Preliminary Guide to the Robert L. Kelley Papers

Preliminary arrangement and description by Special Collections staff, latest revision Sept. 5, 2007.
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Preliminary Guide to the Robert L. Kelley Papers

Collection number: UArch FacP 17

Department of Special Collections

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University of California, Santa Barbara
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Date Completed:
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Descriptive Summary

Title: Robert L. Kelley Papers
Dates: 1947-1993
Date (bulk): 1970-1990
Collection number: UArch FacP 17
Creator: Kelley, Robert Lloyd, 1925-1993
Collection Size: 28.1 linear feet (71 document boxes).
Repository: University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Abstract: Primarily correspondence, research files, and writings of Robert Lloyd Kelley, UCSB professor of history, director of the UCSB Public History program, and scholar in the field of public policy, particularly California water history.
Physical location: SRLF.
Languages: English

Access Restrictions

The majority of this collection is stored offsite. Advance notice is required for retrieval.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred Citation

Robert L. Kelley Papers. UArch FacP 17. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Acquisition Information

Gift of the Robert L. Kelley family, 1993-1994.

Biography

Robert Lloyd Kelley was born on June 2, 1925 in Santa Barbara, California. After serving in World War II, he completed a B.A. at the University of California, Santa Barbara College, then an M.A. and Ph.D. at Stanford University. During his studies at Stanford he served in the Korean War. Kelley became UCSB history faculty in 1955 and taught for 38 years until his retirement in 1993. He received many honors, including Guggenheim, NEH, Woodrow Wilson, and Fulbright fellowships, and is credited with being a founder of the discipline of public history. His books include Gold Versus Grain: The Hydraulic Mining Controversy in California's Sacramento Valley (1959), The Transatlantic Persuasion: the Liberal-Democratic Mind in the Age of Gladstone (1969), The Cultural Pattern in American Politics: The First Century (1979), and Transformations : UC Santa Barbara, 1909-1979 (1981). Kelley died in Santa Barbara on August 29, 1993.
For more information, see the Office of Public Information Biographical Files, UArch 11.

Scope and Content of Collection

Arrangement

The collection contains the following series:
I. Administrative Files [UCSB]
II. Bio-Bibliographical Files
III. Consulting
IV. Correspondence
V. Courses
VI. Organization Files
VII. Public History Program [UCSB]
VIII. Research
IX. Writings / Speeches

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Kelley, Robert Lloyd, 1925-1993
University of California, Santa Barbara
Public history.

Related Material

Monographs by Kelley are cataloged separately and are searchable in Pegasus.
See also in Special Collections:
  • UCSB Department of History, Public Historical Studies Program Records, UArch 41
  • UCSB Office of Public Information Biographical Files, UArch 11
Robert Lloyd Kelley Papers at the UC Berkeley Water Resources Center Archives

 

Series I:  Administrative Files [UCSB]

 

Academic Senate

Box 1: 1-4

General, 1973-1975

Box 1: 5

Chairman's Statement, 1973-1974

Box 1: 6

Cliff House Conference, 1974

Box 1: 7

Committee on University Extension, 1977-1978

Box 1: 8

University Academic Plan, 1973-1978

Box 1: 9

Affirmative Action Plan, 1982

Box 1: 10

Alumni Association, 1988-1990

Box 1: 11

Alumni Material, 1973-1974

Box 1: 12

Alumni Vacation Center Faculty Seminar, 1974

Box 2: 1-6

Assistant to Chancellor – correspondence, papers, and other, 1960-1962

Box 3: 1

Assistant to Chancellor (cont.), 1962

Box 3: 2

Brewer, Garry D., 1987-1988

Box 3: 3

Brownlee, W. Elliot, 1986-1987

Box 3: 4

Budget Policy Committee, 1973-1974

Box 3: 5

California Water Resources Center Technical Completion Report, 1977

Box 3: 6

Chancellor's Council, 1991-1992

Box 3: 7

Committee on Building and Campus Development, 1960

Box 3: 8

Committee on Privilege and Tenure, 1972

Box 3: 9

Committee on Undergraduate Courses, 1965

Box 3: 10

Comparative History – New Teaching Ideas, 1987

Box 3: 11

Curriculum Committee, 1969-1972

Box 3: 12

Delegation to the PRC (Peoples Republic of China), 1979

Box 3: 13

Department of History Annual Review, 1978-1993

Box 3: 14

The Doctoral Program, 1986-1987

Box 3: 15

Educational Objectives for UC Final Report (Academic Senate), 1975-1985

Box 3: 16

ESL (English as a Second Language) Writing Program, 1991-1992

Box 4: 1

Environmental History Vacancies, 1992

Box 4: 2

Faculty Association, 1987-1988

Box 4: 3

Faculty Club, 1988

Box 4: 4

Faculty Guide, 1965

Box 4: 5

Faculty Legislature, 1987

Box 4: 6

Faculty Self-Evaluation of Courses, 1972, 1974

Box 4: 7

Foreign Evaluations Guide, 1990

Box 4: 8

Grading Practices, 1960

Box 4: 9

Graduate Program – Letter to Prospective Students, 1991

Box 4: 10

Graduate Student Funding, 1982

Box 4: 11

History Department Proposal for Report, 1977-1981

Box 4: 12

History Faculty Meetings, ca. 1966-1967

Box 4: 13

Huttenback, Robert A. – Inauguration Address

Box 4: 14

Intercampus Activity Fund, 1979

Box 4: 15

M.A. Issues, 1970-1971

Box 4: 16

Molotch, Harvey, 1972

Box 4: 17

National Endowment for the Humanities – Project Grant Application, "Getting History into the Community for Cultural Enrichment and Problem Solving," 1977

