Preliminary Guide to the Wilbur R. Jacobs Papers
Preliminary Guide to the Wilbur R. Jacobs Papers
Collection number: UArch FacP 16
Department of Special CollectionsDavidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
- Processed by:
- Preliminary arrangement and description by Special Collections staff; latest revision J. Mundy and D. Tambo
- Date Completed:
- Jan. 12, 2009
- Encoded by:
- A. Demeter
Scope and Content of Collection
WRJ = Wilbur R. Jacobs
Arrangement
- Bio / Personal. Includes bio-bib submissions for several years, vitae, Who's Who in America entries, college papers and diplomas, and trip files. Boxes 1-2.
- Correspondence – Notable. Includes letters from historians such as John Higham and Samuel Eliot Morison. Box 3.
- Correspondence – General. Incoming/outgoing, with colleagues, publishers, and former students and acquaintances seeking letters of support for various projects and positions. Arranged by year. 1937-1998. Boxes 3-11.
- Isla Vista Disturbances, 1970. Mainly issues of newspapers such as El Gaucho, Isla Vista Viewpoint, and UCSB Daily Nexus. Box 12.
- Professional Organizations. Mainly Western History Association, 1963-1966. Box 13.
- Research/Subject Files. Major areas include American Indians, environmental issues, Francis Parkman, Frederick Jackson Turner, and the West/Westward Movement. Boxes 13-20.
- UC – Office of the President (University of California – Academic Assistant), ca. 1964-1965. Boxes 20-21.
- UCSB. Includes files relating to Academic Senate, History Department, teaching, and PhD students. Box 22.
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Writings
Monographs. Mainly typescript drafts and some reviews. Boxes 23-27.
Shorter Works. Mainly typescript drafts and print copies, including offprints. Boxes 27-29: Articles [also chapters in larger works, essays, talks, and papers presented at conferences]; Book Reviews; Lectures; Letters to Editors -
Photographs (mostly used as illustrations in writings). Box 29.
Negatives
Slides - Audio. Audiotape. Interview with WRJ, 1973.
- Hockett [Homer C.] Papers, ca. 1902-1903. Includes course notes for Frederick Jackson Turner's "History of the West" course, when Hockett was an assistant to Turner. Wyles Mss 73.
- Parkman [Francis] Collection, ca. 1857-1894. 13 ALS by Parkman, historian and author of The Oregon Trail, to various addressees, one genealogy of Parkman, two pamphlets on Parkman and two miscellaneous pamphlets. Wyles SC 166.
- Soper Family Papers, ca. 1862-1942. Correspondence, clippings, notebook, photographs, and picture postcards pertaining to the Soper family, who settled in Alhambra, California during the early 1880s. Also includes Civil War letters from Charles H. Soper, and essays and stories by Catharine, his daughter, about the area, its scenery and gardens, animal rights, and vegetarianism. Also, research notes about the Soper family, compiled by the donor Wilbur R. Jacobs (UCSB History professor) in the early 1940s. The subject matter mainly concerns emigration to and life in southern California in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Wyles Mss 13.
Bio / Personal
General Biographical info, incl. vitae, Who's Who in America entries, clippings
Bio-bib submissions
College Paper – "Indian Presents and the Westward Movement during the Period of the French and Indian War," History 199, UCLA, 1940
Diplomas – BA, UCLA, 1940; MA in history, UCLA, 1942
Grant Applications
PhD dissertation – "Presents to Indians Along the Ohio and Northwest Frontiers, 1748-1765," UCLA, 1947
Santa Barbara College – appointment as Acting Dean of Men, 1952
Trips
Yugoslavia, 1965
Trip around the World [incl. Australia] – travel diary and notebook, ca. 1968-1969
Correspondence – Notable
Caughey, John, 1965
Gates, Paul W., 1965
Groebner, Norman, 1965
Higham, John, 1965
Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1964
Pomeroy, Earl, 1965
Tolles, Frederick B., 1965
Winther, Oscar O., 1965
Correspondence – General
Scope and Content Note
1937, 1942-1943 (incoming only)
1947-1958, 1960-1964
1965-1981
1982-1988
1989-1991
1991-1992
1992-1993
1993-1995
1995-1998
Isla Vista Disturbances 1970
Mainly issues of newspapers such as El Gaucho, Isla Vista Viewpoint, and UCSB Daily Nexus
Professional Organizations
Mississippi Valley Historical Association – Report of the Committee to Study the Relationship between the Association and the Secondary Schools, 1958
Western History Association – includes files relating to Council meetings, American West Publishing Company (America West a publication of the WHA), and session proposals, 1963-1966, 1992
Research/Subject Files
Scope and Content Note
American Indians
Animal Rights
Australia – Aborigine
Billington, Ray A.
