Finding Aid to the Henry F. May Papers, 1940-1999
Finding Aid to the Henry F. May Papers, 1940-1999
Collection number: BANC MSS 89/61 c
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Series 1: Correspondence, 1946-1983.
Chronological Files, 1946-1983
Correspondence 1946-49
Correspondence 1950-67
Correspondence 1968-81
Correspondence 1982-83
Former Students [Restricted]
Ahmed, Martin
Birnbaum, Lucille
Boles, John
Constantin, Charles
Drinnon, Richard
Foletta, Marshall
Gottschalk, Stephen
Hale, Nathan
Hannah, Tomas
Harper, Robert
Harrington, Carroll
Holtermann, Robert A.
Leonard, Thomas
Lundberg, David
Marshall, Lynn
Martin, Waldo
Mayer, Andre
Meyer, Donald
Moore, William
Morgan, Alda Marsh
Morganti, Joseph
Nelson, Bruce
Noon, Rozanne Miller
Novak, Steve
O'Neill, William
Phillips, Joseph
Reinier, Jacqueline
Reynolds, David
Rollefson, John
Schooley, Frank
Scovel, Raleigh
Shapiro, Stanley
Slater, Peter
Summers, Mark
Takaki, Ronald
Sikora, Stephen
Veysey, Lawrence
Wadleigh, Wells
Wainwright, Robin
Watt, David
Other Correspondents, Colleagues, and Friends [Restricted]
Boles, John
Davies, Wally
Davis, Hope
Davis, R.G.
Drinnon, Richard
Goldberg, Harold (Hillel)
Hofstadter, R.
Meyer, Sheldon
Hutchison, W.
Levenson, Jack
Levenson, Joe
Mann, Golo
Smith, Henry
Ward, Reginald
Series 2: Writings, 1940-1999.
Miscellaneous Writings, 1940-1998
Publishers undated
Miscellaneous early correspondence
Harpers article 1946
Protestant Churches and Industrial America
Paperback 1962-76
Octagon edition, second 1976-77
Reviews, letters, etc.
Publication 1947-79
Protestant Churches and Industrial America 1967
New introduction, notes
New introduction, text, corrections, criticism
Isolationism article, never published
Radicalism essay 1950
Original version
Criticism
Kennan article 1952
Leopold and Link 1952
Later eds. 1955
Intellectuals in Contemporary America 1953
The Rebellion of the Intellectuals 1952
Old Version
Second Version
Paper for American History Association, "Shifting Interpretations of the 1920s" 1956
Text
Earlier Version
Preliminary Correspondence
Publication in Mississippi Valley History Review
MVHA Dewey Centennial 1959
Eglises Protestantes 1960
Fulbright article 1960
Notes
First version 1960
Political interview 1960
AHA, Papers and comments 1961
Unmanifest Destiny 1961
Material
Comment
Copy and corrections
Critique of Hofstadter 1961
Education lecture, Minneapolis 1962
Discontent of Intellectuals 1962
Draft
Corrections
Ghent piece 1962
Draft
Comment
Publication
"American Religious History: The Problem of Communication," Fresno State College 1962
A Synopsis of American History 1963-82
1983 comments
General
Maps
Houghton Mifflin synopsis 1981
McMillan revision 1977
Rand McNally
Inserts
Chapter 31
Revision and other
Lectures on Communism 1962-63
Comments, possible revision
Publication
Old texts
Documents and Outlines
Old drafts and extra pages
Publication
Religious History article 1964
Final version
Criticism, etc.