Box 4: 18

NEH Grant, 1979

Box 4: 19

NEH Seminar, Grant Request, Forms, Selection, etc., 1977-1978

Box 5: 1

Ph. D. Program, 1982-1990

Box 5: 2

Planning – Correspondence to Vice Chancellor, 1974

Box 5: 3

Plous Committee, 1992

Box 5: 4

Plous Lecture and Response, 1973

Box 5: 5

Proposals/Grants – mainly Kelley's UCSB history project, 1976-1979

Box 5: 6

Proposition #2, 1964

Box 5: 7

Public Policy-Graduate Program, 1985

Box 5: 8

Requested Recall to Teach Courses, 1992

Box 5: 9

Student Affairs Research and Evaluation Reports, 1978-1979

Box 5: 10

Summer Orientation, 1972

Box 5: 11

UC Academic Plan Phase II Volume I The University Perspective, 1975

Box 5: 12

UC Academic Plan Phase II Volume II The Chancellor's Statements, 1975

Box 5: 13

UCSB Alumni Association, 1982, 1987

Box 5: 14

UCSB Educational Opportunity Program Report, 1967

Box 5: 15

UCSB Foundation Board Meeting, 1992

Box 5: 16

UCSB History, 1989

Box 5: 17

UCSB History and Traditions Committee, 1992

Box 5: 18

UCSB Mission Statement, n.d.

Box 5: 19

UCSB Public Policy Program, 1987-1990

Box 5: 20

UCSB Speakers Bureau, 1991-1992

Box 5: 21

Undergraduate Teaching: Recommendations for Improvement, 1974-1977

Box 5: 22

Water Resource Center Research Project – UC Riverside, 1991

 

Series II:  Bio-Bibliographical Files

 

Subject Files

Box 6: 1

Annual Supplements, 1979-1987

Box 6: 2

Appointment to the Commission for Teacher Preparation and Licensing, 1973-1974

Box 6: 3

Articles Mentioning Kelley, various dates

Box 6: 4

Australia – Book Report, 1948

Box 6: 5

Awards and Recognitions

Box 6: 6

Obituaries, 1993

Box 6: 7

Professional Biography, ca. 1967-1990

Box 6: 8

Reunion – SBHS Class of 1942, 1977

Box 6: 9

USIA Lectureship to India, 1986

Box 6: 10

Wilson Center Fellowship, 1983

 

Supplementary Files: 1955-1976

Box 6: 11

1955-1971

Box 6: 12-13

1975-1976

 

Supplementary Files: 1977-1980

Box 7: 1

Table of Contents

Box 7: 2

Bicentennial Essay

Box 7: 3

Biographical Data (Career)

Box 7: 4

Critiques of Manuscripts/Proposals

Box 7: 5

"Culture as History" article

Box 7: 6

Excerpts from "Transformations," "Students at Santa Barbara," and "A Time of Harvest"

Box 7: 7

Fulbright Lectureship

Box 7: 8

General Catalogue Material

Box 7: 9

History 200AM Syllabus

Box 7: 10

"History and Public Affairs" article

Box 7: 11

"History of the United States of America" typescript

Box 7: 12

Merit Increase to Professor V

Box 7: 13

NEH Professional Seminar

Box 7: 14

OAH Newsletter

Box 7: 15

Public Historical Studies, Newsletter #1, 1978

Box 7: 16

"Public History: Its Origins, Nature, and Prospects"

Box 7: 17

Reviews

Box 7: 18

The Shaping of the American Past – Current Info

Box 7: 19

"The Sociologist As Oracle"

Box 7: 20-21

Supplementary Materials, 1977-1980

Box 7: 22

"Taming the Sacramento 1850-1950" manuscript

 

Supplementary Files: 1980-1982

Box 8: 1

Table of Contents

Box 8: 2

Comments Upon and Citations of Writings

Box 8: 3

Consultant Papers for Attorney General of California

Box 8: 4

The Cultural Pattern in American Politics – reviews

Box 8: 5

Fellowship Application – Rockefeller Foundation, 1981

Box 8: 6

Honors and Declined Invitations

Box 8: 7

Merit Increase to Professor VI

Box 8: 8

NEH Professional Seminar

Box 8: 9

Professional Activities

Box 8: 10

Public History – reports, proposals, letters

Box 8: 11

Published Writings and Papers

Box 8: 12-14

The Shaping of the American Past, 3rd edition, 1982 – new material and reviews

Box 8: 15

Supplementary Materials

Box 8: 16

Teaching

 

Supplementary Files: 1983-1985

Box 9: 1

Table of Contents

Box 9: 2

Article on US vs USSR

Box 9: 3

History of Public Policy Program

Box 9: 4

Moscow University Essay

Box 9: 5

Professional Activities

Box 9: 6

The Public Historian

Box 9: 7

Public History Outreach

Box 9: 8

Request for Merit Increase

Box 9: 9

Reviews

Box 9: 10

Shaping of American Past, 4th edition – reviews

Box 9: 11-12

Supplementary Materials, 1984-1987

Box 9: 13

Teaching

Box 9: 14

Turned Down – projects/invitations declined

Box 9: 15

UCSB Outreach

Box 9: 16

Writings

 

Supplementary Files: 1986-1988

Box 9: 17

Table of Contents

Box 9: 18

Article from Journal of Policy History

Box 9: 19

Battling the Inland Sea

Box 9: 20

Cultural Pattern – Japanese translation

Box 9: 21

Published Essays

Box 9: 22

The Shaping of the American Past, 4th Edition

Box 10: 1

Statements

Box 10: 2

Supplementary Materials, 1985-1988

Box 10: 3

Supporting Materials, 1986-1987

Box 10: 4

Teaching

Box 10: 5

USIA Lectureship

Box 10: 6

Miscellany

 