Environmental Issues
Muir, John
Nevins, Allan
Oregon Trail
Parkman, Francis
Population
Sauer, Carl
Turner, Frederick Jackson
West / Westward Movement
UC – Office of the President
University of California – Academic Assistant, ca. 1964-1965
UCSB
Academic Senate, ca. 1954-1958
History Classes
History Department
Ph.D. Students
Writings
Monographs
Scope and Content Note
The American Past and Present, a 'New History'
America's Great Frontiers and Sections: Frederick Jackson Turner's Unpublished Essays – edited, with introduction, by WRJ
Benjamin Franklin: Statesman – Philosopher or Materialist? – edited by WRJ
[Colonial America] – Textbook
Environmental Themes in American Frontier History
The Fatal Confrontation: Historical Studies of American Indians, Environment, and Historians
Francis Parkman, Historian as Hero: The Formative Years
The Garden in Jeopardy
The Historical World of Frederick Jackson Turner
The Impact of Frederick Jackson Turner: Changing Views and Interpretations
Indians of the Southern Colonial Frontier: The Edmund Atkin Report and Plan of 1755 – edited and intro by WRJ
Memories of Historians
On the Trail of Debris: Environmental Themes in American Frontier History
On Turner's Trail: 100 Years of Writing Western History
One Person's Planet: Overpopulation and Its Environmental Impact on Indians, the American Frontier and Global Peoples
Reflections on Columbus and Indian History
Too Many People: Environmental Perspectives on American Indians, Frontiers, and Population
Trails toward Teaching and Telling Indian History
Shorter Works
Scope and Content Note
Articles
Scope and Content Note
"After the Revolution: The Politics and Anti-Politics of the New Western History"
"American Indian and Environmental History," CSLA, June 29, 1994
"American Indian Legacy of Freedom and Liberty"
"British-Colonial Attitudes and Policies Toward the Indian in the American Colonies"
"British Indian Policies to 1785"
"Cadwallader Colden's Noble Iroquois Savages"
"Centuries of Resistance: Viewpoints on Indian History, Columbus, and Ghosts of the Black Legend"
"Clark Wissler, Sept. 18, 1870-Aug. 25, 1947"
"Colonial Origins of the American Spirit of Freedom"
"Colonial Origins of the United States: The Turnerean View"
"Comment on J. A. Hijiya's 'Why the West Was Lost'"
"Comment upon Mining Impact Papers: Colorado Mining and Dredge Mining"
"Commentary on the West in the Twenty-First Century"
"The Crucible of Experience: The Office of Governor in California"
"Descanosora: A Note on Cadwallader Colden's Concept of the Iroquois"
"The Destructive Impact of the Fur Trade in American History"
Dictionary of American Biography – biographies for several historians
"The Displacement of Indian People from Their Environmental Homelands"
[Documents] – lists of suggested documents for unknown work
"Ecology and the American Indians"
Encyclopaedia Britannica – articles on several individuals and subjects
"Francis Parkman and Frederick Jackson Turner Remembered"
"Francis Parkman – As an Undercover Environmentalist"
"Francis Parkman, Hero as Historian" – speech
"Francis Parkman – Naturalist-Environmentalist"
"Francis Parkman's Oration 'Romance in America'"
"Frederick Jackson Turner"
"The Frederick Jackson Turner Papers in the Huntington Library"
"Frederick Jackson Turner Remembered"
"Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Theory in History and Politics, or How to Explain American History with a Theory"
"Frederick Jackson Turner's Notes on the Westward Movement, California, and the Far West"
"Frederick Jackson Turner's Views on International Politics"
"The Frontier in Retrospect"
"Frontiersmen, Fur Traders, and Other Varmints: An Ecological Appraisal of the Frontier in American History"
"The Great Despoliation: Environmental Themes in American Frontier History"
Handbook of North American Indians – contributor
HEH [Huntington Library] talk, Jan. 22, 1992
"Henry Chatillon"
"Highlights of Parkman's Formative Period"
"A Historian's View of Writing and Researching Peace History"
"Historical Themes and Museum Exhibits"
"Historiography as Intellectual History: The Case of Frederick Jackson Turner"
"History and Propaganda: Soviet Image of the American Past"
"If Nixon Goes, What Happens in Foreign Affairs?"