Early versions, notes
Pacific School of Religion 1965
Talk, comment
Student Crisis article 1966
Final version
Reactions
Stowe essay
Final version
Comment
Corrections
Proofreading matter
Semifinal
Documents and notes
Miller article 1966
Text
Comment
Miscellaneous material
Reply to Feuer comment 1966
Scripps talk
Hobart talk May 1967
A Meditation on an Unpopular Book, with comments, published and unpublished 1968
Letters to Christianity in Crisis 1967-68
Living with Crisis, Second Student Article 1969
Final version
Reactions
Second version
First version
Corrections and mistakes
The Problem of the American Enlightenment
Final version
First version
Comments and correspondence 1967-76
Outlines
Gay critique 1970
Berkeley in the Sixties, Moses Lecture 1970
Text
Miscellaneous material
Recovery article, Oxford, Edinburgh 1971-2
After Recovery 1974
Mead Festschrift, correspondence
Planned talk on Niebuhr for Pacific School of Religion 1973
Moscow paper
Original
Moscow paper 1972
Comment
Enlightened Reader
Comment
Final
American Quarterly article, corrections and miscellaneous
Bar graphs, including region, earlier version
Earlier version
Decline of Providence? 1975
First version
From Berkeley to Harvard 1975
Correspondence and miscellaneous
Intellectual History and Religious History
Comment
Racine: Wingspread paper, final version for publication 1978
Early versions, for Racine conference
New Directions in American Intellectual History includes Intellectual and Religious History 1979
"The Christian Enlightenment in America" 1978
For Warsaw meeting June-July 1978
For publication
Greven review article
Criticism
Final form 1978
Preliminary material 1978
Religion of the Republic 1980
First version of text 1980
Comment
Faculty Research Lecture 1980
Bibliography
"Europe and the American Mind" 1981
Periodical publication 1982-3
Lipow review 1982
Preliminary material
Ballad [of Dwinelle Stairs] 1983
Permission letters, essays
Ideas, Faiths, and Feelings
Advertising
Reviews
Comments 1983
Correspondence, miscellaneous
Commonweal [America's Quest for the Ideal Self]
Reviews
Edwards Conference
Keynote speech Oct. 1984
Publication 1985-87
Henry Nash Smith essay 1984
Revised for publication
Old version
Project, notes
Essay, comments
Letter from Betty (Smith) Campbell Oct. 3, 1986
Enlightenment and America: The Jeffersonian Moment, Charlottesville 1985
Jefferson and the Enlightenment
Corrected copy
Text 1985
Notes 1985
Fox Niebuhr
Review article
Correspondence 1985-86
Article, original text 1985
Review essay, notes 1986
Hobart College Symposium booklet (published as "Political Action and the Academic Conscience") 1986
Correspondence
History Teaching Alliance
Correspondence
Talk Dec. 3, 1986
Religion and American Intellectual History 1987
For publication
Wilson Center Conference, Washington March 3, 1986
Spoken version, Washington
Correspondence 1987
HNS-Chapman Project 1988
After the Enlightenment 1988
Criticism
First Version 1988
Hutchison Review 1987
Constitution and the Enlightenment 1987
Oregon State, miscellaneous notes 1985-88
Electa Press 1987
The Enlightenment and Franklin's America 1987
Commentary for Tocqueville meeting Oct. 1986
Review manuscripts
Georgetown lecture 1989
Correspondence 1987-90
Manuscript of talk
Niebuhr session commentary Dec. 3, 1991
Democratic Gnosticism: The American Religion? Feb. 1993
Review of The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation by Harold Bloom, 1992
Enola Gay 1995
Commentary
Correspondence
Clippings
"The History of History or Play it Again, Sam"
Symposium talk March 4, 1996