Supplementary Files: 1988-1989

Box 10: 7

Annual Bio-Bib Supplement

Box 10: 8

ASCE Conference

Box 10: 9

Student Evaluations

Box 10: 10

Supplementary

Box 10: 11

Miscellany

 

Supplementary Files: 1989-1990

Box 10: 12

Annual Bio-Bib Supplement

Box 10: 13

"History of Metropolitan Water District" Grant

Box 10: 14

Teaching

Box 10: 15

Writings

Box 10: 16

Miscellany

 

Supplementary Files: 1990-1991

Box 11: 1

Table of Contents of Supporting Documents

Box 11: 2

Annual Bio-Bib Supplement

Box 11: 3

Battling the Inland Sea – reviews

Box 11: 4

"A Bibliography: American Intellectual History"

Box 11: 5

Graduate Studies Newsletter

Box 11: 6

Professional Activities

Box 11: 7

Syllabus – History 200AM

Box 11: 8

Syllabus – History 209

Box 11: 9

Teaching Miscellany

Box 11: 10

"To All Who Are Interested in Our Program"

Box 11: 11

University Miscellany

 

Supplementary Files: 1992-1993

Box 11: 12

Annual Supplement

Box 11: 13

Award #W-762 – Water Resources Center

Box 11: 14

Faculty Research Lectureship Nomination

Box 11: 15

New Yorker: Publicity for Transatlantic Persuasion

Box 11: 16

Retirement

Box 11: 17

Miscellany

 

Series III:  Consulting

Box 12: 1

Master List, ca. 1982

 

Adams vs. State of California; Pacific Gas & Electric; et al, 1963

Box 12: 2-3

Court Proceedings, 1963

Box 12: 4-5

Sacramento Flood Control Project – consultant paper, 1963

Box 12: 6

Block v. North Dakota (applicability as precedent for California case), 1972

Box 12: 7

Bridges, et al vs. State of California, 1968

Box 12: 8

California Attorney General – contracts, 1962-1973

 

California Debris Commission

Box 12: 9

Consultant Paper – "The State of California, and the Yuba River 1890-1910," 1981

Box 12: 10

Research, ca. 1983-1986

Box 13: 1

California Legislature – Assembly Committee on Education – testimony, 1973

Box 13: 2

California vs. Rudolph Platzek, et al, 1982

Box 13: 3

Colusa – Maps (slides)

Box 13: 4

Court Decisions (multiple cases)

 

Feather River

Box 13: 5

"The Feather River at Oroville: Navigation & the Effects of Gold Mining" – consultant paper, 1982

Box 13: 6

Feather River Field Notes, n.d.

Box 13: 7-8

"The Feather River from Oroville to Marysville, 1848-1940" – consultant paper, 1965

Box 13: 9

"The Feather River – Honcut Vicinity, 1850-1940" – consultant paper, 1970

Box 13: 10

"Flood History: Sacramento River – Colusa Region, Preliminary Report" – consultant paper, 1972

Box 13: 11

"Flooding and Flood Control in the Simmerly Basin, 1853-1940" – consultant paper, 1967

Box 13: 12

"Flooding and the Development of Flood Control Systems" – consultant paper, 1972

 

Laux [Cordelia C.] vs State of California

Box 13: 13-14

Transcripts, 1973

Box 14: 1

Trial court records – Moulton v. Laux (copies), 1870s

Box 14: 2

"Navigation of the Yuba River" – consultant paper, 1980

Box 14: 3

"Origin of Hogback Island (Steamboat Slough)," 1967

Box 14: 4-7

Research Files – includes maps, photos, slides, articles, statistics

Box 15: 1

Robinson vs. State of California, 1966

 

Sacramento & San Joaquin Drainage District, State of California vs. Mattie B. Zumwalt Company and J. A. Watt

Box 15: 2

Court Proceedings, 1967

Box 15: 3

"Sacramento River from Colusa to Butte City, 1850-1920" – consultant paper, 1966

 

Sacramento Flood Control Project

Box 15: 4

Court Proceedings

Box 15: 5

Kelley Paper, 1978

Box 15: 6

Revised Plans (copy), 1925

Box 15: 7

Sacramento River – research files, ca. 1967-1973

Box 15: 8

Sacramento Valley Chronology

Box 15: 9

State of California vs. Aleta Owens and Shasta Pipe Co.

 

State of California vs. Yuba Goldfields, Inc.

Box 16: 1

Court Proceedings, ca. 1981-1985

Box 16: 2

Yuba River Maps

Box 16: 3

Yuba River Study, 1980-1981

Box 16: 4

State of California – Land Commission vs. U.S., et al, 1983

Box 16: 5

Testimony – outlines, various cases

Box 16: 6

Woodruff v. North Bloomfield [includes transcript on microfilm], 1983

 

Series IV:  Correspondence

 

Chronological

Scope and Content Note

Incoming and Outgoing
Box 17: 1-11

1947-1960

Box 18: 1-13

1960-1963

Box 19: 1-8

1963-1966

Box 20: 1-6

1966-1969

Box 21: 1-5

1969-1970

Box 22: 1-6

1971-1974

Box 23: 1-6

1975-1977

Box 24: 1-8

1977-1979

Box 25: 1-8

1979-1981

Box 26: 1-8

1981-1983

Box 27: 1-7

1983-1984

Box 28: 1-9

1985-1987

Box 29: 1-8

1987-1989

Box 30: 1-8

1989-1990

Box 31: 1-9

1990-1991

Box 32: 1-7

1992-1993

 