"In Memory of Allan Nevins"
"The Indian and the Frontier in American History – A Need for Revision"
"The Indian Frontier of 1763"
"Indian Warrior Strength along the Anglo-French Frontiers in the Old Northwest, 1748-1763"
"Indian-White Relations"
"Indians as Ecologists and Other Environmental Themes in American Frontier History"
"Indians, Whites and Conspiracies in Early American History"
"Institutions, Economies, Access, and Tourism: Transforming a Part of the Western Navajo Reservation"
"Introduction for Donald Worster"
"The Intrusion of White Frontiers into Indian Homelands and the Beginnings of Modern American Environmental History"
"John Francis Adams and His Doctor"
"Lessons from the Master – Francis Parkman – Historian as Hero of the Early American West"
"Looking Back and Forth in Indian History: On the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the UCLA Indian Center"
"Looking Backward: A Half-century of Learning about Western History"
"Looking Backward on the Trail of Frontier-Western History"
"Louis Knott Koontz: Mentor Teacher on the Early West"
"Major Historians of America"
"Major Problems of the Multi-University: The Faculty View of Twenty-Five Years Progress at the University of California"
"Major Writings in American History"
"The Many-Sided Frederick Jackson Turner"
"A Message to Fort William Henry: An Incident in the French and Indian War"
"A More Jealous Mistress: The Scholar as Reviewer"
"National Frontiers and Great World Frontiers – And the Shadow of Frederick Jackson Turner"
"New Nation in a New World"
"The Office of Governor in California"
"Parkman, Francis" – Encyclopaedia Britannica
"Parkman, Frontier Historian: The Apprenticeship"
"Parkman: the Historian as Self-Proclaimed Hero"
"Parkman's Secret: Pretend You Are the Heroic Character Battling and Surviving in the Narrative"
"The Paxton Riots and the Frontier Theory," edited by WRJ
"Peace Research – What Is to be Done? What Is It?"
"Perspectives on Scarcity, Population, Ecology, and the American West"
"Philip Wayne Powell"
"Ponce de Leon: Epic Bio" – motion picture
"Population History and Environmental History: Some Unavoidable Encounters"
"Prescott, William Hickling" – Encyclopaedia Britannica
"Presents to Indians along the French Frontiers in the Old Northwest, 1748-1763"
"Profiles on Environmental Stress: Overpopulation's Impact on World Frontiers"
"Research in Agricultural History: Frederick Jackson Turner's View in 1922"
"Revisiting Revisions on the Indian and the Frontier in American History"
"Robert Beverley: Colonial Ecologist and Indian Lover"
"Roger Williams and the Historians"
"The Role of Military Conflict in American History"
"Sherburne F. Cook, Rebel-Revisionist"
"Should the College Curriculum Include a Great Books or a World Civilization Course?"
"Some Characteristics of Modern Democracy"
"Some Larger Themes in American History"
"Some of Parkman's Literary Devices"
"Some Reflections on Father Junipero Serra's Indian Policy"
"Suggestions for a 'New Look' in Frontier History"
"The Tip of an Iceberg: Pre-Columbian Indian Demography and Some Implications for Revisionism"
"'Turner, as I Remember Him,' by Herbert Eugene Bolton"
"Turner, Merk, and Billington, and the Real Western History"
"Turner's Frontier in American History"
"Turner's Methodology: Multiple Working Hypotheses or Ruling Theory?"
"Two Stories of the American Revolution: The Dividends of Peace Are Neverending"
"U.C. versus Academic Freedom and Animal Rights"
"Unsavory Sidelights on the Colonial Fur Trade"
"Was the Pontiac Uprising a Conspiracy?"
"What Are We Going to Do with All of Us: Some Perspectives on Population and Environmental History"
"Wider Frontiers – Questions of War and Conflict in American History: The Strange Solution by Frederick Jackson Turner"
"Willa Center and Francis Parkman: Novelistic Portrayals of Colonial New France"
"Wilson's First Battle at Princeton: The Chair for Turner"
Book Reviews, 1950s-1990s – arranged chronologically
Lectures – unknown venues
Letter to the Editor, New York Times, 1970
Photographs
Scope and Content Note
B/W Negatives
[R.?] Jenkins Indian Pictures Santa Barbara [?] – 8 4x5 negs.
B/W Prints
Glen, James – Governor of South Carolina, 1743-1756 [photo of a miniature]
Indians – also incl. some related negs.
Jacobs, Wilbur R.
Turner, Frederick Jackson
Audio
Audiotape – Interview of WRJ on "Dispossessing the American Indian," CBS News, Mar. 6, 1973