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Title: Corinne Lathrop Gilb papers
Date (inclusive): 1945-2005
Collection Number: 2007C28
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
220 manuscript boxes
(88.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: The collection contains correspondence, speeches and writings, notes, studies, reports, teaching and research materials, and
printed matter, relating to political science, interdisciplinary approaches to American and world history, the history of
law, urban history, the history of automobile and high technology industries, and city planning in Detroit.
Creator:
Gilb, Corinne Lathrop, 1925-
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Box 83 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 2007
[Identification of item], Corinne Lathrop Gilb papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Corinne Lathrop Gilb (1925 - 2003) received her Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization from Radcliffe- Harvard and
taught history at the university level for 37 years, retiring as Professor Emeritus from Wayne State University in 1994. The
first director of UC Berkeley's Regional Cultural (Oral) History Project, her interviews with early Teamster leaders and key
figures in the 1934 San Francisco labor strike remain seminal research sources in libraries throughout the country. As Planning
Director for the City of Detroit under Mayor Coleman Young, she produced the 1985 Master Plan for the City's future. She also
served as consultant to the California legislature, delegate to NGO meetings at the United Nations, and Vice President of
the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations. A dynamic public speaker who had an international following,
Dr. Gilb is best known as the author of Hidden Hierarchies: The Professions and Government. Selections of her other writings
can be found in Toward Holistic History: The Odyssey of an Interdisciplinary Historian, published by Atherton Press.
Selected text from
http://corinnelathropgilb.com
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains correspondence, speeches and writings, notes, studies, reports, teaching and research materials, and
printed matter, relating to political science, interdisciplinary approaches to American and world history, the history of
law, urban history, the history of automobile and high technology industries, and city planning in Detroit.
Organized into groups, the materials include biographical information, Detroit, Michigan materials, speeches and papers, writings,
writings conversion project, and collected materials.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Political science
History
United States -- Civilization
High technology industries -- United States
Automobile industry and trade -- United States
Law -- History
Cities and towns -- History
City planning -- Michigan -- Detroit
Detroit (Mich.) -- History