Alphabetical

Scope and Content Note

By Subject/Name
Box 33: 1

American Book Co., 1962-1965

Box 33: 2

Amnesty International, 1987-1990

Box 33: 3-4

Attorney General (California – consultant work), 1963-1973

Box 33: 5

"Battling the Inland Sea," 1987-1990

Box 33: 6

Berloth, Emily (Appleton-Century-Crofts), 1970-1973

Box 33: 7

Bjerre-Poulsen, Niels, 1988-1992

Box 33: 8

California Water Atlas, 1977-1981

Box 33: 9

Carnegie-Mellon, 1990

Box 34: 1

California Commission for Teacher Preparation and Licensing (CCTPL), 1973-1974

Box 34: 2

"Comparing the Incomparable," 1983

Box 34: 3

Curti, Merle, 1991

Box 34: 4

Encyclopedia of American Social History, 1991

Box 34: 5

Evans, Gail, 1990-1993

Box 34: 6

Friends in Moscow, 1983

Box 34: 7

Green, Walter (Appleton-Century-Crofts), 1968-1970

Box 34: 8

Hart, Gary / John Vasconcellos, 1974-1977

Box 34: 9-10

Higham, John, 1970-1993

Box 34: 11

Horowitz, David, 1992-1993

Box 35: 1

India, 1986

Box 35: 2

Kahrl, Bill, 1982-1983

Box 35: 3

Link, Arthur S., 1968-1972

Box 35: 4

Minnesota, 1989

Box 35: 5

Nagao, Ryuichi, 1983-1987

Box 35: 6-7

(OAH) Organization of American Historians – New Orleans Meeting, 1971-1973

Box 35: 8

OAH Presidency, 1991

Box 35: 9

Oshio, Kazuto, 1992-1993

Box 35: 10

Pickens, Donald, 1988

Box 35: 11

Sen, Uttam, 1990-1992

Box 35: 12

Shiriaev, Boris, 1990

Box 35: 13

Sternsher, Bernard, 1990

Box 35: 14

Storke, Charles A. (Congressional race), 1966

Box 35: 15

Student Correspondence (re retirement), 1993

Box 35: 16

"Teaching U.S. History at Moscow State University," 1981-1984

Box 36: 1

Trip to England, 1966

Box 36: 2

UCLA Conference, 1989-1990

 

Series V:  Courses

 

Alphabetical Files

Scope and Content Note

Mainly lectures and lecture notes)
Box 36: 3

Adams, Larry L. – European Background of Reinhold Niebuhr's Political Ethic, 1985

Box 36: 4

The Age of Jackson, n.d.

Box 36: 5

The Agrarian Myth and the Populists, n.d.

Box 36: 6

American History Class Notes, n.d.

Box 36: 7

Anglican and Puritan, n.d.

Box 36: 8

Anglo-American Intellectual History, ca. 1964-1983

Box 36: 9

The Anglo-American Relationship, 1815-1860

Box 36: 10

Australia: Between the Wars, n.d.

Box 36: 11

Bentham, Jeremy, n.d.

Box 36: 12

Biology and Geology, n.d.

Box 36: 13

Blaine, James G., n.d.

Box 36: 14

Book List, n.d.

Box 36: 15

Britain, 1820-1867

Box 36: 16

British Empire (H131), n.d.

Box 37: 1

Buenker Lecture, Apr. 29, 1986

Box 37: 2

California Water Project Photos, n.d.

Box 37: 3

Clay, Henry, n.d.

Box 37: 4

Cleveland, Grover, n.d.

Box 37: 5

Climax of the Progressive Movement, n.d.

Box 37: 6

Collapse of Protestant Modernism, n.d.

Box 37: 7

Committee on Courses, 1963-1964

Box 37: 8

The Common Wealth, 1900-1955

Box 37: 9

Conservatism in Colonial America, n.d.

Box 37: 10

Conservative and Reform Darwinism – Fleming etc., n.d.

Box 37: 11

The Constitution, n.d.

Box 37: 12

Counter-Culture and the Youth Rebellion, n.d.

Box 37: 13

Crisis of Democratic Theory, 1982

Box 37: 14

Darwinism, 1978

Box 37: 15

Degler and Rothman on Women, n.d.

Box 37: 16

Disciples of Christ, n.d.

Box 37: 17

Eden, the Tories and Suez, n.d.

Box 37: 18

Education, n.d.

Box 37: 19

Emergence of Nationalism, n.d.

Box 37: 20

Empire Bibliography, n.d.

Box 37: 21-22

English History Lecture Notes, n.d.

Box 37: 23

Erikson, Erik, n.d.

Box 37: 24

European History Lecture Notes, n.d.

Box 37: 25

Evolutionary Anthropology, 1966

Box 37: 26

Exams and Review Sheets – various courses, ca. 1961-1971

Box 37: 27

The Expert and the Anti-Intellectual, n.d.

Box 38: 1

Federalism Seminar, n.d.

Box 38: 2

Fehrenbacher – Dred Scott, 1987

Box 38: 3

Final Exams – various courses, ca. 1950s-1960s

Box 38: 4

Franklin, Benjamin, n.d.

Box 38: 5

Freud and Modern Psychotherapy, n.d.

Box 38: 6

Gilded Age – The Money System, n.d.

Box 38: 7

Halevy, n.d.

Box 38: 8

Harrison, Benjamin, 1982

Box 38: 9

Hero in America, n.d.

