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Title: Justus Doenecke papers
Date (inclusive): 1939-2021
Collection Number: 2021C17
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: Text in English
Physical Description:
36 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 card file box, digital media
(16.24 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Justus Drew Doenecke (born 1938) is an American historian, writer, and professor. The Justus Doenecke papers (1939-2021) contains
notes, manuscripts, and correspondence related to the America First Committee and twentieth-century US history of the WWI
and WWII eras.
Creator:
Doenecke, Justus D.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Box 33 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. The remainder of the collection is open for research; materials
must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection,
they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2021.
[Identification of item], Justus Doenecke papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
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Justus Drew Doenecke (born 1938) is an American historian, writer, and professor. His 2000 book, Storm on the Horizon: the
Challenge to American Intervention, 1939-1941, received the Herbert Hoover Book Award from the Herbert Hoover Presidential
Library and Museum. Doenecke is Professor Emeritus at New College of Florida. He is an expert on the America First Committee
and the author of In Danger Undaunted: the Anti-Interventionist Movement of 1940-1941 as Revealed in the Papers of the America
First Committee, which is based on the America First Committee records held at Hoover Library & Archives. He is the author
of more than ten books on US history.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Justus Doenecke papers (1939-2021) contains notes, manuscripts, and correspondence related to the America First Committee
and twentieth-century US history of the WWI and WWII eras.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Isolationism -- United States
United States -- History -- 20th century
Neutrality -- United States
United States -- History -- 1913-1921
United States -- History -- 1933-1945
Personal correspondence
Notes (documents)
America First Committee