Intellectual History Newsletter June-Sept. 1996
Contribution
History at Berkeley: a Dialog in Three Parts 1998
Gene A. Bruckner, Henry F. May, David A. Hollinger
End of American Innocence, ca. 1946-1993
Final version, original, Parts I-IV
Draft, Part I
Bib. essay, acknowledgements
Index
Corrected pages, re-typed
Miscellaneous corrections before publication
List, Minnesota microfilm source, collected for earlier version of book
Outlines of Book
Used Notes, Parts I-III
Miscellaneous material for Part IV; used
Documents for 1918 ff (not used)
Knopf
Granger Seminar, University of Oklahoma
Letters
Reviews
EAI paperback, Quadrangle 1964
New paperback edition: Oxford 1979
OAH Newsletter discussion 1989-90
Reassessment of EAI 1987-89
Response to OAH criticism 1989
EAI critics, OAH 1989
Republication of EAI
New afterword 1993
Hollinger's introduction 1993
Intro -- criticism 1989 undated
Correspondence and publicity 1993
Enlightenment in America, ca. 1966-1988
Miscellaneous
Corrections with Sheldon Meyer 1966-88
Other Corrections
Copy Editing
Permission letters
Other Oxford
Criticism before publication
Letters after publication
Reviews
Merle Curti Award 1977
Paperback edition 1977
Beveridge Prize 1978
Advertising
New paperback edition 1979
Outline, prospectus for parts III and IV
Old outlines
MSS location
Notes, by chapter
Part I: Introduction, Chapters One - Four
Part I: Notes, One - Four
Part I: Five, with notes
Part II: Chapters One - Three
Part III: Chapters One - Five
Part III: Chapter Six (notes only)
Part IV: Chapters One - Three
Original typescript
Alternative versions, introduction
Chapter One, extra material (not used in earlier version)
Footnotes
Part II, Chapters One & Two, notes
Part III, Chapter One, notes
Part III, Chapter Four
Part III, Chapter Five, notes, reactions
Part III, Chapter Six
Part IV, Chapters One - Two, notes
Sources (photocopies)
Barlow
Belsham, Lindsey
Bishop
Bland
Breck
Buckminster
Campbell
Channing, Henry (New London)
Dwight
Ely
Emmons
Everett
Ferguson
Gallatin
Grant
Griswold
Holmes
Kemp
Madison
Manning
Mason
Maury
Miller, Samuel
Morris
Morse
Nisbet
Norwood
Ogden
Osborn
Paine, R. T.
Pickering
Owen
Portfolio
Priestly
Sanders
Smith, S. S.
Spring
Stillman
Strong
Summary State of American Religion (Vaughan)
Tappan
Tracy
Tuckers: Chron Order
Vaughan
Walker, John William to Newby, Larkin
Warren, Mercy
Watson
Webster
Wells
White
Wilberforce
Winchester
Winthrop
Wright, G. F.
Young and Minns
Coming to Terms, 1980-1999
Correspondence
Potential publishers 1984-86
U.C. Press 1985-94
Miscellaneous, before publication 1986
Miscellaneous, after publication 1987-95
Criticisms 1980-84
Later criticisms, before publication 1985-86
Books for autobiography undated
Illustrations 1986-87
Bibliographic note undated
Wilder and May notes undated
Publicity 1987
Reviews 1987-89
Reading Sept. 2, 1987
Paperback question 1989-91
Popkin, Jeremy D.
Paper and correspondence 1996 1999
Excerpt published in California Monthly 1998
With correspondence
The Divided Heart, 1988-1994
Correspondence
Oxford University Press 1988-91
General 1991-94
Permissions 1990
Publicity 1990-91
Three Faces of Berkeley, 1989-1995
Correspondence 1990-95
Submission to U.C. Press 1993
Proofs, with comments 1993
Final version 1993
Illustrations undated
Criticism after revision, before publication 1991
University History project, problems with publication 1991-93
Publicity 1994
University History Project Seminar bibliography 1989
Material relevant to Berkeley life 1991-94
Miscellaneous sources and notes undated
Series 3: Extra-University Matters, 1949-1985.