Box 38: 10

Historicism and Religion – Essays and Reviews, n.d.

Box 38: 11

History of Public Policy – Undergraduate Major, 1992

Box 38: 12

Hobbes, n.d.

Box 38: 13

Imperial America, n.d.

Box 38: 14

Institute for the Study of the U.S, 1993

Box 38: 15

Institute, Summer 1992

Box 38: 16

Institute, Winter 1993

Box 38: 17

Insurgent Republicanism and La Follette, n.d.

Box 38: 18

Intellectual History, 1965

Box 38: 19

Johnson, Lyndon, n.d.

Box 38: 20

KCSB Lecture Series, n.d.

Box 38: 21

The Kennedy Administration, n.d.

Box 38: 22

Klepper – "Who Voted?" n.d.

Box 38: 23

Labor: 19th Century (Jackson), n.d.

Box 39: 1

Land Action, 1963

Box 39: 2

Lester, Frank Ward, n.d.

Box 39: 3

Liberalism and Tilden, 1963

Box 39: 4

Liberalism and War, 1900-1920

Box 39: 5

Lindemann Readings, 1984

Box 39: 6

Litigation Support Case Program – Harvard, Publication Series, 1985

Box 39: 7

McGee Readings, n.d.

Box 39: 8

MacKenzie and His Cabinet, n.d.

Box 39: 9

McKinley, William, n.d.

Box 39: 10

Midlothian [Scotland], 1979-1980

Box 39: 11

The Movement West (to the Pacific), n.d.

Box 39: 12

Nature of Intellectual History, ca. 1960s

Box 39: 13

Newman and the Oxford Movement, n.d.

Box 39: 14

Nile Hydropolitics, n.d.

Box 39: 15

Nixon, Richard, n.d.

Box 39: 16

Penn, William, n.d.

Box 39: 17

Pragmatism – William James, 1981

Box 39: 18

The Progressives, n.d.

Box 39: 19

Public History Seminar, n.d.

Box 39: 20

Public Policy, ca. 1988-1991

Box 39: 21

Rawley – "Bleeding Kansas," 1969

Box 39: 22

The Republican 20's, n.d.

Box 40: 1

The Revolution, 1975

Box 40: 2

The Rise of the Social Gospel, 1877-1900

Box 40: 3

The Rise of Universities, n.d.

Box 40: 4

Romanticism, n.d.

Box 40: 5

Scientific Naturalism, 1989

Box 40: 6

The Scientific Revolution, n.d.

Box 40: 7

Seminar Materials, ca. 1960s-1980s

Box 40: 8

17th Century Background, n.d.

Box 40: 9

Shopkeeper's Millennium, 1983-1984

Box 40: 10

Smith, Adam, ca. 1960s

Box 40: 11

The Social Sciences in the 20th Century, n.d.

Box 40: 12

Socialism, n.d.

Box 40: 13

Sovereign Power, n.d.

Box 40: 14

Stock Market Crash, 1929

Box 40: 15

Student Notes on Lectures, 1966

Box 40: 16

Survey Course Plans, etc., 1970-1971

Box 40: 17

Taft Research Findings, n.d.

Box 40: 18

Taft, William Howard, n.d.

Box 40: 19

Tariffs, n.d.

Box 40: 20

Theory of Relativity, n.d.

Box 41: 1

Undergraduate Requirements, 1992

Box 41: 2

Unitarianism, n.d.

Box 41: 3

Urbanization, n.d.

Box 41: 4

Victorian Era, n.d.

Box 41: 5

The Warren Court, n.d.

Box 41: 6

Williams, Roger, n.d.

Box 41: 7

Wills, Gary – Inventing America, n.d.

Box 41: 8

Wilson, Woodrow, n.d.

Box 41: 9

Women in the 19th Century, n.d.

Box 41: 10

WWII Diplomacy, 1984

Box 41: 11

Writing an Essay, n.d.

 

History Courses

Box 41: 12

History 4 – Western Civilizations

Box 41: 13-18

History 7 – Great Issues in the History of Public Policy, ca. 1984-1993

Box 42: 1-13

History 7 (cont.)

Box 43: 1-13

History 7 (cont.)

Box 43: 14

History 7H (Honors)

Box 44: 1-22

History 17 – The American People, ca. 1950s-1980s

Box 45: 1-10

History 17 (cont.)

Box 45: 11-18

History 72 – The Modern American Mind, ca. 1970s-early 1980s

Box 45: 19-21

History 109 – British Empire, ca. 1950s

Box 46: 1-4

History 131 – British Empire/Commonwealth, ca. 1950s

Box 46: 5

History 153 – History of England, ca. 1950s-1960s

Box 46: 6-27

History 157 – British Intellectual History

Box 47: 1-3

History 170 – American Nation, 1975-1977

Box 47: 4-19

History 172 – Politics and Public Policy in the U.S., ca. 1980s

Box 48: 1-14

History 172 (cont.)

Box 48: 15-18

History 173A-B – American Intellectual History, ca. 1970s-1980s

Box 48: 19

History 174 – American History Since 1900, ca. 1950s-1960s

Box 48: 20-22

History 177 – Intellectual History of the U.S., ca. 1960s

Box 49: 1-10

History 177 (cont.)

Box 49: 11

History 199 – Independent Studies (Vietnam), ca. 1971

Box 49: 12-16

History 200 AM – Graduate Reading Seminar (U.S. History / Historical Literature General – including MA comprehensive exam questions), 1970s-1991

Box 49: 17-22

History 205 – Public History Studies, ca. 1978-1991

Box 50: 1-6

History 209 – The Academic Profession of History, ca. 1987-1992

Box 50: 7

History 217A – Colloquium in Cultural Resource Management (Pursell), 1983

Box 50: 8-10

History 218A – Colloquium in Public Policy, 1984-1990

Box 50: 11-13

History 218D – Colloquium in Water Policy and Litigation Support, ca. 1989-1992

Box 51: 1-3

History 218D (cont.)

