |
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Lecture Notes: Israeli Lecture |
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Lecture Notes: Jewish Denominationalism |
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Lecture Notes: Jews in the West |
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Lecture Notes: Lilly Seminar |
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Lecture Notes: Local Jewish Communities, Organization |
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Lecture Notes: The New Immigration |
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Lecture Notes: The New Left & the 60's |
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Lecture Notes: A New Nation |
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Lecture Notes: The Peace Movement |
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Lecture Notes: Political Parties |
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Lecture Notes: Poverty |
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Lecture Notes: Progressive Party of 1924 in Colorado
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Lecture Notes: Progressivism & Populism |
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Lecture Notes: Rise of David Levinsky |
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Lecture Notes: St. Thomas Colloquium |
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Lecture Notes: Third Party Politics |
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Lecture Notes: U.S. History - Introductory Course 1789-1876 |
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Lecture Notes: U.S. History - Introductory Course 1876-1964 |
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Lecture Notes: U.S. History - 1877-1941
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Lecture Notes: U.S. History - Late 19th Century |
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Lecture Notes: U.S. History - 20th Century |
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Lecture Notes: U.S. History - 1941-1998
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Lecture Notes: U.S. History - Labor - 1830-1860
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Lecture Notes: Western Jewish History & Sermon |
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Lecture Noes: Yiddishkeit on the Platte in the Jazz Age |
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Lindsey, Ben B. In the Jaws of the Beast: A Lawyer's Perspective |
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Local Jewish Historical Society News April 1980 |
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The Lord's Day Alliance by Clarence Darrow |
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McGraw-Hill Publishing: Text MSS & Review |
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Meyer, Michael A. Articles, German-Jewish Identity in 19th Century |
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Mini-Course on Colorado Jewish History |
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Multiculturism: E Pluribus Plures by Diane Ravitch |
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Muhr, Simon (circa 1845)
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NEH Proposal: Jewish History 1985-1986
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National Jewish Hospital and the NCJW - 1897 - Dr. Charles D. Spivac Correspondence
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New Leftists & Abolitionists by Bertram Wyatt-Brown |
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Organization of Communities: Second Draft |
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Personal Correspondence |
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Ph.D. in History Reading List |
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Ph.D. in History Revisions 1989
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Philadelphia: Association of Jewish Immigrants |
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Photographs (1) |
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Photographs (2) |
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Portland (OR) Jewry, 1851-1866 Article
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Progressivism & New Labor History: Historiography |
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Puritanism as a Revolutionary Ideology |
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Puritanism as a Theological System |
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Readings & Course Notes: America in the 60's |
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Readings: Black History in America |
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Readings: Cold War in America |
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Readings: Holocaust (1) |
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Readings: Holocaust (2) |
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Readings: Labor & the 1924 Election
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Readings: Multiple Voices of America |
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Readings: Progressivism & New Labor History |
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Readings: The New Deal |
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Readings: Populism in Alabama |
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Readings: U.S. History - 19th Century |
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Reprints - Signed (1) |
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Reprints - Signed (2) |
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Reprints - Signed (3) |
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Republicanism - Notes |
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Research Report to Jewish Professionals |
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Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Notes |
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Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society |
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Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society - Notes |
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RMJHS - H. Leivick's "Ballad of Denver Sanatorium" (Translation) |
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Salons |
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Sarna, Jonathan D - Reprints |
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Schmier, Louis - Correspondence and Articles |
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Scholar's Conference Releases |
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Seminar on Cultural History |
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Seven Profiles: Modernists and Traditionalists |
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Social History - Readings (1) |
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Social History - Readings (2) |
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Southern Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) - Notes |
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Stein, Irene "Herstory" by Roberta Greengard |
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Stern, Frances (1873-1947) Biographical Sketch
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Sulzberger, Mayer (circa 1843)
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Summer Session 1987 - Jewish Radical Life
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The Survival of Judaism in a Far Western Town, Grand Junction |
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Task Force 1980's: Education - American Jewish Committee
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Technological Innovation - Second Draft |
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Teaching Guide Pt. I, Module Four: US from 1865-1900 (MSS)
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Teaching Guide Pt. II, Module Four: US from 1865-1900 (MSS)
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Teaching Guide Pt. III, Module Four: US from 1865-1900 (MSS)
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Teaching Guide Chronology, US from 1865-1900 (MSS)
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Teaching Guide Study & Exercises, US from 1865-1900 (MSS)
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Therapy and Work |
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The Three Calendars |
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The Van Leer Jerusalem Foundation Questionaire |
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Varieties of History (1) |
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Varieties of History (2) |
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Virgin Land and Savage People by Francis Jennings |
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Vita |
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Wax, Bernie |
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Wolf, Simon (1836-1923) American National Biography
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"The WONdering Jew" Conference 1988 |
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Woodstock Nation West |
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Zionism - Notes |
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Education - English & Comparative Literature |
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Education - Fine Arts |
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Education - General |
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Education - Graduate - Blue Books |
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Education - History - U.S. - Constitution |
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Education - History - U.S. - Government |
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Education - History - U.S. - Intellectual |
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Education - History - U.S. - Social |
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Education - Humanities |
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Education - Natural Sciences |
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Education - Sociology & Social Sciences |
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Education - World History |
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Education Years - Clippings |
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Education Years - Correspondence |
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Education - Social History |
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Bibliographical Citations |
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Quotations |
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Reading Notes |
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The Birth of Israel, 1947-1948; The Six Day War
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Blitzkrieg/Walter Cronkite |
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Hark the Years/Frederic March (1854-1933)
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Hitler, Adolf - Speech, January 31, 1933; D-Day Plus 20 1944-1964
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I Can Hear It Now/Edward R. Murrow (1919-1936)
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I Can Hear It Now/Edward R. Murrow (1937-1948)
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I Can Hear It Now/Walter Cronkite The 60's (1960-1967)
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I Can Hear It Now/Walter Cronkite The 60's (1968-70)
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The Revolutionary Generation (American Issues Forum) Tape 1 |
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The Revolutionary Generation (American Issues Forum) Tape 2 |
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Six Million Accuse: Eichmann's Trial |
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A Precious Heritage (CF Video) |
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Frances Wisebart Jacobs on WIXT, Syracuse, NY; Nancy Duffy Show |
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