Salzburg Seminar in American Civilization 1949
PCB Convention 1952
Guggenheim application (rejected) 1954
Church History, Self-Study Project 1958
Princeton Conference on Education in American History 1958
Fulbright and related matters in U.S. 1959
Correspondence
Application 1959-60
Belgium (see also Oversize Folder 1 A) 1959-60
Fulbright Program in general 1961
American History Association 1960
Arden House Conference 1960
Berkeley Conference on Education History 1961
Minneapolis lecture on education 1962
Paris 1962
Cuba letter 1962
Dakar 1963
Harvard Summer session 1963
Fellowship applications 1963-64
Social Science Grant, details 1963-64
MVHA meeting 1964
Chile 1964
Accreditation, Western Baptist Bible College Nov. 3-4, 1966
American Catholic History Association 1966
AHR Editorial Board 1966-69
Tuskegee Report 1966
Miscellaneous 1966-67
Graduate Theological Union 1966-67
Job Offers 1967
Organization of American Historians Paper 1967
American Studies, PCB Meeting, Santa Clara 1968
Grant applications 1968
Center 1963-69
Columbia Statement 1969
Organization of American Historians
Executive Committee
Meeting 1969
Sidney Hook Organization 1970
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1970-
Cambridge
Miscellaneous 1971-72
Lectures, six booklists 1971-72
Class, Last Term
British Lectures, etc., outside Cambridge 1971-72
Correspondence and miscellaneous
Letter on Pitt Professorship
Soviet-American Historians' Colloquium, misc. 1972
Meeting, Williamsburg 1973
(Religion and the American Revolution)
Fellowship Applications 1973
Correspondence with NEH
Harold Small job 1973
OAH, Denver 1974
Enlightenment Conference, Yale 1975
Riverside Colloquium 1976
Coben job 1976-77
OAH, Atlanta 1977
Boyer critique 1977
Racine Conference Dec. 1977
OAH, New York Apr. 1978
Harvard, Religious History Colloquium Apr. 1978
Warsaw paper 1978
Abstract
Warsaw Colloquium June 1978
PCB meetings Aug. 1978
San Francisco
Commentary, Flagstaff
University of Pennsylvania Review Sept. 1978
Ford Great Book Project 1978
Comment on Taylor, AHA, Dallas Dec. 1978
Curti Award Committee 1978
Intellectual History Newsletter 1978
ASCH Meeting, Springfield, MO Mar. 1979
American Antiquarian Society 1978-79
OAH, New Orleans Apr. 1979
NEH Evaluations 1979
Foundation for American Letters and the Media 1979
Graduate Theological Union 1980
Weber meeting
18th Century History Society, San Francisco Apr. 18, 1980
Comments
OAH, San Francisco Apr. 1980
Degler letter 1980
NEH
Project, comments 1980
Summer Seminar possibility 1981-82
University of Leuven, Belgium Spring 1981
Preliminary correspondence
Miscellaneous 1981-82
NEH rec., AHR Report June 1981
Sapporo Cool Seminar Aug. 1981
CDSP Conference (cancelled) Oct. 1981
Conference on Religion and Politics, Rutgers Nov. 1981
AHA, Los Angeles Dec. 1981
T. Smith comment 1981
Possible Application, Woodrow Wilson Fellowship 1981
King Recommendation, for University of Virginia 1981
AHA, Washington Dec. 1982
GTU Community Affairs Commission 1982-83
Rikkyo University 1983
Encyclopedia of Spirituality Project 1983
Comment for NEH Apr. 1983
White Burkett Miller Center of Public Affairs 1983-84
Article Review for AHR May 1983
Kuklick Report 1983
American Society of Church History Council 1983-86
GTU Reception Nov. 1983
Smith Festschrift, correspondence 1984
Moonie invitation 1984
Proposed Mentor Conference 1984-85
St. Mary's Conference June 1984
Edwards Conference Oct. 1984
Jefferson Encyclopedia, correspondence 1984-85
Charlottesville Symposium 1985
Other papers
Massachusetts Historical Society 1988-95
Westmont College, Santa Barbara 1991-92
Visit and critical report
Series 4: University Matters, 1952-1988.
Bio-Bibliography 1952
Salary 1952
Research Grants 1952
Library 1952
Unified American Studies Course 1954
History and Institutions Requirement 1954
American Civilization Group Major 1957
American Studies for own file 1956-57
Hamilton Program 1957
Leave papers 1959-60
Meisenbach matter 1961
Old Schachman letter 1962
Trimester 1962-63
Report on Leave 1963-64
Miscellaneous, Proposed speeches 1964
Miscellaneous, University, non-crisis 1966
Tussman Program, comments 1966
Humanities Research Institute
Application, etc. 1968
Professorship applications 1966-78
Letters and Sciences Program 1970
University Grade Distribution 1970-71
Ideas, University
Miscellaneous, University 1970-71
Religious History Collection
Possible Staff Strike
Miscellaneous, University 1971-72
Special Committee on Communication with Negro Universities
Knight Letter on Undergraduate Teaching 1971-72
Strike 1971-72
Miscellaneous, University 1972-74
Jefferson Lectures Committee 1973
Mead Lectures 1974
Miscellaneous, University 1975-76
Representative Assembly 1975-77
Grading Problems 1977
Miscellaneous, University 1976-77
Religious Studies Committee 1977
Sabin, etc. 1977-78
Sabbatical Leave
Confidential Letters Question
Miscellaneous, University 1977-80
Jefferson Lectures Committee 1978-80
Retirement Question 1973
Berkeley Citation 1980
Faculty Research Lecture 1981
Art Practice Review Committee 1982
California Monthly Interview May 1983
Japanese History Meeting May 1983
Bandix correspondence 1983
Dealings with Bancroft on Papers 1987
Pakistan Link? 1988
Nuclear Lab Controversy 1988
Smith Paper, Duke 1988
University, in general 1980-85
Series 5: Student Upheaval, 1964-1970.