Box 51: 4

History 272 – History of Public Policy, 1979-1982

Box 51: 5-11

History 292 – Colloquium on Foundations of U.S. History, 1987-1993

Box 51: 12

Unidentified, 1965

 

Series VI:  Organization Files

Box 52: 1

Agricultural History Society, 1985

Box 52: 2

All-Saints Parish [Santa Barbara] Profile Committee, 1988-1991

Box 52: 3-7

American Historical Association (AHA), 1989-1993

Box 52: 8

American Public Works Association (APWA), 1979, 1983

Box 52: 9

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) – Sacramento Conference, 1988

Box 52: 10

American Water Resources Association (AWRA), 1991-1992

Box 52: 11-12

California Committee for the Promotion of History (CCPH), ca. 1980, 1990

Box 52: 13

California State Water Project, 1966-1967

Box 53: 1-2

Center for National Policy, 1992

Box 53: 3

Faculty Association [UCSB], 1992

Box 53: 4

Harvard – History of Public Policy Conference, 1977-1978

Box 53: 5

Historical Society – Conference: "Then and Now," 1991

Box 53: 6

Impact Assessment, Inc. (IAI), 1991

Box 53: 7

Intellectual History Group, 1979-1991

Box 53: 8

National Council on Public History (NCPH), 1980, 1988

 

Organization of American Historians (OAH)

Box 53: 9-10

Executive Board, 1980-1981

Box 53: 11

Annual Meeting, 1974

Box 53: 12

OAH-NEH Proposal, ca. 1981

Box 53: 13

PHR Associates [Santa Barbara], 1987

Box 53: 14

Prisoner Visitation and Support, 1991-1992

Box 54: 1

The Public Historian, ca. 1984-1990

Box 54: 2-4

Public Works Historical Society (PWHS), 1977-1983, 1991

Box 54: 5

Register of Professional Historians, 1986

Box 54: 6

Seminar on Federalism, ca. 1987-1990

 

Series VII:  Public History Program

Box 54: 7

Concept Proposal for a Public Policy School at UCSB, Feb. 1988

Box 54: 8

Correspondence, 1979

Box 54: 9

Creating a New Professional Person: The Public Historian (NEH Program Grant), 1976-1979

Box 54: 10

Graduate Program in the History of Public Policy, ca. 1985

Box 54: 11

Graduate Program in Public Historical Studies, 1979-1982

Box 54: 12

High School "History of Public Policy" Campaign, ca. 1983-1991

Box 54: 13

History Computerization Project, 1988-1989

Box 54: 14

History of Environmental Review in Santa Barbara County, 1980

Box 54: 15

History of Public Policy Colloquium, 1988

Box 55: 1

History of Public Policy Undergraduate Major, 1982-1992

Box 55: 2

"Innovative History," Coastlines, Winter 1987

Box 55: 3

MA Program (not just public history), ca. 1971-1988

Box 55: 4

National Council on Public History, 1988

Box 55: 5

National Society for Internships and Experiential Education (NSIEE), 1980-1982

Box 55: 6

National Symposium, 1979

Box 55: 7

"A Note on Teaching: The Graduate Program in Public Historical Studies," History Teacher, 1978

Box 55: 8

Old Town, Santa Barbara Project, 1977

Box 55: 9

"Public History at UC Santa Barbara: The First Five Years, 1976-1981"

Box 55: 10

Public Policy, 1980-1989

Box 56: 1

Santa Barbara Harbor and Waterfront Project, 1979

Box 56: 2

Studies of a Growing Community: Santa Barbara 1930-1980 (Public History Monograph No. 5), 1982

Box 56: 3-4

Teaching Public Historical Studies Program, ca. 1976-1990

Box 56: 5

UCSB Program, ca. 1979-1989

Box 56: 6

UCSB Public Policy Research and Exchange Center, 1991

 

Series VIII:  Research

 

Economy

Box 57: 1

Economic Trends Income, 1957

Box 57: 2

Economy of Latin America Class Notes, 1950s

 

Moscow Trip

Box 57: 3

About the USSR Grant, 1978

Box 57: 4

Correspondence – Grant, 1977-1978

Box 57: 5

General Facts of Grant for USSR, 1978

Box 57: 6

Moscow, 1979

Box 57: 7

Moscow Lecture Notes Syllabi, 1979

Box 57: 8

Moscow Letters, 1979

Box 57: 9

Orientation Booklet, 1979

Box 57: 10

Terms and Conditions of Grant, 1979

Box 57: 11

Things to Do – Grant, 1979

Box 57: 12

Travel Information, 1979

 

Politics and Political Systems

Box 58: 1

Anglo-American Politics (research trip), 1967

Box 58: 2

Bryan, W. J., n.d.

Box 58: 15

California Statutes, ca. 1865-1911

Box 58: 3

Chicago Politics 1920s, n.d.

Box 58: 4

Comparative Political Systems, 1956

Box 58: 5

Conflicting Cultures in American Politics: An Historical Perspective (NEH Seminar), 1978

Box 58: 6

Defining Political Culture, 1988

Box 58: 7

A Developmental Approach to Political Systems, 1965

Box 58: 8

The Emergence of the New Deal Party System, 1975

Box 58: 9

Enemy (political culture/elections), n.d.

Box 58: 10

A Federalist Fiscal Constitution for an Imperfect World, n.d.

Box 58: 11

The Industrial Revolution, n.d.

Box 58: 12

Law and Society Readings, 1989

Box 58: 13

The Learned Presidency, 1988

Box 58: 14

Municipal Government and Administration in Iowa, 1930

Box 58: 15

The New Cultural Politics, 1985

Box 58: 16

Niebuhr, n.d.

Box 58: 17

The Political Battle – Chapter 26, n.d.

Box 58: 18

Political Culture – On the Dimensions of, 1973

Box 58: 19

Political Culture Research Summary, 1990

Box 58: 20

Political Cultures in Conflict, 1988

Box 59: 1

Political Leadership of Grover Cleveland, 1983

Box 59: 2

Politics without Parties, 1989

Box 59: 3

Recent Literature on Progressivism, 1990

Box 59: 4

Religion, Politics, and the American Polity, 1982

Box 59: 5

The Social Contract, 1991

Box 59: 6

Sovereign Individuals, 1988

Box 59: 7

Suffrage and Political Participation, 1983

Box 59: 8

Supreme Court Research and Quotations, n.d.

 

Public Policy

Box 59: 9

Book Review Notes State Law and Industrial Policy, 1987

Box 59: 10

Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 1992

Box 59: 11

Public Policy – Case Studies, 1980

 

Santa Barbara / Local Issues

Box 59: 12

Dal Pozzo Tire Project, n.d.

Box 59: 13-14

Old Town, Santa Barbara, Parts 1-2, 1977

 

Water

Box 59: 15

Alteration of the Regimen of Sacramento River, 1967

Box 60: 1

Bibliographies, 1989-1990

Box 60: 2

California Water Resources Center, 1989-1990

Box 60: 3

Coping with Uncertainty, 1991

Box 60: 4

DC Water Paper Thoughts, 1989

Box 60: 5

Dredging and Waterway Modification, 1990

Box 60: 6

Drought Research, 1991

Box 60: 7

Engineers and Irrigation: Alexander Commission's Report, 1990

Box 60: 8

"Flood Control in the Sacramento and San Joaquin River Systems," 1926

Box 60: 9

Gold Dredging Operations, 1962

Box 60: 10

History of the Marysville City Levees, 1966

Box 60: 11

Hydraulic Mining, 1965, 1967

Box 60: 12

International Water Conference "Profiting from Water," 1988

Box 60: 13

Jackson Report (Flood Control), 1911

Box 60: 14

Marysville in Flood of 1867 – slide

Box 60: 15

National Water Commission, 1973

Box 60: 16

1963 State Water Plan Entitlement, 1981

Box 61: 1

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Historical Program, 1986

Box 61: 2

Water and the Future of the Southwest, 1989, 1991-92

Box 61: 3

Water Articles, 1986

Box 61: 4

Water Policy, 1989-90

Box 61: 5

Water Policy Pamphlets, 1987, 1990

Box 61: 6

Water Policy: Resources and Cases, 1968-69

 

Miscellany

Box 61: 7

Conservation and Gasp of Efficiency, n.d.

Box 61: 8

Environmental History, 1992

Box 61: 9

Reading Notes, 1958-62

Box 61: 10-11

Winniford Family History, 1961

 

Series IX:  Writings / Speeches

 

Articles

Scope and Content Note

Shorter works, including conference papers, consultant reports, letters to editors, and op ed pieces
Box 61: 12

"American Historians at Moscow University, USSR, 1974-1983," 1983

Box 61: 13

"The American Historical Association, Academic Freedom and Free Speech," 1991

Box 61: 14

"American Intellectual History – A Bibliography," 1991

Box 61: 15

:America's 6th Major Vote Shift," 1980

Box 62: 1

"Asquith at Paisley...," 1963

Box 62: 2

"California Debris Commission (U.S. Corps of Engineers), the State of California, and the Yuba River 1890-1910," 1981

Box 62: 3

"A Century of Flooding on Mission Creek, Santa Barbara County, 1870s-1970s," 1985

Box 62: 4

"Comparing the Incomparable: Politics and Ideas in the United States and the Soviet Union," 1982-1984

Box 62: 5

"The Context and the Process: How They Have Changed Over Time," 1993

Box 62: 6

"Culture as History," 1978

Box 62: 7

"The Decisive Link: An Essay in the Interplay between Political Culture and Public Policy...," n.d.

Box 62: 8

Democrats and the American Idea (two chapters entitled "A Portrait of Democratic America in the Mid-Nineteenth Century" and "The Democracy of Tilden and Cleveland," 1992

Box 62: 9

"Dwight David Eisenhower," 1963

Box 62: 10

"Forgotten Giant: The Hydraulic Gold Mining Industry in California," 1954

Box 62: 11

"Historical Perspective on Salinity and Drainage Problems in California," 1984

Box 62: 12

"The History the Masses Learn, and Historians Ignore," 1980

Box 62: 13

"The Idea of Political Culture: Varying Refractions," 1991-1992

Box 62: 14

"Ideology and Political Culture from Jefferson to Nixon," 1977, 1984

Box 62: 15

"The Interplay of American Political Culture and Public Policy...," 1989

Box 62: 16

"The Thought of Sir Wilfrid Laurier" – Article for AHR, 1965

Box 62: 17

"The 'Manchester Guardian's' America," 1955

Box 62: 18

"Midlothian: A Study in Politics and Ideas," 1960

Box 62: 19

"The Muddy Gold War," 1957

Box 62: 20

"Navigation on the Yuba River," 1980

Box 62: 21

"On the Teaching of Public History," 1987

Box 62: 22

"Point of View" Chronicle of Higher Education essay, 1974

Box 62: 23

"Political Culture," 1991

Box 62: 24

"Political Culture and the Judicial Mind," 1990

Box 62: 25

Presbyterianism, Jacksonianism, and Cleveland, 1966

Box 62: 26

"The Scotch-Irish in British and American History and the Name 'Kelley'," 1985

Box 62: 27

"The Sixty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Organization of the American Historians," 1975