U.C. Berkeley campus unrest
Miscellaneous correspondence 1964-70
Incoming correspondence 1964-70
Outgoing correspondence 1964-70
Campus political affairs miscellany 1964-74
Free Speech Movement, May's statements, notes, and miscellany
Comment on May's statements, favorable
Comment on May's statements, opposition
Comment on May's statements, misc. 1964
Free Speech Movement miscellany 1964
Campus political affairs 1965-67
May's statements, misc. notes, etc.
May's statements and correspondence
On the Question of the Military Draft and Grades 1966
Free Speech Movement - Academic Freedom and Coercive Action 1967
Faculty position paper
May's Statements, general correspondence
University Issues 1967-68
Statements 1967-68
Commission Report 1968
Statements 1968-69
Miscellaneous, University 1968-69
"People's Park" Crisis 1969
Black Studies, etc. 1969
HGS Incident 1969
Davis Affair 1969
Miscellaneous, University 1969-70
Muscatine Report
Campus political affairs 1970
"History Community"
May's statements 1970
Miscellany 1970
Miscellany 1953-54
Proseminar 1954
Merit Increase 1958
Byrne Chair 1963
Chairmanship (acceptance) 1964
Guttridge
Memorial 1969
Obituary
Levenson Obituary materials
Chairmanship, misc. to keep, personal 1964-65
Department, Summer 1966-80
Byrne Funds 1973-79
Expenditures 1979-80
Retirement, letters and souvenirs 1980
Koch Interview 1985
Department, miscellaneous 1982-90
Course Outlines and Lectures, 1954-1985
Comment, criticism, 17A-17C 1973
History 101A, May's Section 1977-78
History 101B Winter 1978
History 102 1954 Spring 1980
History 103 Spring 1971 Spring 1973
History 103
American Religion 1966
Religion in American Society 1966
Religion in America Spring 1968
American Religion Spring 1968
Types of Religion in America Spring 1973
History 103 1971
Jefferson and Adams
History 103
On Niebuhr Spring 1971 Winter 1974 Spring 1977 Winter 1979
History 103
On Edwards Spring 1976
History 103
South Fall 1976
The Mind of the White South Fall 1976
History 103
On 1930s Fall 1979
History 104
Telluride House, 1849 Arch 1969
History 175A Winter 1969 Fall 1978
History 175B 1965
History 176 1980
History 201 1958 Fall 1961-62 Fall 1962 Spring 1966
Schedule, meetings
History 275A, seminar Fall 1961 1965-66
History 275B Prior to 1961 Spring 1961 Spring 1962
History 280D
Section 3 Winter 1968
Section 4, Enlightenment 1968
History 280 Fall 1970 Fall 1972 Fall 1975
History 280
Religion in America Spring 1968
History of American History Spring 1969
Jefferson Spring 1974
Religious History Fall 1976
History 283 Spring 1973 Winter 1974 Spring 1977 Fall 1977 Spring 1980
History 285D Winter 1968-69 Winter 1978
Seminar, notes on Romanticism 1984-85
History 285 Fall 1966-67 Fall 1970 Winter 1975-76
Louvain Lectures 1959-60
Lectures, general, Europe 1959-60
Leuven course 1981
Seminar at Harvard
Lecture Notes for Principal Courses at Berkeley, 1947-1985.
History 175A (American Intellectual History)
History 175B
History 176 (American Religious History)
History 275A (Research Seminar)
History 275B
Miscellaneous Public Lectures and Talks