Box 62: 28

"Taming the Sacramento: Hamiltonianism in Action," 1965

Box 63: 1

"Teaching vs. Research – Some Further Observations," 1974

Box 63: 2

"The Thought and Character of Samuel J. Tilden: The Democrat as Inheritor," 1964

Box 63: 3

"The Thought of Sir Wilfrid Laurier: A Study in Anglo-American Liberalism," 1965

Box 63: 4

"The Unfinished Agenda of the Independent School," 1962

Box 63: 5

"The United States: History and Bibliography," 1959

Box 63: 6

"Widening the Scope of the Profession," 1978

Box 63: 7

Miscellany (incl. short book reviews and short newspaper pieces), 1974-1993

 

Monographs

Scope and Content Note

Includes correspondence, some drafts, research, and reviews
Box 63: 8

Battling the Inland Sea: American Political Culture, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley, 1850-1986 (published 1989)

Box 63: 9-10

The Cultural Pattern in American Politics: The First Century (published 1979)

Box 64: 1-3

Cultural Pattern (cont.)

Box 64: 4-7

Gold v. Grain: The Hydraulic Mining Controversy in California's Sacramento Valley (published 1959; revision of Stanford 1953 dissertation)

Box 64: 8-12

The Shaping of the American Past (first published 1971; several editions)

Box 65: 1-9

Shaping (cont.)

Box 66: 1-3

Shaping (cont.)

Box 66: 4

The Transatlantic Persuasion: The Liberal-Democratic Mind in the Age of Gladstone (published 1969)

Box 66: 5-10

Transformations: U.C. Santa Barbara, 1909-1979 (published 1981)

Box 71

Manuscript marked for printing [located in Del Sur oversize]

 

Unpublished

Box 67: 1

"The Boss in Politics" (early student paper by Kelley), n.d.

Box 67: 2

Confrontations: Politics and Ideology in America, n.d.

Box 67: 3

The Constant Enemy: Political Culture and the Discourse of the Parties from the Gilded Age to the Age of Ronald Reagan, n.d.

Box 67: 4

"The Context and the Process in Water Policy Management," 1992

Box 67: 5

"The Democracy in the Gilded Age," 1992

Box 67: 6

"Democratic America and Republican America," n.d.

Box 67: 7

"A Demographic and Ethnic History of the United States: A Portfolio of Maps and Graphs, with Commentary," by Madge Louise Kelley and Robert Kelley, 1989

Box 67: 8

The Discourse of the Parties Prologue, 1991

Box 67: 9

"The Eisenhower Leadership in War" (for CSDI), 1960

Box 67: 10

Higham – "Future," n.d.

Box 67: 11

"Hydraulic Mining in California," n.d.

Box 67: 12

"The Ideas of a Liberal: William Gladstone," 1958

Box 68: 1-2

In the Matter of America: Ideology and Political Culture from the Gilded Age to the Age of Reagan, ca. 1985-1986

Box 68: 3-4

"The Mind of Sir Wilfrid Laurier: A Study in Canadian Liberalism," ca. 1970s-1980s

Box 68: 5

[Mission Creek] – several articles and related materials, ca. 1980s

Box 68: 6

"The Origins of the Term and Concept of 'Public History'," 1989

Box 68: 7

"A Portrait of Democratic America in the Mid-Nineteenth Century," 1992

Box 68: 8

"Recent Literature on Progressivism – Bibliography," 1990

Box 68: 9

The Rise of Modern America, 1865-1992: Ethnicity, the Environment, and Political Culture, ca. 1992

Box 69: 1-4

"The Russians," ca. 1979-1980

Box 69: 5

"Separation of Powers in American Constitutional Practice," n.d.

Box 69: 6

"The Split in the South, 1860-1861" (paper written while at Stanford), 1948

Box 69: 7

"The Story of the UCSB Faculty Club," ca. 1980s

Box 69: 8

"Teaching United States History at Moscow State University, 1979"

Box 69: 9

"The Thought and Character of Samuel J. Tilden," n.d.

 

Speeches and Lectures

Box 70: 1

American Water Resources Association (AWRA) Conference, 1992

Box 70: 2

"Anti-Imperialism in the United States," 1986

Box 70: 3

'The British Liberals and the American Democrats,' 1970

Box 70: 4

Friends of History, Portland State University, 1992

Box 70: 5

"The History of Public Policy: Does It Have a Distinctive Character and Method?" Notre Dame Conference, 1985

Box 70: 6

"The Human Revolution: Antecedents," UCSB Centennial Lecture Series, 1968

Box 70: 7

"Last Lecture" Series, 1960

Box 70: 8

"Problems of Anglo-American-Canadian Solidarity" 35th World Affairs Institute, 1958

Box 70: 9

"Significance of Hydraulic Gold Mining in CA's History," University Extension Talk, Nevada City, 1969

Box 70: 10

Testimony Given before [California] Assembly Committee on Education, 1973

Box 70: 11

Tilden, Samuel J. (varying titles), ca. 1968

Box 70: 12

UCLA – American Politics in Historical Perspective, 1990

Box 70: 13

Miscellaneous Lectures (mainly notes), 1962-1993